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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum with a sign announcing the 70th anniversary ceremony.

A Postcard from Hiroshima

… of the bombing and was able to witness how the Japanese commemorate these tragic events. Hiroshima Peace Memorial … Memorial Cenotaph, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The official ceremonies took place near the Hiroshima Peace … to survive the blast, is now a UNESCO world heritage site. Following the official ceremony, smaller gatherings …
US Senator Mitt Romney of Utah.

The “Wall of Separation” Has Preserved Religion — Including Mormonism

… City of Brotherly Love in the 1680s he did so without an official, “state” religion (in contrast with the … to the world that people of any religious faith would be welcome. To Penn we owe our freedom of religion. Penn was a … was upheld. Since then, Mormons have managed an uneasy compromise with the rest of the nation. In return for …
Photo of A. Mitchell Palmer, a congressman from Pennsylvania who later became the U.S. Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson.

Cracking Down on Dissent

… Guard Home!” A judge issued a gag order preventing Drake officials from speaking about the subpoena. When word of … to keep close tabs on them. Spying on dissidents has become official policy since police departments were advised … civil liberties, chaired the House Un-American Activities Committee and pursued domestic “enemies.” With the onset of …
Most U.S. casualties, like these in a C-17 military transport aircraft, return to Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware. (unknown date)

For Mom, Blueberry Pie — and Iraq?

… on “the near absence among the men I worked with… of any comprehension of what Nazism meant.” Commentator Dwight Macdonald called the war simply “the … accompanied by the minimum of human meaning.” An official survey of Army Air Corpsmen in 1944 confirmed these …
Fort Bragg sign - home of the Airborne and Special Operations Forces

Renaming Southern Army Bases Is Nothing New

… white supremacist ? While other names were suggested, Army officials preferred shorter names of five letters or less. … moves from the Jim Crow era. The opportunity to change our common legacy rests fully in our hands. Renaming these bases … American Civil War. In 1942, at the behest of Robert Sink, commander of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the U.S. …
Border Fence/Wall

Shifting Borders: The Many Sides of U.S.-Mexican Relations

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … that we have to make a distinction between what government officials and national governments...the rhetoric they use … fortunes, but also historical serendipity or the opposite of that, if you will, because if you look at the time …
The Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C.

“What I Did On My Summer Vacation,” by the President

… about ten days before he decided to spend the city’s first official summer secluded in his hometown, Quincy, Mass. In … view of wartime Washington. On most mornings, Lincoln commuted into the city, but during hot summer months his … Soldiers’ Home and talked with disgruntled soldiers. He visited the wounded. Yet those sometimes painful interactions …
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681

Hostage Taking in Algeria Is a 200-Year-Old Story

… The State Department is probably very pleased with the outcome of last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria, although …   The sketchy coverage is an important reason why American officials may be happy. History shows that when hostage crises drag on and the public comes to make a personal connections with the captives, …

A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics

… Sea.” About a year later, President Barack Obama visited Manila to mark the signing of a new Enhanced Defense … While not explicitly backing Manila, Obama stressed his commitment to preserving stability in  the South China Sea . … Organization (SEATO), the Pacific analog to NATO. While official relations were thus strong between the two allies, …
Garden District of New Orleans.

Learning to Dance With the French

… to the United States in 1803. Although there’s been no official cancellation of the event, nobody I know here in … French Louisianians like myself no longer have much in common with our cousins in Paris. But in 1803, following the … the governor learned to loosen his collar a little, to compromise, to speak French, and to practice crafty …
An image comparing Communism to Naziism

Historical Analogies and the China Debate

… a very different matter. Unfortunately, bad analogies have come to dominate discussions of China in the American press. A disturbing number of commentators have been implying or stating outright that … between the imperial and revolutionary eras, and official histories point with pride to the role that Chinese …
Andrés Manuel López Obrador in front of Mexican flag

"Juntos Haremos Historia": AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation

… Lauren Henry  Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together … day of his presidency, they unveiled a new logo for the website of the govierno de Mexico the website, which is kind of … back to four transformational moments, as written in the official history of Mexico. These are very subjective, not …
President Barack Obama signed the ARRA into law on February 17, 2009. Vice President Joe Biden stood directly behind him.

