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Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, by Roxanne L. Euben book cover.

Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge

Review of Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, by Roxanne L. Euben (Princeton University Press, Princeton 2006)
… political theory, and other disciplines, including history and literature, is remarkable. Yet Euben's most … forms of theorizing and knowledge production throughout history. At the beginning of the text, Euben is careful to … Intellectual History …
Pope Francis holding Bible

The People's Pope and the Changing Face of Catholicism

… to social justice. Listen and explore hundreds of years of history of a group with over a billion adherents! ( Image … Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone by Origins … And by the way, many people do this. There are lots of books written by economists trying to make these arguments. …
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone produced by Origins: Current … exhibition of Serbian literary productions, which included books, journals, sketches, newsletters, anything produced …
A bus that has been blown up by terrorists

A Who’s Who of Jihadi Terrorism in Europe

Review of Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History, by Petter Nesser (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
… Petter Nesser’s book, Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History , ends on a very ominous note. Whilst penning the … is one of many found in Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History , as Nesser has charted the history of jihadist … states has exposed Europe to a new threat. Like other books in the genre, Nesser’s work ends with several policy …
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan

Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday

… “Arab Spring.” Yet perhaps more important is the long history of popular protest within Sudan, which have twice in … any attempt to predict its future. Join us in this month’s History Talk podcast, as your hosts Lauren Henry and Eric … this pivotal moment for Sudan with two experts on Sudanese history and politics: Ahmad Sikainga and Kim Searcy . To …

Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story

… the 1970s and 1980s. Like the rest of civil rights history, this story is not one of ultimate victory but of … ongoing struggle. The Police Power Over the course of U.S. history, our governments have found it difficult  to … consequences that should be well known to students of U.S. history: debt peonage, disfranchisement, segregation, and …

What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments

… discussions the fact that slavery was the cause of the war. History Written by the Vanquished Confederate monument … was the culmination of a deliberate campaign to write the history of the Civil War from the Southern point of view. … Black Lives in American History …
Three Afghan police trainees, sitting on ground with guns

Afghanistan: Past and Prospects

… in 2001— remains a force to be reckoned with. On today's History Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and  Leticia Wiggins … ,  Scott Levi , and Alam Payind about Afghanistan’s complex history to ask what the past of these peoples and this … Patrick Potyondy   Hello and welcome to History Talk from Origins: Current Events in Historical …
“Aux amateurs de physique.” Likewise portraying the Tuileries flight, this cartoon mocks the unwashed masses who wished to see the spectacle without a ticket, but the scaling of the garden walls also illustrates how the balloon as a “people-machine” ignited the determination of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime.

Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture

Review of The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe, by Mi Gyung Kim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
… modern European nations, particularly France, through the history of early ballooning. Kim argues that the spectacle … scholarship regarding the cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment but does not explicitly tie it … Intellectual History …
a Black doctor talking with a Black woman and a female Black child

The Evolution of Medicine in the Black Community

How have African Americans faced and overcome medical oppression?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… US History since 1877 … African American History …
man running near a burning building - Photo by Bettmann Collection/Getty Images

Don't Call it a Riot

What is the motivation for African American Uprisings?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… US History since 1877 … African American History …
Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson 1968

Racism: Past and Present

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… US History since 1877 … African American History …
Black men and women in yard outside building - Photo by Archive Photos/Stringer/Getty Images

Black Americans and Education

How did African Americans protest the laws that prevented their formal education at mainstream white institutions and intended toto keep prove their inferiority in the time period before the 1950s?
Teaching Area
US History to 1877
African American History
… US History to 1877 … African American History …
A rendering of the Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, which was fought on April 12, 1864 in Tennessee. It ended with a massacre by Confederate soldiers of at least one hundred surrendered black troops serving the Union, exemplifying one of the Civil War's transgressions of the norms of warfare.

The American Civil War, Then and Now

Review of The War that Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
… and engaging volume. Those readers unfamiliar with the history of the conflict can expect to learn much of the war's military, diplomatic, political, and social history, even as McPherson's sharp prose and narrative style … Black Lives in American History …
Confederate monument - Photo by Fox Photos/Stringer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Changing the Narrative

How have monuments and memorials minimized the Black experience in America?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History to 1877
African American History
… US History to 1877 … African American History …
decorative element on a building

Karbala and the Sunni-Shia Split

Grade Level
4-8
Teaching Area
World History to 1500
World History since 1500
War & Peace
… World History to 1500 … World History since 1500 …
sign with classical bust on it and text Let's become great again with broken statue in background

Whiteness, Purity, and the Classics

How did the classical period view issues of race? What misinterpretations made classical art (especially sculptures) associated with whiteness?
Grade Level
9-12
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Teaching Area
World History to 1500
World History since 1500
… World History to 1500 … World History since 1500 …