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A shopkeeper sits outside his store in the Cardo waiting for tourists and residents to stop in.

A Postcard from Jerusalem

… Map of the Old City in Jersualem. As it has for thousands of years, … to pray where it is said that the body of Jesus Christ was anointed before burial. The New Testament not only … population and claimed that site as theirs. In April 1970, when the Coptic monks departed the site for Easter worship, …
Mr. Ernesto Zedillo, Chair GDN Board of Directors, kicks off the 10th annual GDN conference.

Broken Promises in Mexico

… President Clinton will soon be traveling south of the Rio Grande for a summit with his Mexican counterpart … Political reform in Mexico should be added to this agenda. When President Zedillo was inaugurated three years ago he promised the Mexican …
Generals Eisenhower and Patton at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps

… This May marks the 75 th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. … attempted extermination of Europe’s Jewish population. It was 1942, three years into the war, when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Regime began to enact the “Final … On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps …
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker

… Elizabeth Cady Stanton, famed women’s rights activist, was born. Stanton is most closely associated with advocating the right to vote for women and helping to orchestrate the … November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, NY to a prominent family. When she was eleven years old, after the death of her only …
A solemn crowd gathers outside the Stock Exchange after the crash. 1929.

This Year’s Equation: 1920 + 1932 = 2008

… We often hear that the election that takes place next Tuesday will be one of … Voters turn against a party that has long held power when it presides over a major failure.   A long period of … public against the party. The Democratic ascendancy that was made possible by the Panic of 1929 and began with the
Closeup of a ram.

It’s Gay Rights, Not Gay Genes, That Matter

The “gay sheep” research on rams from the U.S. Sheep … meanings of homosexuality. Kameny held a minority position when he publicly maintained in the 1960s that the cause of homosexuality was not important. Many things have changed concerning …
Zog I of Albania in front of the Albania Republic flag.

Albania’s First Republic

… Albania’s first republic was ill-fated from its inception. The National Assembly founded the First Albanian Republic on … the 15th century, became independent on 28 November 1912 when leading national activists severed ties with the empire …
September 17: The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

The Constitution, Congress and the Power to Declare War

… In the midst of talk of war, it’s hard to focus on the U.S. … strike at Iraq has the president ever indicated that he was dependent upon Congress for a declaration of war. Yet … to command the nation’s armed forces, the other to decide when the United States goes to war. They juxtaposed the will …
Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, 1987

The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back

Review of Iran Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power, by Malcolm Byrne (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2014)
Cover of "Our Hemisphere"? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall.

Episodes of Ambivalent Empire

Review of “Our Hemisphere”? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by : Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021)
A bus that has been blown up by terrorists

A Who’s Who of Jihadi Terrorism in Europe

Review of Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History, by Petter Nesser (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
… A History , ends on a very ominous note. Whilst penning the conclusion to his book in January 2015, Nesser noted a … Nesser’s observation would seem prophetic in November 2015, when small teams of terrorists shocked the world by … the Air France flight 8969 hijacking on 24th December 1994, was orchestrated by the GIA, an Islamist group in Algeria …
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.

A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404

…   On September 8, 1404, the Castilian diplomat Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo reached thethe man who Europeans called Tamurlane. If possible, he was to forge a peace treaty with the world-conqueror, whose … called the ‘archaic globalization’ of the world, a period when travelers from the Christian, Muslim and Chinese worlds …
Caster Semenya at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Woman, Man, Neither? The Predicament of a World-Class Runner

… Caster Semenya, the South African runner who won the women’s 800-meter race … declared intersexed. If she is, it means that she was born with some discrepancy between her external … were dishonest and fraudulent (say, in illegally voting when the franchise was limited to men), or were seeking …
Barack Obama was inaugurated at the United States Capitol on January 20, 2009.

The Strong Wind at His Back

… Well, the pundits were wrong. White voters didn’t change their … In his 1963 address, King looked hopefully to a day when blacks like his children would “not be judged by the …   The polls reveal, too, that America’s younger generation was more open to the idea of a black man running for …
From left to right, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2001.

Attorneys General Who Cry Wolf

… to watch for suspicious men, New Jersey postmarks and other signs that American security is sliding from bad to … violence, known as the “May Day Bomb Plot” of 1919, began when a package arrived at the office of Seattle’s mayor, Ole … seven American cities. One blew off the front of Palmer’s Washington home, killing the bomber in the process. …