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Jody Ferguson on KLBJ News
Military expert and former Senior Pentagon advisor, Jody Ferguson is interviewed on KLBJ News Podcast
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
Benn Steil wrote this timely piece about the magnanimous, yet strategically astute, European Recovery Program, known popularly as the...
Jody Ferguson
The China Mission; George Marshall's Unfinished War 1945-47
Well researched and well-written account of the attempt by Harry Truman to bring peace to China in the years after WWII. Unable to...
Jody Ferguson
Jody Ferguson on Fox 7 Austin News: Russia & Ukraine
Jody Ferguson interviewed by Fox 7 Austin to discuss Russia & Ukraine
Jody Ferguson
Jody Ferguson on Progress Texas Podcast: Russia & Ukraine
Dr. Jody Ferguson interviewed on the Progress Texas Podcast to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Jody Ferguson
Moments of Film Magic
Great films, great moments.
Jody Ferguson
Fiction to Film
I make no claim to know all of the best novels that have been made into films. To do so would be as spurious a claim as saying I’ve read...
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Pilgrim's Progress
While recently watching the Netflix series “The Crown” I was delighted to see a segment where Queen Elizabeth, in a Christmas address to...
Jody Ferguson
Greece
If you read any of my other blogs connected to the Mediterranean you know that when I get around, I want to see the history of the region...
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The Spanish Flu
In the United States in 1918 the population was just over one hundred million. Today it is just over three hundred and thirty million....
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Clark Field
One of the unique lost treasures of old Austin was the baseball diamond known as Clark Field that sat directly across the street from DKR...
Jody Ferguson
Gold Dust Gang
At the beginning of baseball season each year in April there are no shortage of tributes to Jackie Robinson...
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Mexican Silver Dollar
For well over three hundred years the currency of choice in East and Southeast Asia was the Mexican Silver Dollar...
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Shanghai Slang
In the opening pages of my novel, Above the Water, the protagonist Harry engages in dialogue..,
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Bob Hope
The USO tours that Bob Hope undertook during three consecutive American wars in the mid-20th century...
Jody Ferguson
White Russians
After the Russian Revolution and the subsequent civil war ended in 1922, large numbers of pro-Tsarist Russians fled abroad to escape...
Jody Ferguson
Tom Lea
A painter that I greatly admire is Tom Lea, a native Texan who lived all his life in El Paso.
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Snow Country Japan
Most people wouldn’t realize that Japan is one of the snowiest places on earth.
Jody Ferguson
History tells us, it can happen anywhere.
Recently, you’ve heard the refrain, “It can’t happen here.” Meaning, the United States could never become a dictatorship...
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Quebec
The capital of Québec is Montréal, which sits on an island in the wide St. Lawrence River. One of the oldest cities in North America...
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