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emancipation illustration from Harper's Weekly

President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 150 years ago

… the war; now the soldiers he commanded fought not only for union, but for freedom—in some cases, their own. Lincoln’s … as well as slaves in regions of the Confederacy occupied by Union troops. The Proclamation was also somewhat redundant; … in 1920. Even with legal equality established on the national level in the twentieth century, African Americans …
El 5 de julio por S. Davies, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

What’s Really At Stake in the Venezuelan Election

… of American States, the Carter Center, the European Union, and thousands of international electoral observers, there should be no question of … a capitalism in their countries that benefited labor unions and workers. Chavez’s charismatic hold on the vast … International Organizations …
Mr. Ernesto Zedillo, Chair GDN Board of Directors, kicks off the 10th annual GDN conference.

Broken Promises in Mexico

… the major business associations, professional groups, labor unions, and peasant organizations. Public resources are … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Etching of Theodore Roosevelt.

Our Federal Government: Still for Sale

… too. Big business leaders called on presidents to use the national guard and even regular army units to put down … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …
Martha last passenger pigeon

100 years have gone by... still no Passenger Pigeons

… The Last Passenger Pigeon," Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History "The Flight of the … Pigeon, Now 100 Years Extinct," by Krishnadev Calamur (National Public Radio, September 1, 2014) "Century After … And Scientists Hope to Bring Them Back," by Carl Zimmer ( National Geographic , August 31, 2014) "Why the Passenger …
In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman

After Midnight

Review of Midnight’s Descendants: A History of South Asia Since Partition, by John Keay (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
… under leaders committed to promoting Islamic identity. The Soviet war in Afghanistan and the influx of ideas and money … of their country. In India, the rise of a new wave of Hindu nationalist movements threatened the subcontinent’s secular …
Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, 1987

The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back

Review of Iran Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power, by Malcolm Byrne (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2014)
… (xxi). Byrne, who is the Deputy Director for the National Research Archive, challenges the oft-accepted idea … United States to ask for assistance in delivering weapons. National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane approached Reagan … were joined together when Oliver North suggested to the National Security Council that future arms deals happen …
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo

… €2.5 coin. France's objections generated widespread international ridicule, particularly in the United Kingdom. … striking given that Britain, which left the European Union after a contentious 2016 referendum, never actually … On the eve of Waterloo's bicentennial, the tension between national pride and international cooperation remains no less …
USS ARIZONA sinking during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.

The 1942 Internments and Today’s Security Crisis

… allows us to see what is unique about the threat to our national security today and perhaps make better judgments on … Pacific coast and the removal from them of anyone deemed a national security threat. While the order legally … need to protect “homeland security” with a “comprehensive national strategy” involving FBI agents, intelligence …
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat

Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later

… Martin Dugard, 2012) comes to life in a docudrama on the National Geographic Channel this month. James Marsden plays … and keen fashion sense, JFK and Jackie served as a perfect national fairy tale that played out on the covers of popular … obsession with Kennedy persists because it was the first national tragedy truly mediated through television and the …
A drawing by Italian artist Achille Beltrame imagines Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination by Gavrilo Princip

The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip

On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world.
… Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. There, Princip was hailed as a national hero who had unified the South Slavs and freed them … increasingly portrayed the 1914 assassination as an act of national defense against those who intended to divide the … legacies—the perception of the Balkans as a hotbed of nationalism and the volatile “tinderbox of Europe.” Graffiti …
The Vengeance of Fulvia by Francisco Maura y Montaner, 1888 depicting Fulvia inspecting the severed head of Cicero.

Thinking of Dick Cheney as Cicero

… “enhanced interrogation,” and they hold that valuable national security information was obtained as a result of … it was in fact torture, a violation of U.S. and/or international law. And let’s make the further assumption that the … say that this “torture” elicited information helpful to national security. In that case, what do we do with Cheney? …
neon sign that says Quiz with question marks around it

History Teaching: Still Crazy After All These Years

… can take pride.” Does this statement come from: (a) A 1987 National Assessment, after which testers argued that low … According to the testers, the results from the recent National Assessment in History, like scores from earlier …
Vegetables from ecological farming.

Bringing Democrats and Republicans Together over Food

… together:  fighting global hunger.  In fact, an international school meals program is named for former Democratic … working together on hunger issues, including developing the national school lunch program.  As former senators, they … spirit when they proposed to President Bill Clinton an international school meals program in 2000.  The McGovern-Dole …
Photo of William Colby

Casting the Long Shadow of the CIA

Review of Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA, by Randall B. Woods (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
… law firm, and then in 1949, he took a position with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington. The next year, … Colby’s first assignments were in Europe, preparing for a Soviet invasion of Scandinavia and preventing the political … to serve as CIA Comptroller. Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, were deeply …
Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt from the early 1930s.

The Four Freedoms in the War Against Terrorism

… into superior and inferior “racial states” to fight “international Plutocrats,” “international Bolshevism” and “international Jewry.”  An updated … These goals would resonate with Russia and the former Soviet republics on the borders of Afghanistan, who have …