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America's Post-Election Political Landscape

… Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … in which things turned ugly. So how does this election compare to past elections as far as personal tax and … create, of course, any of these tendencies, but by exposing them and even stirring them up, it's led to a …
Campaign poster attacking Cleveland's morals.

Morality and Presidential Elections

… more righteous, their argument goes, we would elect less sinful candidates. Unfortunately for this argument, Bill … American voters in the past have reacted to scandals by choosing subsequent presidents who were perceived as more moral. … This cynicism has been expressed in part in the ever-decreasing voter turnouts of the last few decades. It has also …
One of the McMinnville UFO photographs. Skeptics have concluded that the UFO was a small model suspended by wires or string from the power lines visible at the top of the photo.

The Air Force Investigation into UFOs

… “like a saucer if you skip it across the water.” This phrasing, misquoted by newspaper editors, is likely what lead to … investigating reports of UFOs. To this end it instituted a comprehensive study of UFOs.  This study, known as Project … “misinterpretation of known objects.”  Nevertheless, it recommended continued investigation of all sightings.  Project …
Seal of the United States National Archives and Records Administration. The seal is described in 36 C.F.R. § 1200.2 as: The seal is centered on a disc with a double-line border. The words NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION encircle the inside of the seal and the date 1985 is at the bottom center.

Downgrading the Founders

… the charge went, this crime against the past was being committed by leftist academics out of touch with their … agency, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, decided late in 1996, by a one-vote margin, to … traveling to distant libraries and historical societies. Since 1934, NHPRC funds have been indispensable to the …
photo of FDR.

Picking Up Where FDR Left Off

… the economic crisis ripples through the world, some liberal commentators say that the only solution to it is a … relatively open, non-discriminatory exchange, which we have come to call "free trade."   Even before the United States … It aims to prevent not individuals but nations from sinking into abject poverty. The IMF or the WTO are not …
Cover of Wounded Knee Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson

Where Our Hearts Are Still Buried

Review of Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, by Heather Cox Richardson (New York: Basic Books, 2010)
… with fervor among the Sioux bands would incite an uprising, Royer called for military assistance. As winter … asked Big Foot, leader of the Minneconjou Teton Sioux, to come to Pine Ridge Reservation with his followers in hopes … could restore the peace. Intercepted by the Seventh Cavalry commanded by Colonel James W. Forysth on December 28, Big …
Cover of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin.

Taking it on the Chin

Review of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, by Margot Mifflin (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009)
… region called Bashan, a part of the Colorado-Gila Rivers basin.  The journey was ill-fated from the start.  By the time … Olive remade herself into a proper Victorian lady, complete with a child (the couple adopted) and a beautiful … activist.  Olive's story is fascinating; Mifflin combines an inherently intriguing story with good writing …
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller

Kent State after Fifty Years

… politically or culturally inert as many observers then and since have insisted. But that is precisely why the shootings … antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone … Guard moved on campus and pushed students from the central Commons back toward the dorms. Having done so, the Guard’s …
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Why Getting Rid of the Filibuster Is Still a Good Idea

… Democrats are making a major mistake by opposing filibuster reform. By opposing the proposal of Sen. … anti-democratic, inefficient, and a symbol of legislative incompetence. Liberals in the earlier post-World War II period … that civil rights organizations in the 1950s placed committee and filibuster reform at the top of their …
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen in 2012.

War Crimes: The “New Era” Looks Like the Old

… surface of this dispute is a fundamental clash between the competing claims of national sovereignty and universal human … Augusto Pinochet, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Cuba’s Fidel Castro and others. The irony is that as … gave way to national sovereignty. When the United Nations recommended holding the Khmer Rouge war crimes trials under …
Pope Francis smiling from inside a car as he leaves the White House in 2015.

Embracing the Pope–Selectively

… Protestants. Evangelical-Catholic relations have come a long way over the last generation, but for all their … priests would settle in the American West and use their “sinister influence” to undermine the creation of Protestant … affirming what these two branches of Christendom hold in common. And in the best-selling Christian novel, “Left …
Heroin bust.

Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)

… Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3) … Episode 3: Devising a Drug-Free World Brionna Mendoza Previously on … on Drugs, it isn’t colonial China or Japan or Mexico that comes to mind…it's the United States. And for good reason. … a staggering 100% with the intent to not only block it from coming into the state, but also to express a clear rejection …

Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?

… June 23, 2016, while most of the world was awaiting the outcome of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was … Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and the supreme commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia … the War of a Thousand Days (1899-1902), various peasant uprisings in the 1920s and 1930s, and the infamous La Violencia …
Pakistan to US Student Exchange Program, July 2011.

Captive Scholarship Serves Nobody Well

… world, the more necessary a knowledge of foreign nations becomes. Yet Congress is trying to handicap that endeavor by … oversee funding, investigate grantee activities and make recommendations on how international studies programs “might … revolutionaries tends toward the tautological: since so many academic studies discover that current U.S. …
The Champs Elysees crowded with French patriots after the liberation of Paris in 1944.

We Didn’t Go It Alone in 1944

… fries” and accused the French of cowardly betrayal for refusing to follow the White House into war. Now, with a chance … policies now causing so much trouble in Iraq. When it comes to remembering World War II, Americans should be more … Nazis’ genocidal agenda. Unlike Americans, the French also commemorate all fronts of the European war. During the Cold …
100 and 10 US dollars banknotes.

Inflation — Fighting the Last War

… party favorite and a new member of the Congressional Super Committee, wrote an op-ed in which he said that “excessive … others are fighting the last economic war.  And we are losing the current one as a consequence.   In order to … as unemployment dropped, inflation rose, and vice versa.   Since 1980, however, our goal has been “low inflation,” and …
The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.

A Postcard from Leith, Scotland

… your right, you will encounter the upscale whiskey house, complete with nineteenth-century stone walls that feature … Yet, if you look to the left, you’re met with the surprising sight of the Banana Flats, a brutalist-style building … hundreds of years. The first evidence of maritime industry comes from the 12th century but it gained notoriety …
Cover of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC by David W. Anthony and  Jennifer Y. Chi.

The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC

Review of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC, by David W. Anthony and Jennifer Y. Chi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. pp. 254)
… across the whole of the Old World. It also maintains a commitment to the study of the ancient world from the … notions of the ancient world" and showing that a "rich and complex world can be found when looking beyond traditional … and graves) and the current debates surrounding them. Since much of this evidence and the basic chronology of Old …
'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe Book Cover.

Mr. Bush Meet Mr. Jackson

Review of 'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Protester opposing gay marriage in Boston, 2007. The sign compares gay rights in the U.S. to Nazi, Germany.

Gays, Nazis, and the GOP

… The following year, they established a "Central Office for Combating Abortion and Homosexuality."   Like the … and inverts, but requires instead straightforward and sincere manly souls," one propagandist wrote, "and so we must combat homosexuality with the means available to …