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‘Our Father, the President’
George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.
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Susan Dunn
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New York Review of Books
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March 15, 2018
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Americans Shouldn’t Be Shocked by Russian Interference in the Election
Frustrated with foreign interference in our elections? So are the people of Latin America.
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Timothy M. Gill
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Made By History
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March 7, 2018
Washington Has Meddled in Elections Before
The hidden hypocrisy within American outrage over Russian election meddling.
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William M. LeoGrande
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The Conversation
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February 26, 2018
Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan
A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
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Adena Barnette
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Digital Public Library of America
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February 22, 2018
The Large Policy
How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.
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Brenda Wineapple
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The Nation
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January 31, 2018
The World the Cold War Built
A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.
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Leon Hadar
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The American Conservative
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January 31, 2018
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Black Power Salute
The founder of the Olympic Project for Human Rights talks about the iconic protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the winners’ podium in 1968.
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BackStory
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January 26, 2018
Operation Mongoose: The Story of America's Efforts to Overthrow Castro
And how they helped seal America’s fate in Vietnam.
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Max Boot
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The Atlantic
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January 5, 2018
The Psyops Manual the CIA Gave to Nicaragua's Contras Is Totally Bonkers
To defeat the leftist Sandinistas, Washington provided aid to the Contras along with a crazy psychological warfare anticommunist manual.
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Jared Keller
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Task & Purpose
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December 19, 2017
China and the American Revolution
Explaining the global impact of British-Chinese relations during the colonial period.
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Simon Hill
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Journal of the American Revolution
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December 7, 2017
I Guess I’m About to Do a Highly Immoral Thing
On "The Vietnam War."
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Richard Beck
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n+1
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December 1, 2017
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How the U.S. Aided Robert Mugabe’s Rise
Cold War politics empowered democracy — and dictatorship.
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Nancy Mitchell
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Made By History
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November 26, 2017
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Why Americans Still Can’t Move Past Vietnam
Not only can we not shake the memories of Vietnam, but they still shape our foreign policy debates.
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David Kieran
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Made By History
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October 10, 2017
How Folk Rock Helped Crack the Iron Curtain
Fifty years ago, 160 young Americans defied State Department orders and partied on the streets of Moscow. The Cold War would never be the same.
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Emily Ludolph
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Narratively
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October 4, 2017
The Vietnam War Transcript Trump Needs to Read
The PBS documentary on America’s most futile conflict is missing one explosive document. Every president should absorb its chilling lessons.
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Jeff Greenfield
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Politico Magazine
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September 27, 2017
Phoenician or Arab, Lebanese or Syrian?
Who were the early immigrants to America?
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Akram Khater
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NC State University
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September 20, 2017
When the U.S. Government Tried to Fight Communism With Buddhism
Recent violence in Myanmar reminds us that religion has long been central to Southeast Asian politics.
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Joe Freeman
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Politico Magazine
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September 10, 2017
Don’t You Hear Her?
The enduring Korean War.
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Jessie Kindig
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n+1
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August 18, 2017
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Why Democrats are Abandoning Israel
Democrats like Lyndon Johnson staunchly supported Israel. Now the party is leaving that legacy behind.
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KC Johnson
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Made By History
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August 18, 2017
The Origin of Endless War
On Barbara Lee and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
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Richard Beck
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n+1
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August 11, 2017
What Trump Needs to Know About North Korea's History
The peninsula has a long record of risky games with great powers.
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Sheila Miyoshi Jager
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Politico Magazine
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August 9, 2017
Coca-Cola Collaborated with the Nazis in the 1930s, and Fanta is the Proof
The not-so-sweet history.
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Josh O’Connor
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Timeline
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August 2, 2017
America’s Forgotten Swedish Colony
For nearly 20 years in the 17th century, Sweden had a little-known colony that spanned parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Evan Andrews
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HISTORY
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July 25, 2017
American Consumer Empire in Puerto Rico
Puerto Ricans were forced to become “Porto Ricans” – adopting Anglo customs while subsidizing American profits.
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William Horne
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The Activist History Review
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July 14, 2017
This Is Why You’re Seeing The Confederate Flag Across Europe
It was shocking to see the flag greet Trump in Poland. But Europeans — some of them white supremacist — have waved it for years.
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Christopher Mathias
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HuffPost
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July 14, 2017
The American Housewives who Sought Freedom in Soviet Russia
A forgotten chapter in the history of feminism: why American women chose to flee the West for ‘freedom’ in Soviet Russia.
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Julia L. Mickenberg
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Aeon
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July 6, 2017
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The Executive Abroad
An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.
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Robert K. Nelson
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American Panorama
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June 27, 2017
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A Bullet Can Cross the Border. Can the Constitution? The Supreme Court Won’t Say.
The Supreme Court punts on Hernandez v. Mesa, leaving the Constitution lost in the borderlands.
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Sarah A. Seo
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Made By History
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June 27, 2017
JFK’s Russian Conspiracy
Kennedy had his own secret back channel with Moscow. It may have kept the superpowers from going to war.
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Timothy Naftali
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Slate
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May 27, 2017
The Empire’s Amnesia
When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.
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Greg Grandin
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Jacobin
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Jacobin
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May 19, 2017
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