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Monica Lewinsky's official government ID photo from 1997.

Another Watergate?

… political opponents; planning a break-in at the Brookings Institution; forging cable messages intended to implicate President Kennedy in the 1963 assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem; exchanging …
Film poster for Pather Panchali (1955).

Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood

… languages and its 1962 census recorded residents speaking over 1600 native tongues. It is common to find people … is reflected rather spectacularly in Indian filmmaking. Although the world at large generally equates … but the likes of Akira Kurosawa, Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese as well. 2. Bhuvan Shome (Bengali, Hindi, …
Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.

Inequality After Apartheid

Review of Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit, by Hennie van Vuuren (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
… to disrupt any clean break with events before 1994 by asking important questions. Though van Vuuren struggles … France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and United Kingdom, and China. Written in the style of an exposé, … In these, we see both private and public citizens seeking to maintain influence with the then-ruling party. While …
Space Shuttle Columbia launching

Can We Boldly Go There Any More?

… manned space flight do not object to the goal of people working and living in space but to the great expense. They view …

The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa

… and cricket matches: Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. These protests, from the late-1960s into the … costs." Economic impact analyses are often guilty of overlooking the ways in which mega-events siphon off monies in the … to "second-order" events such as the Commonwealth Games (Kingston, Jamaica, 1966; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1998), and …
The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg Book Cover.

How the Sun Rose Again on the City of Light

Review of The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
… Paris' architectural treasures and the local population. An assassination attempt on Hitler by German officers combined …
Muslim depiction of Muhammad - 17th century Ottoman copy from the "Edinburgh codex".

Iraq, Too, Must Separate Church and State

… money to the love of country, Iraq will not develop a working democracy. One of the chief reasons Saddam Hussein was … was only a step away from creating the age-old triad of king, priests and nobles. Beyond the issue of religious … It takes time. Americans know that. They are continually asking themselves, “How do we make democracy work the way it …

Human Rights at a Crossroads

… groups who were minority populations in larger empires. Speaking to an international audience in Paris, he denounced … world affairs. A 1933 political cartoon showing Japan walking over the League of Nations. World War II: Evidence for … States officially joined the war, world leaders were working on an international response that would aid in both the …
King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan, Drugs, and the Cold War (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 4)

… States, terrified American lawmakers, the latest menace seeking to snuff out America’s light. The godless Communists, … appoints this commission, which is really intent on taking a moderate, middle of the road approach to drugs. But it all gets lost in the Kennedy assassination and all the other chaos of the 1960s. Brionna …
Emancipation Memorial Statue

Emancipation by What Means?

Review of The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom, by H.W. Brands (New York: Doubleday, 2020)
… it was common in the decades following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination to identify him as the “Great Emancipator,” … newly-freed person is shown as remaining subservient and lacking personal agency. Union generals such as Benjamin Butler … terrorism. While Brown did not achieve his goal of sparking an immediate war of emancipation, his actions polarized …
Rush hour traffic in Interstate 95 in Miami.

Finally, Too Many Cars

… auto sales over the last year was caused principally by spiking gasoline prices, tight credit and disappearing … statistics date from the early 1920s. Unlike the shrinking corporations of today, these were the boom years when … milestone in 1968. Amid the turmoil of war, riots and assassinations, few people noticed that the year ended with …
Tiger

Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo

… a modern zoo in the late 18th and early 19th century. Kingdoms are replaced by nation states we see private funded … panorama is to trick the viewer or the zoo goer into thinking or looking into a real environment.   Dr. Tracy McDonald   Yeah. …
Cover of Song of Wrath The Peloponnesian War Begins by J. E. Lendon.

A Time For War

Review of Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins, by J.E. Lendon (Basic Books, New York, 2010)
… that "all time" would be inhabited by the ancient Greeks, taking for granted that his reader would always bring those … campaigns of the Peloponnesian War from 480 BC when Xerxes, King of Persia, invades Greece, through the end of the Ten … narrative into "the wider stream of ancient Greek thinking about foreign relations…lends refinement to our …
Cover of Caesar A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke.

A Man for All Seasons

Review of Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, by Maria Wyke (Chicago 2008)
… time as the first man at Rome, his dictatorship and assassination.   The final chapter (9) discusses reception …
Ivan Aivazovsky, a Native of Feodosia, Crimea, is known as one of Russia's greatest painters, and one of the world's best at seascapes. The Battle of Sinop (Russian and Turkish Navies), 1853

Top Ten Origins: Stories from Crimea

… two hundred years. Crimean Tatars, a Turkic-language speaking peoples who inhabited the steppe north of the coast, … The Santa Barbara Affair Screenshot of Marcy Walker and A Martinez as Eden Capwell and Cruz Castillo on Santa Barbara …
A sign from a DC Women's March that reads, "70% anti-abortion leaders are men; 100% of them will never be pregnant."

Abortion, History, and the Beginning of Life

… two millennia, discussions about abortion have involved making a distinction between fully-developed and undeveloped … rescue of a nun who had been abducted and raped by a local king. According to the legend, when Kieran discovered that …

South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid

… President Frederick de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shaking hands at the World Economic Forum in 1992. In April … Many of the Boers rejected British rule and began “trekking” eastward, displacing native peoples and clashing with the Zulu Kingdom. They established several “Boer states,” including …
Allen Weinstein

Will They Be the National (Secret) Archives?

… preserving government records of the past, but also for making them available to the public. This latter role is … or withholding —  the Nixon White House tapes, the Kennedy Assassination Records, and now the files of the 9-11 …
President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton in 1993.

Why Clinton Will Survive

… Republicans, who wanted to reconstruct the South by making African Americans citizens and creating an interracial … made Johnson a potent symbol of the unrepentant South. Attacking the recalcitrant Tennessean became an effective way of … right sees Bill Clinton as a draft-dodging, pot-smoking, adulterous hypocrite, exuding false empathy, who …

Killing the Arctic

… Reef? Or the clear-cutting of Amazonia , or the shrinking of the Aral Sea? These, too, rank as tragedies of the … northern incursions into the Arctic, but killing was king. One of the earliest medieval references to Arctic … stuck in the ice of Hudson Bay in August, 1697 while making contact with the indigenous Inuit people. The influx of …
Cover of Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots by Thomas S. Kidd

Patriot or Pragmatist?

Review of Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots, by Thomas S. Kidd (New York: Basic Books, 2011)
… Court appointments, was reduced as a young man to working in a tavern. Early on he twice benefited from lucky or … Stamp Act in 1765. In a stirring speech, Henry accused the King of treason and stunned Virginia's moderate leaders, who …
Top view of person serving themself a rice dish from a table of food

Food for Thought: Diet in History

… been just so fundamental, you know, especially if you're looking in, you know, a pretty long period of time. So looking at it, you know, in the most basic level is really, … surplus of food, which means that you can have priests and kings and warriors. Domestication of animals, which is …
Statue and Ukrainian Flag

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… of questions at registration. And we will start by working our way through those. If you're interested in asking a question now, please type it into the Q & A function … so far, communication is still open. Internet is still working. So, Ukrainians are able to communicate with each other …