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The Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo

… Belgium's plans to make a special-edition euro coin commemorating the Battle of Waterloo. Belgium still … Hugo would have us believe a "counter-revolutionary" yet ultimately pyrrhic victory, which "by cutting short the … that allows individual nations to unilaterally produce coins of irregular denominations. 70,000 2½ euro coins were …
The Brazilian flag and a soccer ball

Brazil’s Soccer Mania: An Example for the World

… in soccer was their fifth, well ahead of any other national team. In view of the tremendous competition associated with the world’s favorite sport, … Children in every Brazilian neighborhood learn to perform extraordinary athletic feats on sandlots, grassy fields …
Jackie Robinson

Top Ten Origins: The World Series

… It’s October, time for that great American pageant: The World Series. The … that are landmark moments in baseball’s evolution as a commercial enterprise and its adaptation to the significant … the raiding of players contracted to National League teams by the new circuit (the American League), prevented …
A wheat field in Ukraine resembles the colors on the country's flag.

Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe

… concern about the war’s impact on global agricultural commodity markets: the disruption to Ukrainian agricultural … and exports and the expected knock-on effects to the world price of staples such as wheat and to the food security of … one would expect an organization such as the FAO to be informed on food questions, the sheer number of stories in the …
BJP rally in India

The Politics of India

… A New York Times editorial has declared it “ A New Chapter for America and India .” India’s Prime Minister Narendra … has made a point to reach out to the United States and will visit America for a second time at the end of September 2015. Does Modi’s … money. We want to grow food that we feel is more reliable." Ultimately, they prevailed. Now, of course, the plant moved …
A protest against the Iraq War held in 2007 in Washington D.C.

“Passive Citizenship is Not Enough”

… the country, his own books, articles, and op-ed pieces accomplished nothing. Yet his declaration denies the real … Middle East without it. Bacevich himself served in Vietnam, ultimately rising to the rank of colonel before becoming an … path were repeatedly spurned. Before he paid the ultimate price for his beliefs, Martin Luther King Jr., not only …
Inside the National Veteran's Museum and Memorial - The NVMM's exhibits chronicle the stages of a veteran's experience.

The National Veterans Museum and Memorial

… of the courageous men and women who answered the call for our country. We must carefully preserve not only the … however, the layout poses real difficulties for elderly visitors and veterans who cannot walk well. Guests have to … experience. Chosen with the help of a veterans advisory committee from a pool of 250 potential candidates, the 25 …
College Green, Ohio University, 1973.

Our Gilded Bronze Age of Higher Education

… universities to yield an annual, independent source of income. Endowment size has served as a proxy for academic … the history of these four financial developments that ultimately shifted public opinion of higher education from … observed. Tuition Tuition and fees are often likened to prices in business, which are set by a markup over expenses. …

The American Dream after COVID-19

… already been showing up in recent history. Millennials have come of age hearing they are the first generation in … President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan visit a classroom at the Pathways in Technology Early … The extension of democratic freedoms to more people is the ultimate goal of the American Dream. The sooner more can …
Cover of The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America by Colin Calloway.

Native Americans in Urban Places

Review of , “The Chiefs Now in This City”: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America, by Colin Calloway (New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021)
… Native Americans visited colonial cities from New Orleans to Montreal, … in between. Historians have traditionally focused on the outcomes of “the chiefs now in this city,” namely, treaties. Colin Calloway’s book focuses our attention before and after those formal negotiations, and asks questions …
school girls in class - Studying biology and physics from English textbooks presents challenges in understanding the material but is necessary because their state examinations will be in English.

