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Stephen A. Douglas, the Antebellum Press, and Media Today
Martin H. Quitt is the author of Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy (on sale now). In the decade before the Civil War the press usually was so partisan that individual papers often published...
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The Real Legacy of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Martin H. Quitt is the author of Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy (on sale now). Many mistakenly believe that the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were the ancestors of the modern...
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Into the Intro: Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama
This week we’re reading Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama by Samuel Walker. Click here to read or download the entire introduction. 1 Introduction: Presidents and Civil Liberties...
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Q&A with Samuel Walker, author of Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson...
Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama: A Story of Poor Custodians is ambitious in scope, covering the civil liberties records of all modern presidents. We sat down with the author, a...
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What the Western Powers Knew Before the Six-Day War
John Quigley is the author of The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense. The action by the United Nations General Assembly on November 29, 2012 (Resolution 67/19) to acknowledge Palestine’s status as...
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Into the Intro: The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense
The question of responsibility for the June 1967 war remains as controversial today as it was in 1967. Yet as a lasting peace agreement seems ever more elusive—especially in the wake of renewed...
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Virtual roundtable: same-sex marriage
On March 26th, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear the arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, a case that will determine whether California’s voter initiative to ban gay marriage in the...
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Into the Intro: Justice for Earthlings
For far too long (since Plato’s era, to be exact), philosophers have portrayed justice as an abstract, universal ideal—a notion to strive towards, instead of being an actual reality. In Justice for...
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Into the Intro: The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to...
Go Into the Intro of The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, the NATO-commissioned guide to the changing ways of war and the new threats of a digital world. Should...
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Into the Intro: Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States
Texas reached a milestone this June as the state executed its 500th death-row inmate since 1976. The same week, the gay rights community celebrated a major victory after the Supreme Court declared the...
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