Richard Immerman has studied American empire for decades — since college at Cornell, where he worked with the famed historian of American empire, Walter LaFeber. But the notion of American empire, Immerman said, “was a very contested concept at that point, and it still is.” Below, Immerman, author of Empire For Liberty: A History of American Imperialism From Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz, talks about what American empire is, who built it, and how Barack Obama is handling his role in it.
by Beth Bachmann
We love a thing we cannot know.
This is what stops us from touching
but also what cannot stop us from touching
by Jonathan Farmer
Liver, lungs, heart;
blood and water,
skin. You need
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic on May 27, 1937. It was immediately praised for being the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its completion, but more importantly, the bridge came to be regarded as the definitive symbol of the nation’s western frontier. Below, in a piece for Architect, Dan Halpern examines the origins and national significance of the Golden Gate Bridge.
China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom
by Richard Baum
China Watcher is a memoir and a contemporary history rolled into one….
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