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Patrick Henry Addressing the Virginia Assembly. Lithograph from the painting by A. Chappal. Engraved by H. B. Hall.

A Time to Listen

The Question of Immigration

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World History since 1500

1943 poster for the Allies of World War II--two years before the founding of the United Nations.

The UN Follows the League’s Long Trail to Impotence

A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target.

Rumsfeld May Spark Space Weapons Debate

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker

Margaret Gorman, winner of the first Miss America Pageant in 1922.

Beauty Pageants and American Politics

… attained the right to vote. This transformed the cultural meanings of the beauty pageant. In the months that followed, …

Hand-coloured woodcut of a Methodist camp meeting in Eastham, Massachusetts, c. 1850.

Promise Keepers Stake Male Claim to Moral and Political Power

… is instructing an audience of women, as well as men, on the meaning of a revival of religion. On the surface, it seems, …

The ruins of Cassino, May 1944 - a wrecked Sherman tank and Bailey bridge in the foreground, with Monastery Ridge and Castle Hill

The Nature of World War II

World War II was a total war—a mobilization of nearly all human and natural resources.

The Berlin Airlift

Various sedimentary rock strata are visible in many areas of Badlands National Park.

Ten Moments of Insight in America’s National Parks

… than forty years, has eloquently described their deeper meaning: One way to look at the national park system is as …

This stamp features the first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn."

The “Shot Heard Round the World”: April 19, 1775 and the American Revolutionary War

… the military skirmish didn’t last long, the fight over its meaning continued for a good deal longer. This stamp …

Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.

Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor

… whose intolerance instigated the communal violence that plagues South Asia today. To Hindu nationalists, he is the …

The Anatomy Murders

Review of The Anatomy Murders, by Lisa Rosner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)

Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE.

The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response

… history of government response to natural disasters such as plagues, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and now …

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pictured in 2002

Apologizing for History

… But is it really possible for anyone to apologize meaningfully for something they never did to someone who is …

"The National Game. Three Outs and One Run." Drawing depicting the four candidates of the 1860 United States presidential election (L to R): John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The artist is comparing the election to a baseball game.

The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery

An art exhibition, probably in Moscow in 1964. Taken by Thomas T. Hammond during his travels in the Soviet Union.

When the Soviets Domesticated the West

Review of To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture, by Eleonory Gilburd (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)

… readers and viewers, works of Western culture gained new meanings and acquired new lives in the Soviet Union. Drawing …

Blackouts: Symptoms of Our Dependence

Cartoon by Ali Delim in honor of 20th anniversary of Said Mekbel’s killing. The cartoon reads: “Said Mekbel in Heaven for journalists. Here it is not the quills that are missing.” (Cartoon used with permission)

1/30/2015: The Dangers of Being a Humorist: Charlie Hebdo Is Not Alone

The detonation of the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb

Top Ten Origins: Civil Defense, Nuclear War, and Duct Tape

Rosie Castro with her sons, Joaquín, left, and Julián, April 23, 2006 (ZUMA Wire/San Antonio Express-News/Helen L. Montoya)

No Julian Castro without Mother Rosie Castro

Atomic bomb damage on Hiroshima gas building.

Time to Confront the Ethics of Hiroshima

Responding to Pandemics—Both Past and Present

What can we learn from the public/medical responses during previous epidemics and pandemics to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels?