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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)
… and culturally; he was attentive to detail, hard-working, and produced voluminous correspondence, as well as his … established by the Amorites and Hammurabi, until their kingdom collapsed during the upheavals of the twelfth … sites in Iraq were well guarded, and the penalty for trafficking illegal antiquities was harsh, often death. All of this …
Marina Silva (PSB)

10/21/2014: Top Ten Origins: Brazil's Presidential Elections

… to address the economic situation of the poor and working classes through new social welfare programs. 2. Empire, … modeled on European fascism. He courted the industrial working classes through state-controlled labor unions and … to politics as elected president in 1950 based on working-class support. His inability to manage a slowing …
In this 1805 painting, the artist imagines American planter and Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins teaching Creeks to use a plow on his Georgia plantation.

Reflecting on Justice 200 Years after the Creek Civil War

… William McIntosh, in an oil painting by Charles Bird King. Here McIntosh and Little Warrior’s paths met. National … at the March 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend (and making McIntosh a brigadier general). But the victorious …
Earth covered in trees and water

"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment

… coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother … nation listened. And what followed, were the most groundbreaking laws ever written in the history of humankind, to … the anti-war protests of the Vietnam War. So if we're thinking about 1968, the Tet Offensive, and then the increase in …
In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman

After Midnight

Review of Midnight’s Descendants: A History of South Asia Since Partition, by John Keay (New York: Basic Books, 2014)

Sudan in Crisis

… Nile and South Kordofan states also played a role in sparking the popular uprisings. In particular, Darfuri students … British separated the predominantly Muslim and Arabic-speaking north from the multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and … the region since 1821. In 1898, however, the United Kingdom and Egypt conquered the Sudanese Mahdist state and …
A French Quarter Pontalba Row building.

A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana

… that of Marie Laveau, bearing graffiti Xs left by tourist making a wish to her spirit (left); “condos” at St. Louis No. … guard over the St. Louis Cathedral (named for the child King of France), the Spanish Cabildo (the seat of the …
The front of the National Security Administration in Fort Meade, MD

America’s Big Brother

… progressed, and as more came out from what Snowden was leaking is, I did get surprised at how far reaching some of the … framework. But that they'd also just been straight up breaking into the Google and Yahoo kind of cloud interface and … there's a little smiley face, written in by the presenter making it to demonstrate like this is where we're tapping into …

American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

… pass by 1916 or so. But the original Populists were also making an argument about their own centrality to American … of beliefs. It is a method of identifying a villain and shaking a fist. This is so even if it also reflects real policy … in Pennsylvania , second in Wisconsin —before his near-assassination was another story. That Wallace pioneered much …

The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History

… believe that to be true. Unlike alcohol, excessive pot smoking has not been unambiguously implicated in violent … used in rope and ships’ riggings. But the practice of smoking marijuana leaf in cigarettes or pipes was largely … “law and order” to a nation jolted by riots, protests, and assassinations, Richard Nixon aggressively recruited …
Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen

Such a Disappointment

Review of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders, by Dennis C. Rasmussen (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… dupes of bold & cunning imposture.” And writing to Rufus King, Hamilton lamented “Truly, My dear Sir, the prospects … surprising since slavery had contorted Jefferson’s thinking for decades. But as Rasmussen charts it, Jefferson …
Paul Bremer in 2003.

Iraq Repeats Long-Ago Mistakes in the Philippines

… Let's stop looking to Vietnam in the 1960s for clues about what to do in … we have set out to construct a political system to our liking. Similarly, we have been caught by surprise to find … Roosevelt, McKinley's successor in office after his assassination, did not have in the Philippines. The …
Paul Bremer in 2003.

Iraq Repeats Long-Ago Mistakes in the Philippines

… Let's stop looking to Vietnam in the 1960s for clues about what to do in … we have set out to construct a political system to our liking. Similarly, we have been caught by surprise to find … Roosevelt, McKinley's successor in office after his assassination, did not have in the Philippines. The …
Flag of the People's Republic of China

With Enemies Like These…

… Looking back over the stories relating to China that have … twelve months is a strange experience. One of the most striking things is the sheer diversity of topics with a Chinese … distribute a film about the Dalai Lama’s life directed by Martin Scorsese. At first, it looked as if this feud in the …

Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary

… have run for president, several others have come within striking distance of the nation’s top post through the line of … States finally elects its first female president? By looking at several of these women and their campaigns for the … who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own …
Sacred Gods at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park

A Postcard from the Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, Hawai‘i

… that prohibited certain things, places, and actions. Breaking kapu, such as harvesting resources at the wrong time, … watch cultural practitioners give demonstrations in making poi (pounded taro) and kapa cloth, and take a guided … Charles Bishop—an American businessman who married into the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi’s royal family—purchased the land that …

The Politics of International Adoption

… intervention – medical assistance, constitution-making, adoption and in-country development – is propelled by … or deceased heirs on the other. In his path breaking book, The Kindness of Strangers , John Boswell uncovered a previously hidden history, tracking the lives of children abandoned in Europe from the late …