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Slobodan Milosevic, just after signing the Dayton Agreement

Lessons from the Holocaust Are Relevant to the Crisis in Kosovo

The current debates about NATO’s actions against Slobodan … had to operate against hostile people in a strange terrain. When the war did not progress as planned, military … for this misguided reference to history. Milosevic was troublesome, acknowledged the critics, but the Serbian …
German and Indian troops as part of the international coalition to put down the Boxer Rebellion

History Shadows U.S.-China Relations

When George W. Bush’s advisers brief him for his October trip to Beijing, they may be tempted to only discuss recent conflicts. They … and Japan arrived to crush the uprising. When the Protocol was drafted, it placed all of the blame on China. The treaty …

From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?

… a six-ship flotilla originating in Turkey headed toward the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade … in 1948, the country's dispute for the next quarter century was regional in character, and is best described simply as … "Mandate" system. And for three decades before 1948, when Israel became an independent state, Zionists had a …

The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State

… In the 1970s, Venezuela had the highest growth rate and lowest … in Latin America. Thanks to an oil bonanza, the government was able to spend more money (in absolute terms) from 1974 … increases dependence on foreign imports, which are cheaper. When oil money is flowing, imports increase. However, when
Cover of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome by Brian Campbell

Rome's Wondrous Rivers

Review of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, by Brian Campbell (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
… Benjamin Franklin famously quipped “when the well is dry, we learn the worth of water .” What was the worth of water in Ancient Rome? Floating along the
A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.

Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia

… In the fall of 2016, the Chinese government embarked on an … a significant percentage of the Uyghur population. By 2019, when the campaign had extended to other Muslim populations … Xinjiang is a Chinese term that means “New Dominion.” It was coined in 1884 when Xinjiang was raised to the status of …
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.

“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)

… of Prologued, we discuss 19th-century antecedents to the modern U.S. War on Drugs. As we will see, the United … perspective helps us to understand why the world was ripe was a U.S.-led War on Drugs in the late 20th … moment in the history of the global drug wars. And when we look more closely at how some of the signatories …

Punishing the Past: Presidential Elections in Times of Crisis (1932, 1968, 2008)

… McCain have each spent a great deal of time talking about their dreams for the 21st century. And they have worked to … cognitive appraisal? What would make us think that one side was right, or that the notion of who was right could have … who have responsibility for a ship to keep it on course. When you have that sort of responsibility, your shipmates …

Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America

… In June, many Americans marked Loving Day—an annual gathering to fight racial prejudice through a celebration of … in their Virginia home after marrying the month before in Washington, D.C. Pleading guilty to “cohabiting as man and … are likely to revert to the distinctly negro type even when all apparent evidence of mixture has disappeared.” The

What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist'

… and Politics Is it a death tax or an estate tax? Are they dead civilians or collateral damage? Was he a member of the resistance or a terrorist? Is it a … stand in the way of progress. This began to change in 1979 when the Iranian revolution deposed the US-backed Shah. …
Lady Liberty, wearing a cape labeled "Votes for Women," stands astride the states (colored white) that had adopted suffrage. A poem by Alice Duer Miller is printed beneath.

Smile, You’re a Liberal After All!

The story line for the upcoming November elections has been … years ago American women finally got the right to vote. It was a close call, however, because of the fierce opposition … Southern states ruled by conservatives. That changed only when the liberals in the federal government passed the

Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis

… During the past year, Israel has experienced an unprecedented … prime minister and head of the right-wing Likud party, was indicted in November 2019 for bribery, fraud, and breach … political and personal future came under doubt in late 2016 when the Israeli police launched several criminal …
The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson Book Cover.

Capturing a Moment

Review of The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
… One of my professors recently told me she was beginning to believe the best thing a historian can do is drill down into and … the feeling that 1965 was a “pivot” or a “hinge”—“the time when America’s social cohesion began to unravel and when the
Thomas Sankara

Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso

… activists, labor leaders, and militant students to overtake the government of the Republic of Upper Volta. Almost … from Stony Brook University in 2000, where his dissertation was awarded the prize for best doctoral thesis. He teaches … nationalists and radicals, especially among filmmakers, when it got into a fight with French based monopoly film …
Protestors against the U.S. Trump administration voice their commitment to the world's dispossessed.

The Politics of Refugee Aid in America’s “Short Century”

Review of Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed , by Stephen R. Porter Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
… Published just before the November 2016 U.S. presidential election, Stephen R. … awakening during the First World War (1914-1918), when the desire among American citizens to assist … created widespread duplication, confusion, and waste. What distinguished the “NGO revolution” of WWII from …
Black Panther

Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story

The much-anticipated film, Marvel’s Black Panther , has sold … appeared in Fantastic Four #52 (July 1, 1966) and his story was elaborated in the next issue (#53, August 1966). Marvel … Lee and Kirby’s imaginative jumping off point for Wakanda. When Marvel published its Marvel Atlas #2 in 1988, Wakanda …
Election Day in Philadelphia 1815 by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions.

How We Learned to Love the Constitution

… This week marks the two hundredth anniversary of the election of Thomas … and an emphasis upon free trade. But the election of 1800 was also notable for other reasons. It was one of the few … and then separately for candidates for vice president. When the electoral votes were tallied in December 1800, the
Pamphlet of "Virginia Women Opposed to Suffrage"

Equal Suffrage Awaits Trial (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 3)

… As the suffrage movement entered he 20th century, it gained … and the American electorate itself. But internal conflict was not the only obstacle suffragists faced. By the 20th … state basis. He came out and said that—in 1915, I believe—when New Jersey had a referendum on women voting and …
Two baseballs.

Why Dick Allen Never Reached the Hall

… Last week, Ryne Sandberg and Wade Boggs joined the more than 180 players who have been inducted into the … also earned him widespread enmity within the game. But he was more a victim than a manipulator of race. In 1963, the … while leading the Phillies in a season-long pennant race. When Allen was involved in a brawl the following year with …

Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective

… include high fever, cough, runny nose, and watery eyes. The characteristic rash appears a few days after the initial … controlled through vaccination , and has been since 1963, when Drs. John Enders and Samuel Katz developed the first … girls. Pre-18th century Chinese vaccination method. Such was the earliest form of inoculation, a practice that would …
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 … of this year’s June 4 th coverage is amnesia, wondering when, from forgetting, China will eventually wake. Hong Kong … artist. In between patriotism and counterrevolution, there was the student . The Tiananmen movement began with a new …