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Jackie Robinson

Living Up to Jackie Robinson

… "Rookie of the Year" award after him, and retiring his uniform, No. 42. Now it can do more to honor his example by … jeopardize the process of integration. He was, by nature, a combative individual, so he had to struggle to restrain … New York Giants. His decision was not only a matter of team loyalty, but of personal integrity. He realized that he …
a Galapagos sea turtle swimming in the ocean

What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?

The youngest, westernmost islands are still volcanically active and are thought to be no more than 700,000 thousand years old.
… perpetually moving Nazca tectonic plate, the islands were formed through repeated volcanic activity. Layer by layer, … devoid of animal or plant life. This initial isolation, combined with its location at the confluence of three … that strikes me with wonder.” Even before Darwin’s visit, however, human beings had begun to shape the …
Print of "Galveston's Awful Calamity".

Galveston 1900: 125 Years After the Storm

… storm which these swells...told us in unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather … leading cotton port in the U.S. Travelers could get direct steamships to Europe , Cuba , and Mexico, and connections to … , while railroads brought the Texas cotton crop and summer visitors alike. But the city was built on a barrier island …
Queen Mary’s College, opened in 1914.

A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter

… (Madras) in India. Madras was born in 1636, when East India Company official Francis Day signed a treaty with the Nayaka … overlooking the Bay of Bengal. Madras was an odd choice for a city because it had no existing port for trade, and … he chose to settle the EIC where he could be near her and visit her frequently. Nearly four centuries later, the EIC …
Minaret Islam Khoja in Khiva

A Postcard from Khiva, Uzbekistan

… history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and comparatively modern city of about 150,000 people. Exiting … fourth century B.C.E. Khorezmians were minting their early coins by the second century B.C.E. A century later the … Heritage City. Arabkhan madrasa, 1616. (Photo by author) Visitors are greeted with comfortable hotels, restaurants …

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

… economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the … governors, and celebrities, the effort grew in popularity. Ultimately, the endeavor also helped condition voters and … played in McKinley's decision for war. The senator's visit and interventionist bent hardly made him distinct. …
Cover of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper.

The Legacy of Luther

Review of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy, by Lyndal Roper (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021)
For scholars of the Reformation , the question of legacy is … The prominent reformer, Martin Luther boasts the most complex legacy of his contemporaries because of how he … anti-Semitism from conversations around this anniversary. Ultimately, she argues that Lutherjahr failed to …
The Rodina crew. Left to right: Polina Osipenko, Valentina Grizodubova, and Marina Raskova.

The Rodina Flight

The Remarkable Story of the Women’s Non-Stop Long-Distance Flight Record
… miles in a straight line).  Plans for the women’s flight commenced three months earlier in August 1938. Valeriy … the Soviet Far East in Komsomol’sk-on-Amur. The three-woman team would fly a twin-engine ANT-37, nicknamed Rodina … in transport missions, rather than in combat.  During his visit with female pilots of the Krasnodar Aviation School in …
Tanks and soldiers in parade in Pyongyang

North Korea: The Myth of a Hermit Kingdom

… Jessica Blissit   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … it originates from those the western diplomats when they visit or scout around East Asia in 19th century and 18th … picture, I guess I feel like North Korea is really the ultimate example of a realpolitik. They have been advancing …
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs Book Cover

The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism

Review of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs (Viking Books, 2006)
… Humboldt, Nevada. Humboldt, Iowa. Humboldt County, California. The Humboldt River. All these places, and … to honor a German naturalist who made exactly one brief visit to the United States early in the nineteenth century, but whose adventures and accomplishments were so much admired they made him an …
Botanic Blooming sagebrush on the great plains

Why the Great Plains Are Dying

… and dry places, like much of the American West, will become even more parched. John Wesley Powell is rolling over … Powell’s career serves as a reminder of what it ultimately costs it we stick our heads in the sand. In 1878 … was a charlatan. We have paid a grievous environmental price for our failure to take Powell’s warnings about water …
A map showing Israel and Palestine

Palestine and Israel: A Case of Incomplete Decolonization

… Daily we search for explanations of the violence in the Middle East. Is it … framework of decolonization struggles. Violence has accompanied decolonization whenever the goal of political … believed that they faced uncivilized, barbaric adversaries. Ultimately, the French, the British, and the Portuguese …

The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy

… took out a student loan, averaging over $5,000 a year. Therefore, around 10 million people took out student loans last … to the cost saving measures of the FDLP, especially when compared to the money funneled to private banks through … a spot on a college roster is mostly independent of tuition price changes. In the past few years, however, the growth of …
Mata Hari (1876-1917).

Top Ten Origins: Spies, Lies, and Moles: Oh My!

… Its analysis generates intelligence. The process is priceless. This hardly constitutes a new revelation. … spy. Since then, as this list shows, espionage became more complex and increasingly valuable. The times change, but … in a forward hospital. French officials let Mata Hari visit him in exchange for her agreement to spy on Germans. …

After Putin? Russia's Presidential Elections

… which is in large part based on increases in oil and gas prices, he has been able to turn this situation to his … domestic product (GDP) returned to its 1990 level, the penultimate year of Communist power. The country has had six … will decide the course of the country, he has no loyal team surrounding him and in fact seems rather isolated. The …
A Jewish menorah, which is used during Hanukkah.

How Hanukkah Became the Jewish Christmas

… by stampeding to the shopping mall. It’s also a chance for purists to ruin the fun by insisting that Hanukkah has … been a minor Jewish festival. Yet this holiday — which commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second … including the newly secularized Christmas. “Santa Claus visited the East Side last night,” the New York Tribune …
A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942

Operation Barbarossa

… their meeting in November, 1940. By the time of Molotov’s visit, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany had been partners … and the simultaneous purges, officers were rushed into commission; in 1941, only half had completed any formal … nature of the Soviet regime, it is vital to recognize the price paid by Soviet men and women in derailing Barbarossa, …
Ukrainian soldier with blue and yellow ribbon overlay

Understanding the War in Ukraine: Insights from the Recent Past, 1991—Present

… European Languages and Cultures and Director of the Center for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies. This lecture is a part of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies' … therapy. Shock therapy involved the immediate freeing of prices, which resulted in hyperinflation in Russia. Prices …