Economics in History: What Every High School Student and Teacher Needs to Know
Historians work in a discipline with few inherent concepts and are obliged to draw upon many fields in recreating...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Economics in History: What Every High School Student and Teacher Needs to Know
A nation must think before it acts.
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Teaching about Jihadism and The War on Terror
This essay is focused on my experience in teaching courses on jihadism and terrorism at Haverford College. Despite the...
Defending U.S. Maritime Commerce in Peacetime from 1794 to Today
Maritime commerce has been vital to the American economy since the founding of the colonies in the seventeenth century....
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in American History
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is America’s oldest and largest engineering organization. It is also the most controversial....
Why the Military Makes Public Health a Priority
The military is involved in public health because diseases do not respect a uniform. The mosquito cannot tell whether...
The Military’s Role in Stimulating Science and Technology: The Turning Point
Fido: The Mark 24 Mine On May 12, 1944, a torpedo from a Royal Air RAF heavy bomber based...
Shiism: What Students Need to Know
Shiism is the second-largest denomination of Islam, after Sunni Islam. Today, the Shia comprise about 10 percent of the...
Sunni Islam: What Students Need to Know
It is the mark of a great world religion to accommodate different outlooks and sensibilities. Quite often, these differences...
Teaching the Long War and Jihadism
This presentation will address ways to understand the war on terror, or as I will be calling it, the...
The U.S. and Iran in Historical Perspective
The U.S. has had relations with Iran ever since the last quarter of the nineteenth century. American missionaries have...