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President Carter shakes hands with General Torrijos of Panama after signing the Panama Canal Treaty

The Missing "Third" of the Third World

Review of Latin America and the Global Cold War, by Thomas C. Field, Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
… of how the geopolitical atmosphere dominated by the U.S.-Soviet rivalry shaped the decolonization and radicalization … and the Global Cold War (2020). The “fruit of a multinational, multilingual effort by fifteen scholars,” this … and 1970s while also seeking economic ties with the Soviet Union. Part I, entitled “Third World Nationalism,” focuses …
1942 photo of an American flag.

The Changing Symbolism of Old Glory

… States be thirteen stripes alternate red and white and the union be thirteen stars in a blue field, representing a new … to replace the first American flag, known as the Great Union Flag (seven red and six white stripes with the British … and South America. There, the United States impeded nationalist movements and established lucrative markets …
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller

Kent State after Fifty Years

… Just past noon on Monday May 4, 1970, a squadron of Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire at a loose collection of … body of Jeffrey Miller moments after he was shot by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. … effort to impose rules for their own sake. Because of the national uproar over Cambodia—hundreds of college campuses …
Voting booth exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Library.

God in the Voting Booth: How Religion Shapes the Politics of Both Republicans and Democrats

… Bryan’s “cross of gold” speech at the 1896 Democratic national convention to President Joe Biden’s frequent … prosperity,” and that there was no reason to believe that “national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious … brow of labor this crown of thorns,” he told the Democratic national convention in an invocation of the images of …
National Memorial for Peace and Justice exhibit, Montgomery AL

Confederates and Lynching in American Public Memory

… This year, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice—the nation’s first … they actually went against...they tried to break up the Union, right? That, in and of itself, is enough and ought to … couple of places in Eastern Europe and what used to be the Soviet Union, where all of these statues of Lenin, Marx, …
Hitler with politicians

The Nazis Take Poland and the Start of World War II

… especially after the rise to power of Adolph Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers Party, the Nazis, in 1932. … Pact, between Germany and its ideological arch-nemesis, the Soviet Union, on August 23, 1939. In a secret annex to the treaty, …
Advertisement of an upcoming land sale by the United States Department of the Interior in 1911. The Interior Department published many similar advertisements to encourage white settlers to purchase "excess" reservation lands.

The Dawes Act

… United States had been admitted as states into the Union. Tribal governments had been diminished. Boarding …
Women at desk marked "Learn to Vote"

So...what now? (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 4)

… August of 1920, the 19th Amendment marked victory from the National American Woman's Suffrage Association and the … worker, and then a factory worker, and finally a trade union leader before being appointed as the first director of … sex discrimination. However, like many of the women's labor unions, they were immediately concerned with preserving …
The logo of Solidarność painted on an overturned Soviet era T-55 in Prague in 1990

Poland Takes Charge of Its Own Revolution

Review of Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War, by Gregory F. Domber (The University of North Carolina Press, 2014)
… countries to forge ahead with their efforts to remove their Soviet-led communist parties from power, a process that … decade of tireless work by the opposition, led by the labor union Solidarność (Solidarity) and its chairman, Lech … they vote against—or decline to vote for in the case of the National Party lists—the Communist Party. Prior to that, …
NASA marks Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.

“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism

… article in The New York Times , June 1969. Her words hit a national nerve. Under the headline “Mood of Campus … resort town in Southern California. On January 28, 1969, a Union Oil well burst off the coast of Santa Barbara and over … the 100 th birthday of Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet communism Vladimir Lenin. One Georgia politician sent …

The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

… of the US woman suffrage movement is usually told as a national one. It begins with the 1848 Seneca Falls … These included the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), founded in 1884 by U.S. temperance leader … world, is freedom.” The red and white text of this 1932 Soviet poster reads, “The 8th of March: A day of rebellion …
President Kennedy surrounded by cameramen after signing the Cuba Quarantine Order on October 23, 1962.

How Bush Might Have Profited from Kennedy’s Example

… As we’ve learned in the global age, international crises threaten the United States with … of their homes, their workplaces and their lives. In 1962, Soviet nuclear missiles had been placed in Cuba, just 90 … partisan politicians might send mixed signals to the Soviet Union, and he feared that Latin America might take a divided …
U.S. soldiers walking through rubble in Manila

The Battle for Manila

Public memory of the battle for Manila includes a mixture of gratitude toward the Americans, nationalistic defiance, and horror.
… includes a mixture of gratitude toward the Americans, nationalistic defiance, and horror. The liberation claimed … includes a mixture of gratitude toward the Americans, nationalistic defiance, and horror. … Philippines … East …