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Labor Shortage: Millions of Jobs Go Unfilled. Decline In Immigration Threatens Economic Growth

Border Crackdowns Won’t Solve Immigration. Migrants Come Because Jobs Are Plentiful

Avoiding Drift Toward 2nd Civil War

Israeli-Gaza War: How To Stave Off Further Disaster?

Mexican Border 'Crisis': Wedge Issue in 2024 U.S. Election?

1.8 Million Latinos Were Deported from the US in the 1930s

Pay Less Attention to Polls. Here's a 'Sure-Proof Formula to Predict Presidential Election Results'

Pat Conroy on the Charm of Charleston, SC

Substack Goes Local, Or At Least Statewide

Mini-Course Videos on My YouTube Channel

Trump's Presidential Immunity: Supreme Court Holds Historic Hearing

Passover Reflections on Jewish, Islamic and American History

Do Walls Work?

Is Corruption in Politics Inevitable?

Apocalypse Already Happened, in the Late Middle Ages, and Arguably in the 20th Century

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ Was Groundbreaking. It Inspired The Environmental Movement and Earth Day Observances

Ignorance of the World Harms National Security

How A Global Mindset Enriches Life

Abortion As Divisive Issue Can End

History of China in 20 Minutes

China’s Emergence As World’s Largest Economy and Possibly Dominant Cultural Influence in the 21st Century

Chinese Geography and How It Shapes History

Lies, Hyper-Partisanship and Hypocrisy

Conservative WSJ: Trump Is His Own Worst Enemy

‘Slavery By Another Name’ Existed in the U.S. Until the 1970s

What if the Communists Lost the Chinese Civil War?

Mao’s Terrifying Cultural Revolution in China, 1960s-1970s, As Depicted in Netflix Drama

Aging, Choices and Parental Figures' Deaths

On A Spiritual Journey With Dante’s Divine Comedy

Why Are American Men Obsessed With the Roman Empire? Historians Speculate As To Why

Global History Wasn't Taught

A Second U.S. Civil War?

Americans Are Taking Over Europe

What Has Happened to Hungary and Viktor Orban?

NATO, Now 75, Has Stabilized Europe

Women's History: Hunger for More

RFK Jr's Dangerous Candidacy

What Is the Deep State?

The Birth of Yellow Journalism in the 1890s

'The Longing For Home.' Eden, With A Sense of Place

Historian-Journalist Charlie Clark Lives On

Women's History: What We Weren't Taught

Why Was NC Village of Wagram Named for Austrian Village? French Emperor Napoleon Inspired It

Biden's Memory and Age: No Longer A Major Issue in Campaign

No Country for Old Men? Wilson, Reagan, Biden, and Trump. A Historian’s Take

Not A Single Vote Will Change Over Age of Biden Or Trump

Ida B. Wells and the Long Crusade to Outlaw Lynching

Will the West Fall Like Rome?

Malcolm X Is (Finally) Embraced As A Nebraska Native, With A Bust in the State Capitol

J.P. Morgan, One of World’s Richest Men, Faced Some Accountability and Regulation, Thanks to Republican Teddy Roosevelt

Andrew Carnegie and the ‘Gospel of Wealth’

In Selma, Alabama, 1965, Mac Secrest Helped Reduce Civil Rights Conflict…Often With Humor

Zenith and Decline of U.S. Influence

Roman Historian Boethius Explained the Fate of Nations and Empires

Henry Luce’s Short American Century Has Ended. Or Has It?

Black History & Cultural Literacy

The Jim Crow Era: A Stain On America’s Past

Best Biographies of Martin Luther King?

6 Films on Black History, 1920s - 1960s

Why Were High-Rise Public Housing Projects Built in the First Place?

Whites-Only Suburbs: How Housing Segregation Is Perpetuated

Racial Segregation and Concentrated Poverty: The History of Housing in Black America

Will Murder of Navalny Strengthen Or Crush Democracy Movement?

Black History: Invitation To A Mini-Course

‘The Great Game’: Case Studies in International Competition and Diplomacy

The Other Great Game: Britain Vs. the US, 1814-1845 and 1846-1914

Broken Long-Term Care System

A 101-Year-Old's Final Week

Media's Profound Changes

How America Became A Superpower

A Five-Alarm Fire for Biden and the Dems

Biden Is Just Slightly Ahead of Trump in PA, Wisconsin

Joe Biden Has Fallen Behind Trump In Swing State of Georgia

Biden In Danger of Losing the Swing State of Michigan Due to Israel-Gaza War, And Lack of Enthusiasm Among Black Voters

Hyper-Partisan Media Contributed to the U.S. Civil War

Robert E. Lee: Still An Icon to Some

If the US Civil Rights Movement Failed…

What If MLK Was Not Assassinated?

‘All the Way’ With LBJ: HBO’s Behind the Scenes Look at Lyndon Johnson’s First Year As President, 1963-64

When LBJ, the Kennedys, Civil Rights Leaders, Congress and Republicans Joined Together and Acted Heroically

Learning New Things About Dr. King

We Are the Heirs to Dr. King and 'The Movement'

1/6 Participant Reverses View of Trump

Society's Slender Threads Are Fraying

The Neo-Confederate Movement and Donald Trump

Optimistic, Pessimistic About 2024?