When Repression Masquerades as Social Justice: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
As Elie Wiesel reminds us, there is no more eloquent witness against injustice and evil than eyewitness memory. A...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
When Repression Masquerades as Social Justice: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
A nation must think before it acts.
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World War II and Its Meaning for Americans
When America went to an all-volunteer force in the 1970s, many predicted that a gap in outlook would arise...
Teaching About the Military in American History: A History Institute for Teachers
Paul Herbert, Ph.D., Colonel, US Army (Ret.), Executive Director of the Cantigny First Division Foundation, welcomed participants to Cantigny....
Teaching About the Military: Some Basics
I take the inspiration for this talk from the distinguished military historian Maurice Matloff, who wrote that military history...
Genocide: The Cases of Rwanda and Sudan
There is a relationship between societies that aren’t free and genocide, but it’s not exactly the relationship one might...
North Korea: The Nadir of Freedom
North Korea is a country devastated by tyrannical rule, famine, death, and a strict caste system. A small country,...
Understanding the Creation of the U.S. Armed Forces
The creation of the United States’ military forces was a prolonged, complicated process that unfolded in three distinct periods,...
What Every American Needs to Know about Taiwan
About a month and a half ago, a college student in Taiwan ran away from home because, as he...
Teaching the Classics: What Americans Can Learn from Herodotus
There is one obvious reason why Americans ought to find it useful to read and study Herodotus. He described...
War and the Military in American History
At past FPRI history institutes I have praised and thanked the teachers in attendance because I likened them to...