1. Letter Concerning Truman
Kennedy engaged in a series of television debates with the Republican candidate, Richard M. ... Much controversy remains concerning the Kennedy assassination, and speculation about conspiracy theories abounds, despite the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald most likely acted alone....
He was an England citizen who visited both Canada and the United States to work on projects concerning research on the atomic bomb. ... However, he debated that he committed no crime since the Soviet Union was that of allies to the Canada and the United States, therefore the Soviet Union had a right in sharing such important information. ...
(Concerning Women) For all these reasons, Rosie was embraced by the American working woman and therefore became their representation, with many unions adopting her as their symbol. ... The debate among historians about the significance of the wartime experience for women revolves around how permanent the wartime employment changes were. ...
This simple sentence has been the source of more debate and controversy than one might think. ... Justice Owen Roberts wrote in his dissent that this "is the case of convicting a citizen as a punishment for not submitting to imprisonment in a concentration camp, based on his ancestry, and solely because of his ancestry, without evidence or inquiry concerning his loyalty and good disposition towards the United States"11 Justice Robert Jackson noted that comparable burdens were not imposed upon descendants of the other nationalities (German, Italian) with whom the United States was als...
Introduction When I first sat down and researched into American exceptionalism I discovered an idea that was complex in not just its definition but also its understanding. I quickly learned I was researching something that spanned political, historical and religious backgrounds and tapped into the heart of the American attitude most recently seen in Obama's election victory speech of "yes we can".1 Despite this, the president recently appeared to be hesitant to proclaim views of support for exceptionalism. Asked by a reporter in Strasbourg, France, whether he subscribed, as his...
The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. ... All of which reject any possibility of coherent intention or program in Nazi Germany's foreign policy.(2) The ferocity of this debate, perhaps best personified by the AJP Taylor, Trevor-Roper duels, has only increased the stubbornness of each side, and impeded any sort of configuration of a middle group.(3) It seems almost impossible to prove ...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...