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Robert F Williams and Mao Zedong

China and the Black Liberation Struggle in America

… Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., China has a long and complex history of interaction with African American movements for equal rights. Please join Ohio State University’s Melvin … Barnes, Jr.  Yeah, so this is going to take us all the way back to the early '90s. So in 1992, we had the LA riots, …
A view of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

A Dawn of Peace in Bethlehem?

… relations in the region. By 2001, Christmas had become a casualty of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Israel … have flourished. In 2003, over 300,000 Israeli tourists visited the Turkish resort of Antalya. In 2005, despite a … rights above Israeli air space. Negotiations are under way to regularly export Israeli Dead Sea minerals to East …
Statue of Peter the Great in Moscow

The Past and Future of Russian-American Relations

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … chaos. Second and more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of … adaptation by Russia of useful (if vexatious) foreign ways. Presently, anti-Westernism is unfocused, as no one on …
Senator J. William Fulbright in 1966.

Advice from the Past about Yugoslavia

… its propaganda war against the Serbs? Will provisions for the demilitarization of the Kosovo Liberation Army and … and relying on military superiority and instead find common ground with its adversaries. In October 1962 Kennedy … the experience of the missile crisis led Kennedy to move away from seeing foreign policy as a tough competitive game. …
Women at the Women's March in DC with signs: "Can't Believe We STILL Have to Protest", "Keep your Hands and Laws Off my Body", "RAPE CULTURE" with a line through it

The Long History of #MeToo

… and sexual violence seem to have suddenly burst into the news cycle. Nearly every day, new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the … also a movement to create things that don't necessarily always center on the perpetrators, but actually think about …
The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger launching in 1983.

Mars: A Planet Too Far?

… those in the Bush administration — could find better uses for that money on earth. Even with overwhelming … He twice attempted to escape the tremendous financial commitment by promoting a joint lunar trip by the United … given the 14-month round trip that would be required to get human beings to and from Mars, Bush’s proposal will be …
Pearl Harbor Attack

War Can Threaten Civil Liberties at Home

… campus. A Saudi Arabian student at a city college in California was assaulted while walking near his home. These … in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington. And together they augur the kind of backlash the United States … the war in 1917, the German language was prohibited in some communities, and Americans even resorted to the absurd …
Pope Francis smiling from inside a car as he leaves the White House in 2015.

Embracing the Pope–Selectively

… Protestants. Evangelical-Catholic relations have come a long way over the last generation, but for all their papal cheer … have united to produce “Evangelicals and Catholics Together,” a statement affirming what these two branches of … History News Service …
Portrait of Thomas Paine from 1793.

Common Sense: Salute Paine, Not Jefferson, on the Fourth

… Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence will, once again, command center stage. It will be quoted and read in its … Thomas — Thomas Paine — that served to mobilize the masses for revolution and inspired Jefferson’s Declaration itself. … aroused public opinion in America in an unprecedented way. It quickly became a best seller, with 120,000 copies …
In an address to a joint-session of the US Congress on September 20, 2001, US President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban deliver Osama bin Laden and destroy bases of al-Qaeda.

Bush Should Consider the Fate of Wartime Presidents

… March 1947. “Every nation must choose between alternative ways of life, “communist or free,” Truman declared. Truman … in Afghanistan. Many of the grievances that brought them together were fallout from the U.S. effort to keep Soviet … figure. The next time Bush goes home to Texas, he should visit Johnson’s final resting place and ponder deeply. It is …
Old man sitting alone in a park.

Social Security Reform for All

… Is Social Security on its way to bankruptcy, crashing down in 2029? Most likely not. … which stand to make hundreds of millions in fees and commissions, and anti-welfare state conservative ideologues, … the system. Imagine economists in 1940, when the federal budget was around $10 billion, making a serious prediction …
A long line of migrants in India

Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today

… With more than 80 million forcibly displaced people in the world and another 260-plus … policy in the U.S., Europe, and across the world have become fierce and deeply divisive, to say the least, and will surely continue to dominate politics in the coming years. All the while, lives are in the balance as …
Coach Bob Knight holding a chair

Bob Knight: A Latter-Day MacArthur?

… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … "his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." He visited New York City, where 7.5 million people gathered to … himself. That's a fascinating thing — in a kind of morbid wayfor people to observe." Tim Roberts is an assistant …
New York City in 1932.

Black Tuesday II

… by a far worse and all-too-literal Great Crash only blocks away on another Tuesday. People picture the onset of the … often  since the attack on the World Trade Center, but a comparison of the Black Tuesdays of 1929 and 2001 is equally … to fear, but it is a major force in itself. Even if we can get beyond unreasoning terror — and most of us will — there …
President George W. Bush sitting at his desk in 2001.

Social Security: False Crisis, Destructive Solutions

… system is in danger of bankruptcy and that the only way to avoid the crisis is privatization, Bush is attempting … Association of Realtors, the largest political action committee, as measured by direct contributions to federal … 38 percent of the African American and Hispanic elderly. Together with Medicare, which pays the majority of medical …
Graffiti on wall: "Broken Promises"

Jefferson Cowie on Deindustrialization, Trade, and the 2016 Presidential Election

… of the New Deal exception, populism as the primary driving force of change in American politics, immigration as a key … so strongly, even though I think the process was well underway beforehand, it continued afterwards, and it may have … in the case of many of the New Deal programs, in order to get them past, they had to exclude occupations that were …
A U.S. military vehicle crossing the Iraq border in March 2003.

U.S. Credibility at Stake in Iraq

… seem to have forgotten, much of the world did not forget how the U.S. government lied its way into the Vietnam war. In August 1964, the American … on a war it cannot justify. Christopher Gerteis is a visiting professor of East Asian history at the University … History News Service …
The Dalai Lama speaking in front of Tibet's flag.

A New Chance for Peace in Tibet

… Both sides have long known that the solution lay in compromise and talks have endured intermittently, and unsuccessfully, for more than 20 years. Negotiations broke off in 1989. The … the auspices of the Beijing government would go a long way toward achieving the goals to which both sides aspire. …
The supreme court of Massachusetts sits at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston.

Gay-Marriage Decision: Just the Beginning of the Debate

… not forbid same-sex civil marriages. It therefore paved the way for legal recognition of gay and lesbian marriages … before all slaves in Massachusetts would be set free, the Commonwealth v. Jennison case of 1783 ensured that slaves … of the same-sex marriage debate you’re on, feel free to get ready to shout your opinions from the rooftop to …
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife before their assassinations in Sarajevo.

The Enduring Lesson of Sarajevo

… warned at the November ceremony in Lithuania marking the latest round of NATO expansion. The president should have … appease dictators.” As the Bush administration prepares for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, it should also heed the lesson … invasion, the Iraqi military could engage in house-to-house combat or terrorist attacks against U.S. troops in Baghdad …
“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.

The Old Informing the New

Review of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic, by John M. Murrin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
… American Revolution , and the Early American Republic. This compilation gathers together some of his important essays published or delivered … each other rather than rebuffing one another. Put another way, since 18th-century subjects did not distinguish … From Empire to Republic , by John M. Murrin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) …
Photo of Tiananmen Square from 2007.

Bombings, Blood Debts, and Mutual Suspicion

… China and the United States, with perilous implications for the twenty-first century. “A blood debt must be repaid … gates and banners in Hong Kong, with quite a different target — the Chinese government, for its bloody suppression of … a lengthy analysis in July 1989 explaining how the “anti-communist forces” of the capitalist world, led by the U.S. …