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Examines the role of Colonel Edward House, advisor of former United States President Woodrow Wilson, to the formulation and development of American foreign policy during World War I. Background on House; His influence to President Wilson; Diplomatic service he rendered during the administration of President Wilson.

Provides information on the history of affirmative action policy regarding racial equality on employment implemented by President Richard Nixon of the United States. Revisitation on the issue of discrimination in the building trades; Information on employment discrimination during the administration of Nixon.

Discusses the experiences of a cub reporter in New York City that served as the apprenticeship of Lincoln Steffens, one of America's great political commentators whose autobiography remains a classic of such literature. Indication that newspaper's structural characteristics and political ideology shaped the reporting apprenticeship on New York and other metropolitan dailies in 1890s.

Discusses the antislavery movements in the United States in 1848. Reactions of antislavery activities on the attempted escape od slaves from Washington D.C.; Proliferation of antislavery proponents during and after the Mexican War from 1846 to 1848; Strategies conditions adopted by antislavery activists.

Analyzes the reasons behind the failure of the battle of Third Ypres, the Allies' major offensive on the western front in 1917 that was led by Douglas Haig, commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force. Approval of campaign due to intense pressure from military and naval commanders; Amount of casualties; Effect of the landing and coastal assault on the planning.

Reports on several events related to history. Includes the availability of `Reconstructing the Collective Mentality of the Early United States,' a printed copy of the tenth annual Phi Alpha Theta lecture on history; `Essays in History,' a student journal of the Western Illinois University Department of History; Southern Association for Women Historians' Second Southern Conference on Women's History.

Presents various announcements of events and activities related to the study of history. Includes the student publications of Phi Alpha Theta; Annual conference of the Middle Atlantic Historical Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities; New England Medieval Conference.

The article discusses the impact of the British newspaper the "Daily Telegraph's" 1908 interview with the German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II on the relations between Great Britain and Germany. The impact of Great Britain and Germany's press on international relations, including in regard to their impact on British and German attitudes, is discussed.

The article discusses the theatrical production "Hamilton, The Musical," created by U.S. composer, actor, and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda, and how it could be utilized in classrooms to give students a greater sense of U.S. founding father and statesman Alexander Hamilton's life and times in the late 18th century. The author discusses the musical's presentation of finance, immigration, and abolitionism and how those themes might be explored in a classroom setting.

The author discusses U.S. founding father and statesman Alexander Hamilton's views about slavery in the late 18th century and early 19th century. He argues that despite Hamilton's service as a member and president of the organization the New-York Manumission Society (NYMS) and his proposal to raise battalions of slaves in exchange for their freedom during the American Revolutionary War, Hamilton seemed to condone slavery by his dedication to private property rights and a strong central government, in addition to his reaction to the Haitian Revolution.

The article focuses on the British campaign in Mesopotamia between 1914 and 1916 during World War I. The author argues that Great Britain feared for its empire's prestige in the Middle East after Ottoman Turkey declared war, explores how British prestige influenced commanders within the Indian Expeditionary Force D (IEFD), and analyzes the advance of Major-General Sir Charles Townshend in Baghdad, Iraq, during 1915.

The article considers the attitudes of the Expédition Particulière, the French Expeditionary Force to North America, during the American Revolution between 1780 and 1782, comparing accounts of the forces winter stay in Newport, Rhode Island in the winter of 1780-1781 to the following winter when they were stationed at Williamsburg, Virginia. While the New England port was deemed cosmopolitan with international trade, the society of Virginia was stratified with self-serving planters who embraced a slave-system with civil unrest among commoners caused by the war. Topics include the Enlightenment, shifts in 18th-century public opinion of the U.S. held by France, and the influence of polymath Benjamin Franklin as an American diplomat in France.

The article presents an examination of the efforts of United States congressmen to end the Korean War during the administration of President Harry Truman. It explores how congressmen responded to the suggestion of peace prior to the formal armistice talks that began in Kaesong, Korea in July 1951. It examines U.S. proposals to end fighting and discusses the influence these suggestions had on the Truman administration. Additionally, the article examines how congressmen negotiated the idea of peace without total victory during the height of McCarthyism in the U.S.

The article discusses the development of the use of public opinion polls in U.S. government and politics in the 20th century. Polling is seen to have originated in the marketing and advertising industries before being adopted by presidents, especially Franklin D. Roosevelt, and later by Congress. The development of the technology and social science behind quantitative research is discussed, as is its effect on the institutional growth of the American state and the decreasing importance of sectional politics.

The article discusses the political career of R. W. Scott McLeod, who headed the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs in the U.S. State Department during the "Red Scare" of the 1950s. McLeod's association with U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and McCarthyism, the overzealous effort to rid U.S. government and society of perceived Communist sympathizers, is discussed. McLeod is found to have been less fanatical and corrupt than widely believed, and his historical reputation for subservience to McCarthy is likened to the kind of guilt by association used as a political tactic by McCarthy himself.

