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Dian Fossey with mountain gorilla.

Dian Fossey: Conservationist in the Mist

… of behavior, Fossey replaced a fallacious stereotype of a King Kong-like, violent gorilla with an almost idealized … Ghana, West Africa, for example, has demonstrated that working with, rather than against, local communities is a more …
Greek amphora, or jug, from c. 540 BCE showing two hoplite phalanxes engaged in combat. Hoplites were the heavy infantry who formed the backbone of most Greek armies in the Classical Age.

A Fragmented History of Ancient Generalship

Review of The Classical Art of Command: Eight Greek Generals Who Shaped the History of Warfare, by Joseph Roisman (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017)
… with more obscure ones. Leonidas, the doomed Spartan king who stood at Thermopylae, and Themistocles, the hero of … in the ancient Greek world generally consisted of picking the battlefield and deploying one’s forces, although … mindsets. The results, while more cautious than groundbreaking, provide a deep insight into the Greek psyche and also …
Image of Lou Gehrig from a Sports Exchange All-Stars trade card.

Celebrating a Genuine American Hero

… his good looks, quick wit and intelligence, but because his assassination represented the loss of the limitless … of a necessity. At 6 feet and 200 pounds, Gehrig was a strikingly handsome young man with a rock-solid physique that … team,” Gehrig appeared in every game the Yankees played. Shaking off injuries, illnesses and even, in the last season of …
Soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division provide perimeter security for Iraqi policemen at a traffic control point in Tikrit, Iraq.

The Limits of Shock and Awe

… cost Ferguson his life in the South Carolina forests at King's Mountain, where American "peasants" carrying … would experience "a complete breakdown," as civilians, seeking to end their "horror and suffering," would "rise up and …
 Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner book Cover.

He Led His People Into the Desert

Review of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
… or fiery-tempered, generous or miserly, attention seeking or deeply private, the man, much like the larger … millenarian, or otherwise radical religious thought taking hold of the so-called Burned-Over District from which … himself to his ecclesiastical superiors while taking his place as the patriarchal leader of his own family. …
Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol

Six Days That Shook The World

Review of The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, by Guy Laron (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
… and East-European archives, The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East demonstrates that in addition to the … under Abdul Gamar Nasser, Syria’s Baath Party, and Jordan’s King Hussein rarely spoke with one voice. In fact, Syria had … against its neighbors. The White House did this with the backing of the CIA and the Pentagon but against the will of the …
President Biden, standing in front of a blue flag with an eagle emblem

First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History

… HarperCollins, Seal Press, Rowman & Littlefield, and St. Martin's Press. Treva B. Lindsey is an associate professor … Within 100 hours, he signed 17 executive orders, 12 revoking counterproductive immigration policies of the previous … and undocumented immigrants rather than just those lacking papers, revoking immigration orders and also the border …
Joseph Stalin

Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin

Review of The Last Days of Stalin, by Joshua Rubenstein (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015)
… who were charged with attempting to assassinate high-ranking Soviet officials, and a power struggle among members of … Stalin, both at the Party and ground level, but someone looking for an explanation of where that fear originated and …

As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past

… economic sanctions, political isolation, scores of assassination plots against the Cuban leadership, and years … some of the most fundamental premises of U.S. strategic thinking, “imperiling the very survival of the United States,” … War. The bottom caption on the original read: "Taking Cuba from Spain was easy. Preserving it from …

"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent

… opposition parties, this smelled like a monarchy in the making. The morning of June 23, demonstrators gathered legally … there are shortages of everything. Now Wade wants to be our king, but we don't want a king. We want our country back." Returning to my room, I …
Bartolome de las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice

… This year marks the 500-year anniversary of the pricking of one man's conscience. Bartolomé de las Casas, … of war who were not Catholic . This category included Lutherans, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Slavs, non-Catholic … newly encountered indigenous peoples in the Americas, working many of them to death. The Spanish committed numerous …
1864 depiction of the Fort Pillow Massacre in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper

Ten Moments of White Supremacist Violence in U.S. History

… of 130 black men celebrating the convention before attacking those in the convention hall. By the time they ran out … Robertson, and Denise McNair ( right ). Two weeks after Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Klan members …
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo

… international ridicule, particularly in the United Kingdom. "Water-boo," crowed The Sun. "Just for once, France … democracy." These cross-Channel jibes are especially striking given that Britain, which left the European Union after … of 2015, members of the British royal family joined high-ranking dignitaries from other European nations and a quarter …
Print depicting the USS Olympia firing on the Spanish fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.

Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States

… island territory. In fact, Puerto Ricans are Americans—making our relations not foreign, but familiar or even … or for independence, it was largely concerned with making life better for Puerto Ricans. The PPD sought land and … support from a variety of people including pop star Ricky Martin, Al Sharpton, and even Pope John Paul II. The …
Hiroshima after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.

Terrorism: A New Kind of War?

… Cold War was designed to deter the Soviet Union from attacking the United States and its allies by threatening it with …
Stenciled graffiti of a priest pursuing two children

Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse

… to the Vatican, a man named Thomas Doyle, who began looking into this question. The lawyer on the case and Doyle, … Most people have heard of the indulgence affairs that Martin Luther objected to, but there's also a pervasive form of …
Zombie scene from the 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead.

Top Ten Origins: Zombies: The Undead Shuffle

… colonial French rule in Haiti . Shaped by the edicts of King Louis XIV of France in 1685 that limited religious … beliefs that surround death and sorcery. Researchers looking for the origins of zombies outside of Haiti argue it is … growth of the genre that we know in the present. 9. Rethinking Zombies, from Ghouls to Monsters Covers of the 2006 …
French troops under Charles VIII entering Florence, 1494.

The Blood Behind the Beauty

Review of The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West, by Catherine Fletcher (New York City: Oxford University Press, 2020)
… time in which they lived. Fletcher accomplishes this by walking the reader through nearly 150 years of Italian history, … urbanization, and the rise of Italian trade and banking, allowed for a vast concentration of wealth in … VIII invaded the Italian peninsula in order to conquer the Kingdom of Naples. Initially invited by some of the Italian …
The Benin Bronzes in the African Gallery at the British Museum.

LOOT: Colonial Collections and African Restitution Debates

… The best known example is the plunder of the capital of the kingdom of Benin in 1897 by a British “punitive” expedition, … symbolic “gifts,” such as an Ashanti stool that the United Kingdom returned to newly independent Ghana in 1957. These … around colonialism and its long-term effects, it is striking how similar the counterarguments against restitution …
tanks and soldier fighting in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The World’s Longest War

… Wise diplomats, therefore, will not succumb to wishful thinking, dreaming of permanent solutions. The 58-year … its first climax in the 480s when Xerxes, the “Great King” of Persia, invaded Greece with an enormous army. …