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Wartime poster. Canada. The Bureau of Public Information was created in September 1939 to disseminate information about Canada’s war policies.

Can the New Administration Keep Canada as an Ally in Afghanistan?

… As Barack Obama looks abroad for allies in the war in Afghanistan, he should move fast to put Canada at … Canadians have a history of reacting unpredictably when placed under pressure by great-power allies, and their … new nor particularly provocative. Indeed, his message was hardly different from the recent comments of Defense …
Cover of A Strange Stirring The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s by Stephanie Coontz.

A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

Review of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, by Stephanie Coontz (New York: Basic Books, 2011)
When Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was released in 1963, it split the … that the isolation they felt taking care of home and family was not unique. This realization alone had a profound impact … Review of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the
Atomic bomb damage on Hiroshima gas building.

Time to Confront the Ethics of Hiroshima

… Some Americans recall the event with shame and express their fervent hope that … of Japan. More challenging to consider is whether it was an unjustifiable act in a fully justified war. August 6 … or "revisionists." These epithets merely delay the day when Americans will consider the import of having used …
A photo of Helmut Kohl in1987.

Germany After Kohl

… On Sept. 27, German voters opted for Gerhard Schrôder and the Social Democrats over Kohl and his coalition of … experience in German politics before the Nazi takeover, was untainted by Nazi connections. Chancellor from 1949, when the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was
Herbert Hoover

We Could Use a Man like Herbert Hoover Again

… you now that we need you? Hurricane Katrina has underscored the importance of unified command and control in response to … considered below average among our presidents. Before he was president, however, Hoover had a reputation as a master … that Hoover’s leadership made a big difference in 1927 when the Mississippi River jumped its banks and flooded an …
A tractor purchased through the Marshall Plan for France.

Grand Fenwick, Afghanistan and Iraq

The administration has made a big deal of pointing out that … funny movie, but “The Mouse That Roared.” That 1959 comedy was based on the premise that by the late 1950s both sides … ruling duchess (both parts played by Peter Sellers) that when the duchy loses, it will be eligible for significant …
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 …
This is the third Strasbourg astronomical clock which is located in the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was built in 1843, the first clock was built 1352-1354.

Paleotechnic Machines in the Middle Ages

Review of Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art, by E.R. Truitt (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
… It might surprise you to learn that there was considerable mechanical innovation in the medieval … laws, and the relationship between man, art, and nature. When Truitt writes “the medieval period is central to … Paleotechnic Machines in the Middle Ages …
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 …
portrait of Shevchenko by Ukrainian artist Ilia Shulha, titled Taras Shevchenko Returning from Exil by Boat.

Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine

Taras Shevchenko is not just the founder of the modern Ukrainian literary language, he is also the most important symbol of modern Ukrainian nationhood.
When Ukrainian troops liberated the town of Borodyanka from Russian occupation in early … shells. The symbolism of the Russian attack on the monument was obvious. Taras Shevchenko is not just the founder of the … Taras Shevchenko is not just the founder of the modern Ukrainian literary language, he is …
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, …
Mount Fuji from Omiya by Kusakabe Kimbei c. 1890

Japan’s Meiji Restoration

Japan’s Meiji Restoration, or Meiji Ishin, occurred on January 3, 1868, and marked the return of the Japanese emperor to a position of power for the first time in more than 500 years.
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 …
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." …