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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 …

Map of the Electoral College for the 2024 United States presidential election.

Arguing the Electoral College: Con

Book Cover of The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 By: Bruno Cabanes

10/13/2014: Hot off the Presses: War and Humanitarianism

… Jebb from Britain - understood that a new type of transnational organization was needed to face problems that respected no national boundaries or rivalries. Bruno Cabanes, a pioneer … Global/Transnational … International Organizations …

Sergeant First Class Major Cleveland points out North Korean position to his machine gun crew, 1950.

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 …

Top view of engineer at desk with laptop, hardhat, and blueprints

Origins interviews the American Society of Civil Engineers

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 …

A group of Turkish refugees from 1913 standing in a group outside

The Treaty of Lausanne and the End of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire’s collapse unfolded over years of war, upheaval, and ethnic conflict. The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne recognized the new Republic of Turkey, redrew the region’s political order, and helped shape the modern Middle East.

… shattered long-standing multiethnic coexistence, and fueled nationalist movements that led to the abolition of the Ottoman dynasty. Following the nationalist victory under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the 1923 … of Lausanne replaced the Treaty of Sèvres, secured international recognition for the new Republic of Turkey, and …

Cartoonist Clifford Berryman depicts Uncle Sam after a hard-won U.S. victory in Santiago Bay, Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

What Happened When We Stayed the Course in Cuba

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 …

What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care

HIV and COVID-19 have both laid bare that stark racial disparities exist in population health and in access to quality medical care in the US.

The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response

After a devasting fire in Rome in 64 CE, Emperor Nero successfully rebuilt the city.

The Black Death and Its Aftermath

When it was over, the populations of Europe, China, and India were cut by a third to a half.

“Aux amateurs de physique.” Likewise portraying the Tuileries flight, this cartoon mocks the unwashed masses who wished to see the spectacle without a ticket, but the scaling of the garden walls also illustrates how the balloon as a “people-machine” ignited the determination of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime.

Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture

Review of The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe, by Mi Gyung Kim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)

1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies.

The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal

… created jobs for the unemployed, while others, such as the National Industrial Recovery Act's industrial policy, helped …

Republican Character

Review of Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan, by Donald T. Critchlow (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

… poor electoral timing led to consistent shortcomings on the national stage. Critchlow compares Nixon and Rockefeller in …

Cover of The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein

There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies

Review of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014)

… the political arena—all the more at a low-point in American national confidence. So despite all the malaise of the … finds that old-time religion just in time to run for national office. And the burgeoning conservative movement …

Book Cover of For Peace and Money French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars By: Jennifer Siegel

12/15/2014: Hot off the Presses: Peace, Money, and Tsars

… and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To … the Anglo-French relationship, and, ultimately, on international relations in the twentieth century, was grim and … Diplomacy/International Relations …

The Long-Term Legacies of Brown v. Board

Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.

Greenland Fantasies

… protectorate of Norway in 1261 CE. Following the personal union of Norway and Denmark in 1380, power shifted south to … Land.” The dispute went to the Permanent Court of International Justice, which decreed in 1933 that Denmark had … were recognized as a distinct people under international law. In 2012, Greenlandic became the sole official …

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.

The Black Death and its Aftermath

… It also set the stage for the rise of stronger national identities and ultimately for the Reformation that … the 1721 plague outbreak in Marseille. As with the rise of national universities, the building of quarantine structures … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, …

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