Current Events that Relate to History

Trade has always had to negotiate geographic bottlenecks, but by the 21st century, controlling access to the U.S. dollar seemed to offer even greater leverage.

Beginning with his first job in the Reagan DOJ, the chief justice has been hell-bent on dismantling the Voting Rights Act.

Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.

How Sarah Polk wielded political power at a time before women could vote or hold office.

Decades before the Ayatollah, even before the shah, early Americans found themselves enchanted with Iranian culture, politics, and history.

Voting, a right not initially enshrined in the Constitution, has been secured, revoked, and contested since the nation's founding era.