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Hajj pilgrim at Masjid al-Haram.
The Hajj and Europe
A woman walks by revolutionary graffiti in Cairo.
Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates
Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary
Abubakar Shekau with other Boko Haram fighters.
All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram
Demonstrators at the civil rights march on Washington, D.C. demand an end to police violence, August 28, 1963
Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story
NATO and Russia in close proximity again. A U.S. F-22A Raptor accompanies a Russian Tu-95 near the Alaskan NORAD Region airspace, 2007.
NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War
Ilona Schoknecht-Slupianek.
Cops and Robbers? The Roots of Anti-Doping Policies in Olympic Sport
Campaign poster for the Good Friday Agreement.
Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace
The flight of Greeks from Asia Minor in 1922.
Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective
The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation
Artwork of the Battle of Chaldiran (1514).
The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq
A United States twenty-dollar bill.
Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina
The glowing skyline of Singapore's Central Business District.
Singapore at Fifty
Philippine naval vessel, BRP Mangyan, and crew.
A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics
August 1976 cover from Ms. Magazine.
Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence
This image appeared in the New York Journal on April 20, 1898.
As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past
United States-Mexico border.
Hacer América and the American Dream: Global Migration and the Americas
Harlem, Summer 1964.
From Harlem to Ferguson: LBJ's War on Crime and America's Prison Crisis
Lake Oroville, California, 2014.
The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?
Ak Saray.
Erdoğan’s Presidential Dreams, Turkey’s Constitutional Politics
Jean Yocum.
Good Guys and Bad Guys with Guns: Gun Control in Canada and the U.S.
A China Dream publicity poster.
China Dreams and the “Road to Revival”
A sign that reads, "Keep Govment out of Medicade Dammit!"
An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History
Football player Takeo Spikes compared the violence of football to the Roman coliseum.
Savage Gladiators vs. Civilized Amateurs: Rome and Athens in American Sports Culture