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Some of the subjects in the Guatemalan experiments

The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments

… portrayed venereal disease as dangerous to the U.S. war effort The Guatemalan studies only fully became public when … and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (which would later become the Pan American Health Organization) financed and … order to test the effectiveness of prophylactic treatments. Ultimately, however, only some of the infected participants …
portion of a movie poster for the movie Mary Queen of Scots, directed by Josie Rourke

At the Movies: Mary Queen of Scots

… to which men will go to take it away from them, and to the complicated politics of one’s immortal soul. Director Josie … lands on the shores of her kingdom amid a brutal struggle for religion. Just two years earlier, John Knox and the … them. In Mary’s case, the men around her conspire and plot, ultimately resulting in her execution at the hands of the …
Women at the Women's March in DC with signs: "Can't Believe We STILL Have to Protest", "Keep your Hands and Laws Off my Body", "RAPE CULTURE" with a line through it

The Long History of #MeToo

… and sexual violence seem to have suddenly burst into the news cycle. Nearly every day, new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the … we now know as verbal harassment. Of course, Thomas was ultimately confirmed, and now sits on the United States …
A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target.

Rumsfeld May Spark Space Weapons Debate

… U.S. military researchers were busy inventing new weapons for the next war. The new Secretary of Defense, Donald H. … launching deadly fighter and torpedo planes. Even as newspapers reported investigations of “the munitions makers” … which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying …
Detail from the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.

Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion

Review of America’s Religious Wars: The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life, by Kathleen M. Sands (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019)
… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … us that talking about religion has always been a vehicle for talking about politics in the United States. From the … should reject religion-talk and its associated baggage. Ultimately, Sands wants Americans to learn how to disagree …
In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow, armed with tsarist insignia and shouting the anti-immigrant chant "Let's give Russia back to the Russians!"

Russia’s Lost Empire

Review of Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2017)
… include ethnic Russians outside of Russia? Is it legitimate for the Russian government to exert influence over those … and Kievan Rus, asserting that Russians and Ukrainians were ultimately the same people united by similar a language, … and truly non-Russian populations dwelled . Readers might come away with the impression that the Russian Empire and …
Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her

The Contentious ACA

… healthcare policy in the United States—specifically the Affordable Care Act, also known pejoratively and positively as … healthcare or is it more about health coverage for all? How long has it taken policymakers in the past to … political system has created a health care system where the prices are so high.   Dr. Steven Conn   Yeah, yeah, yeah.   …
A photograph from the tumultuous German-Czech border in 1938 during World War II. The Sudetenland had long been a hotspot of contact between the two groups.

The Space In Between

Review of Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands: Migration, Environment, and Health in the Former Sudetenland, by Eagle Glassheim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
… the Second World War. Glassheim notes that with the end of combat in Europe in 1945, the borderlands of Czechoslovakia … us a new way of looking at this fraught piece of geography. For Czechs and Slovaks after the war, the Sudetenland became … not only a political consideration, but also a medical one. Ultimately, Glassheim remarks that historians ought to find …
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.

A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404

… noted that work on the largest mosque in the city had been completed just before his arrival, but Timur ordered its … here to Hajji Muhammad al-Qazi, a Chagatai courtier who had visited the court of Castile in Toledo several years … fight their common enemy, the Ottoman sultans of Turkey – ultimately failed. Nonetheless, his account gives us a …
The Statue of Liberty during the June 10, 2021 solar eclipse.

Solar Eclipses in American History

… he lived in France and traveled widely through Europe. But for all his wanderlust, his most vivid memory stemmed not … total solar eclipse . Dating to 1223 BCE in Syria, it was accompanied by the appearance of  Mars in the sky and … described a train of “twenty waggons bearing travellers, or teams from among the hills. All had stopped on their course, …
Mao proclaiming establishment of PRC.

The Establishment of the People’s Republic of China and Its Impacts

… announcement marked the end of China’s chaotic era of foreign domination since the mid-18th century and of … governmental upheavals after 1911.  Mao Zedong and the Communist Party’s Rise to Victory During the 1920s and … Nations. In 1979, seven years after President Richard Nixon visited China, China officially established diplomatic …
Jair Bolsonaro speaking at microphone

Brazil, Bolsonaro, and the Politics of Nostalgia

… called the "Trump of the Tropics," campaigned on a platform that mixed anti-corruption with open nostalgia for the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to … history of Brazilian politics, and what his success means for the future of the world's fourth-largest democracy. For

Time It Was: 1968 Around the World

… I’ve read about it, 1968 was quite a year. Writers have compared it to the most dramatic moments in modern history— … of their innocence, with faith in the government being the ultimate casualty. Government censors drove Rojo Amanecer … oil interests, and his third wife made an official state visit to West Berlin. A 1967 state reception for the Shah of …
Cerro Rico of Potosí, c.1603. Courtesy Hispanic Society of America

“Mountains of Water:” The Great 1626 Potosí Flood

… structures made from this earthen material were common throughout the Andes, and they were generally … refine silver rather than to maintain infrastructure. Llama teams, meanwhile, hauled ore from mines to refineries. … The great “machine” of Potosí, as seventeenth-century visitors called it, was powered by seasonal precipitation, …

1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe

… congregated in streets and squares and demanded the end of communist rule. These are indelible images deeply impressed … sense of this shift from wonders to worries, one must revisit the history of communism, explore its collapse, and … austerity, exemplified in "energy rationing" and increased prices for essentials. However, shortages and price

American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

… with a column praising the strategic savvy and tactical competence of abdicated Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Broder … grasp of what was happening to them economically, but for complex cultural reasons they believed that it could … Pseudo-Conservative Revolt" (1954), "Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited" (1964), and "The Paranoid Style in American …