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  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    7/3/2020

    It is Time to Reconsider the Global Legacy of July 4, 1776

    by Elizabeth Kolsky

    American independence unleashed a hemispheric conquest by the United States and a renewed commitment to empire by Great Britain. Both projects relied on racism, violence, and the devaluing of black and indigenous lives. 

  • SOURCE: Nursing Clio
    12/11/19

    Worcestershire Sauce and the Geographies of Empire

    by Julia Fine

    The complex origin of Worcestershire sauce reveals the ways that imperial ideals and aspirations — both in Britain and the colonies — structured not only British food habits, but also the ways in which companies presented such foods to the public.

  • SOURCE: Aeon
    10-13-16

    Guns, Empires and Indians

    by David J Silverman

    Multilateral imperial politics triggered an indigenous arms race and led to the violent transformation of Native America.

  • SOURCE: National Review
    6-5-13

    Conrad Black: A Weak U.S.

    Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M.

  • SOURCE: National Review
    3-14-13

    Conrad Black: A Post-American World Order

    Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, and the recently published A Matter of Principle. He can be reached at cbletters@gmail.com.

  • SOURCE: The New Republic
    1-15-13

    David A. Bell: The War in Mali is a Reminder of France's Grand Malaise

    David A. Bell is Professor of History at Princeton University. Born in New York City in 1961, he received his A.B. from Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton.It remains to be seen whether France's military intervention in Mali will be considered a military success, but it already seems possible to count it a political one. The war has earned support from across the French political spectrum, President François Hollande has garnered acclaim for his leadership, and the French public broadly supports the country's stated humanitarian mission. The intervention recalls the days when “la grande nation” laid claim to an ambitious international role, particularly within its former colonial empire.But in today's France, this portrait of unity and resolve is actually something of an aberration. Far from expressing a confident sense of mission, the French public has recently been more inclined to a sense of decline, malaise, paralysis and crisis. And it is at least partially justified.