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Russian peasants in the early 20th century.

Vladimir Putin: Not the Jefferson of Russia

… to the rules of the Constitution, all will … unite in common efforts for the common good," he proclaimed. Two centuries later, another … Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for strategic studies at The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the …
Caster Semenya at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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

… mortifying and disgusting imperfections.”   Intersex bodies have always aroused suspicion. But many people’s … in authority have assumed that those born with atypical bodies were dishonest and fraudulent (say, in illegally voting … go either way. All it took was the parents’ unwavering commitment toward raising either a boy or a girl, and this …
A plume of smoke rising from a neighborhood in Beirut following an Israeli strike in 2006.

Why Israel’s Campaign Will Likely Fail

… see Israel’s response to the capture of three of its soldiers as entirely justified. Why not, they ask, punish those … so today will ensure that Israelis and Lebanese continue to die in vain. Michael H. Creswell is in associate professor …
Portrait of Jane Addams

Million Moms March in Noble Company

… children. What is different today is the often fatal outcomes of children's brutality towards one another, owing to … when one looks at gun deaths in the United States compared with other industrialized nations, that has … limitations of that perspective, too. Though the march's website invites "mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, …
President Harry Truman in 1945.

Can This Election Produce Another Hundred Days?

… upon when he won approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Social Security, unemployment insurance, a … flourished. Reagan and his supporters embraced the recommendations of the economist Milton Friedman that relied … a trillion dollars in 1981 exceeds ten trillion today. Income inequality has grown substantially during the years of …
The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865 Book Cover

Play, Paranoia, and American Childhood in the Great Outdoors

Review of The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865, by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014)
… Places, backyards, and basements filled with televisions, computers, and Playstations. Riney-Kehrberg describes how … of newspapers, periodicals, television programs, films, websites, and published works to tell her story, but she … War Two. Fear is also a significant topic in cultural studies, sociology, and psychology. For the historian of modern …

Child Kidnapping in America

… the money). This refusal brought him a torrent of negative commentary and helped to define for the future what … children. At the same time, the frantic search for remedies, and the wide media fascination for these cases, has … taken by parents and those who had run away. At various points in the 1980s, Americans were led to believe that as …

The Ethiopian Civil War in Tigray

… peace. At his inaugural ceremony in 2018, he counseled a complete break with the past forms of governance that were … a report in April 2021 maintaining that Eritrean soldiers fighting with Ethiopia had killed hundreds of Tigrayan … tradition stretching back to the kingdom of Axum in the medieval period and further back into antiquity. Until 1974, …
Fidel Castro in 1959

Easing Up on Cuba

… the Cold War was at its peak, and the Soviet Union had become Cuba’s patron, pouring billions annually into its … the Soviet Union has disappeared, and Russia stopped subsidies to Cuba in 1991. Communism still exists in the world, but it is a diminishing …
“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.

The Old Informing the New

Review of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic, by John M. Murrin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
… American Revolution , and the Early American Republic. This compilation gathers together some of his important essays … is his discussion of “Anglicization.” Rather than becoming less and less British as the 17th and 18th centuries … believes American colonists became more and more like the compatriots they left behind. Although diverse groups …
U.S. soldiers walking across a field during the Vietnam War.

A New War Like — Vietnam?

… the first stage of the air war against the Taliban regime completed, the United States now enters a more difficult and dangerous phase of combat. Repeatedly, President Bush has warned that the fight … left unsaid, in what is no doubt a deliberate omission, any comparison to a war it does resemble — the war in Vietnam. …
US Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., signing the UN Charter on 26 June 1945. President Truman stands by at left (UN Photo/Yould).

The Signing of the United Nations Charter

… Wilson bitterly called “a sullen and selfish isolation,” becoming an observer in the League but never a full member. As … and reformed Isolationist Arthur Vandenberg, the party committed to supporting a postwar cooperative peace … Roosevelt planned to open the conference himself, but he died shortly before it began on April 25, 1945. The 16th …
Cover of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui.

Forces of Good and Evil

Review of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… chapter deals with the wartime experiences of individual combatants. When confronted with the visceral nature of warfare soldiers often articulated their experiences using religious … , and Shakespeare’s plays are constantly used as reference points in pamphlets, letters, and speeches. Blum and Matsui …
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, … unintended consequence of their self interest, mediated by competition, was better and cheaper meat, beer and bread. … consequences RCA’s reactions to the decree gave a new company, Sony, its opening in consumer electronics.   …