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- 1From:The National Interest (Issue 172)Perhaps no image better represents America's many small wars since the end of World War II than that of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer on the roof of the U.S. embassy, back bent and arms extended, assisting...
- 2From:Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review (Vol. 101, Issue 4)We revisit the Kaldor growth facts for the United States and the United Kingdom during the postwar period. We find that while overall the original Kaldor facts continue to hold, deviations occurred along several...
- 3From:Geographical (Vol. 91, Issue 1)They call it the 'overview effect'--the feeling that astronauts have when they look down on the Earth and appreciate the fragility of the planet, the thin skin of atmosphere wrapped around this uniquely wet and diverse...
- 4From:American Heritage (Vol. 63, Issue 1)In the early 1950s, a young Naval officer and his colleagues struggled to interest the Navy in Arctic operations. Their top secret efforts led to the first submarine trips to the North Pole by USS Nautilus and USS Skate...
- 5From:The American Scholar (Vol. 70, Issue 2)Being a bohemian in America has always been a delicate matter. If bohemianism meant only keeping late hours, taking drugs, and drinking too much espresso, this would not be the case. In fact, it means claiming some form...
- 6From:Insight on the News (Vol. 16, Issue 5)Arthur Herman brings out the facts surrounding Sen. Joseph McCarthy, whose image portrayed by historians and the media has been distorted by political ideology and vested interests. Historian Arthur Herman tells...
- 7From:State Legislatures (Vol. 40, Issue 2)The powerful, poignant scene of Richard Nixon waving his famous V sign boarding a helicopter to depart the White House after his resignation as president was the backdrop--literally--to the creation of the National...
- 8From:Newsweek (Vol. 128, Issue 17)Pres Kennedy's Defense Secretary, Robert McNamara, maintains that Kennedy planned to withdraw US troops from Vietnam after the 1964 election. John Newman, author of 'JFK and Vietnam,' corroborates McNamara's account....
- 9From:Smithsonian (Vol. 45, Issue 6)How cold was the cold war? The workers who built the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line in the mid-1950s liked to toss a glass of water into the air just so they could hear the firecracker-like report as the droplets...
- 10From:NewsweekByline: Peter Plagens It wasn't just the Vietnam war, the music and the drugs that fueled the boomer design revolution. Raised in Ward and June Cleaver's house--with that cheesy laminated furniture, the tacky repros...
- 11From:Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication (Vol. 103, Issue 18)Daisy Bates (c. 1914-1999) was no shrinking violet. The Arkansas native ran a leading black newspaper, the Arkansas State Press, and championed the causes of civil rights and school desegregation. As president of the...
- 12From:American Heritage (Vol. 59, Issue 2)FORTY YEARS AGO A FEW rich kids hatched a nutty idea that became an event that rocked the nation, then morphed into a movement whose legacy lives on. This summer the young Museum at Bethel Woods in rural New York...
- 13From:Reason (Vol. 40, Issue 8)IF YOU ASKED a group of scholars to name the most important landmarks in the American story of the last half-century, they would list some or all of the following: the war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the...
- 14From:NewsweekAs George W. Bush launches America's war on terrorism, we are watching a great turn of the historical wheel from the start of our last momentous war--in 1965, when Lyndon Johnson took us into the catastrophe of Vietnam....
- 15From:MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History (Vol. 21, Issue 2)The Korean prisoners of war stood in sullen ranks, disciplined, belligerent, ready for battle even though their only weapons were homemade spears, clubs, and incendiary grenades. Their enemy--also disciplined and far...
- 16From:Smithsonian (Vol. 38, Issue 10)IT WAS, QUITE LITERALLY, the beep heard round the world. The sound, mildly annoying and profoundly unnerving, was beamed to earth from a small metal sphere called Sputnik, launched into space by Russia on October 4,...
- 17From:The Christian Century (Vol. 120, Issue 19)A veteran San Francisco religion reporter whose new book looks at the legacy of the spiritual ideals of the 1960's (and 1970s) says that few of the "revelatory" writings from that era have fueled major movements...
- 18From:American Heritage (Vol. 59, Issue 4)GAZING UP AT THE Texas night sky from his ranch, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson did not know what to make of Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth satellite launched into orbit by a Soviet missile on October 4, 1957. But an...
- 19From:USA Today (Vol. 133, Issue 2718)SEVERAL DECADES AGO, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., said the Democrats were the party of hope and the Republicans were the party of memory. While the words of this eminent historian--who was an ardent Democrat--may have been...
- 20From:American Heritage (Vol. 47, Issue 6)The political and social ramifications of the 1960's are still being felt to this day and could continue to be for some time. While the political battle from that time may have seemingly been won by the right, the left...