We are far from the progress on race relations we claim to have made since Emancipation, Jim Crow segregation, and the Civil Rights struggles of the fifties and sixties, or even the election of the first black president.
Now that a clearer view of globalization in that period is emerging, it is time for historians to think more systematically about how the parts fit together.
"A few years ago I found some correspondence that I thought might have profoundly altered the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. thereby redirecting the course of American and world history."
Even with the recent uptick in people with fulsomely liberal or fulsomely conservative views, it remains the case that a large majority of the public has liberal views on some issues and conservative views on others.
The Reign of Terror (1793-4) was an event of mass violence in the middle of the French Revolution. Tens of thousands of people were executed and hundreds of thousands were imprisoned.
“I don't begrudge the Iraqis support, but Vietnam taught me two things: first, support is different from replacement and, second, fighting is seldom the answer.”
The unusual case seemed to stick out and the psychiatrist sensed that there was something special about Auguste. Dr. Alois Alzheimer decided that he should see Auguste for himself.
President Obama’s proposal to focus immigration enforcement on violent criminals and allow millions of immigrants to gain legal status is not a radical or new idea.
