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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

The American Historical Association Logo
3/26/2015: Best in History Online: The American Historical Association
Earth during the Ice Age
3/27/14: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and History
alienation in the society
3/28/14: On Alienation and Consumption, Then & Now
Flag of Crimea
3/3/14: A Volatile Crimea
Book cover of Caravans: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road
3/30/2015: Hot off the Presses: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road
Oneida Nation Friendship Statue from The National Museum of the American Indian
3/31/14: How Historians Can Help Native Americans
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4/10/14: The Best in History Online - "Not Even Past"
Insects on white flowers
4/22/14: An Earth Day Round Up
Photo of a deer
4/24/14: Memories of the Iron Curtain
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans
400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism
HyperCities Website Header with logo.
5/18/2015: Best in History Online: Hypercities
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5/22/14: The Best in History Online - "Active History.ca"
The Beatles arrive in 1964 to meet their new fans in America.
50 Years Ago: the Beatles, Rock, and Race in America
The White House lit in green light for St. Patrick's Day.
9/11 and 3/17: Closer Than You Think
Book Cover of Brain, Mind and Internet: A Deep History and Future By: David J. Staley
9/22/2014 Hot off the Presses: Your Brain on the Internet
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History BluRay DVD Cover
9/24/2014: At the Movies: Catching Up With The Roosevelts
American nuclear missile from the early Cold War in its original launch silo.
A Basis for Hope in the Middle East
The Alcoholics Anonymous logo at a church. (Image by Rachel K)
A Brief History of Alcoholics Anonymous
A Mobil gas station in 1982.
A Case for Gasoline Price Controls
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.
A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404
Female governors left to right, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Ella T. Grasso, Kay Orr, and Gretchen Whitmer.
A Century of Elected Woman Governors in the United States, 1924-2024
A sign in Zambia in 2005.
A Century of HIV
Donald Trump with words Sanctions are Coming
A Century of Sanctions
The statue of Saddam Hussein topples in Baghdad's Firdos Square on April 9, 2003.
A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq
a billboard with flags of many countries and the word Peace on it.
A Conscientious Objector Looks Back
Lyndon Johnson greets American troops in Vietnam 1966.
A Curtain Call for the Domino Theory?
Chinese nuclear bomb on display in China.
A Danger Shared by All
A view of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
A Dawn of Peace in Bethlehem?
The military cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II in Nettuno, Italy.
A Day for Remembering — and Accepting Responsibility
A Day in a Medieval City, by Chiara Frugoni Book Cover
A Day in a Medieval City
Valerie Plame in 2008.
A Dirty–and Deadly–Trick
The flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
A European Future for NATO?
The sickle and hammer on a Soviet Union flag from the 1930s.
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, United States President George W. Bush, and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after reading statement to the press during the closing moments of the Red Sea Summit in Aqaba, Jordan, June 4, 2003.
A Flawed Basis for Middle East Peace
Indian troops in Burma, 1944.
A Forgotten Theater of War
Greek amphora, or jug, from c. 540 BCE showing two hoplite phalanxes engaged in combat. Hoplites were the heavy infantry who formed the backbone of most Greek armies in the Classical Age.
A Fragmented History of Ancient Generalship
Flag of Pakistan.
A Fresh Start for Pakistan?
Painting of Alexander Hamilton.
A Golden Opportunity for the Social Security Trust Fund
Origins Logo.
A Guided Tour of Origins
Attica
A History of Athens Beyond Decline
Occupy Wall Street and the NAACP protesting in New York in 2011.
A History of Stolen Citizenship
Government of National Unity in 2009. Left to right: Arthur Mutambara, Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai, and Thabo Mbeki.
A Lesson for South Africa? Zimbabwe’s Path to Multi-Party Rule
The famously burly W.G. Grace was one of Britain's most famous cricket players who stood out from the crowd with both his imposing career and his imposing facial hair.
A Long History of Close Shaves
Cover of Caesar A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke.
A Man for All Seasons
Motorcycle and sidecar with an advertisement for the Popolo d'Italia newspaper.
A Media King Becomes Prime Minister (Again)
Alfonso García Robles at the Public Hearing on Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament in 1981.
A Model for a Nuclear-Free Middle East
A homeless man outside the outside the United Nations building in New York with the American flag in the background.
A New Abolition Movement — Against Poverty
FDR and Churchill at the Atlantic Conference in 1941.
A New Atlantic Charter?