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The Forgotten Front
The Eastern Theater of World War I, 1914 - 1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Although much has been written about the Western Front in World War I, little attention has been given to developments in the east, especially during the crucial period of 1914--1915. Not only did these events have a significant impact on the fighting and outcome of the battles in the west, but all...
Team 19 in Vietnam
An Australian Soldier at War
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Historical accounts and memoirs of the Vietnam War often ignore the participation of nations other than Vietnam and the United States. As a result, few Americans realize that several members of the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO), including Australia, allied with South Vietnam during the...
Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The many con men, gangsters, and drug lords portrayed in popular culture are examples of the dark side of the American dream. Viewers are fascinated by these twisted versions of heroic American archetypes, like the self-made man and the entrepreneur. Applying the critical skills he developed as a...
Cultivating Race
The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
From the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, Georgia's racial order shifted from the somewhat fluid conception of race prevalent in the colonial era to the harsher understanding of racial difference prevalent in the antebellum era. In Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia,...
The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
From Isolation to International Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The United States has looked inward throughout most of its history, preferring to avoid "foreign entanglements," as George Washington famously advised. After World War II, however, Americans became more inclined to break with the past and take a prominent place on the world stage. Much has...
Losing Vietnam
How America Abandoned Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
In the early 1970s, as U.S. combat forces began to withdraw from Southeast Asia, South Vietnamese and Cambodian forces continued the fight against the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF), more commonly known as the Viet Cong. Despite the...
by Xiaobing Li
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Since the establishment of the Red Army in 1927, China's military has responded to profound changes in Chinese society, particularly its domestic politics, shifting economy, and evolving threat perceptions. Recently tensions between China and Taiwan and other east Asian nations have aroused great...
Just War Reconsidered
Strategy, Ethics, and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In the seminal Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer famously considered the ethics of modern warfare, examining the moral issues that arise before, during, and after conflict. However, Walzer and subsequent scholars have often limited their analyses of the ethics of combat to soldiers on the ground...
Defend and Befriend
The U.S. Marine Corps and Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
After relatively successful military interventions in Iraq in 1992 and Yugoslavia in 1998, many American strategists believed that airpower and remote technology were the future of U.S. military action. But America's most recent wars in the Middle East have reinforced the importance of counterinsurgency,...
American Justice in Taiwan
The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
On May 23, 1957, US Army Sergeant Robert Reynolds was acquitted of murdering Chinese officer Liu Ziran in Taiwan. Reynolds did not deny shooting Liu but claimed self-defense and, like all members of US military assistance and advisory groups, was protected under diplomatic immunity. Reynolds's acquittal...
So Much to Lose
John F. Kennedy and American Policy in Laos
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Before U.S. combat units were deployed to Vietnam, presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy strove to defeat a communist-led insurgency in Laos. This impoverished, landlocked Southeast Asian kingdom was geopolitically significant because it bordered more powerful communist and anticommunist nations. The...
King of the Mountain
The Nature of Political Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
"People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, all of which they attribute to being human, but they masticate, fornicate, and procreate, much as chimps and apes do, so they should have little cause...
The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau
Privatism and the Practice of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Today, Henry David Thoreau's status as one of America's most influential public intellectuals remains unchallenged. Recent scholarship on Thoreau has highlighted his activism as a committed antislavery reformer and proto-environmentalist whose life became a seminal model for the image of the liberal...
Virtues of Renewal
Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
For over fifty years, Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence -- a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the earth and its beings. Yet the present industrial economy prioritizes a technical, self-centered way of...