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King Stephen and The Anarchy: A Reign Reconsidered

… figure in Anglo-Norman society, admired by both nobles and commoners for his wealth, charm, and decisiveness.  Stephen … on Empress Matilda’s absence in Normandy when Henry I died. With support from Londoners and the Church—secured … lands, and Henry would succeed to the throne.  Stephen died in October 1154, buried next to Queen Matilda at …
Senator J. William Fulbright in 1966.

Advice from the Past about Yugoslavia

… and relying on military superiority and instead find common ground with its adversaries. In October 1962 Kennedy … Kennedy to move away from seeing foreign policy as a tough competitive game. He came to appreciate the human stakes … future. And we are all mortal.” Kennedy’s speech was accompanied by actions that led to the first major break in …

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 … with Mexico. It translates: "I thought that it would be easy for my son to get papers [e.g. legal status/work … as a part of the Bracero Program, 1954. The British West Indies’ complementary Temporary Foreign Worker Program ran …

A Fresh Start for Pakistan?

… in 1947, Pakistan’s political elites have faced regional, communal, and religious obstacles to building a stable, … Beginning: Independence and Partition Salmon Rushdie has famously described Pakistan as “a place … … the head of state, Governor-General, of Pakistan. But he died the following year leaving a power vacuum. The …
A pro-union demonstration in Romania, 2009. The flag translates to "Moldova Our Sister"

Moldova and Romania: A Long and Complicated Relationship

… Anderson famously defined nationalism as an “imagined community” binding together a widespread group of people … Romanians under the Voivode Mihai the Brave. Bălcescu, a soldier, historian, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian … themselves as part of a Romanian nation.  A Moldavian medieval chronicler, Miron Costin, described Mihai’s reign as …
Bird's-eye-view of the 1993 border blockade enacted by CBP Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas as part of Operation Hold the Line.

Fortifying the U.S.-Mexico Boundary: The 1993 “Hold the Line” Experiment

… also proposed deploying advanced drug detection machines to combat the influx of fentanyl, which he claimed was … for those living in the cities and resulting in fatal outcomes for migrants in transit.   OHL presents a critical … Accordingly, Operation Gatekeeper was launched at the San Diego-Tijuana corridor in 1994, Operation Safeguard at the …
French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … an assistant professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies here at The Ohio State University.   Peggy Solic    My … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And …

The American Dream after COVID-19

… already been showing up in recent history. Millennials have come of age hearing they are the first generation in … as did the 1918 Spanish Flu and the even more deadly medieval Black Death . These diseases, including our current … acquisitiveness even tends to undercut these goals. Studies in the field of Positive Psychology point to the good …

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

… that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that ousted Morsi, the Egyptian … the year since Morsi’s overthrow, an estimated 1,400 have died as a result of political violence, many of them Ikhwān … more moderate Islamist forces. An estimated 1,600 people died during this period. The Al-Sisi Presidency and Islam in …

Conflict Termination: How to End -- and Not to End -- Insurgencies

… over the trajectory of the on-going American military commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan has combined with … in the Philippines. So let us turn to several case studies to explore these issues more closely. Vietnam The story … a significant number of Khymer who, as we now know, would die at the hands of the Khymer Rouge. France and Algeria Our …
Book Cover of For Peace and Money French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars By: Jennifer Siegel

12/15/2014: Hot off the Presses: Peace, Money, and Tsars

… French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars New book from Ohio State historian Jennifer … railroads, and the development of the military-industrial complex, Russia's ministers of finance, municipal leaders, … of World War I." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …
Taiwanese flags on display for National Day, 2018.

The Taiwan Strait Conflict

… put the entire  global economy in disarray and for years to come. Estimates of possible losses differ, but they are in … Corporation (TSMC) manufactures over 90 percent of the smallest and most advanced semiconductor chips are … and vocal age of open demonstrations. Chiang Kai-shek died in 1975. Faced with a revolting society led by the …
Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, 1987

The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back

Review of Iran Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power, by Malcolm Byrne (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2014)
… could operate off the books. Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, … and sought to sustain its war effort. Here, one of the shadier characters in this sordid drama emerged: Manucher … (83). All of this came tumbling down when a Nicaraguan soldier shot down a Contra resupply plane in October of 1986. …

Singapore at Fifty

… From a meagre population of 150 when the British East India Company first set up a factory and trading post on the … Seeking answers to these questions, sociologists have studied Singapore’s demographic policies, social control … transactions were facilitated by the use of Chinese copper coins. Chinese currency facilitated trade not just with …
Cover of Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson.

The Soviet-German Exchange: Beyond Ideology and Opportunism

Review of Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War, by Ian Ona Johnson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)
… and they will conjure up images of beleaguered Red Army soldiers at Stalingrad , the mechanized carnage of the tank … order and provide readers bite-sized analyses of complex political, social, and military affairs. For … in 1939. A meeting in Brest between German and Soviet soldiers on September 22nd, 1939. Following the invasion of …

The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing

… 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. First, a radical left-wing … such as faith or community. Historically, the decision to die on behalf of others has been the right of the … obligation, retain the traditional martyr’s willingness to die on behalf of others. In this new, mechanized form of …
Holding a copy of ”Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Red Guards are featured on the cover of a Guangxi elementary school textbook, 1971.

"Mao's Last Revolution": China's Cultural Transformation

… the reinstatement of political control via revolutionary committees supported by the military. The Cultural … October 1976. The resolution acknowledged the period’s tragedies and called them mistakes, laying blame at the feet of … of the “masses” and the “people” as workers, peasants, soldiers, intellectuals, youth, and officials, they are a …
Rendering of the new National World War I Memorial in Washington DC

It’s Time for a National World War I Memorial

… nearly 117,000 perished during the war — 53, 402 in combat — and another 204,000 were wounded. Many believe that the last man to die in the war was an American soldier, 23-year-old Henry Gunther of Baltimore. He was killed …
The supreme court of Massachusetts sits at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston.

Gay-Marriage Decision: Just the Beginning of the Debate

… before all slaves in Massachusetts would be set free, the Commonwealth v. Jennison case of 1783 ensured that slaves … by the early 19th century all the Northern states had committed at least to eventual emancipation, slavery’s … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …