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Sarah Palin Distorts the Founders’ Religious Views

… of evangelical Christians on American politics. Notwithstanding the evangelicals’ strong support for his candidacy, Mike Huckabee failed to get the GOP presidential … will presumably provide the nation with either its first African-American president or its first female vice …
A portrait of U.S. Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, who advocated for air power in the 1920s.

Rumsfeld Must Modernize U.S. Armed Forces

… The recent terrorist attacks on New York and Washington underscore the urgent need to modernize the … believed, the U.S. military services had to become flexible and mobile enough to meet smaller and more elusive threats … to the east and west, and benign neighbors to the north and south, the United States has enjoyed relatively long periods …

Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis

… crisis. The country held two rounds of elections in April and September 2019 that failed to produce a government. And … came from Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Ashkenazi Jews thus came to dominate the Jewish … Inside The Forgotten War ; Women in the Mideast and North Africa ; and the Syrian Civil War and Arab Spring . … Ori …
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick Book Cover.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Review of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick (New York, Viking Press 2006)
… evokes images of 'wide-brimmed hats', 'buckled shoes', and a shared harvest meal. Nathaniel Philbrick's story of … Philbrick's work is the relationship between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people, his narrative details how this … 60 and 80 percent" of the Native American population of Southern New England (332). Philbrick's story of the …
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover

Playing Politics with Our Children's Health

Review of School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine (Princeton University Press, 2008)
… ominously described "the skyrocketing price of food" and its effect on Americans' budgets. According to the … that he can no longer afford fresh vegetables, seafood, and other nutritious items. "We used to have fresh spinach; … and the USDA in the 1930s continued after World War II. Southern Democrats were crucial to the enactment of the …
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964.

The (Character) Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

… times implicated the CIA, the FBI, U.S. Army intelligence, and even President Lyndon B. Johnson in an elaborate … J. Edgar Hoover mounted an intense campaign of surveillance and harassment in a pitched effort to destroy his career. … hate groups,” including King’s organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The FBI …
The London meeting to discuss NATO military intervention in Libya, March 29, 2011.

Secretary Clinton — Leader or Figurehead?

… secretaries of state have been those who think creatively and move assertively. Likewise our most effective foreign policies have come under strong and secure secretaries of state. Of course, the verdict is … in the Turkey-Armenia talks and her most recent trip to South Asia and the Middle East suggest she’s finally ready …
Election Day in Philadelphia 1815 by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions.

How We Learned to Love the Constitution

… only, at first, for white males), continental nationalism and an emphasis upon free trade. But the election of 1800 … like the one just past, that failed to produce a certain and clear finality. But the contest 200 years ago was unlike … respective acts, that was at stake again in 1860 when the South seceded, and the Civil War painfully validated that …
Pro-Choice demonstrators holding signs saying "Support Legal Abortion"

The Politics of Abortion in Europe and America

… will describe her research on abortion in the United States and abroad. And she'll be talking to Origins associate editor Patrick … places, including Europe. I think that she also looks at South America as well. And then if you want to really go in …

The Long Legacy of World War I

… By war’s end, the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and German empires that had dominated Europe for centuries … War in 1918 ( left ). Anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army in South Russia in January 1918 ( right ). State policies from … War, the spread of Communism in Asia and across the Global South, and inspiration for social movements as diverse as …
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it

Diet for a Large Planet

… proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human … exports for the British market. The dust bowl hit Canada, South Africa, Australia. It was a global problem. We have a quote …
Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, by Kathleen Drowne Book Cover

Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature

Review of Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, by Kathleen Drowne (Columbus: Ohio State University, 2005)
… Scott Fitzgerald writing This Side of Paradise , The Damned and the Beautiful, or Tender is the Night without a highball … topped-off with some stiff alcohol to loosen his creativity and imagination. As we have come to know Fitzgerald the … teetotalers, flappers, bootleggers, and the impoverished African Americans who suffered from "Jake Leg" into literary …
illustration of Prince George IV

Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?

