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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 …
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 …
Pope Francis holding Bible

The People's Pope and the Changing Face of Catholicism

… how his actions fit into the Church's traditions and its commitment to social justice. Listen and explore hundreds of … Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone by … Latin speaking church in the West started in some ways to officially go their separate ways and other ways to kind of …
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 …
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… declared, the group trains “farmers, women, and indigenous communities in the use of improved technologies in current … Aside from PERU-Hub, research teams from OU recently completed the first phase of collaborative projects with … machinery, and few options for recourse. Government officials and some universities acknowledged the inequality. …
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 …

Hong Kong in Protest

… who they really are as they spend years undercover on opposite sides of the battle between the Hong Kong Police Force … returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … “Where is your conscience?” Lin Zexu, a Qing dynasty official during the First Opium War, 1839-1842. Shortly …
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. …
1866 cartoon by Daumier, L’Equilibre Européen, representing the balance of power as soldiers of different nations teeter the earth on bayonets.

Democracy by Force, or by Example?

… Spreading democracy has become the nation’s principal foreign policy goal. Yet there … to fight. But many wanted the United States to do something official. Congressman Daniel Webster, ever attuned to public … one member said, should have nothing to do “with the wrongs committed by other Governments against those whom they …
Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913

I have many things to say (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 2)

… call the Anthony Amendment, and what would eventually become the 19th Amendment. But not for a long time. California … also employed a state focused strategy that lobbied state officials to propose state constitutional amendments … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …
Auguste Chouteau—Founder of St. Louis and Head of the Chouteau family

Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America

Review of Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi, by Jacob F. Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019)
… his reader back to a Middle America before Europeans, as commercial and military power shifted between Mississippian … White finds that Indigenous nations and French colonial officials were forced to create new ways for cultural and … to place, Lee demonstrates that it is, in fact, a universal commonality shared by Indigenous peoples, Francophones, and …
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)

Tribal Militias in Sudan

… because SAF leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti, … but fighting among Janjaweed collaborators. UNAMID officials say 80 to 90 percent of the violent deaths … where Arabs are in the majority. South Darfur is also the site of the most serious rebellion against the government by …
The hazards of an enclosed work environment – a typist with cloth mask during the influenza pandemic in 1918.

The Respirator and Cloth Mask

… understandings of how disease is transmitted within the community. As a general rule, respirators function by … This served to loosen the mucus membranes and provided a comforting insulation from the cold, allowing the wearer to … of lowland Bengal took a physical toll on the soldiers and officials of the East India Company. Upon returning to …
Emperor Süleyman

Süleyman the Magnificent

… his empire. When Süleyman was made sultan, his kingdom encompassed the peoples and territories of the Balkans, … of Croatia and Hungary, allowing the bulk of Hungary to come under Ottoman rule. Years later, Süleyman himself died … curtailed by local custom. It was expected that Ottoman officials would have a knowledge of local practices and …
Soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad

Stalingrad at 75, the Turning Point of World War II in Europe

… of the Second World War began. More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … over France, Poland and others, Hitler and the German High Command ( Oberkommando des Heeres , or OKH), were confident … with about 200 enemy divisions. Now we have already counted 360… When a dozen have been smashed, then the Russian puts …
Mr. Ernesto Zedillo, Chair GDN Board of Directors, kicks off the 10th annual GDN conference.

Broken Promises in Mexico

… bilateral trade, illegal immigration, and joint efforts to combat drug trafficking. Political reform in Mexico should … these words of praise ring hollow. Zedillo has shown little commitment to reform. In fact, he recently supported … from a combination of patronage, fraud, and repression. PRI officials oversee a patronage network which includes most of …

The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now

… changing sexual mores since the 1960s. Occasionally, commentators have referred to an insular institutional … Yet today’s crisis of the Catholic Church, which commentators have called the gravest since the Reformation , … air confessional from the Netherlands in 1740 ( right ). Official guidelines sought to curtail the risk that these …