Discusses the historical significance of Philip Kerr, eleventh marquess of Lothian, in uniting Anglo-American relations. Impact of his western democracies on federalism; Activities of Kerr during World War I; Information on his public service career; Advantages of his alliance with the U.S.

Explores the ideas of orientalism and orientalists by Sir Anthony Eden, First Earl of Avon, England. Shift in the study of imperialism since the publication of the book 'Orientalism,' by Edward Said in 1977; Interest in literary and artistic matters; Relationship with Laudian Professor David Samuel Margoliouth.

Talks about the political career of John Jay, former governor of New York. Details on his oath taking on July 1, 1795 when a Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the U.S. and Great Britain was made public; Contribution of Jay in negotiating the treaty.

Discusses the crisis of liberalism in New York City in 1966 over a referendum for the proposal to abolish the civilian review board that was tasked to provide effective oversight of the New York City Police Department. Opposition of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association to the creation of the review board; Victory of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in influencing the voters to oppose the review board; Reaction of liberal politicians to the referendum results.

Examines how two-time Kentucky governor Albert Benjamin Chandler influenced the outcome of the 1968 presidential election in U.S. Details of the process that led to Chandler's selection as vice presidential runningmate of third-party candidate George C. Wallace; Background of Chandler and Wallace; Discussion on the chances of Republican Richard Nixon and Democratic Hubert Humphrey in winning the election with Wallace running for as a third-party candidate; Decline of Wallace's popularity.

Focuses on an investigation initiated by U.S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D-Mont.), chairman of the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission, regarding an alleged war propaganda in Hollywood films in 1941. Statement issued by U.S. Senator Gerald P. Nye (R-N.D.) on the alleged propaganda of several film studios; Resolution filed by Nye and U.S. Senator Bennett Champ Clark (D-Mo.) regarding the investigation; Advice given by Ulric Bell, executive director of pro-interventionist organization Fight for Freedom, to Darryl F. Zanuck of Twentieth Century-Fox on how to proceed with the investigation.

Investigates the religious life of early Barbados planters in the West Indies. Description of the first settlers of the Barbados in 1627; Accounts on the English colonization of the West Indies; Themes in colonial religious development identified by historians of colonial American religion.

The United Kingdom's government, whether Conservative or Labour, took some years to adjust itself to the reality that their country was no longer an equal partner of the two emerging superpowers after 1945, as it had previously been at the Conferences of Teheran, Yalta, or Potsdam. With the help of a nuclear arm, though, and with the assistance of the US, British pride was salvaged. The UK might not be one of the superpowers, but it did acquire the status of being the most important US ally in the Cold War during the 1950s and 1960s. Based on a significant number of hitherto unexplored (and formerly secret) documents, this essay explores how the US-UK alliance was to a significant degree cemented by an agreement between the two countries regarding the stationing and control over nuclear arms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The struggle for railway concessions was a critical factor influencing the China (Far Eastern) Crisis of 1897–1898, which was related to the Great Powers' scramble for concessions and spheres of influence in the Middle Kingdom. Great Britain played a major role in this process as well as in the general development of trade with China. After China's defeat in the war with France (1884–1885), prominent Chinese dignitaries (Li Hongzhang, Shen Xuanhuai, Zeng Guofan, Zhang Zhidong, Zuo Zongtang) initiated the so-called Self-Strengthening Movement, which was to include the construction of railways to preserve China's independence. However, it turned out that there was not enough capital in China to carry out this plan. The war with Japan (1894–1895) exposed China's weakness and gave rise to a heavy reliance on foreign capital. The founding of Imperial Railways of North China (between Beijing and Mukden) and the support of the mighty viceroy Li Hongzhang had extraordinary importance for the construction of railways. The real partition of China into spheres of influence by the Great Powers brought some limits to British activities. A concession to construct the strategically important Beijing-Hankow railway was received by a Belgian syndicate in 1898. This provided the opportunity for Russia's influence to expand to Yangzi. All of it led to a temporary setback in the British "railway policy" in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the key background issues that caused increasing friction between the two United States and Imperial Germany; particularly, it considers from Germany's geopolitical perspective its motivations for seeking American cooperation in East Asia and the contradictory approaches it followed. Issues are analysed that contributed to increasing German-American friction and Germany's often manipulative actions to entice cooperation from the United States, prevent close Anglo-American cooperation, counteract British imperial and commercial influence, and neutralize Japanese ambitions. German politicians hoped that a subsidiary effect of the shifting of power relationships in the Asian-Pacific region would be the strengthening of Germany's position in Europe in relation to Russia. Although geographically on the European periphery, the Asia-Pacific region was an area of long-term focus in Germany's push for world power status under Wilhelm II. This foretold a clash with the United States. In the long term, German preoccupation with a possible Anglo-American alliance, erratic policy changes, and clumsy attempts to woo the US to its side only resulted in reactions that further alienated the Americans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Describes how motion picture exhibitors and purity reformers in United States struggled to keep the studios from spreading consumer values without concommitant accountability in the period between the two world wars. Reactions about the perceived immoral contents of the movies; Moral content of films which affect the exhibitor's profit; Reason why compulsory block booking and blind selling were eliminated in Hollywood; Federal regulation on the standards of movie production.

