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House destroyed by hurricane in Puerto Rico.
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Decisions More Than a Century Ago Explain Why The U.S. Has Failed Puerto Rico in Its Time of Need

Fears about trade prompted the decision to make Puerto Rico a colony.
Buildings destroyed by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico’s Hurricane María Proves Once Again that Natural Disasters Are Never Natural

Today's rhetoric about dependency and disaster relief echoes a conversation from more than a century ago.

Talking God in the United States

What are Americans really talking about when they talk about religious freedom?

Why Teddy Roosevelt Tried to Bully His Way Onto the WWI Battlefield

Tensions ran high when President Wilson quashed the return of the former president’s Rough Riders
Poster for "Independence for Puerto Rico."

Are Puerto Ricans Really American Citizens?

How it came to be that Puerto Rico came to have a separate but unequal status under American law.
Men running with their newspapers, one of which says "fake news"

Yellow Journalism: The "Fake News" of the 19th Century

Peddling lies goes back to antiquity, but during the Tabloid Wars of the 19th-century it reached the widespread outcry and fever pitch of scandal familiar today.
Soldiers in the 15th New York.

Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.

A Useful Corner of the World: Guantánamo

The U.S. just can't seem to let go of its naval base on Cuba.
Gen. Lew Wallace, circa 1861.

The Incredible Life of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and Author of Ben-Hur

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.
Poster for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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Where the Buffalo Roam

How Buffalo Bill’s Wild West brought scenes from the American West to audiences around the globe.
A picture of a “water detail,” reportedly taken in May, 1901, in Sual, the Philippines. A man is holding another down while a third holds the captive's mouth open with a stick and pours water into it.

The Water Cure

Debating torture and counterinsurgency—a century ago.

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