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Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville

… now been initiated. But even as classical historians are working harder than ever to debunk the use of classical history … the racist origins of their own field, however, when Martin Bernal began publishing the controversial … multi-volume work Black Athena in 1987. The first volume of Martin Bernal’s 1987  Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of …
William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock pose behind a model of the starship Enterprise.

Star Trek

… them to follow their respective careers. Nichols was thinking of leaving Star Trek when Martin Luther King Jr. visited the set. He insisted that she remain …

A Century of Sanctions

… winner would fail to profit. First published in the United Kingdom in 1909, Europe’s Optical Illusion by Norman Angell … he declared a “Bank Holiday” and temporarily banned all banking transactions. Congress then passed legislation that … Japanese assets in the United States were frozen, making it impossible for Japan to use its gold reserves to …
Israeli soldiers stand around their tanks during the Yom Kippur War.

The Yom Kippur War and the OPEC Oil Embargo

… Netherlands, Portugal, Rhodesia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It and the broader Yom … administration was prepared to supply new weapons to the kingdom, convinced OPEC to lift the embargo. On March 19, …
Hessian troops surrendering to General George Washington after the Battle of Trenton.

The Return of the Mercenary

… or, more plainly, mercenaries. Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution estimates that private contractors now … in the history of warfare. If war was the sport of kings, then mercenaries, immortalized in Biblical verse and … Nigeria. But in a post-nation-state era, the mercenary is making a comeback. In a world no longer characterized by Great …
An 1889 lithograph of the Historic Capitol of Tallahassee, Florida

For History’s Sake, Preserve Florida’s Presidential Ballots

… pens of historians and other researchers. All will be seeking to put to rest the still unanswered question that the … The panel should be roughly modeled after the U. S. Assassination Records Review Board — the independent, … in 1992 that examined the controversy surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. That body of …

What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist'

… put a Muslim fundamentalist in the White House." Right-thinking Americans have a duty to thwart that plan. To allow the … Richard Niebuhr, Talcott Parsons, Richard Hofstadter, and Martin Marty, Americans learned to think of fundamentalism … to "modernity and modernization." (Those phrases come from Martin Marty's article "Fundamentalism Reborn.") Americans …
Pope Francis holding Bible

The People's Pope and the Changing Face of Catholicism

… rebellious side and all of us he's even been spotted sneaking out of the Vatican in the evening, but all be at … organization.   Patrick Potyondy    And that's and that's Luther and all of that.   Dr. David Brakke    So Luther, of course, started all of that, right. But, but it's …
A photograph of Viola Desmond

Remembering Viola Desmond

… injustice catapulted her into the limelight, ultimately making her the reluctant face of Canada’s Civil Rights … Klux Klan members stand by a cross erected in a field near Kingston, Ontario in 1927. At the same time, Desmond’s …
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq

Iraq's 1920 Revolution

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary of the 1920 revolution. For many … conscription mechanisms, and tax collecting apparatus, making these institutions more efficient but skewing their … and radical wings of the independence movement. RAF plane taking part in the British campaigns in Iraq. At the same …

Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future

… throughout its history. As a vital part of the medieval kingdom of Serbia, Kosovo became a veritable center of … symbolic of the "rebirth" of the legendary medieval Serbian kingdom—despite the fact that Kosovo was by then largely … a "moderate nationalist." The EU chose not to recognize the assassination for what it was—namely, an act of violence …
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)
A red AIDS ribbon outlined in candles

The Global History of HIV

… open up things for discussion. If you're interested in asking a question, please write it in the Q&A or the … you to ASC and Clio Society and the Bexley Library for making this event possible. I'm delighted to be here today. … in celebrating and acknowledging World AIDS Day we are thinking about and recalling the 38, the 32 point 7 million …

A Fresh Start for Pakistan?

… imagined.” Pakistan shook itself free from the United Kingdom in 1947 after almost 100 years of colonial control … Pakistan became a cold war ally of the United States. Seeking economic and military aid to defend against its …

Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama

… , Bosnia, and Kosovo have been described as ad hoc and lacking precedent. Such observations reflect a misunderstanding … have failed to recognize the extent to which religious thinking infuses U.S. foreign policy. Obama and the Libyan … Stephanson has argued that the founders of the U.S., taking the baton from the Puritans, conceived their new nation …
Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling

The Long View of Sports Protests

… those who had criticized Kaepernick and those who were taking a knee early on, but Trump statements, and then his … was the Muhammad Ali in the 1970s, who appeared on the Dean Martin celebrity roast. He was initially presented to the … Certainly, Gallup would have told you in 1963, that Martin Luther King was, was unsuccessful as an American public …
American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837

Revisiting Long Histories of the Reparations Debate

Review of Reparations for Slavery and The Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History, by Ana Lucia Araujo (New York City: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017)
… independence. Likewise, the government of the United Kingdom compensated slaveowners after the abolition of … and other French and British Caribbean territories such as Martinique or Guadeloupe, gradually abolished the slave … Chinese laborers. Not granted financial compensation and lacking marketable skills, many Afro-Cubans secured marginal …
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick Book Cover.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Review of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick (New York, Viking Press 2006)
… head in one of the bloodiest conflicts in American history, King Philip's War. Philip, also known as Metacom, was … of the period between the arrival of the Mayflower through King Philip's War Philbrick focus much of his attention on … Community, and War , by Nathaniel Philbrick (New York, Viking Press 2006) … David Dzurec … Reviews … North America … …

Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?

… of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was taking place in Havana, Cuba . At a meeting hosted by … as both a source of revenue as well as a means of making political statements. In the later decades, they often … of a kidnapping attempt. He himself was the target of an assassination attempt during the 2002 campaign, and his …
Logo for "Canada 150".

Canada 150: Coming Home

… for schools, infrastructure, arts, and health care. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth meet with Nakoda …

Clampdown and Blowback: How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt

… and children. Meanwhile, Morsi has been charged with provoking violence in the streets of Egypt in the lead-up to the … has precedent in the region’s recent past. Historically speaking, the harder states clamp down on the activities of … and 1960s, Anwar Sadat’s “autumn of fury” and subsequent assassination in 1981, and the Mubarak regime’s suppression …