Prologued: Women and the Vote
Analyzing the myth of the women's voting bloc
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The Story of Poinsettia Day and U.S.-Mexico Relations
In the late 1820s, Joel Roberts Poinsett introduced the poinsettia plant to Americans, who marveled at its foliage.
The Bangladesh Liberation War
… Pakistan was created during independence from the British empire in 1947 . At that time, the South Asian subcontinent …
He Led His People Into the Desert
Review of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
… on the social margins to the patriarch of a vast religious empire. More confounding to biographers, Young's opinions …
The Old World Meets the Neolithic Age
Review of The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
… Spanish conquistadors tamed this new land and conquered its empires, thus paving the way for Spanish and subsequent …
Between Black and White
The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations
Gavrilo Princip: Puppet Assassin or Hero of the People
Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
European History
War & Peace
… related to Princip, his Black Hand Group, and the Austrian Empire. Students will be put into groups that will determine …
Why Afghanistan Will Not Be a Quagmire
… price. In the nineteenth century, the British and Russian empires were competing for dominance in the Near East. …
Democracy by Force, or by Example?
… “not by embarking in a military crusade to establish the empire of our principles . . . but by the moral influence of …
A Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing
Review of Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain, by John Bew (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017).
From Dixie to the Third Reich
Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
A New Deal Prescription for Gordon Gekko
… people. Then, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the empires they had built like a house of cards collapsed. …
The University of Algiers Library Bombing
… began in 1830, when France invaded Algeria and defeated the Ottoman ruler. Over the nineteenth century, the French …
