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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders in 1963.

Giving Up on the Dream?

… to stir the nation after four decades. Yet the black community still struggles to decide whether to follow King’s … biblical approach to leadership that has allowed the black community to proudly maintain its political independence … C. Kashatus's is a writer for the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money Pitcher: The Tragedy of Indian …
March on Washington

The Unfinished Struggle: Civil Rights and the March on Washington

… On August 28th, America will commemorate the anniversary of the March on Washington for … the 1963 march and it was there that King delivered his famed “I Have a Dream” speech promoting racial equality. The … large number of blacks arrested for non-violent offenses, most of which stem from illicit drug use. African Americans …
1942 photo of an American flag.

The Changing Symbolism of Old Glory

… Although the United States has often wavered from that commitment, the tragic events of Sept. 11 compel us to … Day,” the United States had embarked on the Cold War, aimed at resisting communism abroad. It lasted forty years. … C. Kashatus's is a writer for the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money Pitcher: The Tragedy of Indian …
Photo of "Fighting Bob" La Follette

Lessons for the Nader Camp: ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette in 1924

… in a sea of political corruption, a caring man genuinely committed to protecting consumers, promoting peace and … this vote will be a real blow against corruption and complacency and a powerful statement for the environment and … the two major parties have nothing to offer. But for most disgruntled liberal voters, the satisfactions of their …
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen in 2012.

War Crimes: The “New Era” Looks Like the Old

… surface of this dispute is a fundamental clash between the competing claims of national sovereignty and universal human … gave way to national sovereignty. When the United Nations recommended holding the Khmer Rouge war crimes trials under … grown increasingly accepting of the horrors suffered by its most powerless and politically insignificant members. In the …
A portrait of U.S. Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, who advocated for air power in the 1920s.

Rumsfeld Must Modernize U.S. Armed Forces

… believed, the U.S. military services had to become flexible and mobile enough to meet smaller and more … to help. Although this is not the first time that the armed services have intruded into politics, Rumsfeld has been … think about military preparedness even in times of peace. Most notably, the end of the American monopoly of nuclear …
A map showing Israel and Palestine

Palestine and Israel: A Case of Incomplete Decolonization

… framework of decolonization struggles. Violence has accompanied decolonization whenever the goal of political … of a late twentieth-century drive of colonial peoples to become sovereign nation-states. Much of the fury behind the … seized, with the Americans acting as the essential outside mediating and intervening power, lest the extremists on both …
school girls in class - Studying biology and physics from English textbooks presents challenges in understanding the material but is necessary because their state examinations will be in English.

A Postcard from Pakistan: Girls Education in Gilgit-Baltistan

… In the warm early autumn months of 2019, I visited Northern Pakistan to trek in the shadows of some of … of only 0.75 years of schooling during their lifetime as compared to rural boys who receive 10.76 years. Further, … local efforts have helped educate young women in Minawar, most who finish at this high school unfortunately still do …
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. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of … links with Western Europe. To do this, he needed a reformed military and government to fight the technologically …
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… toward the Armenians were never, as has been frequently claimed, the result of military exigencies (p. xix). " Rather, … to produce genocide. These include the Young Turks' intense commitment to the homogenization of Anatolia (a development … were relocated successfully, but many died in the process mostly from thirst, exhaustion, hunger, and sickness. The …
The Romanov Family

The Romanov Tercentenary: Commemoration, History, and Power

… the Russias.” Services in Moscow capped a series of events commemorating the Romanovs’ tercentenary, in what proved to … came at the end of Russia’s so-called “Time of Troubles.” Almost quaint-sounding in its English translation, the smutnoe … instead a major hub of textile manufacture and had been the site of major labor unrest in 1905; factory workers were …
Photo of William Colby

Casting the Long Shadow of the CIA

Review of Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA, by Randall B. Woods (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
… William Colby has become a more or less forgotten figure in the turbulent … of Scandinavia and preventing the political success of the Communist Party in Italy. In 1959, however, Colby was given … Given the post-Watergate tenor of the Congress, the media, and the public, one gets the impression from Wood’s …
Margaret Gorman, winner of the first Miss America Pageant in 1922.

