FootNotes

Discussion of terrorism and the war against it has remained front and center in American’s lives and America’s classrooms since 9/11/01. The following areas are designed to help in examining this subject from the perspective of the 18 months...

Terrorism is a strategy to weaken a hated political authority. It is a security threat, but  almost the opposite of the nuclear one: little pinpricks instead of a huge bang. Last winter when the shock of 9/11 was drawing...

Why Geography Matters Walter McDougall, Chairman of FPRI’s History Institute and professor of international relations at the University of Pennsylvania, opened the conference by recalling his own sadness upon realizing his students’ ignorance of geography. Students are often unable to...

The events of September 11, 2001 have placed the subject of terrorism and the war against it, front and center in the lives of Americans and in the classrooms of America. There are many important issues and concepts which...

The growing demand for guidance on teaching world religions in American high schools and colleges over the past few years prompted FPRI to devote its seventh annual History Institute in April 2001 to the subject. Our weekend conference brought...

The matter of learning lessons from history has been a prodigious source of aphorism and free advice. George Santayana famously warned that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. Aldous Huxley quipped...

How did the United States get into Vietnam? What was it doing there? What happened at home? How did we get out? What have we learned? For two days, these questions were explored in great depth by some of...