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How Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech Still Matters
… years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter went on national television to give a jolting speech. Billed as an … that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will," he asserted. Today, we should listen to his …
The Story of Poinsettia Day and U.S.-Mexico Relations
In the late 1820s, Joel Roberts Poinsett introduced the poinsettia plant to Americans, who marveled at its foliage.
… y Caribeña (Dec. 2015) Torcuato S. Di Tella, National Popular Politics in Early Independent Mexico, … Diplomacy/International Relations …
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)
The Ambiguities of “Cut and Run”
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The Dawes Act
The 1887 passage of the Dawes Act upended this system of communal land ownership and, in doing so, struck a historic blow at Native Americans’ political rights, economic sufficiency, and cultural heritage.
Is Retailing’s Death Star Vulnerable After All?
… You think that Americans’ national pastime is baseball, football, or Nascar? You’re …
The First Wall Street Bomb
… of harboring radical ideas. The explosion also solidified national support behind Wall Street, transforming the daily … than in shouting, that the attack had its most profound national effect. Wall Street itself, eager to minimize fears …
Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion
Review of America’s Religious Wars: The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life, by Kathleen M. Sands (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019)
… on visions, solutions, and resolutions, for the future of national life. Through the three sections of her book, Sands …
The Respirator and Cloth Mask
Germ theory helped to usher in the widespread use of cloth masks.
… 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. …
When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right
… rights organizations, led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, argued that current textbooks, …
The Perils of Breaking Away
… in the next several months, Kosovo is going to receive international approval for its quest to become an independent … independence provided the impetus for creating a new international consensus for handling separatist conflicts. Today, the international community is supposed to respect existing states’ …
Terrorism: A New Kind of War?
… strategy during the Cold War was designed to deter the Soviet Union from attacking the United States and its allies by … on New York City and Washington were committed by a transnational organization. But it is hard to imagine that such a … Global/Transnational …
Executive Order 9981 and the Integration of the American Military
… armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.” And the policy was to be “put into effect …
Origins interviews the American Society of Civil Engineers
… 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 …
An End to Interventionism in Venezuela
… money to the opposition through the U.S. taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy. Chavez has accused his … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Vladimir Putin: Not the Jefferson of Russia
… simple way." In the presence of Mikhail Gorbachev–the last Soviet president, who started the process of …
Corona in context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic of 2003
Soon after SARS was discovered, labs around the world shared information in search of a cure.
… 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. … Global/Transnational … International Organizations …
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Estimates suggest that this flu claimed as many as 50 million lives around the world between 1918 and 1919.
… 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. … Global/Transnational …