A New New Deal Must Be For All

… Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan has provoked comparisons with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Like … Dealers treated jobs for women as an afterthought. As one official told Eleanor Roosevelt in 1935, "For unskilled men, … women earned only 51 percent of what men did for work of comparable worth.   During the Depression, officials …
U.S. Army Officers wearing their “Pinks-and-Greens,” 1943. (Library of Congress)

Throwback Army: World War II-Style Uniforms for Today’s Soldiers

… inspired by the World War II-era “Pinks-and-Greens.” As the official guidelines proudly proclaim : “The Army wore the … in meeting recruiting goals. Old and New Uniforms in Comparison: Modern-day reenactors (left and center) wearing … a plain olive drab uniform, officers had a choice of color combination. Since most opted for “pink” (officially Olive …
Sputnik

Soviets Launch Sputnik, 1957

… of a satellite” to the world. Pravda put a distinctively communist spin on the news, arguing that “artificial … humanity’s most daring dreams into a reality.” American officials – who surely numbered among the unnamed … appeared) would be used for legitimate research and not for competition in what he called “an outer-space basketball …
President Reagan recites the Pledge of Allegiance with students from a Detroit Catholic school in 1984.

Affirming “Under God” Ruling Is a Higher Form of Patriotism

… In the nine Western states that this court covers, official recitals of the God-infused pledge are now … evangelical Rev. Billy Graham rose to celebrity denouncing communism as a "satanic religion," while Secretary of State … the same phrase replaced "E Pluribus Unum" as the nation's official motto. The new religiosity spawned the push to add …
An 1889 lithograph of the Historic Capitol of Tallahassee, Florida

For History’s Sake, Preserve Florida’s Presidential Ballots

… to remain an unsettled and unsettling question. In years to come, hundreds of articles and books will flow from the pens … of that state's election such as instructions and e-mail communications between the Florida secretary of state's … for consolidated permanent retention. Because state officials plan to take no action to consolidate the ballots …
W.E.B. Du Bois c. 1911

150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois

… Although he died more than 50 years ago, his life and work command more attention now than ever before. Many of his … dozen books, hundreds of articles, several plays, and exquisite poetry. In all of his work, he called for a commitment … in 1909 ( left ). Du Bois in his office at The Crisis , the official magazine of the NAACP ( right ) (The New York …
Immigrant laborers, part of the Bracero program

Immigrant Deportations Today and the Continuing Legacy of "Operation Wetback"

… U.S. Border Patrol ( pictured above  in 1924 when it was officially created) carried out Operation Wetback to respond … less interest in actual immigrants who might settle and become part of the citizenry. The program thus conditioned … both are still trying to work out ). Large agricultural companies wanted cheap labor while the Border Patrol and …
Nationalist poster depicting Pakistani atrocities during the war

The Bangladesh Liberation War

… South Asia’s geopolitical landscape, it also bears a more complex and lesser-known set of legacies for how we think … murder and deportation of the populace—the army of Pakistan committed war crimes that reached the level of genocide. … of astounding magnitude. Monument to the teachers and officials of Dhaka University who were killed during the …
Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.

Inequality After Apartheid

Review of Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit, by Hennie van Vuuren (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)

Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration

… Project ]. Canada’s Houses of Parliament (its House of Commons and the Senate chambers) sit on the unceded … in the tepee to listen to their concerns even as the official national celebrations commemorating that … 2018. Indeed, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s website “ Beyond 94 ” that tracks which of the recommendations …
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)—Article 19 states that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

Free Speech: Still Under Threat

… than that enjoyed by the British, whose draconian libel and official secrets laws can stop the distribution of books, … After all, American society is now among the world's most complex. In a nation of such diverse origins, practices and … of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." But his views have not always been heeded. Nor …