Sam Lebovic is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. This interview is based on his new book, A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization (University of Chicago Press, 2022). JF: What led you to...
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The Meaning of D-Day
Here is a taste of SMU’s Jeff Engel‘s piece at The Washington Post: Lives were lost every day of the war — in the Soviet Union, one life every four seconds — but D-Day holds a special place in American memory...
Joyce Chaplin vs. Ted Cruz
Perhaps you have seen the Twitter battle taking place between Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Joyce Chaplin. Cruz ran for POTUS In 20016. Chaplin is an early American historian and chair of Harvard’s American Studies program Chaplin’s claim that the...
Abraham Lincoln: Internationalist?
An alternative title for this post might be “Abraham Lincoln’s Rural Enlightenment.” Over at “Just Security,” Lincoln biographer and former Bill Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal argues that the 16th POTUS would have probably rejected the idea of “America First.” Here...
Good Books On Post-War War II Internationalism?
The American Bible Society manuscript is almost done. I am currently polishing a chapter on the United Bible Societies, a global fellowship of Bible societies founded at the end of World War II. I am trying to connect the UBS...