October 2019

Foreign Policy: "Ukrainian Corruption Is Trump’s Native Language" by Marci Shore

A whistleblower’s report of a July phone call between two television personalities who became heads of state could be the provocation for impeachment that the Mueller report failed to be. The context is this: Ukraine has been fighting a war against Russian-sponsored separatist rebels in the Donbass for over five years. The war has killed about 13,000 people and displaced over a million and a half. A largely impoverished country, Ukraine has been on life support from the West. President Donald Trump froze U.S. aid. He might, perhaps, unfreeze it.

Marcela Echeverri featured on BBC “The Forum” episode on Manuela Saenz, an Ecuadorian revolutionary

Manuela Sáenz was an Ecuadorian revolutionary who for many years was most famous for her role as the lover of Simón Bolívar - the Venezuelan military leader who secured independence from Spain for a number of countries in South America between 1819-1830. Sáenz left her British husband for Bolívar, or ‘The Liberator’ as he was known, and famously saved the leader from an assassination attempt, earning her the name ‘Libertadora’. But Sáenz was a political force in her own right, receiving various honours for her work for the revolutionary cause.

An Impeachment Roundtable

Impeachment !?
We’ve been here before: Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton. Come learn about the history of impeachment and discuss the relevance of that history today with three professors of History.
 
Join us for an Impeachment Roundtable
 
David Blight, Professor History and an expert on the Civil War Era.
Beverly Gage, Professor of History and an expert on 20th Century U.S. Politics.
Tim Snyder, Professor History and an expert on Eastern Europe.