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Mosul Grand Mosque in 2007

Bush Needs War — FAST

… television networks devoted only a few minutes each day to national and international news.  In contrast, today Americans encounter an … he could easily face overwhelming American and international condemnation. Even if Bush acts now, he will be …
Marlin Stutzman US senate campaign, 2016 (Support a Balanced Budget Amendment)

An Amendment Whose Time Has Never Come

… was offered as an anti-New Deal measure. At a time when national obligations in domestic and international affairs were growing rapidly and substantially, …
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks book cover.

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

Review of The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)
… ideas about corporate responsibility, civic involvement, nationalism, bureaucracy, and tradition. Dirks organizes …
Mao Zedong clapping and Mao Zedong speaking at a microphone

The Founding of the People's Republic of China

On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong (1893-1976) announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of China marking the end of China’s chaotic era of foreign domination since the mid-18th century.
… Harvard University Press, 2011. Wang, Zheng.  Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics … … Cruz Guan … China … Taiwan … Cold War … Diplomacy/International Relations … International Organizations … East Asia & Southeast Asia … The …
Secretary of State John Kerry continued his meetings in Lausanne with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif. Under Secretary Wendy Sherman and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz are participating in the meetings.

Iran’s Nuclear Diplomacy

… Over the course of the past year international negotiators have met periodically in Vienna in an … weapons, and thereby mitigate one of the most pressing international security concerns of the past several decades. In … This view accordingly deems Iran a serious threat to international security even without a nuclear weapon and a …
Communards with flags

The Socialist Legacy in France

… have gravitated, unfortunately, to the far right, to the national front. So that is one of the unhappy developments … precisely, part of the appeal of the far right is that the National Front movement of Jean-Marie Le Pen, and now it is …
The "Bridge of No Return" that crosses the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea

… and Japan defused their fear and earned decades of international good will. The cost of humanitarian aid to North … Korea … Japan … Nuclear Power & Weapons … Diplomacy/International Relations … Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea …
illustration of Prince George IV

Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?

Review of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, by Noelle Gallagher (New Haven: Yale, 2019)
… time, protection from venereal infection became a matter of national security. The use of condoms, while not valorous, …
The Trials of Laura Fair by Carole Haber Book Cover.

A Woman Scorned?

Review of The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West, by Carole Haber (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013)
Pledging his support, President George W. Bush talks via telephone to New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists

… War has an American president thought through what the international role of the United States should be. A continuance … States … World War I / WWI … Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists …
President Ronald Reagan sitting in the Oval Office Study in 1985.

Misremembering Reagan

… produced huge federal budget deficits and increased the national debt from $700 billion to $3 trillion. The current …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… According to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , people in late antiquity … medical understanding. The 1990 ACT-UP protest at the National Institutes of Health sought to bring awareness to … … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Global/Transnational … Europe … Pandemics: Today and Yesterday …
Monica Lewinsky's official government ID photo from 1997.

Another Watergate?

… went far beyond the break-in and bugging at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An …
Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE.

The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response

… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … Steven L. Tuck … …