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Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe Book Cover

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

Review of Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)
… I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer … Department of Sociology and interdisciplinary Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego and is currently a lecturer in science and technology …
Black Women's Rights Leaders

Prologued: Women and the Vote

Analyzing the myth of the women's voting bloc
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An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, March 1, 1780. Pennsylvania State Archives.

The Forgotten First Step Toward Freedom

… until seven years later, are usually credited with this accomplishment, having banished slavery in their remaining … move in novel areas. To be sure, these path-breaking acts compromised with the grim reality of slave owners’ property … tested the law-enforcement skills of Northern states compelled to check the felonious dispatch of slaves to the …
Demolition of the former Penn Station concourse raised public awareness about preservation.

Choking Off Our Past

… the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City to Acoma Sky City in New Mexico. NTHP activists are gathering in … items on July 20, 1969, to return to the orbiting command module, they didn’t know they were creating … to override this decision, the president’s financial gutting of historical preservation will have far-reaching …

Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina

… where tourists and porteños (inhabitants of Buenos Aires) come to exchange currency. As one walks the streets, the … of inflation and devaluation, Rosas slashed public subsidies and public works. A proponent of small government, … through protectionist policies to close off the nation from cheaper Cuban and Brazilian sugar. In 1895, Tucumán endured …
Tulsa aftermath. Jun 1, 1921.

In Oklahoma, Another Debate About Reparations

… in the city that a lynching was imminent. The proud black community, which was reading "radical" literature such as … were required to work cleaning up the burned area for no compensation other than meals and housing. By noon, more … to the ground and thousands were left homeless. Now, a commission funded by the Oklahoma legislature is …
Jackie Robinson

Living Up to Jackie Robinson

… jeopardize the process of integration. He was, by nature, a combative individual, so he had to struggle to restrain … "Then I could walk away from baseball and never become a star. But my son could tell his son what his daddy … An outspoken advocate of self-help, he urged blacks to become producers, manufacturers, creators of businesses and …
Herd of horses on desert-steppe

A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan

… Once part of the Russian Empire of the tsars and then the Communist Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has been independent … meal. We spent the night in our sleeping bags in a large communal dormitory. Path inside the Konyr-Aulie cave. Some … between seasonal pastures. Brutal Soviet policies that compelled the nomads to settle in one place, followed by a …
The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson Book Cover.

Capturing a Moment

Review of The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
… my professor is onto something. Patterson shares with other commentators the feeling that 1965 was a “pivot” or a … the fact no one knew how much it would cost; and struck a compromise on the issue of federal funding to parochial … options: looking soft on communism or sending Americans to die. Patterson emphasizes the feasibility of Johnson’s …
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.

A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404

… noted that work on the largest mosque in the city had been completed just before his arrival, but Timur ordered its … of Clavijo and the party of other ambassadors who he accompanied to the cosmopolitan city provoked mild interest, … on account of their strange clothes and quaint customs. Medieval Castilians, it seems, were regarded as rather …
September 17: The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

The Constitution, Congress and the Power to Declare War

… The Founding Fathers balanced the power of the president as commander-in-chief with that of Congress, the people’s representatives — the one to command the nation’s armed forces, the other to decide when …
The London meeting to discuss NATO military intervention in Libya, March 29, 2011.

Secretary Clinton — Leader or Figurehead?

… Several bomb blasts accompanied Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to Pakistan. This … was a wake-up call in more ways than one. The moment had come for Clinton to act more boldly as the nation’s top … Likewise our most effective foreign policies have come under strong and secure secretaries of state. Of …
The Warren Court (1953–1969).

Blending Empathy and Justice

… on the Supreme Court, appears before the Senate judiciary committee. Obama raised the subject when he identified “that … with people’s hopes and struggles, as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.” … “that quality of empathy . . . as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.”   Nixon …
A refrigerator advertisement in The Ladies Home Journal, 1948.

The Feminine Mystique

… magazine. She went on to Smith College, where she studied psychology and completed a year of graduate work at the University of … The Fountain of Age in 1993 as well as two memoirs. She died on her 85th birthday in 2006.   Despite Friedan’s …
Whig cartoon showing the effects of unemployment on a family that has portraits of Democratic Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren on the wall.

The Bank Crisis Blame Game, Then and Now

… our mess won’t solve our own. The causes of any panic are complex. Who we choose to blame determines the solutions we … had deregulated the American banking system. Offering easy credit without central regulation, hundreds of new … of these panics. Foreign investors, greedy speculators, complex financial instruments and soaring commodity prices …
Cover of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North by Thomas J. Sugrue.

Movement North

Review of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, by Thomas J. Sugrue (New York: Random House, 2008)
… and Martha Biondi have published important case studies on civil rights in the urban North, Sugrue offers the … never passive victims.  From the very beginning of black community development in the North, African Americans fought … to anti-colonial struggles around the world.  With the coming of the Cold War, McCarthyism temporarily quieted the …
President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967.

How to Intervene and Get Out

… the Dominican capital, to stop what it believed was a communist insurgency there. The action was heavily … because Johnson exaggerated the threat of outside communists in what was a civil conflict. Yet the President … for the aftermath than many said were needed. U.S. soldiers soon spread themselves too thin. It took them more …
Photo of a nuclear explosion.

The Dawn of the Second Cold War

… But in the Second Cold War, the United States will face incomprehensible foes that cannot be counted on to respond as … 2007 launch would have particular historical resonance, coming 50 years after the Soviet Union sent up the world's … science down, it will replace the old Soviet Union as the Communist nation with the capability to destroy U.S. cities …
Woodcut print depicting the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618

Out the Window: Religion, Politics, and a Defenestration in Prague

… spirit and with a large gesture invite an enemy to become an angel without further preparation or a flying … in vodka, brandy and other fire waters with the concomitant excitement of thrusting an opponent through the … the two unfortunate royal advisors who were invited to become angels that afternoon “without further preparation or a …
On the first day of the uprising, protesters assembled around the fountain outside the Jeollanam-do Provincial Office, a site that would become central to the struggle against military oppression. Courtesy of the 5.18 Foundation.

Gwangju Isn’t Over

… as a “city of peace and human rights,” emphasizing the community’s legacy of peaceful organization and solidarity, … the event continues to resist any singular description. Its complexity is reflected in the many names used to describe … through major streaming platforms for international audiences.  Works like these reenact “what happened” and draw …
Chinese manufactured goods, like this jar from the Ming dynasty, were highly desired trade items.

Borne by the Waves: The Ocean’s Role in Global Trade

Review of The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans, by David Abulafia (Oxford University Press, 2019)
… are addressed, this work is not focused on ecological communities or human impact on marine habitats . Rather, … remaining two examine the interconnections among these bodies of water after 1492. This organization keeps the book’s … a crucial role throughout this book. For instance, the medieval kingdom of Sri Vijaya in Sumatra thrived because its …
Cover of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport.

Conspirator: Lenin in Exile

Review of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile, by Helen Rappaport (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010)
… and which the young Lenin read five times (14).  Lenin's commitment to activism strengthened in college, first at … of St. Petersburg, where he, like many of his peers, studied Marx, finding the theory to be a "sound and scientific" … Lenin as a fanatic, Rappaport provides a context for his commitment.  The second theme which Rappaport explores is …