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Child Kidnapping in America

… and raped her and kept her as his daughter. Over the past one hundred and forty years, Americans have experienced … of $20,000 (only in part because he did not have the money). This refusal brought him a torrent of negative commentary and helped to define for the future what …
The Golubac Fortress was a medieval fortified town on the south side of the Danube River

A Postcard from Djerdap, Serbia

… for a weekend vacation to Djerdap National Park. As one park guide put it, Djerdap proved to be a great place to … park can enjoy and reflect these legacies too, while even becoming a part of it themselves. The Djerdap National Park is … lakes, and rivers. The park was established in 1974, one of many founded during the socialist period of …
Flag of United States Semiquincentennial

Happy 250th Birthday America!

… and so on with the Semiquincentennial celebrations! We’ve done this before. Three times already, in fact, the nation … American past has been defined in different eras, who has done that defining, and how others tried to offer different … states, by thirty other countries, and by private companies. Some visitors recorded that they left simply …
The Sherman M4-A2E8 Tank

12/3/2014: At the Movies: Fury

… their way through a devastated Germany. The first major combat sequence takes place in an open field, as Collier and … fighting. Disturbing scenes follow:  the crew shoots one of their prisoners, sexually brutalizes a number of local women, …
Mount Holyoke College

Historical Truth and Personal Truths

… I am asked, should be made of this? As it turns out, no one really wants to hear my answers. They have their own. … it weren't so, academia is probably as much troubled by dishonesty and other human shortcomings as other occupations. When scholars make mistakes, …

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

… spelled out, in English, the word Newborn . Fireworks accompanied live appearances by pop stars and elected … in Serbia's capital Belgrade brought together well over one hundred thousand demonstrators, some of whom vandalized … are best found in Yugoslavia's much more recent past. If one insists on drawing "principles" out of this story, …

Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective

… Europe in search of security and stability. With close to one million people arriving in 2015, many Europeans worry … threaten the cultural makeup of Europe due to the alleged incompatibility of the Islamic faith of the majority of new … migration flows. Traditionally, the Mediterranean has functioned as the main route for migrants from Africa or the …
Person holding sign that reads "Stop Voter Suppression"

From Poll Taxes to Partisan Gerrymandering: Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States

… to include many more citizens since 1776, these gains have come haltingly and unevenly. Even as women gained suffrage, … voter suppression continue to affect electoral outcomes today? Listen in to find out. To learn more about the … right has not been fully honored. Lauren Henry  You've mentioned both the role that the federal government and states …
George Holliday's footage of Rodney King being beaten by police in 1991

The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion: “No Justice, No Peace”

… evidence of the LAPD’s excessive use of force and confirmed complaints of police brutality made by black and Latino … more accountable to the mayor and Board of Police Commissioners. In early June 1992, voters overwhelmingly passed … Angeles and the nation. The jury, composed of ten whites, one Latino, and one Filipino-American, included no African …
Official portrait of President Gerald R. Ford (February 25, 1976).

Will Vindication Elude Ford?

… evening, his well-deserved vindication will probably never come. Thrust into a difficult situation — one he handled with aplomb — his reputation was unfairly and … focus has always been on his pardon of Richard Nixon. Only one month after taking office, Ford announced that Nixon …
Flag of the People's Republic of China

With Enemies Like These…

… during the last twelve months is a strange experience. One of the most striking things is the sheer diversity of … as they have from the furor last summer triggered by comments about Beijing’s human rights record made by Bob … People’s Republic and our relations with its leadership.   One curious thing to note about the past year’s wide-ranging …
William Shakespeare

The Globe Theatre: Shakespeare Lost & Found

… last history play Henry VIII: Or, All is True. A volatile combination of a cheap roof and pyrotechnic effects could … Shakespeare. The lease had expired on their former home, one of the oldest Elizabethan playhouses, simply named the … due to a ban on plays in the upscale neighborhood. In one of the greatest burglaries of all time, in the frigid …
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin Book Cover

Byzantium for Dummies

Review of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008)
Omagh, Northern Ireland in 2001.

Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics

… The decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland ought to be a … and committed to principles of nonviolence. All but one of the myriad terrorist organizations has now declared a … for progress — now known as the Good Friday Agreement — not one of the millions of bullets, thousands of rifles or tons …
Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly

… case effectively created the legal context for sugar to become ubiquitous. Look at any U.S. food label today and you will find that one of the top five ingredients listed, in some form or … The Sherman Anti-Trust Act . Notably, E.C. Knight was one of the first cases where the Federal government …
Firefighters working on the San Diego wildfires in 2007.

San Diego’s Natural Disaster Wasn’t Entirely Natural

… The catastrophe in San Diego is not entirely a natural one. As with Katrina, it’s also the work of humans. This … been brought under control. Between the two immense burn zones sits San Diego, the nation’s seventh largest city. This … are offering time, money and supplies. Inter-agency communication is decidedly better. And the city owns a …

Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary

… 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton secured enough delegates to become the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.  As everyone knows, this will make Clinton the first woman to attain  … child with Woodhull, she left him and, in 1866, married Colonel James Harvey Blood and moved to New York City to begin …

Hacer América and the American Dream: Global Migration and the Americas

… while other jurisdictions declared these children unwelcome. A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border … as a person residing in a nation-state other than the one in which he or she was born. That percentage translates … of the United States, and this nation’s experience is only one part of the larger global context. In the Americas, in …
President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Coming: Something New in Presidents

… important new biographical details to the traditional commander-in-chief profile. After having 43 presidents cut … from the same cloth, we finally seem poised to elect someone different. The similarities of our previous White House … publicly). Almost all were married and had children; only one was a bachelor (Buchanan), only one was divorced …

American Presidential Scandals

… things. It isn’t just that the Trump administration is prone to scandal. The Trump administration is prone to an astounding pace and variety of scandal. Some … A tweet from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library after comparisons were made between Nixon and President Trump when …
A U.S. Marine Corporal looks through a sniping rifle during a training in California in 2001.

Don’t Compare America Now With Britain Then

… the nation’s military. The administration has already abandoned a strategy that called on American forces to fight and … wars simultaneously. Now U.S. forces must be able to win one war and carry out a number of holding actions around the … and means to maintain its present overseas positions and commitments, it will fail, as did Great Britain in the late …