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Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell

… The Birth of Soviet Ukraine. When the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917 … of violence and instability until 1922. Multiple communities of former tsarist imperial subjects imagined the … , 2nd edition (Oxford, 2020). Serhy Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Basic Books, 2015). For …
The original Star-Spangled Banner is on view at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

Grace Wisher: The Black Girl Who Helped Stitch the Star-Spangled Banner

… Three years into Grace’s apprenticeship, Pickersgill was commissioned to create the Star-Spangled Banner in … A significant number of free Black Baltimoreans also lived in small houses on narrow alleys, including those … role in the establishment of the United States. Their bodies were relied upon for the continuation of the …
Schools often have dedicated computer labs which different classes share for studying and research.

The Fifth Wave?

… helped the United States achieve economic independence from Europe). In the third wave, from roughly 1895 to 1925, … appliances, and new opportunities in electronics, telecommunications, and aerospace. In the United States the … century. Carl Abbott is a professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University, Ore., and a …
Olympic Broadcasting Services covering the men's 10 kilometre marathon swim at the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Big Game on the Small Screen: The Televised Transformation of Sport

… Contemporary televised sport, in many ways, has become a better fan experience than being there live. You get … sports bar, probably with better food at lower prices. At  some stadiums , even if you are there live, you still might … broadcasts was therefore rudimentary and ad-hoc.   The audience, such as it was, much like the earliest radio …
Book Cover of Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century By: Steven Conn

Hot off the Presses: Americans vs. the City

… and how they have shaped the anti-government politics so strong today.   As Conn describes it, the anti-urban … and all that it contributes to urban life, especially social diversity, and second, a perception that the city was … future as well." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …
Kagan, Obama, and Roberts before her investiture ceremony, October 1, 2010.

How Empathy Makes Superior Judges – and Justice

… consider her legal ability and constitutional vision, but also her capacity to be an empathetic justice. Republicans … Obama when he suggested that empathy was an important ingredient in a justice. In fact, the president was simply … to the Supreme Court.   T.R. recognized that those who become judges invariably have had close association with …
neon sign that says Quiz with question marks around it

History Teaching: Still Crazy After All These Years

… which any high school can take pride.” Does this statement come from: (a) A 1987 National Assessment, after which … history did just fine. But those with specialties in medieval, European and African history failed miserably when …
Chinese nuclear bomb on display in China.

A Danger Shared by All

… proliferation crisis. Yet, to quote one of Bush’s predecessors, Dwight D. Eisenhower: “If a danger exists in the … Lyndon Johnson ordered a task force, the Gilpatric Committee (named after its chairman, former deputy defense … to stop nuclear proliferation. According to the Gilpatric Committee, “Energetic and comprehensive steps must be taken …
India and Pakistan highlighted on a map.

“Open Skies” for India and Pakistan?

… war against terrorism cannot be won without stability in South Asia. Now is the time for the United States to … implement it. In 1992 the United States, Russia and other European nations signed the Open Skies Treaty allowing … bin Laden himself, are in that area. For the international community to finish off al-Qaida, uninterrupted cooperation …
French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … attention to this problem and, at times, to stand against misogynistic violence in all its forms. Recently, the United … with scholars Treva Lindsey , Cathy Rakowski , and Peggy Solic . ( Image Source ) …
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 … to bring one group of experts, those in international studies, under stricter government control. This legislation … law will create a seven-member International Education Advisory Board to monitor area studies programs to insure that …
2006 map of North Korea and South Korea.

Applying the Antarctic Solution to the Korean Nuclear Impasse

… prohibits all military activity? The unlikely source of common ground lies in the Antarctic Treaty of 1959. This … 1990s, aerial inspection would become a familiar sight over Europe and North America via the Open Skies Treaty. Today, … Korean side are nearly 700,000 troops and 37,000 U.S. soldiers. North Korea also possesses a growing missile …
President George Bush signing deregulation papers with gas company employees looking on

Texas, Enron, and Energy Monopolies

… Think about some of the iconic images that you would choose to represent … least some of the blame can go to the now-disgraced energy company, Enron, and its misuse of long-held American … images of the financial slight of hand that ruined the company in 2001. But before that point, both Ken Lay and …
Marines from 1st Battalion 7th Marines enter a palace during the Battle of Baghdad.

Iraq War a Major Departure in American Foreign Affairs

… of interventionism: the United States has never been an isolationist nation, but in fact a country whose military has … the Soviet Union, the United States was not a preemptive combatant. It was Joseph Stalins Soviet Union that blockaded … Berlin in 1948 and later built the iron curtain across Europe. Once again, there was no preemptive American attack …
Poster from a 2020 pro-choice rally that says, "If my uterus had a gun, would I have more rights?"

Theater of Cruelty

… in Carhart makes the reader feel like a witness at gruesome abortion procedures. Some will denounce Kennedy’s … right. However, even this discussion of pregnancy did not come close to the corporeal character of Kennedy’s language … the limits of what reasoned discourse can represent. An audience has to be brutally stimulated — shocked by savage …
The Cornalvo Dam, near the city of Mérida in Spain.

Top Ten Origins: Dams

… are being built in Brazil and China, while campaigns to decommission dams are gaining traction in the United States … 1305.  Located near the Roman capital, the Subiaco dams also served some municipal functions. Scholarship on Roman … who use technology to engineer their environment. Before European settlers arrived to North America, beavers and …
Richard and Mildred Loving in June, 1967.

At the Movies: "The Loving Cup"

… and people of other races. Such laws dominated the entire Southern bloc of sixteen states, from North Carolina to … Loving v. Virginia , the most pertinent film is Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1968), which features a stirring defense … Shelter (2011) and Midnight Special (2016), is rapidly becoming one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the United …
A Memorial to the "Forgotten War" of Korea with the insignias of the United States Uniformed Services ringed around it.

Forgotten War, Tragic Peace

… a battle fought here at home. The advocates of containing communism clearly defeated those led by General Douglas … peninsula and, by extension, the world. As long as the sources of danger stayed on their own side of the global … or conquest. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …
The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi Book Cover

Clashing Shades of Red

Review of The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)