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Bust of Abraham Lincoln.

Getting Wrong with Lincoln

… our more prominent pundits have actually repeated, and thus compounded, the movie star’s error. The bogus quotation … collected works or certified recollected words. His official biographer called the statement, which began … Central Railroad, one of the largest and most “insolent” commercial interests of the era. As a devoted member of the …
Judas kissing Jesus

The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest Gnostic Gospel

… Nicholas Breyfogle Hello, and welcome to The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest … support. This is a great day to do this because it’s the official publication day of my new book on the Gospel of … mathematical texts is interesting. Are there other similar sites nearby or theories about the provenance? We had …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.

Spring Marches on Washington

… reputation by ordering his men to attack their former comrades in arms with tear gas and riot weapons and burn … offered pledges of changed selves. A third shift was that official counts of attendance at the marches became so … Park Police estimates of the size of the crowds. Expect no official count of crowd numbers in the month ahead, but …
European Union flag

The EU: Past, Present, and Future

… a century ago. Today, the EU faces an unprecedented combination of challenges, including a lingering economic … Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to The Global War on Drugs brought to you by the … some states in the Midwest named cannabis a noxious weed so officials could uproot it and poison it. West Virginia is … the myth that cannabis is a weed. In reality, it's the opposite. Its one species name, Cannabis sativa, literally means …
The Trojan Nuclear Plant in 1973.

The Atomic Age

… of 1989 in eastern and central Europe and the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union in 1991 brought an end to the … know about, there are several other nations which hope to become nuclear powers in the near future. Add to this those … miniature atomic bombs hints that atomic bombs might well come in a small packages. Finally, even though we have …
Khrushchev during his visit to the Agricultural Research Service Center in Maryland.

Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip

Review of Nikita Khrushchev's Journey into America, by Lawrence J. Nelson and Matthew G. Schoenbachler (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2019)
… September 1959 Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party and Premier of the Soviet Union , arrived in … in the Iowa heartland where he toured agricultural sites and in Pittsburgh to see industrial sites, and his … Khrushchev’s joy at breaking away from security cordons and official engagements and interacting with ordinary …
2011 protest in New Jersey by Garden State Equality in support of same-sex marriage and against deportation of LGBT spouses.

Voting Away Others’ Rights

… New England founded its colonial enterprise with some official divisions between state and church — not allowing … religiously intolerant regimes in the world today.   The outcome of the recent referendum in California shows us that …
The Statue of Liberty in New York City.

Where Will “Liberation” Lead?

… Europe at the close of World War II. Administration officials find it easy to explain their current goals by … of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz dared to undertake a comprehensive land reform campaign, nationalize corporate property and open diplomatic relations with communist countries in 1954, Washington was quick to …
A Biafran child suffering the effects of starvation due to the federal blockade during the Nigerian Civil War

“No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War

… and cultural challenges. The crisis that would become the Nigerian Civil War began on January 15, 1966 when a … Their grievances included alleged corruption among public officials, the government’s failure to ensure equitable … a military body led by General Johnson Aguysi Ironsi, the Commander of the Nigerian Army, who was also Igbo. The …

History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus

… Sweden, larger than the three Baltic republics (PDF File) combined, and larger than Austria. It would be the 11 th … background and a horizontal red stripe in the middle. The official BNR state emblem, the Pahonia—a knight on … of it. The Belarusian dictator has revitalized the memorial sites and has dedicated other memory sites, including a new …
Cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.

The Man Who Re-Invented China

Review of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
… Europe and the Soviet Union, made the future of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uncertain. It was in this period of … What led Deng Xiaoping, the leader of the world's largest Communist Party, to embrace capitalism so fervently? … history (347). Making use of Chinese-language biographies, official summaries of daily Party meetings, as well as …
Ukrainian soldier with blue and yellow ribbon overlay

Understanding the War in Ukraine: Insights from the Recent Past, 1991—Present

… Dr. Angela Brintlinger  Welcome, everybody. I went ahead and turned off my email so it … Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941, which analyzes Soviet official culture and the ideological and behavioral norms it … a subset of the Russians, he's achieved the exact opposite. Because this has inspired a great deal of Ukrainian …
“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.

The Old Informing the New

Review of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic, by John M. Murrin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
… American Revolution , and the Early American Republic. This compilation gathers together some of his important essays … is his discussion of “Anglicization.” Rather than becoming less and less British as the 17th and 18th centuries … as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the …
Cover of Science under Fire Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America by Andrew Jewett.

Science Beseiged

Review of Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America, by Andrew Jewett (Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press, 2020)
… or environmental poisoning, for instance—COVID-19 was compelling “people everywhere . . . to put their immediate … opportunism . . . are being brought to heel by the pincer combination of shared values and facts on the ground” ( … herd. Armed crowds gathered at the homes of public-health officials across the country and hounded them from their …
2nd Battalion, 7th Marines packing up gear to withdraw from Al-Taqaddum Air Base, 24 March 2020.

Vietnam and Iraq: The Benefits of Getting Out

… Vietnam analogy is not so much the difficulty of drawing comparisons between two different situations. The problem is … between Iraq and Vietnam are almost precisely the opposite of what President Bush often argues. The correct … policy. In a geopolitical sense, withdrawal allowed U.S. officials to adapt to an international environment that had …
And Water for All - stylized image of hands with water behind them

... And Water for All

An educational documentary about water affordability
… done it with these water and sewer systems that have become ubiquitous in our lifetimes.   Nicholas Breyfogle  The … finally improve water quality.   Speaker 6  The special Subcommittee on water pollution will be in order.   Manny … Breyfogle  New Waterford is a good example of how local officials can take proactive measures to build and maintain …
1892 Populist Party presidential campaign button.

“Party Like It’s 1892!”

… in state and local races across the land.  Many pundits are comparing this election to the election of 1994, when anger … in July 1892, when these farmers and their friends officially launched the People's Party, or the Populist … was quite a radical document — though quite the opposite of the proposals of today's Tea Party.  It called for …
Cover of Health, Healing and Illness in African History by Rebekah Lee.

Africa's Medical History Revealed

Review of Health, Healing and Illness in African History, by Rebekah Lee (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021)
… of actors, including African patients themselves, families, communities, traditional healers, healthcare workers, and … providers over causation and therapeutic approaches to combat particular diseases. Coercive and racialized health … South Africa . These ailments were categorized into communicable (tuberculosis) and non-communicable diseases …
Storming the Bastille

Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)

… by historians, depicted by artists and celebrated by common people. In 1880, the French chose to make the … times of deterritorialized terror, outsourced prisons, bitcoins, and subcontracted state and military arbitrariness, … a painting that would preserve the memory of the first official celebration of 14 July as a national holiday. …