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September 11, 2001
“9/11” has emerged as shorthand for the four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United...
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Iran and the United States in the Cold War
As the latest wave of revolutionary uncertainty sweeps across the Middle East, Iran remains one of the region’s biggest question marks. The Islamic regime that...
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Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War: The Debate Continues
For a British professor with more than a passing interest in US foreign policy and the role of the United States in ending the Cold War, it is indeed fascinating to observe how deeply divided opinion still...
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Sandra Day O’Connor: A Life of Action
Sandra Day O’Connor still has a lot of work to do. The first woman on the United States Supreme Court who recently described herself as “a retired cowgirl” continues to...
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Motor City: The Story of Detroit
“You can see here, as it is impossible to do in a more varied and complex city, the whole structure of an industrial society.” So wrote...
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Winning the Vote: A History of Voting Rights
Voting Rights on the Eve of the Revolution
The basic principle that governed voting in colonial America was that voters should have a “stake in society.”...
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Immigrant Fiction: Exploring an American Identity
Strictly speaking, all American novels (with the exception of those written by Native Americans) are in one way or another immigrant fiction. But we usually think of immigrant fiction more...
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The United States and China during the Cold War
The Cold War Comes to Asia
In the closing years of World War II, American military and diplomatic representatives in China recognized that civil...