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Iran/Contra Was the Prototype for Post-Vietnam Imperial Adventure

On the 30th anniversary, we can see that it was an ideological project, with the New Right reasserting the righteousness of militarism and markets.

by Greg Grandin via The Nation on October 25, 2016

Black Lives Matter and America’s Long History of Resisting Civil Rights Protesters

The civil rights movement was not nearly as admired by white Americans in its own time as we imagine it being.

by Elahe Izadi via Washington Post on April 19, 2016

East L.A. shopkeeper and Christian Syrian immigrant Mansur Nahra (seated), serving as best man at the 1929 wedding of his employee, Isidoro.

Middle East Expert Finds Syrian Americans Comprise a Rich Multiplicity of Identities

On the vibrant history of LA’s thriving Syrian American community and its unexpected links with Latin America.

by Susan Bell via USC Dornsife on February 18, 2016

A painting of Boston harbor, where women in dresses stand on a hill, watching ships

Invisible Cities, Continued

The 19th century recovery of John Winthrop's sermon, "A City on a Hill."

via BackStory on January 22, 2016

Antiwar protest against the Vietnam War outside the White House.

Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory

On the war's 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon's whitewashed history.

by Jon Wiener via The Nation on April 15, 2015

An audience listens to musicians playing outdoors by a Summer of Love banner.

Suddenly That Summer

LSD, ecstasy, and a blast of utopianism: How 1967’s “Summer of Love” all began.

by Sheila Weller via The Hive on June 14, 2012

Locker-Room Liberty

Athletes who helped shape our times and the economic freedom that enabled them.

by Matt Welch via Reason on May 1, 2005

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