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What’s in a Special Relationship?

by Justin Olmstead on August 14, 2020

The recent decision by US President Donald Trump to remove some American troops from Germany has brought much consternation to the international community. One interesting twist that has found its way into the conversation occurred

“Light at the End of the Tunnel”? The Vietnam War, the Credibility Gap, and the COVID-19 Crisis

by Simon Toner on May 15, 2020

Wartime analogies abound in the fight against COVID-19. In the United States, the Surgeon General warned that the nation faced

There is No War on Christmas

by David Kyle Johnson on December 18, 2019

There is hardly a Christmas in memory upon which there wasn’t a war waged—or, at least, so it seems if

Transatlantic Fascism before Trump

by Liam Liburd on December 7, 2017

On 29 November 2017, Donald Trump retweeted a video shared on Twitter by one of the leaders of Britain First,

Out on an Island: How Hurricane Maria Revealed the Legacy of American Colonialism

by Sarah Miller-Davenport on October 10, 2017

The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico was pummeled by Hurricane Maria less than a month after Hurricane Harvey unleashed catastrophic

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Why was there a civil war? A historian’s response to Trump

by Andrew Heath on May 2, 2017

It’s not been a bad week or so for students of nineteenth-century American history. After one populist politician spurred a flurry of interest in the mugwumps of the Gilded Age, another has just sparked curiosity

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