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… Second-guessing the necessity and morality of the atomic bombing of … forces in the Pacific, recorded in his diary that MacArthur was "appalled and depressed by this Frankenstein monster." … available to them in the summer of 1945. Keep this in mind when, on Hiroshima anniversaries, you hear claims that …

… 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush to the House of Representatives. Yet Congress is no more likely … Control Act and the 1982 Boland Amendment. Nevertheless, when eventually exposed, this executive action was not punished with impeachment. The majority Democrats on …

… Faculty experts from the Ohio State University Department of History hold a conversation about the first one hundred days of the Biden administration. Host: Margaret Newell, Professor, … respond to your questions. Many of you submitted questions when you registered—and we’ll answer some of those to begin …

… “Keep the government out of my health care.” If you’ve been privy … contrariety . The first hospital in the United States was the brainchild of Benjamin Franklin and a friend Dr. … personnel . A year before the nation’s founding in 1775 —when the country geared up for the approaching Revolutionary …

… The people of Thessaloniki, Greece embrace the enigmatic … Istanbul tells me all Turkish students learn that this city was “the Ottoman door to Europe.” As such, the port became … “Greek.” This nationalist transformation occurred in 1912, when troops from Athens and other areas of the south beat …

… The National Veterans Memorial and Museum (NVMM) in Columbus, Ohio is the first national memorial or museum dedicated to honor all … of their service prior to being discharged—the moment when they each became a veteran. Despite its “national” … The National Veterans Museum and Memorial …

… Patrick Henry, it is his immortal declaration, made during the Virginia Convention of 1775: "I know not what course … Thomas Kidd reminds us that the closest surviving source was published four decades after the fact and based on … the county courts would have depended on who was asked and when. He was certainly a radical voice for revolution, …

… Americans have always been haunted by the idea that the country is in decline. Underneath the … Hamilton (top left) , John Adams (bottom left) , George Washington (middle) , and Thomas Jefferson (right) . … nonpartisan harmony was already an exceedingly distant one when he stepped down from the presidency,” and by his last …

… On May 12, 1949,  the Soviet Union officially lifted its blockade of  West … blockade, one of the earliest episodes in the  Cold War , was largely ineffective because of several factors, … Airlift began on June 26, only two days after the Blockade when the US government initiated “Operation Vittles,” the …

… In the hours after the planes struck the World Trade Center and … W. Bush to express sympathy for the victims of the attack was the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Putin’s phone … equipment — and still owed the Kremlin more than $7 billion when he was overthrown by U.S. forces. With Saddam now on …

… Many Americans see Israel’s response to the capture of three of its soldiers as entirely justified. … of Tyre and Beirut now, the true goal of the Israelis then was something different. That goal was to destroy the PLO … a constructive role in the Middle East, unlike the days when the hammer and sickle flew over the Kremlin. In …

… The movie  Conclave has left us all wondering: Do cardinals … a book about popes and the papacy (before there really was a papacy, in fact!), I have a few answers.   As is … the Roman church during an especially tumultuous period, when the Lombards were seizing territory in Italy and the …

… Both politically and culturally, Romania and the Republic of Moldova have never been closer. The … well in the 2020 elections. For some, Moldovan identity was created by the Soviet Union, a process that stripped … leanings was undone in 1918 and then reversed again when the region was occupied by the Soviet Union, which …

… on terrorists and expressed his determination to smoke out the villains responsible for the terrible assaults of Sept. … results envisioned by some of the gung-ho strategists in Washington. Consider what happened in the past under what … by surprise, even though they might have known better. When President Lyndon B. Johnson escalated America’s combat …