![]() ![]() From the Revolutionary Wars of the 18 th century, through the Spanish-American War, the Vietnam War, to both World Wars. America’s Wars tell us about much more than just the wars themselves, they tell us the story of America.Īt City Lit, we have recently launched a series of courses exploring America’s Wars. And America’s wars can show us about how it went from a sometimes isolationist, and inward-looking nation, to the most economically, culturally, and politically powerful country in the world. Wars can show us about the US’ fight for values around the world, and its ignorance of some of those same values at home. Wars tell us about the relationship between America and the world: from a fledgling nation fighting for its own independence to one that had its own ‘imperial moment’. It was, he argued, the reason why China was overtaking America in many ways.Īs historians, America’s Wars can tell us a lot more than just about how money, time and effort has been spent. What do America’s Wars show us, and what can we learn from them?įor Carter, the lesson was that America had wasted huge amounts of time, money, and effort in fighting wars around the world, trying to impose American values on foreign countries. In 2019, Jimmy Carter, the former US President, described America as “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.” In one of his regular sessions teaching at a Baptist Church Sunday School, he noted that the US had only been at peace for 16 of its nearly 250-year history.
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