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The Dutch Roots of American Liberty
New York would never be the Puritans' austere city on a hill, yet it became America’s vibrant heart of capitalism.
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John O. McGinnis
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Law & Liberty
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April 10, 2025
How It Became Wrong for Nations to Conquer Others
It’s only a century since US diplomats first persuaded the world that it’s wrong for countries to annex their neighbours.
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Kerry Goettlich
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Aeon
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March 13, 2025
Greenland: Polar Politics
Though it may seem like a new topic of concern, the glaciated landscape of Greenland has floated in and out of American politics for decades.
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Rob Crossan
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JSTOR Daily
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February 10, 2025
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Redux
The author of the 20th century’s most influential history book anticipates the coming world order.
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Paul Kennedy
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New Statesman
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September 20, 2023
The Unlikely, Enduring Friendship Between Ireland and the Choctaw Nation
One act of generosity during the Great Famine forged a bond that transcends generations.
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Richard Grant
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Smithsonian
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September 7, 2023
The Students Who Went to Sea
"The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge"
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William H. Whyte
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Literary Review
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July 7, 2023
partner
Diplomacy Defused Cold War Crises. It Can Help Again Today.
The type of quiet, personal, informed diplomacy advocated by George Kennan can reduce tensions with China and Russia.
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Frank Costigliola
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Made By History
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February 10, 2023
Geopolitics is a Loser’s Buzzword with a Contagious Idea
The concept of geopolitics comes from German and Russian attempts to explain defeat and reverse loss of influence.
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Harold James
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Aeon
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December 1, 2022
U.S. Deliberation During Hungary’s 1956 Uprising Offers Lessons on Restraint
As the war in Ukraine worsens, there’s little debate about Western policy choices. This is a mistake.
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Branko Marcetic
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Current Affairs
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June 1, 2022
What History Can Tell Us About the Fallout From Restricting Immigration
U.S. immigration policies are inextricably linked to American foreign relations.
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David C. Atkinson
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TIME
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February 3, 2017
Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
Michael A. McDonnell’s book is a wonderfully researched microhistory of the Michilimackinac area from the mid-17th to the early 19th century.
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Adam Nadeau
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Borealia: Early Canadian History
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June 27, 2016
The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas
A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."
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Greg Grandin
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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The Nation
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April 21, 2025
Worse Than Signalgate
Accidentally sharing attack plans in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you because of a Western Union telegram is worse.
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Timothy W. Ryback
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The Atlantic
on
April 11, 2025
What America Can Learn From the Americas
Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.
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Patrick Iber
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The New Republic
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April 7, 2025
Regime Change in the West?
Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures.
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Perry Anderson
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London Review of Books
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March 25, 2025
Alien Enemies, Alien Friends, and the Concept of “Allegiance”
With controversy raging over the Alien Enemies Act, how should we understand the concept it invoked?
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Robert Natelson
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Law & Liberty
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March 24, 2025
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How a Cold War Airlift Saved Berlin With Food, Medicine and Chocolate
A Soviet blockade around Berlin cut the city off from the West. But in 1948 U.S. and British pilots began to fly food, fuel and medicine to the Allied sectors.
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Retro Report
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March 20, 2025
On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York
For historian Russell Shorto, it was all about water.
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Russell Shorto
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Literary Hub
on
March 18, 2025
Soft Power
What it means, why it matters, and where it started.
by
Lindsay M. Chervinsky
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Imperfect Union
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March 15, 2025
USAID’s History Shows Decades of Good Work on Behalf of America’s Global Interests
USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power benefits for the US.
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Christian Ruth
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The Conversation
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March 5, 2025
Growing Up U.S.A.I.D.
As a child in postings around the world, the author witnessed the agency’s complex relationship with American empire—and with autocrats everywhere.
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Jon Lee Anderson
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The New Yorker
on
February 25, 2025
How America Wasted Its Most Powerful Economic Weapon
If world leaders had been clearer about the sanctions Putin would face, they might have deterred his invasion of Ukraine.
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Edward Fishman
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The Atlantic
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February 24, 2025
How Allies Have Helped the US Gain Independence, Defend Freedom and Keep the Peace
Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.
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Donald Heflin
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The Conversation
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February 20, 2025
The First Draft of the Ukraine War’s History
Washington’s policy-makers showed themselves more wicked and feckless than their Vietnam- and Iraq-era predecessors.
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Scott McConnell
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The American Conservative
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February 19, 2025
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How Nixon’s 1972 China Visit Set the Stage for Today’s Tensions Over Taiwan
The legacy of Nixon's strategic ambiguity of acknowledging China's claim to Taiwan without fully committing.
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Retro Report
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February 18, 2025
Trump’s Gaza Plan May Mark the End of the Postwar Order
Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected them. Now the US is endorsing it.
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Dirk Moses
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Jacobin
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February 16, 2025
Seeds of Mistrust
Musk and Trump are capitalizing on decades of confusion and broken promises to lay waste to a crucial agency.
by
Jonathan M. Katz
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The Racket
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February 12, 2025
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Trump Shares the Founders' Delusions on Canada
Attempts to add Canada to the U.S. have gone poorly since the 1770s. Trump's rhetoric threatens a repeat.
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Lawrence B. A. Hatter
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Made By History
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February 4, 2025
An “Iron Dome for America”: A History Repeating Itself
How America’s search for total security keeps making the world more dangerous.
by
Athena Drakou
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The Climate Historian
on
February 3, 2025
The Panama Canal Treaty Declassified
Kissinger warned: “This is no issue to face the world on. It looks like pure colonialism.”
by
Peter Kornbluh
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National Security Archive
on
February 3, 2025
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