Although William Howard Taft was Theodore Roosevelt’s hand-picked successor to the presidency, he was less inclined to use Roosevelt’s “big stick,” choosing instead to use the economic might of the United States to influence foreign affairs. Of key interest to Taft was the debt that several Central American nations still owed to various countries in[…]
Roosevelt believed that the United States had the right and the obligation to be the policeman of the hemisphere. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 08.26.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Introduction While President McKinley ushered in the era of the American empire through military strength and economic coercion, his successor, Theodore Roosevelt, established a new foreign[…]
By Rachel Quednau / 10.08.2015 Among the many propaganda campaigns executed during World War II was this one, aimed at encouraging carpooling. Using a mix of scare tactics (“When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler”), sex appeal (“Swap riding–the new way to new friendships”), and patriotism (Uncle Sam wagging his finger), the campaign encouraged[…]
A Soviet anti-racism stamp from 1960 features a black child in typical blackface imagery / Wikimedia Commons When Langston Hughes traveled to Moscow in 1932 to film “Black and White” — a Soviet propaganda film about the horrors of American racism — he figured he had little to lose. By Dr. Jennifer Wilson / 08.31.2017[…]
Looking to the writings of Duncan Kennedy and Hannah Arendt for further insight. By Dr. Elena Giusti Assistant Professor in Latin Literature and Language University of Warwick Abstract The allegedly old-fashioned debate over the pro- or anti-Augustanism of Augustan texts was superseded in 1992 by Duncan Kennedy’s ‘reflections’ over these terms of reference. Since then,[…]
By Dr. Michael Davis / 01.07.2016 Professor of Philosophy Sarah Lawrence College Abstract How is it possible that we can be so deeply affected by poetry even when we are not altogether sure what it is about? By way of interpreting a Platonic dialog, “Lies Like the Truth: On Plato’s Lesser Hippias” links this human[…]