Sunday, November 26, 2023

Selling the Constitution: Alexander Hamilton Markets the New Government

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Having achieved independence with the end of combat in 1781 and with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the United States establish...
Monday, July 24, 2023

Segregation and “Jim Crow” Laws — The Results of Government

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In the history of the United States, the bitter realities of segregation were both a harsh burden upon the victims and a result of governmen...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Posing as Journalists, Soviet Agents Deliver China to Destruction: The Amerasia Case

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One skill needed for successful covert operations is the ability to establish a good ‘front’ — a seemingly innocuous activity or organizatio...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

When a Magazine Is More Than Simply a Magazine: Amerasia As a Front for Maoist-Stalinist Espionage

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In June, 1950, Time magazine reported that Congress was examining a collection of classified government documents. These documents had been...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Proliferation: How One Person’s Actions Affects Millions

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Technology — understood not merely as the latest iPhone or AI app, but rather in a more general way — has led to a situation in which one in...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

A New Leader for a New Country: Presidents Make Precedents

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The metamorphosis of eastern North America from British colony to independent sovereign nation lasted several decades. From the middle of th...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

The Purposes of the Soviet Espionage Network inside the United States: More than Stealing Secrets

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Ordinarily, when people think of spies, they picture spies as stealing secrets. That’s what spies do. Yet spies do more than gather intell...