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Photo of "Fighting Bob" La Follette

Lessons for the Nader Camp: ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette in 1924

… As campaign 2000 moves past the conventions, Ralph Nader, candidate of the Green Party, … spoiler can be assessed by looking at the election of 1924, when Wisconsin Sen. "Fighting Bob" La Follette ran as an … and a previous bid for the presidency he, like Nader, was viewed as a political outsider. And, like Nader, La …
Zaporizhians by Józef Brandt, unknown date.

The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors

… Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian army has proven itself mighty and tenacious to … by Pavlo Chybynsky in 1862, amidst growing nationalism when Ukraine was under the control of the Russian Empire , says: “Soul …
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

The Black Death was the second pandemic of bubonic plague … and the most devastating pandemic in world history. It was a descendant of the ancient plague that had afflicted … Death had aftershocks still felt into the early 1700s. When it was over, the European population was cut by a third …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. exiting a plane in 1964.

King in Time; King in time

… Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr., was Time’s “Man of the Year.” Oddly enough, … Year” played off the perspective of forty years earlier. When King was born, said Time, someone like the 1920s sage, …
Radio World's Fair in 1926.

“Black Tuesday” After 70 Years

… Seventy years ago this October 29, a giant exclamation point was placed after the words “The End” on a popular, long-running American … referred to the years of the Great Depression as a time when the American middle class, whose “eyes had failed them, …
An image of the castle in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando.

Banning Harry Potter

… Teenage wizard Harry Potter, the hero of a popular children’s book series, routinely … a fictional character who assumes the sky is falling when an acorn hits him, the anti-Potter parents are forming … elites thought “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was too crude for refined readers. Twenty years later, …
Bartolome De Las Casas.

Comparison of Imperialism and Globalization

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
World History since 1500
… comparing it with 19th century European imperialism through the use of documents and political cartoons. To help students understand the historical aspects of imperialism, a connection to globalization, a term they have heard before, is made. When put into a modern context, this seemingly difficult …
The "Bridge of No Return" that crosses the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea

… North Korea has nuclear weapons technology. As a result, the United States and China are trying to force North Korea … economic sanctions and threatening military force, either of which North Korea has said it would view as an act … United States would avoid war by relaxing its sanctions. When the sanctions stayed in force, Japan attacked Pearl …
Old man sitting alone in a park.

Social Security Reform for All

… way to bankruptcy, crashing down in 2029? Most likely not. There are good reasons to believe that the much discussed … the future of the system. Imagine economists in 1940, when the federal budget was around $10 billion, making a serious prediction about …
A photograph from the tumultuous German-Czech border in 1938 during World War II. The Sudetenland had long been a hotspot of contact between the two groups.

The Space In Between

Review of Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands: Migration, Environment, and Health in the Former Sudetenland, by Eagle Glassheim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
… are certainly familiar with national borders. Across the 20 th century borders have been fought over, drawn and … is an analytic concept historians have used, especially when examining the American West, certain parts of Africa … that with the onset of the Cold War the borderland was more powerfully divided and less easily traversed. …
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

The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 … - understood that a new type of transnational organization was needed to face problems that respected no national … individuals, organizations, and nations in crisis, how and when the right to human dignity first became inalienable." …
US citizens in unemployment line

America and Unemployment

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
… This lesson plan looks at the United States today and the current issue of unemployment. Our lesson plan follows … board.  This answer will be the standpoint that they take when writing a letter in the following class period(s) to …
Computers utilized by U.S. Navy personnel in 1998.

What the Internet Will Bring Us

… What is the internet? Is it a technological godsend? Is the internet … to bear on people’s lives in new and remarkable ways. When the Union Pacific met up with the Central Pacific at … very few. What the technology titans did with their wealth was not at all clear or foreordained. Like the internet, the
Senator Joe Lieberman

Accepting Joseph Lieberman: The Electorate Grows Up

The biggest story in this year's otherwise uneventful … non-Protestant president — let alone a non-Christian one — was enough to cause panic among many Americans. When John F. Kennedy ran for office in 1960, he had to …
Logo of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Time to End Deregulation

… In the heyday of the Robber Barons in the 1870s Cornelius … more of the kind of radical changes the New Deal instituted when it established the Securities and Exchange Commission … and stimulate economic growth, since private enterprise was inherently good and the public sector was inherently …
Close-up of the mural commemorating works of A.J. Muste on the War Resisters League Building in New York, New York.

"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism

Review of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century, by Leilah Danielson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
… sat down to write his autobiography. Had he finished it, the book undoubtedly would have been filled with the friends … Christian pacifism. But he never finished the book. Muste was a busy man, and there was always a world that needed redeeming. When he died ten years later, scores of mourners, from New …
Storming the Bastille

Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)

… More than any other event of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, … it became a model of revolutionary political change that was followed throughout the world from Europe, to Haiti , … , Russia , and East Asia . And it all began one July day when the people of Paris captured a fourteenth-century …
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis.

Apologizing for Slavery

… Last spring, when President Clinton raised the question of whether the United States should formally … be a blockbuster. Why the idea of a slave memorial on the Washington Mall is becoming more popular. And why the
The flag of the United Nations

America’s Intervention Predicament

The presidential campaign has begun to sharpen debate about … or national security. Such interventions began in 1992 when the United States sent a military mission to Somalia. … and sometimes from foreign governments build steadily until Washington feels it has to act.  But there is an alternative …
U.S. General James Van Fleet and Greek War Minister Kanellopoulos walking between lines of soldiers on the island of Makronissos during the Greek Civil War

The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949

The years 1940–1949 were ones of continuous horror for the Greek people.
When the Second World War (WWII) ended in 1945 and the rest of Europe was beginning to rebuild itself, Greece entered into a …
The 2011 edition of Austin Pride.

Gay Rights: Separate but Equal?

When the Supreme Court ruled recently in Lawrence v. Texas that … But is this a valid comparison? The Brown ruling of 1954 was one of the truly great Supreme Court decisions of the … blacks and whites. By the time of the Brown decision, it was obvious that separate accommodations for blacks were …
Isaac W. Williams (front) in a file photo from the 1960s.

Still Fighting the Civil War in South Carolina

…  Confederate enthusiasts are throwing a grand ball there to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the state's … civil war, one that has raged in Charleston since 1865.   When the city fell to the Union army that year, local … of ridicule and defacement.  Even after the original statue was replaced by a second, which stood atop an enormous …