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Zombie scene from the 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead.

Top Ten Origins: Zombies: The Undead Shuffle

… on brains. Undead and not quite living, where do zombies come from and why are they here? The story of our … as one way to represent the anxieties and fears of Haitians surrounding slavery and colonial rule. Zombies and … of control and unstoppable. 10. Are there Zombies in our Future? A contemporary crowd dressed up as zombies. In …
Mourners picket after the Triangle fire. Their signs, hung with black crepe, accuse shop owners of graft, locked doors, and managing workers in fire traps.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

… might not have happened, or if it did, workers could have survived the blaze. That realization spurred people to … 4:45 pm, the smoke and shouts brought them running to the site. They watched, helpless, as firefighters tried … watching scores of young women and several young men die, combined with the awful realization that this tragedy could …
The Brazilian flag and a soccer ball

Brazil’s Soccer Mania: An Example for the World

… ahead of any other national team. In view of the tremendous competition associated with the world’s favorite sport, … squad in the 1990s. Brazil’s soccer prowess is no surprise. Children in every Brazilian neighborhood learn to … healthy diversion for the masses. Brazilians continue to be less politically conscious than citizens of the United …
Portrait of General Winfield Scott.

When “Sensitivity” Has Opened the Road to Victory

… Confederate states to rejoin the Union, or might at least ensure that the four border slave states still in the Union … for the Union army. Grant’s record also reveals the baseless nature of Cheney’s claim. When Robert E. Lee’s Army of … one of the most sensitive and successful coalition commanders of all time. Cheney forgets that Ike diverted …

Democratizing American Higher Education: The Legacy of the Morrill Land Grant Act

… to develop their ideas into businesses. The fellowship website states: "Thiel Fellows are given a no-strings-attached … announced that its program in business management will be accredited by Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. In … Accessibility and practicality will continue to shape the future of higher education in the United States. There are …

Socialism Takes Over France, Again?

… it mildly. Socialism, at least in the United States, has become a byword among Republicans for fiscally irresponsible … have all the advantages: ministerial experience, the requisite socialist credentials, and a successful term as … the post-war generation of leaders. There he met the future mother of his four children, Ségolène Royal, with …

Child Kidnapping in America

… the money). This refusal brought him a torrent of negative commentary and helped to define for the future what Americans expected of parents caught in such … parent held one arm of the child and was pulling her in opposite directions. This was the most public display of a …
Cover of Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith.

Wagging the Dog

Review of Pay For Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, by Ronald A. Smith (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xii + 344 pp.)
… of a permanent facility in which to play football.  When completed, Harvard Stadium cost over $300,000, held 40,000 … is therefore in an ideal position to understand the basic futility of "big-time college athletic reform," at least as … Other forces from outside the academy, such as national accrediting organizations and muckraking foundations like the …
President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Coming: Something New in Presidents

… important new biographical details to the traditional commander-in-chief profile. After having 43 presidents cut … children and notable military and political service to his credit, McCain tries to be all about the “Faith of My … ceilings. He would be the first president born abroad. The future naval aviator was born in 1936 in the U.S.-controlled …
Cover of The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction by Max Page.

The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction

Review of The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction, by Max Page (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
… of the text.  In examining roughly two hundred years of comic, filmic, propagandic, and literary portrayals of the … its Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.  Page recounts these examples and many more throughout his text. More than finding the … destruction, he also finds that those concerns shaped how survivors tried to move on and rebuild the city that never …
The Slave Trade by Auguste Francois Biard (1833).

When Free Trade Meant Something Else

Review of Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition, by Bronwen Everill (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020)
… the global economy. This conversation has raised uncomfortable questions about contemporary businesses and … were able to make headway with ethical capitalism and ensure profit and consumption while avoiding the slave trade. … business transactions, delving into issues of fraud, credit, and government relations. Merchants involved in …
The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.

