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Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II

… Europe and the Americas, Yehudai provides a fresh transnational perspective on the critical period surrounding the … and the Americas, Dr. Yehudai provides a fresh, transnational perspective on the critical period surrounding the … the boundaries may put themselves in conflict with the national project. And because of national anxieties, …
This Dutch UNPROFOR observation post in Srebrenica took heavy fire from Bosnian Serb troops in 1995.

Srebrenica and its Memory

In July 1995, in the final days of the Bosnian War, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre.
Large group of suffragists on steps

One Hundred Years of Women and the Vote

… Party, were two major organizations that were the earliest national organizations to support women's suffrage. So it … who initially worked with suffrage organizations like the National Association. So that was like Susan B, Anthony and … from the anti-slavery movement, the WCTU ... the Temperance Union. And it heightens the idea that women and women voters …
A red AIDS ribbon outlined in candles

The Global History of HIV

… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … in Western allies and was potentially open to the Soviet Union. And also the wealth, the mining wealth in …
Afar community animal health worker describing the appearance and characteristics of rinderpest in cattle (photo credit: ILRI/Jeff Mariner).

The Second Disease Eradication: Rinderpest

… eradication is just as much a victory of science and internationalism as the first. It just never got the same … further research. In 1863 they organized the first international conference of veterinary surgeons in Hamburg to … more effective continued. Scientific Breakthroughs and International Cooperation In the early 20th century, scientists …
Man at march holding sign that reads "Make America NATIVE Again"

Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Conversation

… So Indigenous Peoples Day marks that turn towards internationalism. But then, of course, it gets taken up in the … only provide an Indigenous perspective of, you know, the national holiday of Thanksgiving. But they really felt seen …
Nazis at Marienplatz in Munich during the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.

Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and Weimar’s Resolve

… to overthrow the Bavarian government and establish a new nationalist regime. Often cited as a watershed moment in the rise of National Socialism, Hitler’s brazen plan to overthrow the … occupation of the Ruhr by Franco-Belgian forces, stoking nationalist resentments.  The economy, already in shambles, …
wind turbines

Energy Policy: How is the “Long Transition” from Fossil Fuels Doing?

… uncertainties in the Middle East and elsewhere, and national economies reacting to worldwide recession, American … in order to keep prices up.  About 80 percent of the Saudi national budget is paid for with oil receipts, and as the … the transition to a green energy economy.  Indeed, the International Energy Agency predicts that is what will happen. …
John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club.

Conservation — An American, and Republican, Tradition

… shown little understanding of conservation as a historic national project that involves more than just turning off … and some settler groups, conservation first gained national political significance in the fall of 1901. Gifford … and Roosevelt linked these concerns together and launched a national campaign to conserve America’s forests, rivers, …
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

… adhering to U.S. laws. The U.S. maintained control of international affairs including trade, defense, immigration, and … Washington, D.C. on April 22, 1952. 4. Puerto Rican First: Nationalism and Nationalist Opposition The flag of Puerto Rico, adopted in …
George H. W. Bush Speaking in St. Louis, 1988. Behind him is Missouri Governor John Ashcroft.

The Danger of Scaring the Voters

… Bush’s vice president, his secretary of defense, and his national security advisor have all publicly likened the war … public support for a seemingly endless struggle against the Soviets. He and his advisers pondered how to shore up the … enemy. Bush took a similar tack in his 2004 State of the Union speech, decrying Americans who “believe that the …
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 providing much detail, Guy Laron, a scholar of international relations at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, offers … governments, and insufficient pressures by the U.S. and Soviet superpowers to deter regional military violence. … intended to draw Egypt and potentially even the Soviet Union into the conflict. The fact that Nasser’s hawkish …
Fidel Castro in 1959

Easing Up on Cuba

… had been broken, the Cold War was at its peak, and the Soviet Union had become Cuba’s patron, pouring billions annually … agreed to games between the Baltimore Orioles and the Cuban national team. Still, most Americans cannot visit Cuba … Diplomacy/International Relations …
The Taras Shevchenko monument in Borodyanka, Ukraine damaged by the Russian attack, April 2022.

Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine

… his family and members of his nation. He painted Ukrainian national landscapes and historical sites in an album he … that briefly led to the first-ever independent Ukraine, the Soviet state tried to co-opt the idea and legacy of … of peoples.” Statues of Shevchenko were built in the Soviet era, including the well-known one in the center of …

Socialism Takes Over France, Again?

… on a silver screen in hues of red, white and blue (the national colors). The two contenders in the run-off for … the center-right incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). "Sarko," as he is … every lever of political power—the presidency, Senate, National Assembly, and most of France's 22 regions and …

Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts

… one sort or another in 45 countries according to the International Darwin Day Foundation website. Born on February 12, … American education because of another form of it. After the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite, and thus took the lead … Global/Transnational
2006 map of North Korea and South Korea.

Applying the Antarctic Solution to the Korean Nuclear Impasse

… an achievement during the early years of the Cold War. The Soviet Union, only four years earlier, had rejected Eisenhower’s … Skies” aerial inspection plan, which would have covered Soviet and American territory. The Antarctic Treaty was a … Diplomacy/International Relations …