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Presidents as Thinkers: Barack Obama and His Progressive Predecessors
All presidents are political leaders. Some are also political thinkers. This article situates Obama securely in the traditions of Progressive...
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Introduction
Lyndon Johnson took office at a turbulent time in American society, and many of his actions while in office reflected this, particularly the...
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Lake Huron Red Tails! Tuskegee Airmen in Michigan
The U.S. Army Air Corps utilized Michigan airfields to provide advanced training for Tuskegee Airmen in 1943 and 1944. Fifteen of these airmen, the...
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Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Harold Wilson and James Callaghan: Personal Diplomacy, Friendship and US-UK Relations in the 1970s
Ruminating on the role played by people and individual statesmen in sha** global history, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once remarked, in...
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The Decline of the American Empire
The decline of the American empire has been an important topic of international debates since the beginning of the 21st century. The rise of China to...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, the State Department, and the Navy: US Policy Toward Japan, 1937–1941
On November 27, 1941, Cordell Hull , Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)’s secretary of state, told Secretary of War Henry...
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The Dog in the Silhouette of a Wolf and a Fresh Dream Undressed of Its Celestial Light: The Completion of the NKWP-SKWP Merger and the Southern Origins of the Korean War
Nature has its distinctively beautiful and yet mysterious ways of denoting the subtle moment between the beginning and ending of day. The two...
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US Catholicism and Economic Justice: 1919–1929
After the 1929 Wall Street Crash and during the Great Depression, the US National Catholic Welfare Conference published three fundamental documents...
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Anglo-American Relations and Venezuelan Oil, 1939–1945
Total war on a global scale emphasised Britain’s reliance on foreign oil supplies. As a consequence, Venezuela took on particular significance within...
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The American Presidency: A Brief History
In the author’s succinct presentation: “The tension between the static constitutional character of the presidency and the dynamic political culture,...
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The 1915 Seamen’s Act: Maritime Labor and Progressive Era Maritime Reform
Riding on the crest of popular support for safety at sea reforms following Titanic, reformers including Andrew Furuseth and Progressive Senator...
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Conclusion: Anything or Nothing
The conclusion summarises the narrative and analysis of the monograph and provides a brief account of the lasting impact of the debate over the...
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Origins: The World in 1946
The Cold War conflict grew directly out of the Second World War, from which the US and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers, while all the old...
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Co-ops Against Castroism: USAID and the Electrification of the Global Countryside
This chapter explores electricity programs financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as an instrument of Cold War...
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Making Most of Central Europe Communist
Austin looks at the direct aftermath of the Second World War and how the Communists were able to take power across Central Europe. The chapter...
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The US Navy’s War Generation
This chapter gives an account of how James Auer was selected by Rear Admiral Julian Burke, commander, US Naval Forces Japan, to be his political...
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British Policy Towards Latin America During World War II: Resisting the (Pan-)American Century
This chapter explores British policy towards Latin America during World War II. More specifically, it depicts British efforts to resist the expansion...
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Education and Socio-economic Development: Promoting the American Way of Life in Iran
Since President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s November 1952 election, US-Iran relations had transformed. The country was now one of America’s most prominent...