Kristin Hoganson, professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and AHA member, recently published an op-ed in the News-Gazette about “the end of the American Century.” Hoganson offers a critique of an increasingly isolationist sentiment from the new administration, one that runs counter to previous decades of foreign engagement. While recognizing the repercussions that have resulted from America’s place at the forefront of world affairs, Hoganson rejects the administration’s calls of “America first,” stating that “no wall, no matter how high, can make us safer than the world order that our president is ripping up.”
