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Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse

… orders. But while clerical abuse has only recently become a news item, it has a much longer history. This month, … this kind began making their way through the legal system. Most of them were settled out of court for substantial sums … polemics, these controversies don't stop. Quite the opposite, they linger on for centuries. So let's say managing …
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History BluRay DVD Cover

9/24/2014: At the Movies: Catching Up With The Roosevelts

… Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, the latter one of the most important female political figures of the 20 th … how we think about this political family, but it is a mostly comprehensive overview in Ken Burns’ trademark engaging …
View of Tbilisi as seen from Narikala, the city's medieval citadel.

A Postcard from Georgia and Azerbaijan

… indicating various locations in Georgia and Azerbaijan visited. Georgia My first stop was Georgia, a small country … only after St. Nino spent an entire night praying for it to come back. From its bark, once it was grounded, flowed holy … religion associated with ancient Iran. The world’s most famous Zoroastrian “fire temple” is located in …
Pope Francis smiling from inside a car as he leaves the White House in 2015.

Embracing the Pope–Selectively

… religious life, a Catholic pope has found some of his most vocal supporters among conservative evangelical … Protestants. Evangelical-Catholic relations have come a long way over the last generation, but for all their … by Focus on the Family, his organization, James Dobson claimed John Paul II as a moral ally, but confined his remarks …
Banksy mural of worker chipping star off EU flag

Brexit: Dividing the United Kingdom

… in the United Kingdom stunned the British political and media establishment—and the entire world—by voting to leave … Union. Nearly three years, later, however, the final outcome of Brexit remains uncertain. And issues that affect the … changed? What were the political and economic forces that compelled the UK to join the EU in the first place? What …
Tiger

Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo

… Zoos are some of the world’s most visited attractions. Yet they often make headlines for … in comparison to the cages that define menageries most of zoo history. In the 1890s famous German and Hamburg … to arcs so quickly? Has the zoo industry ever had the opposite effect?   Dr. Daniel Vandersomers   Well, it's a good …

Russia and the Race for the Arctic

… On a sunny day in late April 2003 at a site about 150 km from the North Pole, Artur Chilingarov, … understand why there is all this noise in the international community. If anyone wants to plant a flag down there, … A-5 plus these three form the core of the Arctic Council. Most have made recent moves to shore up or enhance their …
Cover of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster.

Babylon Revisited

Review of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297)
… some ten thousand years ago to the seventh century of the common era. They tell the stories of successive … third millennium after the decline of Uruk. In one of the most rewarding chapters of the book, the Fosters explain the … language) epic. Chapter six details the rule of the Kassites, who in many ways continued the practices established …
Aftermath of the al-Qaida bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania in 1998.

When America Was Considered a Rogue Nation

… kingdom were convinced that the United States had become a base for terrorists. No one then actually used the … terrorists. American filibusters attacked other countries almost every year between the mid-1830s and 1860. The most … the U.S. government tolerated filibustering, just the opposite was true. It was hardly in the national interest to …
DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone …   Alright, thanks for joining us today. So to get started, most of the news media covering the deaths of Trayvon … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
Rodin's "The Thinker"

Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone, … Atlantic, called Melissa Harris Perry quote, "America's foremost public intellectual." Almost immediately Dylan Byers, … and many more, as the Times calls them hits on its website.   Patrick Potyondy   And so just to wrap up, do you …
The London meeting to discuss NATO military intervention in Libya, March 29, 2011.

Secretary Clinton — Leader or Figurehead?

… Several bomb blasts accompanied Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to Pakistan. This … who think creatively and move assertively. Likewise our most effective foreign policies have come under strong and … of state, who retrospectively has become one of the most admired secretaries, despite his notable unpopularity …

Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America

… I saw the ad on a real estate web site a week ago. For sale: 3952 Chatsworth Street, Detroit, … price of a cheap car. Pick up a paper these days and you almost invariably see some mention of Detroit's great crisis. … the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the …
Israeli soldiers stand around their tanks during the Yom Kippur War.

The Yom Kippur War and the OPEC Oil Embargo

… States. It and the broader Yom Kippur War further inflamed Cold War tensions between the United States and the … heavily on Soviet support for arms and many Arab nations welcomed Soviet aid. Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry … percent. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Omar Saqqaf, visited America and warned the Nixon administration that an …

From Harlem to Ferguson: LBJ's War on Crime and America's Prison Crisis

… in the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014. … margin the United States had more prisoners behind bars – most of them poor young men of color – than any other … lives or the devastation it has brought on families and communities across the nation. The historical origins of …
Mexican flag in a square

A Postcard from Mexico City

… Pyramid of the Sun stands at about 210 feet tall and was most likely used for religious practices, including human … sacrifices. If anyone is up for the challenge, you are welcome to climb up the steps. However, you should consider the … the outside of the Zocalo. Besides being a great tourist site, the Zocalo is also used to hold protests against …
Logo for "Canada 150".

Canada 150: Coming Home

… leaders from Métis artist Christi Belcourt to Anishinaabe comedian Ryan McMahon have pointed out that the past 150 … built on the theft of indigenous lands. Canadian rule has visited the violence of the residential schools, a sustained … the scale and ferocity of those crimes and many Canadians’ most basic understanding of ourselves. Each new act of …
Evo Morales in 2006.

Once More, Bolivians Seek Independence

… small, poor South American country is hardly familiar to most Americans, but we have a stake in it, especially … are only make things worse. America’s goals in Bolivia come down to two things: limiting the production of cocaine … to expel him from its membership. This posture only confirmed our image as a neo-colonial power. Our approach is …

The Second Amendment Goes to Court

… Court, which has not taken a Second Amendment case in almost seventy years. District of Columbia v Heller will … of future discussions of gun control for decades to come. It might even have an impact on the dynamics of the … particularly the idea of the Minuteman. Thus, gun rights sites on the internet invariably carry images of the …

A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti

… an indication of the fact that Haitian people could not be trusted to take good care of themselves. So why, he … frustration with Haiti's internal problems—represent the most powerful and widespread beliefs about Haiti. News … the next 100 years became, in many respects, the exact opposite. Rather than being ignored and excluded, Haiti became …
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.
… legacies that acts of violence leave on individuals and communities, and the importance of remembering and … seceded in 1991. The following year Bosnia-Herzegovina—the most diverse of the Yugoslav republics, composed of 43% … captured from fleeing columns were transported to detention sites in schools and warehouses in towns and villages nearby …

Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America

… fight racial prejudice through a celebration of multiracial community. The event takes its name from the 1967 Supreme … marriage bans in 16 states centered on the aptly named Richard and Mildred Loving. In 1958, the pair were … from one another in race or ethnicity. Even though legal in most states by 1959, the overwhelming majority of white …
June 4th, 2014, at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)

Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in Beijing’s … numbers are politically taboo, and are among the terms most rapidly scrubbed from the Internet. Every year in the … cemetery in Chongqing is chained and locked, and gravesites are carefully watched. One recalls from the Maoist era …
Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Ten Protests in Sports History

… in American sport involved white athletes refusing to compete against or alongside African-Americans. On at least … 1936 Summer Olympics Spectators giving the Nazi salute at a medal ceremony in Berlin, Germany during the 1936 Summer … year he refused induction into the United States draft. The most famous politicized athlete in American history is …