U.S. History - after 1945
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Real Estate Red-Lining: Government Facilitates Racism
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“Redlining” is the practice of limiting homeownership in a town or in a neighborhood on the basis of race, or what is perceived as race. It ...
Monday, May 6, 2024
Reasons to Be Cheerful — Part 5
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Swedish researcher Hans Rosling made a career of pointing out that things in the world are often going better than people assume. His son an...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Kennedy and Laos: Evaluating JFK’s Foreign Policy
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An aging Republican president finishes his second and final term in office, leaves the White House, and moves into his countryside home to e...
Thursday, January 4, 2024
What They Didn’t Discuss in the Presidential Campaign: The Global Situation in 1960
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During the 1952 election season, the Cold War was front and center among the topics examined by the candidates, their parties, the news medi...
Monday, October 9, 2023
The Ups and Downs of the Korean War — And of Matthew Ridgway’s Military Career
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The Korean War, especially during its first year, was a series of dramatic changes of fortune. North Korea, officially titled the Democratic...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Reasons to Be Cheerful — Part 3
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In the United States, people born into poverty don’t simply have a chance to rise; they actually do rise. Not only do they have opportunitie...
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Kennan Sees the Soviets Accurately: Only with Great Caution Should the Western Allies Join Forces
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Between 1931 and 1963, George F. Kennan worked for the U.S. State Department. During those years, and afterward, he gathered information, an...
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