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Satchel Paige with bat boys in the dugout watching a game in Los Angeles, ca. 1943.
Satchel Paige: The First Negro League Player Inducted into the Hall of Fame

Haiti's National Palace, the president's official residence, stands in ruins following the January 12, 2010 earthquake.
A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti
The colorful buildings of Tirana, viewed from the steps of the National Museum.
A Postcard from Tirana: Overcoming the Past
Abraham Lincoln Campaign Poster 1860
"Great God, What does it Mean?" - Lee's Escape at Williamsport
Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.
"Lone Wolves" No More
Holding a copy of ”Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Red Guards are featured on the cover of a Guangxi elementary school textbook, 1971.
"Mao's Last Revolution": China's Cultural Transformation
This detail from an early-20th-century image over the entrance to an arms factory in Belgium depicts a European arms manufacturer selling a gun to a darker-skinned purchaser in an exotic setting.
"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms
woman accused of being a witch surrounded by 4 men
"Out of the Broom Closet": The Resurgence of Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism
Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
Close-up of the mural commemorating works of A.J. Muste on the War Resisters League Building in New York, New York.
"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism
Anti-government protesters in Kiev
"Ukraine, Headed for a Revolution?"
In Senegal, a protester holds a sign rejecting "monarchy" in the form of proposed changes to the constitution which would extend the current president's term in office.
"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent
Protesters demonstrate against nuclear power and a storage facility at Rokkasho following the March 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima I power plant, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl (1986).
'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan
A refugee camp holding thousands of displaced Darfurians/Sudanese in the aftermath of war in the western part of Sudan.
'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict
Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist
(Bicycle) Wheels of Change
A home for sale in Columbus, OH. Picture by the author.
(Fore)Closing on the American Dream
Amish schoolhouse in 1941 Pennsylvania.
1/13/2015: Top Ten Origins: The Common Core Curriculum
Clios Current Blog Header With spread out papers and a coffee cup.
1/23/2015: Best in History Online: Clio’s Current
Bande dessinée par Ali Delim pour marquer la vingtième anniversaire de la mort de Saïd Mekbel
1/30/2015: Les dangers d'être humoriste: Charlie Hebdo n’est pas le seul
Cartoon by Ali Delim in honor of 20th anniversary of Said Mekbel’s killing. The cartoon reads: “Said Mekbel in Heaven for journalists. Here it is not the quills that are missing.” (Cartoon used with permission)
1/30/2015: The Dangers of Being a Humorist: Charlie Hebdo Is Not Alone
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10/10/2014: Best in History Online: History News Network (HNN)
Book Cover of The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 By: Bruno Cabanes
10/13/2014: Hot off the Presses: War and Humanitarianism
Marina Silva (PSB)
10/21/2014: Top Ten Origins: Brazil's Presidential Elections
Martha last passenger pigeon
100 years have gone by... still no Passenger Pigeons
The 3rd Tipperary Brigade of the Old IRA, pictured during the early 1920s.
100 Years of Irish Independence and Division
Official ISIS flag
11/12/2014: Top Ten Origins: The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)
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11/20/2014: Best in History Online: BackStory
the monument of the Soviet army in Sofia, completed in 1954
11/4/2014: Empty Fountains: Communist-Era Monuments Revisited
Book Cover for Great Lakes Creoles A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860 By: Lucy Eldersveld Murphy,
12/1/2014: Hot off the Presses: Creoles and Borders
Book Cover of For Peace and Money French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars By: Jennifer Siegel
12/15/2014: Hot off the Presses: Peace, Money, and Tsars
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12/22/2014: Senate Report on the CIA and Torture
Photograph of wounded American soldiers during the Korean War.
12/23/2014: Remembering the Korean War
Black and white image of an empty classroom
12/24/2014: Teaching Race in the Classroom
Genoa Park along the west bank of the Scioto River in Columbus, Ohio, United States
12/29/2014: Cities of the Future
The Sherman M4-A2E8 Tank
12/3/2014: At the Movies: Fury
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12/8/2014: Best in History Online: The Appendix
W.E.B. Du Bois c. 1911
150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois
Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District
1885: A European Colonial Dream and an African Nightmare
Stalin's boots are all that remain of his statue in Budapest.
1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe
Photo of a smiling doctor
2/11/14: "Body Politics: The History of Health Care Policy"
Taylor Swift at the 2014 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2/12/2015: Top Ten Origins: Oscar Dresses and Women’s Fashion
Press coming from Sochi during the recent Olympic cycle
2/21/14: On Distorting Russia
Photo of Earth
2/28/14: 21 Historical Events to Remember
Escobar: Paradise Lost, directed by Andrea Di Stefano
2/6/2015: At the Movies: Escobar
summer olympics banner
2/9/14: Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics
The New York Times Article, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse" Cover Photo
3/11/14: History through People, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse"
Splash of water
3/22/14: Happy World Water Day!
The theatrical poster for Birth of a Nation.
3/25/2015: At the Movies: "Birth of a Nation" After 100 Years
Alice Conklin's recent In the Museum of the Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 Book Cover.
3/26/14: The Latest Books from OSU Historians