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Justice Robert Jackson & The American Legal Tradition

May 4, 2025 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

During the United States Supreme Court’s 1944-1945 term, the Justices heard three final days of oral arguments in the week that began on Monday, April 30, 1945. Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892 – 1954) missed some of these arguments. He might not have been fully prepared for those that he did attend. In that week, the Supreme Court work was not his primary concern.

Beginning on April 25, 1945, President Harry S. Truman had recruited Justice Jackson to represent the U.S. as its chief prosecutor, with allies, of the Nazi German leaders who were on the brink of being defeated militarily and captured. [Read more…] about Justice Robert Jackson & The American Legal Tradition

Plans To Close Manhattan Waterfront Greenway Gap Moving Forward

August 29, 2024 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

A long-standing plan to fill in the gap in the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway along the East River near the United Nations is moving forward. New York City’s Economic Development Corporation has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to supervise the construction of an esplanade spanning a gap in the Greenway between East 41st and East 53rd Streets.

Closing the less than a mile-long gap is the latest effort toward completing the planned 32-mile pedestrian and bicycle path along the Manhattan waterfront. [Read more…] about Plans To Close Manhattan Waterfront Greenway Gap Moving Forward

NATO History: A 75-Year Alliance

April 5, 2024 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Seventy-five years ago on April 4, 1949, foreign ministers from the United States and 11 countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom) gathered in Washington, DC to sign the Washington Treaty.

Also known as the North Atlantic Treaty, the treaty derives its authority from Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which affirms the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense. [Read more…] about NATO History: A 75-Year Alliance

A United Nations Exhibit Sheds Light On Dutch Colonial Slavery

February 23, 2023 by Alan J. Singer Leave a Comment

The exhibit “Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam” will be displayed in the lobby of the United Nations in New York City from February 27 through March 30, 2023.

The exhibition explores ten true personal stories centered on wooden foot stocks known as a “tronco” (Portuguese for tree trunk) that were used to constrain enslaved people by clamping their ankles. The foot stocks represent the more than one million people who forced to work in Dutch colonies on sugar plantations and in mines and harbors in Brazil, Suriname, the Caribbean, South Africa, and Asia. [Read more…] about A United Nations Exhibit Sheds Light On Dutch Colonial Slavery

Sol Bloom: A Manhattan Leader In American WWII Foreign Policy

January 19, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Sol Bloom (March 9, 1870 – March 7, 1949) was a song-writer and Congressman from New York who began his career as a sheet music publisher in Chicago. He served fourteen terms in the House of Representatives from the West Side of Manhattan, from 1923 until his death in 1949.

Bloom was the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 1939 to 1947 and again in 1949, an important period in the history of American foreign policy. [Read more…] about Sol Bloom: A Manhattan Leader In American WWII Foreign Policy

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