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Historical Topics, research

Patrick J. Hurley and the Great Mexican Dance Conspiracy

Stewart Huntsman On March 1, 1939, an agent of the Sinclair Oil Company sent his superiors a warning of a dastardly conspiracy. “What I shall report herein will sound fantastic,” he wrote, “it IS the plan of the people here.” The report was forwarded by air mail to the Shoreham Building in Washington, DC, where it was reviewed by Sinclair officials, among them former Secretary … Continue reading Patrick J. Hurley and the Great Mexican Dance Conspiracy

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Historical Topics, Op-ed, State of the Field

A Local History of Hong Kong

Shawn Liu Central Asia has long been imagined less as a place and more as a passage. In travelogues, school maps, and even much scholarship, it appears as a corridor—the Silk Road that carried goods and ideas between “centers” like China, Persia, or Europe. Historian Adeeb Khalid warns against this flattening: to see Central Asia only as a “road between somewhere and somewhere else” erases … Continue reading A Local History of Hong Kong

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Historical Topics, Op-ed

Forgetting the Forever Wars

John Ramming Chappell Nearly two decades after 9/11, a consensus has emerged: the United States needs to end its forever wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. This month, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), the sweeping legislation that authorized the War on Terror. Legislators have also proposed bills to repeal the 2002 … Continue reading Forgetting the Forever Wars

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