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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 …
Immigrants on ocean steamer passing the Statue of Liberty, New York City, 1887.

Strangers in the Land: An Old Theme Replayed

… for the deportation of those aliens deemed a threat to national security. By the 1840s, anti-immigration sentiment … to internment camps because they were deemed threats to national security. It would not be too much of a stretch to … The same fallacies and arguments about the dilution of national identity and quality of life have been continually …
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 …
The Obama family attending a 2014 Easter service at 19th Street Baptist Church.

Democrats Revive Our Civic-Religious Traditions

… their religious faith, as they did so last week during a nationally televised forum sponsored by CNN and Sojourners, … of faith to the problems facing all members of the national community just may be what the Democratic Party, …

The Second Amendment Goes to Court

… research was funded by libertarian think tanks and the National Rifle Association (NRA). In the decade before … an unregistered sawed off shotgun, in violation of the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. § 1132. One of the factors … type of gun used by some members of the militia (the modern National Guard). The Individualist Interpretation and the …

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict

… in Rwanda. These tragic events have riveted the international community and attracted unprecedented media … on its soil and maintained that it would only allow African Union peacekeepers. As a compromise, the UN passed a … so-called "hybrid force," or a mixture of UN and African Union troops, to which the Sudan government agreed. However, …
U.S. soldiers walking across a field during the Vietnam War.

A New War Like — Vietnam?

… President Bush has warned that the fight against international terrorism will not resemble the previous conflicts … justice. For another, terrorist cells that operate across national borders are not identical to guerrilla forces such … obstacles. Like the war in Vietnam, the fight against international terrorism promises to be long and bitter, with no …
Aerial view of Hiroshima before the bombing

Bombing Hiroshima

… slave labor. Japan was also a full participant in the international race to develop nuclear weapons and would … a swift end of the war in the Pacific necessary because the Soviet Union was set to enter the war against Japan on August 8, …
Howard Dean in 2014.

How Dean Followed in Goldwater’s Steps

… caused pundits from the Washington Post, CNN, CNBC and the National Review to ask whether Dean, the firebrand of 2004, … party, but a maverick with a vision, one that galvanized a national constituency and led to his nomination. Goldwater’s … public record had never been scrutinized by the national press or criticized by opponents from his own …
A bison in Yellowstone National Park.

Why the Buffalo Still Roam

… last, tenuous refuge in the newly established Yellowstone National Park. There, though, they stood in the path of the … Theodore Roosevelt, Grinnell in 1888 formed the first national environmental lobby, a small group of influential … time in American history, the environment prevailed in a national confrontation against countervailing economic …
Cover of Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith.

Wagging the Dog

Review of Pay For Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, by Ronald A. Smith (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xii + 344 pp.)
… significant changes in the institutional governance and national regulation of intercollegiate athletics.  Financial … fide undergraduates for a fixed number of academic years.  National standards of tuition subsidization and recruiting … rationalized, and capitalized, just like most other national entertainment institutions. But virtually all of …
The Golubac Fortress was a medieval fortified town on the south side of the Danube River

A Postcard from Djerdap, Serbia

… a break from Belgrade for a weekend vacation to Djerdap National Park. As one park guide put it, Djerdap proved to … a place of conquest and conflict, trade and industry, international cooperation and borders, and leisure and fun. … while even becoming a part of it themselves. The Djerdap National Park is located roughly a 4-hour drive from …
President Clinton and Vice President Gore sitting in the Oval Office in 1996.

An October Surprise Again?

… about an October Surprise resurfaced in 1980 in another national security setting. The Iran hostage crisis had … to defuse accusations that he is beholden to the National Rifle Association or to polluters. In 2000, no national security crisis similar to either 1968 or 1980 is …
 A Chinese laboratory technician conducting tests on SARS.

Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)

… billion dollars). President George W. Bush outlining the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … Jim Harris … …