Beauty Pageants and American Politics

… America Pageant. As early as the 1880s, business owners and community leaders began organizing beauty pageants in … American women attained the right to vote. This transformed the cultural meanings of the beauty pageant. In the … other things, a beauty pageant owner and who appears to be most comfortable treating all women as beauty pageant …
Hessian troops surrendering to General George Washington after the Battle of Trenton.

The Return of the Mercenary

… phenomenon. This is why Congress should examine the recommendations made in a 2002 British government Green Paper … The British hired more than 30,000 German soldiers — the famed Hessians, some of whom were defeated by George … regime to crack down on opposition political movements. Most firms operate with little governmental oversight and …
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 … yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” the famed English lexicographer Samuel Johnson asked. Mindful of … of any serious study of its peculiar institution. At the most advanced center for historical scholarship of the day, …
President George W. Bush addressing Congress in 2001 with Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Dennis Hastert standing behind him.

Wartime Powers: Lincoln’s Restraint, Bush’s Excess

… War to defend their position. Then and now they argue, the commander-in-chief during wartime has an obligation to place … the two cases, namely the degree to which each president aimed to tilt the delicate balance of power in the federal … C. Kashatus's is a writer for the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money Pitcher: The Tragedy of Indian …
Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006.

Make Residency, Not Just Working, Legal

… about immigrants for the past thirty years. Of course they come from a long line of immigrant restrictionists. FAIR … Chinese and Mexicans built the railroads. Scandinavians farmed Minnesota and the Dakotas. Germans provided the skilled … have arisen. Restrictionists and others might grumble, but most of America moves over to make room for another million …
Cover of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui.

Forces of Good and Evil

Review of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… that Americans living through the Civil War era and its immediate aftermath made sense of the conflict using Christian … chapter deals with the wartime experiences of individual combatants. When confronted with the visceral nature of … interpreted and interacted with these objects. One of the most interesting examples of this is the snake. From an …
Sergeant First Class Major Cleveland points out North Korean position to his machine gun crew, 1950.

Executive Order 9981 and the Integration of the American Military

… “equal treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or … and lesser men. While African American soldiers and communities protested these conditions, the small size of … an imperfect reflection of American society and viewed as a site of inclusion and opportunity for Black people and other …
Plumes of smoke billow from the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, after a Boeing 767 hits each tower during the September 11 attacks.

Security May Be Too Expensive

… John Ashcroft asks for authority to hold non-citizens incommunicado indefinitely if the government regards them as a … a specific phone number is obsolete in an age when people commonly  have multiple telephones and e-mail. He argues … of life” and the security of the nation. And many, probably most, will at one time or another willingly support what …
A group of Kyiv civilians gather in a basement downtown to make Molotov Cocktails to be used against Russian troops in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2022.

Ukraine in War and Revolution

… state was “entirely created” by the Bolsheviks after the communist seizure of power in 1917 as part of Lenin’s … movements supported by the Russian government aimed their attention at Ukraine, sponsoring pogroms and … by its own residents but as an integral part of Russia by most Russian politicians.  But Ukraine is not simply …
Cover of Zoot Suit The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style by Kathy Peiss.

A Suit, or a Statement?

Review of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, by Kathy Peiss (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
… having a political meaning so that aesthetics are subsumed under the political." Although this time period did see … early stages, "political valence of the style was not foremost in the minds of those who wore it." Following the … songwriters and animators utilized the suit to make commentary on American life during a time of war. Chapter …
Pedro Albizu Campos, noted anti-imperialist, addressing a crowd in 1936

Reframing the American Empire

Review of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel Immerwahr (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)
… both in and outside of the United States. To write this comprehensive history, the author travelled to Alaska, … in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, this work arrives at a most opportune time and will help introduce the American …