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… 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 …

… “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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… The leak of a quarter million State Department dispatches … For the first century of U.S. history, the consular service was a haven for corruption, in which diplomats were … was, in his own words, "the champion of the merchants."   When Adams served as U.S. minister to Russia in 1809–1814, …

… Historians still squabble over whether there really was a "first" American Thanksgiving. But a … and bred to resist pests, plagues, and drought. And when you pass the potatoes, you're probably passing one of … Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… "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 …

… When Newt Gingrich proclaimed that the United States should establish a base on the moon, he was right: We need a major inspirational goal for space …

… 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 …