A Postcard from Leith, Scotland

… your right, you will encounter the upscale whiskey house, complete with nineteenth-century stone walls that feature … eyesore. With their place on Scotland’s list of historic sites, they now embody what Edinburgh wishes to remember … and of hardships and Edinburgh’s vision for the future. While you walk along the Water of Leith, pull up …
Cover of The Battle of Adwa African Victory in the Age of Empire by Raymond Jonas

When Ethiopia Stunned the World

Review of The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire, by Raymond Jonas (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2011)
… in mind the famous ballad played by the British at their surrender at Yorktown. As much as the victory by the … and, due to a series of blunders by his subordinate commanders, his force was overwhelmed. Aside from numerous … World War. Jonas claims that Adwa served as the model for future anti-colonial efforts. His narrative suggests that …
Cover of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History by David Farber.

The Far Right Stuff

Review of The Rise and Fall of Modern Conservatism, by David Farber (Princeton University Press, 2010)
… a table with friends and fight over.  I mean that as a high compliment, since there are far too many books out there, … to be fair to his subjects and to their politics.  He gives credit where credit is due, and he avoids pulling the … presidential campaign in Neshoba County Mississippi, the site of gruesome civil rights violence, and spoke of states' …
A memorial to Holocaust victims in front of a Jewish cemetery.

A Postcard from Berlin: Confronting a Troubled Past

… dot the landscape and stand beside opera houses and statues commemorating prominent figures of German cultural heritage. … past is not always about celebrating it. A couple of examples of small brass plaques found throughout Berlin that … to rest or play, which often confuses visitors who are unsure about the appropriate boundaries for interacting with a …
Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in 2005.

Written With the Blood of Miners

… the U.S. Congress and with the president’s signature will become law. While a new law represents a positive step for … of January’s Sago disaster, in which 12 miners died. With less attention but equal devastation, 21 more miners have … another year in which more than 5,000 miners will die. But surely the bar in the United States should be set higher …
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… declared, the group trains “farmers, women, and indigenous communities in the use of improved technologies in current … for example, will simulate the effects of climate change on future water availability in the Arequipa region.  Five … [all-powerful landowners] and gave us technical support and credit. But that lasted only a short time. With the …
Flag of the People's Republic of China

With Enemies Like These…

… as they have from the furor last summer triggered by comments about Beijing’s human rights record made by Bob … early 1996, which  other’s countries planned for the near future) than those associated with Taipei (where it was … for the company’s image and Beijing deserves much of the credit for this. You just can’t buy p.r. any better than …
Nazis at Marienplatz in Munich during the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.

Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and Weimar’s Resolve

… audacity, its failures, and what it foretold for Germany's future.  Yet, as we look back, it is time we consider a … nation, Bavaria appointed Gustav Ritter von Kahr as State Commissioner General ( Generalstaatskommissar ), granting … of the devastating impact of the Treaty of Versailles, is credited with having resuscitated the German army in the …

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

… around the world reported on a Wikileaks document, surreptitiously acquired from Stratfor, the Texas security company, revealing Egyptian and Sudanese plans to build an … General Horatio Herbert Kitchener upriver to Fashoda, the site of the proposed dam. With fewer than 200 men, the …
UNR postcard (ca. 1918), Ukrainians face invading Russia. Caption: “Our enemies die like the dew in the sun and we brothers will rule in our turn.” From the author’s collection.

Ukrainian Independence: From Versailles 1 to Versailles 2

… strong support of Ukrainian independence in the Versailles Declaration .  By contrast, in the Versailles Treaty of … as Hetman. Skoropadsky abdicated one month after Germany’s surrender in November 1918.  His opponents proclaimed a … were war-weary, and saw no Entente troops or aid forthcoming.  Ukraine’s signing the Treaty was something the …

Making Sense of the 'Hermit Kingdom': North Korea in the Nuclear Age

… significant opposition, the Bush administration quickly complied with the terror-list demand (in return for certain limited assurances about disarmament, information, and inspections), … knowledge is, of course, another story, one to be told by future historians. The past, however, does not suggest …
Graffiti on wall: "Broken Promises"

Jefferson Cowie on Deindustrialization, Trade, and the 2016 Presidential Election

… to stop bad trade deals and global special interests, we welcome you with open arms, perhaps sensing an opportunity with … the past Golden Age rather than some sort of technocratic future. It's suspicious of the elites, it is a virtue of the … Memphis, or Sierra Juarez, which are the three of the four sites I studied, they would open with a very simple wrote …