Fake Autobiographies: A Great American Tradition
… make up a form peculiarly suited to American national mythologies. Famously, in 1784 Benjamin Franklin …
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Guess What? The New Deal Worked!
… denounced the WPA as “We Putter Around.” The new Republican National Committee chairman, Michael Steele, recently …
Responding to Terror: No Good Choices
… during the anti-colonial revolution spearheaded by the National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1960. Hundreds … Global/Transnational …
Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students
… I'm not sure who these people are. I think it's a class reunion, potentially a high school class reunion. But I'm not 100% sure, that's what the picture is. We … about what blended bodies trigger regarding patriotism, nationalism, and erasure. And I wonder what mixed urban or …
Children at Play: An American History
Review of Children at Play: An American History, by Howard Chudacoff (New York: New York University Press, 2007)
Top Ten Origins: Historical Musicals
… States and the United Kingdom. Today, not only are international tours a major source of revenue for Broadway and …
A Century of Elected Woman Governors in the United States, 1924-2024
… parties and from across the U.S. gathered to form the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC). One of the … following year, in 1975, the United Nations declared “ International Year of the Woman .” Grasso’s election, as the …
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
Review of In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
… of myths. Fundamentalists began to unite across denominational boundaries in order to defend their faith and their …
A Who’s Who of Jihadi Terrorism in Europe
Review of Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History, by Petter Nesser (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
… of “Afghan-Arab” networks by Arab mujahideen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan , which eventually gave birth to Al … France flight 8969 on December 26th 1994. While the Afghan-Soviet War created a jihadist threat to Europe, Nesser …
The Founders Never Imagined a Bush Administration
… to engage in unconstitutional behavior in the interest of "national security." Then Congress was reacting to violation …
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 …
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, …
Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
… any context. Warhol's "32 Soup Cans" is on display at the National Gallery of Art. The repeating printed cans provide …
“Diaspora” as a Creative and Historical Force
Review of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival, by Paul Conrad (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Chanukah Candles Shed Light on Mideast Conflict
… "subcontractor," to suppress the radical Palestinian nationalists. Israel's mantra-like calls for Arafat to "end …
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 … Diplomacy/International Relations … International Organizations …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 … Diplomacy/International Relations …
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)
