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A drawing by Italian artist Achille Beltrame imagines Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination by Gavrilo Princip

The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip

On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world.
… were underway for the centennial anniversary of the assassination, his warning proved apt. Event organizers … meaning of his short life over the following century. The assassination itself was the realization of a plot by a … Serbia and other South Slavic peoples. As plots go, the assassination was one of the most successful ever conceived. …
A portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

… American cities exploded in the days following Dr. King’s assassination. In communities large and small, stretching … guard following riots in Washington, D.C. after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968. … having failed to persuade federal officials to act. The assassination of Dr. King neither ended the movement, nor …
President James A. Garfield

The Assassination of President Garfield

… of the Republican Party in 1880, the year before Garfield’s assassination, will sound familiar to anyone following the … year to the day after the shooting of Garfield. Garfield’s assassination and Guiteau’s subsequent trial highlighted … at the crux of the political turmoil surrounding Garfield’s assassination does not seem to have disappeared. Division …
Soldiers marching at the Champs Elysee

Recovering the History of the French Far-Right

Review of Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France , by Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020)
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

… the commemoration for the hundred-year anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.   Patrick Potyondy   In a recent article you call the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, one of the most successful assassination attempts in history not only because the …
U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon

Ten Terrorists Attacks in History

… out the sentence less than two years later. (Right): The Assassination of Alexander II, drawn by G. Broling in 1881. … reform and modernization of Russia’s state and economy. His assassination all but ended this program and resulted in a … Egyptian Islamic Jihad  to overthrow the state.  While the assassination was a success, the conspiracy failed and Sadat …
Book cover of To Break Russia's Chains by Vladimir Alexandrov

Terrorism as the Path to a Better Russia

Review of To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks by Vladimir Alexandrov (New York: Pegasus Books, 2021)
… Russia, Savinkov was responsible for several spectacular assassinations, including the Governor General of Moscow, … and a published Silver Age author. A sketch of the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei, 1905. To Break Russia’s … point: Savinkov’s plans never seemed to succeed. The SR assassinations did not bring revolutionary change, nor did …
Egyptian Leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser

Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years Later

… to move against him. Nasser’s speech during the failed assassination attempt was soon broadcast by radio throughout … later became a signature of his presidency. Audio of the Assassination Attempt of October 1954 (in Arabic)   It is not clear who actually ordered the assassination attempt, but the vengeance taken upon the …
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat

Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later

… Decades after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, our boundless … to travel back in time to the 1960s and stop Kennedy’s assassination. Born a generation after the death of JFK, … White House, and the film Parkland (2013) reimagines the assassination from the perspectives of those on the ground …
Destruction in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.

Another Pearl Harbor? Not by a Longshot

… historical comparison to the terrorist attacks is the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Like Tuesday’s … with the thousands who perished this week, Kennedy’s assassination represented the death of a single, very … perspective allows us to see wars, natural disasters and assassinations for what they are: ugly but familiar aspects …
Cover of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport.

Conspirator: Lenin in Exile

Review of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile, by Helen Rappaport (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010)
… On March 1, 1887, Russian police foiled an assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander III.  Three young … group which hoped to mark the sixth anniversary of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by tossing bombs into the …
Martin Luther King Jr. Day March at Southern Arkansas University.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: A Holiday the Nation Resisted

… Nation Was Not Ready to Accept Just four days after King’s assassination in April 1968, Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) … Americans viewed King unfavorably both before and after his assassination. Many bristled at his condemnation of the …