Articles with keyword "politics"
Conversation
The China Scholar
Jonathan Spence and NEH Chairman Leach discuss key moments in four hundred years of Chinese history.
Curio
Confederate Cattle Call
There is pleasure to be had in looking to the past for examples of the familiar or near familiar. But one can also look to it for a good blast of the freaky, the strange, and the unrecognizable.
Curio
Name-Dropping In Rhode Island
Familiarly known as the “Ocean State,” Rhode Island’s full official name includes “and Providence Plantations,” words the state legislature has resolved to drop.
Feature
The United States of Mestizo
A term of conquest and miscegenation now describes a cosmopolitan identity and worldview.
Feature
The First Dissenters
George Mason swore he would rather "chop off his right hand" than sign the Constitution.
Feature
The Man Who Came in Second
In 1860, John C. Breckinridge ran for president against Lincoln, and broke the Democrats in two.
Curio
Akhmatova's Boswell
From the early 1980s until around 2000, there was a publishing explosion of Russian diaries and memoirs recalling Stalin’s Terror and World War II.
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