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Multicolored hanging telephones

From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone

The real origins of the iPhone’s power stems from the pioneering efforts of communication innovators that preceded the AT&T engineers of the 1920s.
… long-distance communication really begins with the Western Union post-diggers who laid the first American … Bart Elmore … Atlantic … Science & Technology … Global/Transnational … Internet … From the Transatlantic Telephone to …
Police attack protesters on Bloody Sunday in Alabama

The Federal Government and Policing the Police

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
American Government
… then interact with a President who will attempt to direct national policy around a hot-button issue like police …
Grover Cleveland-Benjamin Harrison presidential (1888) campaign poster about the trade policy of the two candidates

Reform: The Long-Term Winner in Close Elections

… opening of world markets to facilitate competition across national boundaries. Record campaign spending occurred in … who this year said little about big problems like international child labor or global warming may, pressed by …
Zelensky and Trump

Trump’s Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective

… Christopher McKnight Nichols, Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies and Professor of History, The Ohio … Noyes (Moderator), Director, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Arts & Sciences Distinguished …
Someone's hand holding a paper strip up to a Guatemalan woman's arm. The woman's arm has a white strip on it.

The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments

Between 1946-1948, around 1,500 people in Guatemala—including prisoners, soldiers, prostitutes, psychiatric patients, and children—were enrolled without consent in unethical studies related to the testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections.
… the dangers involved in allowing scientific knowledge and national security to justify what the  New York Times  …
Mural in Guernica based on the Picasso painting. 

Guernica and the Horrors of Modern War

… Condor Legion, working in collaboration with the Spanish Nationalists under the command of General Francisco Franco , … produce a mural for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 International Exposition, which was being held that year in …
The logo of the United States Agency for International Development. It has been in use since 2004.

Foreign Assistance and Democratic Reform

… American taxpayers. A recent survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland … … Francis Adams … History News Service … Global/Transnational … Diplomacy/International Relations … Democracy/Elections/Voting Rights … …
Cover of Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz.

The Gifts That Keep On Giving

Review of Philanthropy in America: A History, by Olivier Zunz (Princeton University Press, 2012)
… Yale made a donation of books, and in return a small denominational college in New Haven was named after him. Benjamin … on to chart how American philanthropic activity became international, first as a result of World War II, and then … now to a greater extent by government. And what about international development work? Is this the role of the State …