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• 5/21/19
  

  All the President’s Humility: What We Can Learn From Young George Washington

  by Peter Stark

  It took Washington many years to metamorphose from self-centered, impetuous young man burning with ambition to gain personal “honor” into a steady, selfless, seemingly unflappable leader.

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• 5/19/19
  

  From 37 to 79: Age and Presidential Campaigns

  by Ron Faucheux

  When Buttigieg was born, Biden had already served nine years in the U.S. Senate. When Sanders was born, Franklin Roosevelt was president.

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• 5/19/19
  

  What Trump Could Learn About Immigration from Teddy Roosevelt

  by Greg Bailey

  The history of the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907.

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• 5/19/19
  

  The History of Black Women Championing Demands for Reparations

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  For black women, the fight for reparations is not a new opportunity, it is a long-lasting battle for social justice.

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• 5/19/19
  

  Anton Chekhov: Environmental Prophet for Our Planet

  by Walter G. Moss

  Like Netflix's documentary Our Planet, the Russian writer often displayed a deep love of nature in his hundreds of stories and plays.

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• 5/19/19
  

  Presidential Moral Character and Teddy Roosevelt

  by Robert N. Macomber

  A look back at the turn of The Gilded Age.

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• 5/19/19
  

  Civics 101: Instilling Constitutional Literacy in Tomorrow’s Strategic Leaders

  by Gregory D. Foster

  A professor at one of the U.S. military’s senior colleges argues that if the public is to be properly served by uniformed military officers, federal civil servants, and Foreign Service Officers, their education should focus more on Civics 101. 

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• 5/16/19
  

  What If Donald Trump Resigned?

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  When President Richard Nixon finally decided the time had come, he wrote a one line notification of what he was doing. 

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• 5/14/19
  

  Cassius Marcellus Clay and Muhammed Ali: What’s in a Name?

  by Joshua M Casper

  They were born with the same moniker, and both changed history. Two names. Two men. Two identities, Muhammed Ali and Cassius Marcellus Clay will forever be linked.

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• 5/12/19
  

  George Orwell and Why the Time to Stop Trump is Now

  by David Goldfischer

  From 1776 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, believers in human freedom and democratic self-governance have known when to shrug off setbacks and summon their will. That time is now.

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• 5/12/19
  

  Mothers and Food Aid from World War One to Today

  by William Lambers

  There are millions of mothers across the world right now desperate to save their children from malnutrition. On Mother’s Day, and every day, we should take action to help them. 

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• 5/9/19
  

  The Loss of Republican Principle

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, and Kevin McCarthy are handling Trump far different than their counterparts during Watergate. 

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• 5/5/19
  

  James Byrd, Jr., John William King, and the History of American Lynching

  by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

  We need a historical understanding of how lynchg discourse continues to shape America’s enduring “dialogue on race.”  

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• 5/5/19
  

  Capitalism? Socialism? How about Just a Fair and Moral Economy?

  by Walter G. Moss

  The terms "capitalism" and "socialism" have too much historical baggage. 

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• 5/5/19
  

  Denying Omar Barghouti Admittance to the U.S. Is a Free Speech Issue

  by Zachary Lockman

  A response to A.J. Caschetta from the chair of the North America wing of the Middle East Studies Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom.

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• 5/5/19
  

  Why the Middle East Studies Association Should Not Defend Omar Barghouti

  by A.J. Caschetta

  MESA portrays Barghouti as a dissident who has been unfairly treated but Barghouti is much more than an outspoken activist whose opinions conflict with U.S. policy.

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• 5/5/19
  

  Run, Hide, Fight If You Must…Now What?

  by David Lee McMullen

  A history professor at UNC Charlotte reflects on the campus shooting last Tuesday. 

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• 4/30/19
  

  What Historians Are Saying: 2020 Election

  Historians join the conversation on the 2020 presidential race, and other updates.

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• 4/30/19
  

  Most Americans Reject Trump’s “America First” Policy

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The reaction of the American public to Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from key international agreements has been hostile.  

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• 4/28/19
  

  Beware Anew the Military-Industrial Complex: Revisiting Eisenhower's Warning

  by Gregory D. Foster

  The military-industrial complex has been given new, unfettered life and license by the 2018 National Defense Strategy document.