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FDR and Churchill at the Atlantic Conference in 1941.

A New Atlantic Charter?

… Charter helped to win World War II and, later, to defeat communism. But that unique alliance is in trouble now … signed the Atlantic Charter at a secret summit on a warship off Newfoundland, declaring in broad terms their joint … but mollified the British by promising crucial support against Germany. Although a British undersecretary for war …
Senator Fred Thompson at the Chattanooga Summit in 1996.

Back to the Future of Fund-Raising Scandals

… Now Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., who chairs the Senate committee looking into Clinton’s fund-raising, has joined … to passing a disclosure bill until after Roosevelt had left office. Although Clinton’s own term in office has been … several requests for his testimony, it is unlikely that he will agree to sit at Thompson’s witness table. But then …

Another Silent Spring

… future when “some evil spell” had settled on our communities, when “mysterious maladies swept the flocks of … and gatherers now and then unbalanced nature by killing off too many species or severely diminishing their numbers … of scarcity. Making the earth produce more food seems good for human offspring and for civilization, and surely it …
Custis Lee (1832–1913) on horseback in front of the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, Virginia on June 3, 1907, reviewing Confederate Reunion Parade.

Trent Lott and the Collapse of Southern Mythology

… drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout … Praise for Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, offered by Lott, as well as the cabinet members John … such as Lott have invoked the white southern past through “code words” meant to pay homage to the Confederate past …
Ruins of Chorrillos after the battle of January 13, 1881. Photograph by Eugene Courret. Glass Plate. National Library of Peru Collection.

The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America

… resulted in a clear victory for Chile: the once diffuse borderlands among these countries were redrawn in favor of a … Bolivian Atacama region, mainly led by Chilean and British companies. The mineral was used both as a fertilizer and in … tried to expropriate the company’s assets and auction them off, but on the day of the auction, February 14, 1879, …
The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

With God on Our Side

… he proclaimed that “our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world.” This … in American history. Preaching to his fellow Puritans in 1630, shortly before they landed in Massachusetts, John … a chosen land, has animated much of our history, for both good and ill. In God’s name, his people have declared their …
The words "Equal Justice Under Law" which are inscribed on the front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

The Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

… the Fourteenth Amendment acted, and Secretary of State William Henry Seward formally announced the ratification on … though they did not allow African Americans to vote or hold office. The third section disqualified anyone who had … too much about it." (Library of Congress) But that did not come to pass. The “no state shall” language was ideally …
Cover of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper.

The Legacy of Luther

Review of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy, by Lyndal Roper (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… The prominent reformer, Martin Luther boasts the most complex legacy of his contemporaries because of how he … Roper is most concerned with those produced by the workshop of Cranach the Elder. Cranach made Luther the most … fights” Luther found himself embroiled in during the 1530s and 1540s. The author argues that quill fights mimicked …
Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.

"Lone Wolves" No More

Review of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, by Kathleen Belew (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… A soldier named Tim McVeigh . . . ―Charlie King, The War is Coming Home , 1996 On April 19, 1995, a date fraught with … the umbrella of “White Power.” Leaders like Louis Beam and William Pierce were important in these circles. Most … a new level of White Power animosity toward government officials, even as they resulted in acquittals. By 1983, the …
Map showing position of North Korea relative to China

What Are They Thinking in Beijing?

… protests in Hong Kong that have directly challenged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies and yet have not been … Tiananmen upheaval of 1989. Seeing recent actions this way will help us better understand what makes the government of … treason and censorship laws, they point out, and many local officials seem more concerned now with pleasing the CCP …
The Romanov Family

The Romanov Tercentenary: Commemoration, History, and Power

… the Cathedral of the Assumption in Moscow’s Kremlin, where 300 years earlier his ancestor, Mikhail Romanov, had been … the Russias.” Services in Moscow capped a series of events commemorating the Romanovs’ tercentenary, in what proved to … tsar in 1598. Warfare, starvation, and disease carried off as much as one-third of the Russian population. The …
Detail of an 8th-century silk painting depicting Wu Zeitan.