A Postcard from Pakistan: Girls Education in Gilgit-Baltistan

… In the warm early autumn months of 2019, I visited Northern Pakistan to trek in the shadows of some of … from receiving a secondary school education because the price of transportation was too expensive for many families … of only 0.75 years of schooling during their lifetime as compared to rural boys who receive 10.76 years. Further, …
Team photo of a soccer team

The Politics of International Sport

… of Adolf Hitler in 1936 Berlin. The 1942 Dynamo Kyiv soccer team which went on to defeat Hitler’s squad after being … in putting the nation on display on the global stage. And coming up, Brazil : about to host to the 2014 World Cup and … Nearly every four years, since 1930, nationally formed teams fight for the coveted World Cup, a trophy that …

America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance

… by any other intelligence agency,” especially as telecommunication technology advances. Perhaps surprisingly, … not issued in the wake of the cache of documents leaked by former civilian security contractor Edward Snowden to the … operation. Convinced that America’s racial tension would ultimately lead to a U.S. collapse, the KGB were …
The Olympic flag flies at half-staff during a memorial service to the slain Israeli athletes, September 6, 1972.

The Munich Olympic Massacre

… this new Germany more than the participation of a team from Israel. To avoid appearing militarized, the … to the plight of Palestinians even as it drew condemnation for the Palestinian terrorists’ methods. On September 4, … met to plan Operation “Ikrit and Biram” under mission commander “Issa,” Arabic for Jesus. Ikrit and Biram were two …
Hollywood Movie store in Hong Kong, 2010.

Film, Television, and China’s (New) Cold War

… (GMD) Chinese nationalists (a capitalist regime ultimately backed by the US). The “loss” of China to … rapprochement with the US. Nixon, after all, famously visited the country in 1972; the Shanghai Communique was … life and work at the Red Coast base, and one following a team of investigators trying to figure out why prominent …
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.

“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)

… China, colonial Mexico, and turn-of-the-century California. Ultimately, a international perspective helps us to … that stories of drug wars are actually quite commonplace. Ultimately, these drug wars, waged across different nations … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …
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

… too frequently heard, “if only you were white,” as a compliment to their skills, but also as a reality check that … At a young age, to make money for his family, Paige carried visitors’ bags at the train station. As the story goes, he … confident in his abilities that at times he would ask his teammates to sit down while he faced batters. Sometimes, he …
a billboard with flags of many countries and the word Peace on it.

A Conscientious Objector Looks Back

… were symbolic munYou would the announcement over the intercom: .. Youhear would hear the announcement sentiment was … intervention in Vietnam, the Unitedand States Draft board. For religious reasons, sought obtained official … or coordination. The relationship between theater; his latest project was no less ambitious Edwards' …

What's All Happening at the Zoo?

… into his mouth, and received a bullet in his brain. Then, before a crowd of zoogoers, including children, Marius’s … even have gorilla enclosures in the first place? It should come as no surprise that zoos make headlines. According to a 2013 report, U.S. zoos attract more than 160 million visitors annually, more than do all NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB …
Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… Participants: Bob Ahern | Director of Archive Photography for Getty Images Dawn Chitty, (Ed.D.) | Director of … images and 4,000 contributing photographers. Through a team of senior editors who continue to digitize the analog … there was a competition between her schools, there was a price attached to it. And the public school, there wasn't …
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

… bring us first-hand stories of how the Great War is being commemorated across the globe. Brenna Miller joined us from … movements for national independence in the region. And the ultimate goal of Princip and organizations who was a part … War I's beginning that you mentioned that you that you visited some of the events and Sarajevo has it received much …
Habana Lions Baseball Players 1946-47

Baseball Without Borders

Review of Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League, by Cesar Brioso (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015).
… not discrete organizations, but frequently interacted and competed, sharing players and locations, effectively … in the United States and in Cuba.  American baseball teams used Cuba as a grounds for spring training in the … several Afro-Cuban players from the Cuban league, Rickey ultimately settled upon Jackie Robinson (26).  However, …

A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics

… Philippine Sea.” About a year later, President Barack Obama visited Manila to mark the signing of a new Enhanced Defense … By August 1992—ninety-four years after Commodore Dewey steamed into Manila Bay—the Americans were gone. Military aid … suggestion,  supported by opinion polls , that Filipinos ultimately see an American presence more as a benefit than …