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Topic Archives:Politics

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How Saladin Became A Successful War Leader

by Justin D. Lyons2/20/20242/20/2024

How Saladin, Egypt’s first Sultan, unified his allies and won the admiration of his foes.

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Grant Didn’t Fit the Eastern Theater Mold—Turns Out That’s Exactly What Lincoln Wanted

by William W. Bergen2/12/20244/29/2024
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During Reconstruction Southern Planters Called on the US Army to Enforce an Old Status Quo

by J. Jacob Calhoun2/5/20241/17/2024
A North Vietnamese poster from 1968 shows VC fighters “determined to beat the American enemy.” A shot-down U.S. pilot lies in the foreground while an American jet crashes in the distance.

During the Vietnam War, These Colorful Posters Aimed to Win Hearts and Minds

by Larry Porges1/3/20241/3/2024
Photo of Vietnamese students sit in a courtyard at City University in Paris, Aug. 27, 1963, at the start of a proposed 24-hour hunger strike against actions of the government in South Viet Nam. The government has put the country under martial law to quell protests of Buddhist monks and students.

How Did World Media View the War in Vietnam?

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher12/28/20231/4/2024

The Complicated Vietnam War Legacy of Henry Kissinger

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher and Larry Porges11/30/202312/6/2023
This cartoon pokes fun at Martin Van Buren’s inability to build a Free Soil Party coalition during the 1848 presidential run.

Leap Back on the Political Merry-Go-Round

by Richard Brookhiser11/28/20233/31/2024
Photo of President Nixon flanked by charts he used to illustrate his televised speech from the White House 4/7 in which he announced he will withdraw an additional 100,000 U.S. troops by December 1. The charts show the authorized troops level in South Vietnam.

This Signal Operator Witnessed Nixon’s Withdrawals from Vietnam. What He Saw Convinced Him it Wasn’t Working

by David L. Anderson10/25/20234/26/2024
Photo of James Michael Curley bending the ear of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.

Tweet! Jailbird Politicians, An American Staple

by Richard Brookhiser9/20/20239/20/2023
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Most POWs Want to Go Home—But After World War II, Some Faced Death on Arrival

by John A. Haymond9/18/20239/19/2023

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