Empire’s don’t collapse; they commit inevitable suicide by destroying their primary sources of wealth: respect and industry. The American empire has existed since July 4, 1776 when it was declared as ...

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...

The first option was to let the colonies go. The second was to unify the American colonies with Britain the way Scotland had been united with England. Smith himself was Scottish and, looking back, was ...

The American election season is, once again, approaching its zenith, but it won’t be long before another four years have passed and a new contest has rolled in. It is a relentless cycle, a shameless ...

"A rich and eloquent account of American strategic culture as it developed from the founding of the colonial project. Empire Imagined will appeal to a general readership as well as academics with an ...

PROFESSOR SEELEY has pointed out, in his work on The Expansion of England, the prevailing tendency to look upon those conditions which we observe around us as having always existed, and to consider ...

This By-invitation commentary is part of a series by global thinkers on the future of American power—examining the forces shaping the country's global standing, from the rise of China to the ...

At noon, October 18, 2003, President George W. Bush landed in Manila as part of a six-nation Asian tour. Because officials were concerned about a terrorist attack on the embattled islands, the ...

As George Orwell, the celebrated British author and social commentator, wrote in a 1944 newspaper column, “History is written by the winners.” According to my late Aunt Herta, U.S. history is no ...