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Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now

… Santorum, April 2021 Former Pennsylvania senator (and CNN commentator) Rick Santorum made those comments at a … shaped the development of this country. We’ve been conditioned to accept this “whitewashed,” Indigenous-free … States have a fairly recent history of human habitation. If one was to ask a group of Americans to name a few of the …
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan

Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday

… of living, demonstrators soon widened their criticisms to encompass the full impact of Bashir’s three decades in power: … transcript has been edited for clarity.] Lauren Henry    Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together … working on a new book on the history of Islam in Lusophone Africa. Professor Searcy, thanks for coming on the show. …
Storming the Bastille

Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)

… , Latin America , Russia , and East Asia . And it all began one July day when the people of Paris captured a … 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, …
Visitors stroll the first section of the High Line Park, over the 18th Street crossing. Frank Gehry's IAC building is in the background.

The High Line: It’s About the Real Estate

… High Line is a mere ribbon — not even of land, but an abandoned stretch of elevated railroad bed. Yet their underlying … similarities reveal the dynamics of property and money in New York City, which have changed little in 150 … spirit. Even in the mid-19th century, New York City was in competition with new garden suburbs that beckoned well-to-do …
Cover of The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts.

Falling for the Fall of Rome

Review of The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)
… matters in the United States and ancient Rome. Everyone seems to have an opinion on whether the United States is … *which* Roman decline and fall is the best parallel. Some commentators prefer the fall of the Roman Republic as the … and will be teaching using that framing in the future. One of the best examples of his analysis is in Chapter 7 and …
September 17: The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

The Constitution, Congress and the Power to Declare War

… The Founding Fathers balanced the power of the president as commander-in-chief with that of Congress, the people’s representatives — the one to command the nation’s armed forces, the other to … war, more than 1,200 American historians turned to one of those old ways — that of citizens petitioning …

Killing the Arctic

… and all-but-consummated crime, we are, all of us, guilty. One can fairly ask why Arcticide merits any more attention … patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, … northern incursions into the Arctic, but killing was king. One of the earliest medieval references to Arctic venturing …
Abraham Lincoln Campaign Poster 1860

"Great God, What does it Mean?" - Lee's Escape at Williamsport

… history is the Battle of Gettysburg. While many will commemorate the battle itself, the decision not to press … other point in the Civil War. Northerners were so disillusioned with the conflict that one decisive Confederate victory on Pennsylvania soil could … Milestones …
Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. during a meeting with Senator Patrick Leahy on August 29, 2005

Give Roberts Some Breathing Room

… expose the growing division within American Catholicism. On one side are liberal Catholics such as Sens. Richard Durbin, … with his Catholic values. Although abortion wasn’t mentioned, it was clear to those present that the issue was on … he would most likely recuse himself. It must have been an uncomfortable moment for both Durbin and Roberts, Catholic to …
Lawrence Halprin

Lawrence Halprin and Two Modern Spaces

… Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009), one of the most celebrated American landscape architects, … outside of Haifa, then Palestine , working on a kibbutz (a communal farm). When Halprin returned to the U.S. he trained … teachers, Halprin believed that the urban landscape functioned as the everyday backyard for city residents. He …
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid, Spain

Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death

… fact, England and Spain, the two superpowers at the time, one on its ascent, the other on the decline, followed … two magisterially influential Renaissance literary figures, one a playwright, the other a novelist, died almost … the rights of his novel to a printer. He was buried in a common grave. Most profoundly, our modern sensibility is …
Botanic Blooming sagebrush on the great plains

Why the Great Plains Are Dying

… for nearly a decade, and the future only looks drier. One of the conclusions of the new United Nations study on … and dry places, like much of the American West, will become even more parched. John Wesley Powell is rolling over … research he concluded that there were really two Americas, one wet and one dry, divided almost exactly down the middle, …
Launching of the USS RALPH JOHNSON in Mississippi.

A New Cold War in the Caribbean?

