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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

… Amendment set the terms for the restoration of the Union of the states after the Civil War . The second section … States Constitution including the Fourteenth Amendment. (National Archives of the United States) Second, the Amendment for the first time set general national standards that the states had to meet when …
Alert soldiers on the Brandenburg Gate, during the Spartacist Uprising

Victorious Weimar: Reframing the German Revolution

Review of November 1918: The German Revolution, by Robert Gerwarth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
… to the First World War and its effects on domestic and international politics. The next three chapters are dedicated to … a small sailors' mutiny in Kiel to a full-blown national revolution, including the abdication of Kaiser … Gerwarth positions the German Revolution in an international context noting that the revolution was “remarkably …

The United States, China, and the Money Question

… local trade while silver was used in interregional and international trade.) The Qing monetary system, from the … United States took the first steps toward becoming an international economic power. ( Left ) An 1898 French cartoon … States government wanted American bankers to join the international consortium. At the time, President William Howard …

The Road to Same-Sex Marriage: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and the American Family

… feminist communities, beginning with the Lesbian Mothers Union, founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971. … a larger umbrella group called Gay Parents Coalition International (GPCI), an organization that itself evolved from … itself as “dedicated specifically to advocating at a national level for equality for families headed by queer …

With a Little Help from Our Friends?: The Costs of Coalition Warfare

… with U.S. coalition partners and allies. In the 2006 National Security Strategy, George Bush stated that confronting the "challenges of our time" through multinational efforts with other democracies is one of the … and "wartime alliances" are two types of what we call "multinational operations," which may also include other forms of …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd

… herald the latest revolutionary cycle, defining the transnational twenty-first century. Although the heralds of the … First, the Combination Acts (1799 and 1800) outlawed unionization, branding organized labor as sedition. The 1812 … Chartist reform, while encouraging the foundation of trade unionism. Of course, we can easily overstate the ideology of …

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville

… via Twitter]. From marble statuary employed by the white nationalist group Identity Evropa to the prominent display … to debunk the use of classical history by today’s white nationalists, we are swimming against a tradition that … to the characterization of a group at the Republican National Convention as “loud, unhappy, and dissatisfied …
One of Havana's plazas without a church.

A Postcard From Havana, Cuba

… U.S.’s impression of Castro hardened when he took steps to nationalize U.S. corporations in Cuba, and drew the island into closer and closer alignment with the Soviet Union. As a result, the U.S. imposed a financial and … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Women from Guadalupe photographed at Ellis Island on their way to Montreal to take on domestic positions, April 6th , 1911.

Black Canadians and Pandemics

… 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. …
Rep Joe WIlson fan club with a poster that reads, "You lie!"

Brooks to Thurmond to Wilson

… system that they were the very first to secede from the Union. Edmund Ruffin, a transplant to South Carolina from …

Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story

… II , the U.S. government was increasingly sensitive to international criticism of domestic racial tensions, the … of World War II and the ideological battle with the Soviets rendered the “Gestapo tactics” of local police more … riots erupted in the Watts neighborhood in 1965. Drawing national media attention, the Watts riots and the brute …
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade, by Donald Critchlow Book Cover.

Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade

Review of Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade, by Donald Critchlow (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005)
… conservatism, the bulk of this stuff should be avoided. National Review editor Jonah Goldberg penned the above words … a whole. Citing women's participation in such groups as the National Federation of Republican Women and the Daughters of …
FDR and Churchill at the Atlantic Conference in 1941.

A New Atlantic Charter?

… also wanted to define a role for the United States in international affairs while increasing cooperation with the … rise to the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.   Today, the United States and … points of view in using natural resources and handling international relations. There is so far little chemistry between …
Collapsed bridge

America's Infrastructure Challenge

… So to start off, your organization, the ASCE, produces a national report card every four years. Can you briefly … The concept for that actually started in 1988 with the National Council on Public Works Improvement. They issued a … the moment when these infrastructure projects are seen as a national priority.   Dr. Clay Howard  One of the things that …
Scene in Ukraine

Ukraine, In a Nutshell

Review of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Serhy Yekelchyk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
… accurately describes a myriad of issues, such as the Post-Soviet nostalgia in Crimea and eastern Ukraine that this … much of the unique intricacies of the Ukrainian and Russian national psyches that led to the war, that continue to … with Russia, 2) the vital, all-encompassing list of national reforms in which Ukraine must succeed, and 3) the …
Ellis Island, New York City.

Hiding Behind Reform

… A similar effort in New York City in August made national headlines. What’s significant about the controversy … claims that its billboard campaign is intended to force a national debate on immigration policy. It is a serious …
Earth covered in trees and water

"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment

… what that history kind of continues today. In an international perspective, particularly as an historian of … relationship with questions of the environment and international intervention, right. So in some ways that that … something that I would actually say in some ways that international pressure that the Earth Day kind of helped, help …
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan

Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday

… chant, directed at Bashir: “Just fall — that’s all.” International observers have suggested that the uprising in Sudan … of least corrupt countries out of 175 by Transparency International. The rate of inflation is 63% and unemployment. … freely to the Arab League Summit, as well as the African Union Summit. The only time there was an attempt [was] when …