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Image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft taken on July 13, 2015.

Discovering Pluto

US president Bill Clinton and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin holding a joint press conference at the White House, October 29, 1997

The Next Cold War?

Why Study History?

The Long Legacy of WWI

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)

… sickness, the Spanish Influenza , cholera , bubonic plague, HIV/AIDS , syphilis, leprosy, ebola as well as …

University of Notre Dame's administration building.

The Catholic Voter in the Twentieth Century

A Postcard from a Piraeus Refugee Camp

A barricade in central Berlin during the March 1848 uprising.

March 1848: The German Revolutions

Portrait of President James K. Polk from 1846.

The Lessons of Mr. Polk’s War

people holding sign - from today our identity is Southern and African not Arabic and Islamic

Crisis in Darfur: Ethnic Cleansing

Cover of A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century by William Chester Jordan.

To Serve God and the King?

Review of A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century, by William Chester Jordan (Princeton University Press, 2009)

Syrian Crisis & American Government

Grade Level

9-12

Teaching Area

US History since 1877

American Government

War & Peace

Seal of the Vice President of the United States.

The Vice Presidency Should Not Be an Accident Waiting to Happen

A U.S. Marine Corporal looks through a sniping rifle during a training in California in 2001.

Don’t Compare America Now With Britain Then

The Best in History Online – "Exploring Environmental History Podcast"

3/27/14: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and History

A Day in a Medieval City

Review of A Day in a Medieval City, by Chiara Frugoni (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)

Soviet soldiers riding on a combat vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1986.

The United States Must Learn From the Soviet War in Afghanistan

Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer of November 16, 1919, reporting the first use of cloture by the United States Senate.

The Founders Cared about the Majority Principle

Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, by Susan Schulten Book cover.

From Sea to Shining Sea

Review of Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, by Susan Schulten (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)

… representations of physical space with no added value or meaning. That is where Susan Schulten wants her readers to …

A judge's gavel resting in front of legal books.

Windows and the Bench: Microsoft and the Judges

“Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states,” 1861.

The Civil War: Losing the War, Winning the History

Anti-draft protest outside the Department of Justice in 1967.

The Draft — for Democracy

Glacial melt from Myrdalsjökull glacier in the south (jökull means glacier in Icelandic). Note the alluvial cones formed by volcanic ash and sediment.

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