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General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.

The Collapse of Ottoman Power

Review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan (New York: Basic Books, 2015)
… fire on a Russian gunboat and a mine-laying vessel. The sinking of two Russian ships by a German taskforce under the … with the goal of overcoming the Turkish defenses blocking naval access to the Black Sea. Dominion soldiers on the … The hopes that allied strategists once entertained of knocking the Ottoman Empire out of the war with a single …
man with giant crab

A Tale of Two Fisheries: Fishing and Over-Fishing in American Waters

… for their own citizens. Many were also interested in making fishing within their EEZs sustainable by placing limits … for conservation. If one fisher voluntarily refrains from taking as many fish as possible, another fisher—lacking any legal or moral restraints on his or her …
Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… feature article, Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making , by Dr Asher Orkaby. For more coverage of the Middle … many other policy publications. Thank you so much for speaking with us today, Professor Orkaby. Dr. Asher Orkaby: My … of political violence, I would frame it as four interlocking struggles or four interlocking conflicts. So Asher is …
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.

The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis

… 400,000 daily and the healthcare system reaches its breaking point, patients are left scrambling to find oxygen, … There are plenty of immediate reasons for this heartbreaking tragedy, and chief among them is a failure of … administrators feared the prospect of epidemic disease breaking out in the military, the cornerstone of imperial …
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.

A Postcard from Solovki

… man discusses cameras with a young photographer taking “art” photos. And then, about an hour and half into the … as it plowed the waters to Solovki, I couldn’t stop thinking that these two men so many centuries before had rowed … asks, “What would make someone leave life behind, seeking an existence of unremitting toil and prayer, where …
US Marines fight rebellious Boxers outside Beijing Legation Quarter, 1900 – copy of painting by Sergeant John Clymer

The Boxer Rebellion

… served as bases for  Christian  missionaries, who were making progress in converting some local Chinese. Many Chinese … he did not refer to it specifically, Mao was indirectly invoking the Boxer Protocols as the imperial subjugation China … seeks to reclaim its historical identity as the “central kingdom” and project influence across Asia and the world. …
Nationalist poster depicting Pakistani atrocities during the war

The Bangladesh Liberation War

… Gandhi. Pakistan preempted Indian action, however, by attacking northern India from West Pakistan on December 3. Map of … who aided the Pakistani army, or who were involved in the assassination of Mujib in 1975, have served in the …
Suffragettes protest for the right to vote

Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial

… in the home. And it was certainly not the case for working class, Black women, for other women of color, who, for … with Height joining historic demonstrations with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, including the 1963 March on Washington. In …

Clash in the Caucasus: Georgia, Russia, and the Fate of South Ossetia

… Tanks and troops poured across Georgian borders, picking up South Ossetian militia along the way. The Georgian … spilled onto the streets, waving flags, firing guns, and honking car-horns in celebration. The question is what drove … to deal with; and for Ukraine and Kazakhstan, which are seeking closer ties to the West and have large Russian …
NCAA Basketball championship banners.

The Big Business of “Amateur” Intercollegiate Sports

… coaches” to exert pressure to reform the college game. Speaking to a gathering of physical education departments, Boles … Former Columbia University student Reed Harris published King Football: The Vulgarization of the American College … Byers estimated that almost a third of D-I schools were breaking the rules and that illegal payments to athletes were …
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… and abroad, who have had the courage to privilege truth seeking and challenge the official narrative of the Turkish … a permanent solution to the Armenian problem. A striking and well-developed contribution is Akçam's emphasis on … in Der Zor, Syria occurred (p. 277). One final thought-provoking feature of the book is Akçam's discussion of "cultural …

American Presidential Scandals

… at the center of the anti-Eaton cabal. The big winner was Martin Van Buren, who, as a widower, had avoided the problem … this combination of scandals contributed to Grant’s ranking near the bottom of historians’ ratings of Presidents , … long been  at or near the bottom  of the presidential rankings due to a  reputation for corruption . The main Harding …
A Church in Novgorod Russia

Russia and the World

… news.   Jessica Blissit  From regional interventions to hacking to allegations of interference in elections, Russia … Or are they primarily reactions to events that are taking place on the global scale?   Stephen Norris      Well, … in recent works that are quite good ones. Here, I'm thinking particularly of Mikhail Zygar's book, All the Kremlin's …
A shopkeeper sits outside his store in the Cardo waiting for tourists and residents to stop in.