Recalls the concerted effort by U.S. military intelligence to obliterate the early civil liberties campaign of the National Civil Liberties Bureau and Roger Baldwin. Development that in turn led some, including Baldwin to identify with the objects of government oppression; Baldwin's commitment to the civil liberties crusade; Factors that eroded Baldwin's early Progressive optimism.

Focuses on the radical Swedish-American journalist Nils F:son Brown (1886-1960) and his perception of the immigrant community. Estimating the total number of Swedish immigrants to North America; Launching of his `radical intellectual organ for farmers and workers,' the Forum, in October 1919; Brown's years at Svenska Canada-Tidningen.

Discusses the attempts of the government of Great Britain to suppress the publication of the controversial `Windsor File' that concerned Edward, the Duke of Windsor's Nazi sympathies during World War II. Description of the author's experience as chief of the editorial group that opposed its suppression; Duke of Windsor's manifestation of fondness for Germany; Insistence of a veto on the publication of the Windsor file.

Explains how the agrarian left was isolated or shifted to the right during the cold war heights of McCarthyism, along with public opinion throughout much of the United States in 1950s. Coping of the National Farmers Union (NFU) with cold war pressures in the decade after 1945; Major role of the NFY in the left wing of the New Deal coalition in the 1940; Conservative pockets in the Farmers Union.

Relates the wartime experiences of German Americans in Texas during World War I. Anti-German Activities; Relation between Anglo-Texans and their German neighbors; Influence of German Texans' on the sate politics and society.

Chronicles the life and career of James Francis Byrnes, governor of South Carolina from 1951 to 1955. Importance of Byrnes to the United States History; Principles; Education; Political Career; Religious affiliation.

Discusses the role of radical English historian Catharine Macaulay during the American Revolution. Correspondence with patriot leaders; Encouragement of the colonists' efforts to establish a new government; Relationships between English radicals and Americans before, during and after the revolution.

Encourages the reader to be involved with local history. Importance; Forms and variations; Oral interviews and written records; Pictorial history; Suggested reading.

Discusses Senator William E. Borah and his legislative effort to aid independent business and combat corporate power during the 1930s. Moralistic approaches to economic issues; Reaction to the National Recovery Administration; Candidacy for Republican nomination for president in 1936.

Looks at the inclusion of agricultural policy issue in President Harry S. Truman's `Give 'em Hell' campaign in 1948. Postwar reconversion; Farm fundamentalism; Federal government; New Deal Farm program; Price support systems; Special messages; Agricultural Act of 1948; Truman's assault on Republican Congress; Charles Brannan, secretary of agriculture; Truman's lack of support on agriculture policy.

Focuses on the background and work of the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities (also known as the House Un-American Activities Committee) and how the newspapers, wire services and magazines covered the New Deal and accusations of communist subversion in New Deal programs. Use of 20 geographically representative daily newspapers in four categories to identify political position; The four categories; Exploitation of wire services by Joseph McCarthy; Washington correspondents.

Provides information about the recognition of the United States government on General Anastasio Somoza regarding the Central American Treaty of Peace and Amity that provide nonrecognition of governments and refusing the office of president to revolutionary leaders. How the government of General Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua threaten the intervention of U.S. in Nicaragua; Implication of nonrecognition on Nicaragua; How the Somoza dynasty fight the intervention of U.S.

Focuses on Margaret Thomson's, a Methodist missionary based in Nanjing, observations about life in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Glimpses on China's internal conflicts and foreign pressures through Thomson's letters and photographs; Taiping Rebellion of the mid-nineteenth century; Boxer Rebellion.

Presents a study on the career of William Tryon, a British officer in in the 1770s, focusing on his role in the American Revolution. Role in the attempts to suppress colonial discontent against Britain; Enforcing British authority and isolating a minority of radicals; Views on how a war should be prosecuted; Coercing colonists back to submission to royal and parliamentary authority.

Profiles John Sawbridge, a practitioner of popular politics in late eighteenth-century London, Great Britain. `Popular politics' during John Sawbridge's time; Family background; Sawbridge's political career; Sawbridge's political agenda and his view on the constitutional issues that pervaded that time; Setbacks in Sawbridge's career; Sawbridge's participation in parliamentary debates.

Focuses on the feminist Alva Belmont. Three surnames which mark Belmont's stages of identity; Involvement in social and political reforms; Belmont's architectural projects; Society occupations.

Features news in the field of history. Invitation for historiographical essays; Establishment of the New England World History Association; Conference on `Teaching Global History'; Calls for papers from Popular Cultures Conference; John F. Kennedy assassination symposium; Publication of the `Encyclopedia of Historiography'; More.