In imposing the death penalty that federal officials committed a cruel and unjust act, no matter her guilt as an aware spectator of her husband's spying.
Even though Carter wants to be remembered as a peace president, the fact is that his presidency was crucial to the revival of American militarism after Vietnam.
In his new book 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back, professor Krugler goes beyond previous histories of this tumultuous period by putting African Americans at the center of the story.
When telling the history of slavery we must admit its brutal complexity. The term slave mistress leaves too much unsaid, blanketing over the assault and coercion in many enslaved women's lives.
When journalists assess Jimmy Carter’s place in history, they should recognize that Carter’s policies were not the principal cause of difficult economic times in the Seventies.
The inexperienced & presumptuous band of medical tyros let loose upon the world, destroys more of human life in one year, than all the Robinhoods, Cartouches, & Macheaths do in a century.”
Vietnam was the bloodiest guerrilla war in modern history, and when it ended the United States military never really conducted any significant studies of the failed war.