Wu Zetian: The Only Woman Emperor in Chinese History

… and the ability to bend an entire society’s rules to her will. Her current appellation, Zetian, was her posthumous title. Her official given name was Zhao, a character she created for … the Sui and established the Tang dynasty. He rose to become Minister of Works, giving Wu Zetian an early taste of …
Caster Semenya at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Woman, Man, Neither? The Predicament of a World-Class Runner

… World Track Championships in Berlin last month, has been unofficially declared intersexed. If she is, it means that she … of intersex bodies have shifted. In the 1920s and 1930s, for example, a person with a female-appearing body … go either way. All it took was the parents’ unwavering commitment toward raising either a boy or a girl, and this …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders in 1963.

Giving Up on the Dream?

… Next week, Americans will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1963 March on … to stir the nation after four decades. Yet the black community still struggles to decide whether to follow King’s prophetic tradition or to lead via political office. It’s a difficult choice. Should black leadership …
First edition dust jacket cover of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's 1973 book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. The book conveys Thompson's experience covering the 1972 US presidential election, particularly the (ultimately unsuccessful) campaign of Democratic nominee George McGovern.

Democrats Must Beware the Curse of 1972

… the party. In July, when the 186 members of the platform committee meet, they’ll have to write a plank on the war in … American honor. For millions of voters, “honor” was a code word for keeping the nation’s moorings in familiar … suffering in a North Vietnamese prison. He hopes that image will send a clear message: His patriotic wartime fortitude …
Vice President Walter Mondale speaking with President Jimmy Carter.

Why the Vice-Presidential Nominees Will Be Presidential

… candidates themselves be qualified to serve in the Oval Office, and thus reduces the importance of such traditional … and the technology of the information age meant that comments made anywhere are now instantly transmitted … the election but clearly made success more difficult. And a good choice can be critical — as Jimmy Carter learned in …
Crowds outside the Bank of United States in New York after its failure in 1931.

Blame It All on Unintended Consequences

… consequences to explain how individual ambition served the common good. It’s not from the benevolence of the butcher, the … ownership as sound social policy, they didn’t intend to set off a race among bankers to issue subprime mortgages to be …
Zbigniew Brzezinski at Camp David in 1978.

Meddlers Hamstring Iraq Policy

… State pushes for multilateral diplomacy. When retired officials elbow their way into such a conflict, only more … the Carter administration to oppose any pre-emptive strike against Iraq. From 1977 to 1981, Brzezinski positioned … as the voice of prudence, the realpolitik strategic thinker compelled to inform the naive, idealistic newcomers from the …
Bust of Senator Robert La Follette in the Wisconsin State Capitol.

When Principle May Be the Best Policy

… the Democratic Party may self-destruct during the coming elections because it’s becoming softer on the war. … never take their constituents’ loyalty for granted. History offers striking examples of the wisdom of candidates taking … supporters of the war can shift loyalties. Candidates will be best served by not trying to second guess their …
The Obama family attending a 2014 Easter service at 19th Street Baptist Church.

Democrats Revive Our Civic-Religious Traditions

… who make up the Religious Right, faith is important when it comes to moral issues such as abortion and homosexual … to bear on many more issues than the Republicans, thus offering the possibility of a much richer religious … such behavior “virtue.” Personal sacrifice for the common good would provide a necessary check to the selfishness that …
Cover of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport.

Conspirator: Lenin in Exile

Review of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile, by Helen Rappaport (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010)
… of the self-proclaimed "Terrorist Section" of the People's Will ( Narodnaya Volya ), an underground group which hoped … and which the young Lenin read five times (14).  Lenin's commitment to activism strengthened in college, first at … of the Russian revolutionary in Lenin's time was a world of coded messages, secret knocks, fake passports, and letters …

Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal

… on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … pro-Islamic party, of plotting to move Turkey away from its official secular ideology toward a more Islamic path. He … that the canal—which Erdogan says will accommodate 130-160 ships daily compared to around 150 on the …
Senator Joe Lieberman

Accepting Joseph Lieberman: The Electorate Grows Up

… panic among many Americans. When John F. Kennedy ran for office in 1960, he had to confront anti-Catholic prejudice … "more faithful" to Israel than the United States. But these comments have drawn a negative reaction from the most blacks … it seems as if many voters want candidates whose beliefs will dictate how they carry out their duties. Of course, it …