Tag: US History

  • The Long Ledger: Part 2

    The Shell Game Cold War Geopolitics and the Redistribution of Colonial Wealth, 1945–1991 The Cold War is usually taught as a clash of ideologies, and the ideologies were real. Liberal democracy and Soviet communism were genuinely incompatible visions of how human society should be organized, and both superpowers believed, at least partly, in what they…

  • The Long Ledger, Addendum

    The Realignment Has Already Begun The Iran Conflict, the Petrodollar, and the Economic Pivot Nobody Voted For A caveat before anything else: this post was written in late March 2026, while the conflict is still active and the full picture is still forming. Some of what is documented here will look different in six months;…

  • The Bill of Rights Turns 233

    Using comics to teach the Bill of Rights engages students by transforming abstract legal principles into relatable narratives, facilitating understanding of constitutional law through visual storytelling and current events.

  • The Business Plot of 1933: When Wall Street Tried to Overthrow FDR

    In the Great Depression, Major General Butler exposed a conspiracy by wealthy industrialists to instigate a fascist coup against Roosevelt’s government, raising concerns about democracy’s fragility.

  • Book Review: Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer

    Ada Ferrer’s “Cuba: An American History” redefines US-Cuba relations, blending personal insights with rigorous scholarship, making it essential for understanding intertwined histories and contemporary foreign policy.

  • King George III: The Monarch Who Shaped a Global Empire

    King George III, who reigned from 1760 to 1820, significantly influenced British history through military conflicts, imperial expansion, and personal struggles, shaping the pre-Victorian global order.