Edward Turzanski of the Foreign Policy Research Institute attempts to sum up what students should be taught about the War on Terrorism, in order to prepare students to critically analyze world events and plan for and anticipate future events. He suggests that the languages of cultures beyond the Spanish-speaking and Western European world and world geography need to be more widely taught.

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Lowell E. Jacoby, executive vice president for Strategic Intelligence Opportunities at CACI International, discusses what he believes U.S. citizens need to think about and what they need to prepare for in proceeding forward from 9/11.

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Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, looks at Iran's development of nuclear weapons.

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Harvey Sicherman, President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, looks at the current war in Iraq; and asks what relationship it has with the War on Terrorism. He outlines previous presidential stands on terrorism, which largely ideologically opposed terrorism, but did not take direct, open action against it—contrasting them with Bush's active declaration of war against terrorism. Sicherman argues that the war in Iraq functions as an extension of the war on terrorism and of previous U.S. policy in the Middle East.

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David Eisenhower of the Foreign Policy Research Institute considers the current necessity of approaching terrorism and the current war as teaching subjects, and looks at how national crises—such as 9/11—pose certain rhetorical and leadership demands on presidents, and how President Bush reacted to these demands.

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Paul Dickler of Neshaminy High School reviews several points he considers important in teaching on 9/11 and terrorism, as well as in teaching history more generally.

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Michael Radu and Stephen Gale, co-chairs of the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security, present the FPRI's annual report on the current state of the War on Terrorism.

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Thomas W. Zieler about his article, "The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field," considering the state of diplomatic history in the face of and as a contributor to the new emphasis on globalization.

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Dr. Peter Black, the Chief Historian of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, explores the response in the United States to the events of the Holocaust era, focusing on the issues of immigration, pre-war refugee policy, and wartime rescue policy.