Reconstructing the Vietnam Peace Movement
February 6, 2017
Tom Hayden— It is time for a new effort to reverse the propaganda about Vietnam and our movement to end the war. It is time for truth telling, for healing,… READ MORE
Category: History
Women and (Soft) Power: Jackie Kennedy and Blanche of Castile
February 3, 2017
Lindy Grant— Last night I went to see the new film Jackie, in which Natalie Portman gives a searing portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy in the immediate aftermath of her husband’s death…. READ MORE
A Republic If You Can Keep It
January 24, 2017
Richard D. Brown— In 1787 when Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention a lady famously asked “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic,” Franklin… READ MORE
Remembering Clare Hollingworth
January 17, 2017
Ray Moseley— The legendary adventures of Clare Hollingworth’s life are such stuff as Hollywood movies are made on. And, to continue paraphrasing Prospero, her long life is rounded with a… READ MORE
What Washington Gets Wrong
January 4, 2017
Benjamin Ginsberg— At a Washington dinner party, I happened to mention to the woman seated to my right, an executive of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency responsible for… READ MORE
The View from the Postcolonial Caucasus
December 29, 2016
Rebecca Gould— High in the mountains running along the border between Azerbaijan and Georgia, in the garrison town of Zaqatala, former outpost of the famed Imam Shamil who in the… READ MORE
The Political History of Fashion
December 28, 2016
Zara Anishanslin— Donald Trump’s “Make American Great Again” hat. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ubiquitous pantsuits. In 2016, both fashion items became immediately recognizable markers of political affiliation. First the candidates themselves,… READ MORE
Unveiling a Bribery Culture in the Soviet Union
December 21, 2016
James Heinzen— I first became fascinated with the social and cultural dimensions of everyday bribery in the Soviet Union when I was robbed in Moscow in 1992, just after the collapse… READ MORE
Paris’s Centre Pompidou
December 16, 2016
January 31st, 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the revolutionary building designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. The building launched the… READ MORE
Allies in Africa: Strategy and Victory in World War II
Andrew Stewart— When the first shots were fired in the summer of 1940 along Sudanese and Kenyan borders, there was a great deal of interest across the British Empire in… READ MORE
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