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A group of boys at Chirec International School in India playing Cricket, 2015.

Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game

… 2024, thousands of people throughout  Afghanistan  took to the streets in celebration. This jubilation erupted when the Afghan cricket team advanced to the semifinals of … The extraordinary achievement of the Afghan cricket team was just one underdog story that dominated the headlines of …
The Industrial Workers of the World poster "Pyramid of Capitalist System" (1911).

Is Greed Good? It Depends on the Times

… “Greed” is suddenly the operative word for characterizing the bonuses received … hard times but are less audible in days of prosperity. When the economy performs well, Americans talk, instead, of … “God gave me my money,” evoking a popular view that wealth was the Lord’s reward for good work. Social Darwinism taught …
A 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty of Waitangi

… On February 6, New Zealanders will mark Waitangi Day on the 180th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of … sovereignty over the country, citing what it claimed was the free consent of over 500 rangatira (chiefs) and the … a war of independence. There are no points in time when New Zealand formally separated itself from Great …
President John F. Kennedy delivers an address on the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Historical Analogies: Handle With Care

… Historical analogies, comparing something in the present with what appears to be its counterpart in the … created equal. Some are better — or at least more useful when it comes to seeking guidance from history — than … F. Kennedy and his advisers learned that the Soviet Union was installing medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuba, …

Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment

… Periodic spikes in unemployment are as American as the Big Mac. From the early years of the nineteenth century … However, before the 1930s, local governments, rather than Washington, took the lead in offering assistance. … their leading strategies was increasing public employment. When the ranks of the unemployed swelled after the economic …
Crowds of people waving Ukrainian flags

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part II

The crisis between Ukraine, Russia, and the European Union/United States continues to dominate … hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy for Part II as they talk with Trevor Brown and Rudy Hightower , both from … the roots of events today reach back some years. So when Ukraine became independent in 1991, it was

Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution

… In April and May 2018, the small nation of Armenia experienced a revolution. On … hope for a better future, the crowd roared with enthusiasm when the revolution’s leader, and now Prime Minister Nikol … Located in the shadow of the Biblical Mount Ararat, Armenia was the first country to officially adopt Christianity in …
Djiboutian workers fill bags with wheat destined for Ethiopia, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at the Port of Djibouti, Africa, Jan. 7, 2013.

The Birth and Death of USAID

… On Friday, March 28, 2025, the Trump administration released plans to reduce the staff … International Aid Distributing foreign aid for development was not a new idea in 1961. The United States had been doing … and South American countries .  But why stop there?  When Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill in …

What's All Happening at the Zoo?

… start with two stories. On Sunday, February 9, 2014, at the Copenhagen Zoo, a 2-year-old giraffe stretched out its … a crowd of zoogoers, including children, Marius’s corpse was cut apart and fed to the zoo’s lions. This story … wealth, status, imperial ambition, and military might. When Hittite kings displayed lions, tigers, wolves, leopards …
penguin standing on sand at a beach with a plant and ocean behind it

Early Encounters with Penguins

… Who doesn’t love penguins? Join Ellen Arnold to learn about the many different roles that penguins took on as Europeans first began to encounter them in the mid-1500s, from quirky oddity to salvation for the … Namibia all the way around the Cape. And so in 1503 when the sailors, piloting António de Saldanha's ship, …
The front of the National Security Administration in Fort Meade, MD

America’s Big Brother

… on January 17, 2014, President Obama announced reforms to the National Security Agency (NSA). Ohio State University … History Department’s very own David Hadley covered the history of the NSA in December within, "America’s "Big Brother": A … maybe be addressed here is were any of you that surprised when Edward Snowden leaked these documents? And maybe second …
neon sign that says Quiz with question marks around it

History Teaching: Still Crazy After All These Years

… Psychologists define craziness as the tendency to keep doing the same thing while expecting a … Guess what? Historians are ignorant too, especially when we equate historical knowledge with the “Jeopardy” … and an adjunct professor of history at the University of Washington, and is the author of "Historical Thinking and …

WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations

… Saxby Chambliss, Mitch McConnell, and James Risch, among others—held a quiet meeting with then Egyptian President … Mubarak at the Heliopolis Palace in Cairo. The setting was regal. Designed in the early twentieth century by a … democracy and tribalism." The transcript drips with irony when read from the present. It was sent to the Department of …
Legislative members are seen exhausted while listening to lengthy testimony during floor action on the articles for impeachment of judge Sam Smith.

The Poisonous Cry for Judicial Impeachment

… over disagreeable judicial decisions — such as those in the Terri Schiavo case — is nothing new. Judges seeking to … to dismiss properly chosen officials is obtainable only when a serious offense is widely perceived to threaten the … or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Impeachment was clearly not meant for ordinary disputes over rulings …
Patrick Henry Addressing the Virginia Assembly. Lithograph from the painting by A. Chappal. Engraved by H. B. Hall.

A Time to Listen

… "Let the people have their say," Vice President Al Gore said this … do-or-die attitude. Surprisingly, Patrick Henry's conduct when he lost — not when he won – set a standard of respect … owes much to Patrick Henry's stance in 1788. The issue then was the fate of the republic. Eight states had ratified the
Seal of the University of California.

How Does a Nation Protect Itself in Wartime?

… As the Bush administration launches a worldwide war against … the best-known example occurred during World War II, when the government ordered thousands of Japanese American … the 20th century’s legal foundation for homeland security was laid during 1917 and 1918 when the United States entered …