Review of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, by Noelle Gallagher (New Haven: Yale, 2019)
… diseases permeated society at the time. Playwrights, poets and artists obsessed over venereal disease, she argues. … metaphors such as “the itch” (herpes), “clap” (gonorrhea), and “pox” (syphilis), artists explored social phenomena … racial politics, frequently attacking Jews and persons of African descent as bringers of venereal infection. Itch, …
The Dream of Worldwide Democratic and Social Republics – The Pact Between Nations, a print prepared by Frédéric Sorrieu, 1848.

Nationalism in Decline

… now live in an era of supranationalism. The United States stands poised between wanting to write its own ticket and wishing to speed efforts to solve the world’s problems. … Europe of its colonies, adding dozens of new nations in Africa and Asia. The Communist revolution in China turned …
The Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C.

“What I Did On My Summer Vacation,” by the President

… presidents have escaped with golf, beaches, travel and rest. During the 1870s, Ulysses Grant and his entourage repeatedly invaded the Jersey shore. In … of Washington neighborhoods that included everyone from Southern sympathizers to successful free black residents. In …
Burning ships after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.

Not Only Action but Accountability

… drawing the parallel between the recent terrorist attacks and the Japanese air raid against the Pacific fleet nearly … its place next to December 7, 1941. Not only have thousands of lives been lost in a surprise attack, but Americans’ … of persecuted Muslims from Bosnia, the Middle East and South Asia. Gen. Boyd summed up the reality we face on …
Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006.

Make Residency, Not Just Working, Legal

… Somewhere between three million and eleven million people are in the United States … without government permission. The United States can handle the increased population; the United States needs more … then, new immigrants have come from Asia, Latin America and Africa. The United States is actually becoming home to …
Suffragists with signs: "Votes for Women"

The Myth of the Women's Voting Bloc (Prologued, Season 1, Trailer)

… bloc. Now, as we wade through the 2020 election cycle and celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting … vote, it is the perfect time to re-evaluate the political and electoral history of women in the United States … Two on those veterans who are coming home, not only in the African American community but among Chicanos and Latinos as …
The famously burly W.G. Grace was one of Britain's most famous cricket players who stood out from the crowd with both his imposing career and his imposing facial hair.

A Long History of Close Shaves

Review of Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair, by Christopher Oldstone-Moore (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016)
… character?  Christopher Oldstone-Moore’s new book Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair argues that … for examining the ways in which cultures have defined and controlled images of masculinity. This lens has led … Beards and mustaches present throughout East Asian and African history remain largely unaddressed, as do ethnic …
Judge Charles W. Pickering, Sr.

Ghosts of Mississippi Haunt Pickering’s Nomination

… a state-sponsored police outfit that fought tooth-and-nail for almost 20 years to block the enforcement of … sealed documents relating to the commission's long and sordid campaign against civil rights activists. Judge … Brown v. Board, the councils brought together many of the South's leading citizens, who proposed to fight tooth and
Advertisement of an upcoming land sale by the United States Department of the Interior in 1911. The Interior Department published many similar advertisements to encourage white settlers to purchase "excess" reservation lands.

The Dawes Act

… nations across the United States owned their reservation lands as a community: families could settle, plant their crops, and own any improvements they built, but the land itself belonged to the entire nation for future …
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)
… that the best years in life fall between third grade and middle school, who currently spends much time going on picnics with a three-year-old son, and who tends to view the texting-‘liking’-gaming culture of … around horse carcasses, swimming in sewage, hostelling in southern Wisconsin, and adventuring in high-rise elevators, …
William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock pose behind a model of the starship Enterprise.

Star Trek

… (the sixth series will debut in 2017) hundreds of novels and comic books, and countless toys, games, uniforms and other merchandise. … Uhura, the Enterprise’s communications officer. Having an African American woman in a position of competence and
Native woman with her back to the camera

Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing

… of a family’s experience that was purposefully silenced and erased from mainstream hegemonic nationalist narratives. … Jacob, PhD | Intercultural Specialist, Native American and Indigenous Student Initiatives, Office of Student Life … were many schools like this, that were also in Canada, South and Central America, New Zealand, Australia, so all …