… joint exercises in the Caribbean with the Russian navy. No one likes Chávez's loopy Cold-War language, but he's onto … with his nutty words: the way the Bush administration has compromised American foreign policy and jeopardized world peace. When Venezuela's Hugo Chávez throws one of his rhetorical bombs, we learn something about the …
Oneida Nation Friendship Statue from The National Museum of the American Indian

3/31/14: How Historians Can Help Native Americans

… Useful for a Change: Historians and Modern Tribal Communities" Wednesday, March 26 at The  Ohio State … Shriver R. David Edmunds’ central question is a good one:  how can academic historians engage with modern Native American communities in the United States?  He is a storyteller, and …
Reagan in 1982.

Exit Gen. Grant – Enter St. Ronald?

… the portrait of Grant off the $50 bill and replace it with one of Ronald Reagan. I had forgotten that Grant graces the … they want to see Reagan’s face every time they slap one down at a West Hollywood club.   No disrespect to … to study photographs of official Soviet events to see which Communist Party members were visible and which had been …
An engraving of Earl Cornwallis's surrender to George Washington during the American Revolution.

Hollywood’s American Revolution

… the middle-aged patriot-hunk Benjamin Martin. It is one of the film’s better lines, encapsulating … well the British, led by a made-for-Hollywood sadistic colonel (played by Jason Isaacs and modeled on the notorious … fire until ranks are broken and desperate hand-to-hand combat ensues. These scenes, realistic and at times surreal, …
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 was a wake-up call in more ways than one. The moment had come for Clinton to act more boldly as … can look to predecessors for guidance. Alexander Haig is one example. During his brief tenure as secretary of state …
Afar community animal health worker describing the appearance and characteristics of rinderpest in cattle (photo credit: ILRI/Jeff Mariner).

The Second Disease Eradication: Rinderpest

… On its “Milestones in UN History” website, the United Nations features … a stunning achievement and that description of how it was accomplished feels especially poignant today when faith in … your attention to the second great disease eradication, the one you may well have never heard of: Rinderpest. Indeed, …
One of Havana's plazas without a church.

A Postcard From Havana, Cuba

… the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: … visited the Tropicana, the 1950s Ford Fairlane would be one of the last U.S. cars imported to the island, and some … a state-run economy in Cuba. Walking through Havana, one can still see the remnants of the revolutionary economy. …
An Armenian woman leans over her dead child near Aleppo, Syria,1915.

On the Armenian Genocide

… On April 24, 2015, much of the world will commemorate the centennial of one of the most highly contested events of the twentieth … exclusive, and dialogue between them was nearly impossible. One affirmed the genocide and lay blame squarely on the … Milestones …
A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.

Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia

… as faces and they have the right to check citizens’ smartphones to see if they carry unauthorized content or “harmful … more recently, of settler colonialism. It is also based on competing visions of history and of who belongs to the land. … assault on the Zunghars and vanquished their empire. One of the fruits of this victory was the Qing conquest of …
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper Book cover.

Is It Only A Game?

Review of Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper (New York: Nation Books, 2012)
… opportunity to delve into a subject dear to my heart but completely outside of my own research. Much to my delight, … fans and World War II history buffs alike, but also everyone in between interested in the subject of Jewish and … instead that the majority of the Dutch had actually "gone on with their lives" during the Nazi occupation and …
The culminating moment of Alice, when the pretense of power is exposed and collapses. Carroll was very concerned throughout his life with giving a wide audience of people, not just his Christ Church students, the tools of logical thinking so that they would not be the victims of demagogues and ideologies.

Everyone’s Inner Child Turns 150 Years Old

… her pinafore and his frockcoat and long wavy hair, old fashioned even for their time, catch our eye and distance them … with a dim idea of a conventional goal. As we encounter one authority figure after another, we try to apply what we … our own purposes as well. Zombie Alice at 2014 New York ComicCon. Cosplaying is one way people have taken ownership …