A Postcard from Jerusalem

… ascending to heaven from a stone in the Dome of the Rock, making this site the third holiest in the world after Mecca … to the Jews. Jews have lived in Jerusalem since the rule of King David in 10th century BCE. While many Jews fled … arrived. Cafes and bars now sit alongside vendors, making the market still a wonderful place to people-watch, day …
Sheikha Mozah

Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa

… insulting but patronizing. So the dilemma that we were talking about, East and West, is really ironic. You can see … life. So I think many of the assumptions that people are making when they talk about women and the West are predicated …   Johanna Sellman  Right.   Mark Sokolsky  When are we talking, like sort of eighth, ninth century or -?   Johanna …
Mary Mallon in a hospital bed in 1907.

Who Was Typhoid Mary?

… after using the bathroom. When sewage seeped into drinking or bathing water, or when a person with typhoid germs … again raise the question over how much health officials seeking to protect the public from infectious disease should be … Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical . United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. Hasian, M.A. Power, …
Three 10th Mountain Division Ski troopers above Camp Hale in the Pando Valley, Colorado in February, 1944.

Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership

What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?
… two-week detail happened to be over six feet tall, good-looking, and heavily decorated for their service in Italy. It … the Brazilians and their American guests. After disembarking, the honor guard was whisked away to their plush … 50 years later, one veteran remarked, “We lived like kings in Rio.” They attended soccer matches, spent hours …

Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea

… broadsides, and claims to represent an Afro-Asian world shaking off colonialism, Mao’s China made the perfect foil … of the other nuclear powers—the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom (which had tested its first device in 1952), and … in outer space. They would stay in Moscow for 11 days, working on a test ban, sketching out a non-diffusion pact, …

NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War

… to the fall of its ally Yanukovich in Ukraine by sparking a civil war in eastern Ukraine, designed to weaken the … orbit. Others blame the United States and NATO for sparking the popular uprising in Ukraine that brought down … to operations in the Balkans and Afghanistan . Yet looking at the history of NATO shows that since its origins in …
Shells of burnt-out busses after a suicide bombing

The Terrors of Suicide Bombing

… to our next question and building upon what we've been looking at so far. We were wondering if there are differences … of the Geneva Conventions. I guess, today, what we're looking at in the Middle East, and especially in the Wars of … arrested. So the decision to even undertake this type of an assassination attempt meant that you basically had come to …
a woman at a witch trial. she is wearing white and has her arms up in air with lightening bolts coming out of them. A judge, lawyer and an audience of people look on.

What was Wrong with the Judges at the Salem Witch Trials?

… then he'll take your questions. If you're interested in asking a question please write in the Q&A function at the … Mary Sibley sort of grabbed the two Indian servants working at Parris's house to bind Tibuba. And together they … about whether it's an appropriate term or not. The McMartin case in what was that the 1980s or 90s? Of course the …

Protestant Preaching after the Age of Graham

… In the process, they have transformed evangelicalism, making it more international, more racially diverse, and more … ;  The People's Pope;  Baptized in the Jordan River ;  Martin Luther and the Reformation ; and the  Catholic Prohibitions …
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

… Diversity and Inclusion, where she spent over 30 years working with students to support their academic goals, and echo … open things up for discussion. If you are interested in asking a question, please write it in the q&a function at the … how supportive she's been through this process, of me, taking on this role of being a student, and being a full-time …