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From Dixie to the Third Reich

Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
… to the United States with unbridled admiration for the way in which the latter kept “bloodlines pure.” “Nazi … law” (p. 5). This argument revolutionizes the discussion of comparative racism and our understanding of the influence of … in the United States and the Third Reich. Whitman weaves together a story of exclusion within the United States which, …
Atomic bomb damage on Hiroshima gas building.

Time to Confront the Ethics of Hiroshima

… II. We Americans reflect on this event in sharply differing ways. Those who believe the bomb's use was justified often … following: On August 8, 1945, two days after the bombing, former Republican President Herbert Hoover wrote to a friend … indefensibility of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is becoming a part of the national conservative creed." But times …
North Korea's prime minister Kim Il-sung and China's premier Zhou Enlai tour Beijing in 1958.

China Holds the Key to the North Korea Problem

… As the international community struggles to respond effectively to the missile … and the ability to do so, falls squarely on China.   The way that the United Nations was originally designed explains … leaders of the four most powerful countries would work together to manage conflict across the international community …
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Changing the Narrative

How have monuments and memorials minimized the Black experience in America?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History to 1877
African American History
… Photo by  Fox Photos/Stringer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images   …
Black men and women in yard outside building - Photo by Archive Photos/Stringer/Getty Images

Black Americans and Education

How did African Americans protest the laws that prevented their formal education at mainstream white institutions and intended toto keep prove their inferiority in the time period before the 1950s?
Teaching Area
US History to 1877
African American History
… Photo by  Archive Photos/Stringer/Getty Images   … did African Americans protest the laws that prevented their formal education at mainstream white institutions and … toto keep prove their inferiority in the time period before the 1950s? …
a woman caring for someone with HIV

What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care

Comparing COVID-19 to HIV is, in many ways, like comparing … it. To demand affordable ART, ACT UP organizers targeted Wall Street and the government, which eventually … What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care …
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Don't Call it a Riot

What is the motivation for African American Uprisings?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… Photo by  Bettmann Collection/Getty Images   … What is the motivation for African American Uprisings? …
Print depicting the USS Olympia firing on the Spanish fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.

Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States

… 2018, President Donald Trump made a set of disparaging comments about Puerto Rico. They underscored just how little … the Hall of Fame one year later. 6. West Side Story: a Broadway Fiction of an Unfortunate Reality Cover of the … Obama became the first sitting United States president to visit Puerto Rico since President Kennedy’s trip in 1961. …
A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.

Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia

… citizens. High speed cameras strung along streets and highways capture license plates of vehicles as they pass. … to see if they carry unauthorized content or “harmful information.” Xinjiang became a dystopian surveillance society … more recently, of settler colonialism. It is also based on competing visions of history and of who belongs to the land. …
the back of a man who is looking at a flying saucer in the sky

Project Blue Book: America's Obsession with UFOs

Headquartered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH, Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force’s investigation into UFOs, ran for 12 years beginning in March of 1952.
… Headquartered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH, Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air … the World to Flying Saucers https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/ … Project Blue Book Termination https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary Project …
The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg Book Cover.

How the Sun Rose Again on the City of Light

Review of The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
… galling symbol of German occupation, lay roughly 300 km away. Michael Neiberg's book The Blood of Free Men focuses on … with collaborationist neighborhoods, areas of union and communist strength, and the German headquarters district. As … and a cathartic ending with characters who at times work together and at times work at cross purposes. Neiberg paints …
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

For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars New book from Ohio State historian Jennifer … ensured that the empire of the Tsars would not be tempted away from its alliance and entente partners.   This web of …
Jefferson High School Marching Colonials perform on the steps of National Archives Building on Constitution Day, September 17, 1974.

Let’s Do Something Constitutional on Constitution Day

… people revere their Constitution. They can’t seem to get their fill of books about the Founding Fathers either. … 2, Section 2, couldn’t be clearer: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United … is there any grant of the sweeping powers now claimed for the commander in chief. Indeed, the congressional power …
Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

… nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature. Title page of the … of months later Percy’s wife committed suicide, and just before the publication of the novel Mary gave birth to a … and nineteenth-century romanticism. Shelley targeted the enlightenment idolatry of reason and mechanistic …
Vaccination team member giving a cholera vaccine in Cerca Carvajal, 2013.

Cholera and the Roots of Public Health

… by Vibrio cholerae, caused patients’ bodies to waste away in a matter of hours due to sudden dehydration and … However, it would take another decade (and another pandemic visitation) for this discovery to be broadly accepted. … required input from doctors, engineers (like Joseph Bazalgette who was tasked with redesigning the London sewer …

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System

… The left side of the American political-entertainment complex has passed the time since the 2012 election watching … been predominantly, resiliently binary. But this has not always meant a simultaneous even polarity, coalitional … victories at the polls. Identity, not ideology, held them together. The centrality of personal identity to partisan …
Michelle Obama speaks at the 2008 Democratic National Convention

Superdelegates: An Obstacle on the Road to Democratic Elections

… have revitalized the possibility that in the tight race for the Democratic nomination, the deciding votes could be … implemented two years later. The Republican party, by the way, has no superdelegates. Office-holding superdelegates … and make their own choices free from the influence of the common people. Instead, nearly all states allowed the …

Colombia: Al Borde de la Paz con las FARC?

… Moon, el presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, y el comandante supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de … El gobierno y las guerrillas ahora estarían listos para formalmente firmar el acuerdo completo el 26 de septiembre … ( Izquierda ). El Secretario del Estado, Colin Powell, visitando a Colombia en el año 2003 ( Derecho ). Mientras …
Depiction of the Battle of Bosworth Field by the eighteenth-century painter, Philip James de Loutherbourg.

The Battle of Bosworth Field

… out the now immortal line: “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” Unfortunately, not much is documented about … site of Richard’s death at  Fenn Lane Farm , about 2 miles away.  Yet an even more intense debate has raged over the … who had usurped the throne and killed several noblemen to get it. The Battle of Bosworth Field was thus justified and …
The flag of the United Nations

America’s Intervention Predicament

… each case, pressure from the media, which now bring us faraway bloodshed with our supper, from ethnic and other special … play the main role, but unfortunately it took weeks to get an international police corps in place. What is needed … through the veto or some other device, such a force could become the rogue force the U.N. founders feared. But our …