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Alawites and the Fate of Syria

… ghulāt (Shi’ite extremist) sects, permitting wine drinking, not requiring women to be veiled, holding ceremonies … I. After defeating and evicting the British-backed Syrian King Faysal in 1920, France, in a divide-and-rule strategy, …
Reinforcing Omaha Beach with men and equipment

Remembering D-Day: 10 Important Facts to Know

… particularly in regards to D-Day. The Americans, despite lacking capability to do so, argued for an invasion in 1943. … visitors. Heads of state from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Germany have attended in order …
Plate of enchiladas at a Mexican restaurant.

Mexican Food in the United States

… their own space and identity through food. Borderlands Cooking: Tortillas, Chiles, and Chile Powder  The food … peoples pioneered the “nixtamalization” process of soaking corn kernels in an alkaline solution to make a workable … , which included a San Antonio chili tent. The meatpacking industry, which largely at this time operated out of …

The Summer of ’10: Federal Power, Local Autonomy, and the Struggle over Immigration Policy

… press for school desegregation, which the NAACP was also seeking in a case that it had brought before the U.S. District … dominated by the federal government, immigration policymaking and enforcement have witnessed an increasingly vigorous … to by some as the "corporate death penalty" for revoking business licenses of repeated offenders—should be known …
The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan

The Fall of Tenochtitlan

… the city’s grandeur defied language. He wrote that upon looking down into the Valley of Mexico, “some of our soldiers … 1609), John Carter Brown Library. Diego Javier Luis, “Rethinking the Battle of Otumba: Entangled Narrations and the Digitization of Colonial Violence,” Rethinking History 23:3 (2019). Eulalia Guzmán, Relaciones de …

Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism

… many international agreements ( left ). President Obama speaking to the people of Berlin in front of the Brandenburg … ( left ). The former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno speaking with supporters after Duterte ousted her from office in … campaign, billboards read “The Hungarian reforms are working!” In addition, the new election system created a pool …
Three Afghan police trainees, sitting on ground with guns

Afghanistan: Past and Prospects

… can be taken back to antiquity, really, in terms of looking at it as a modern nation-state. I think it's most … the surrounding agricultural zones, pastoral zones so looking at like Herat in the northwest, Balkh and Mazar e … up to the north. It was a frontier zone. And I think, looking at the ways that Afghans themselves interacted with …

Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising

… in the Ba'th Party and armed forces, particularly high-ranking 'Alawis. But through the 1970s, violence broadened to … the Ba'thi order with a liberal democratic system. In taking this step, the Brotherhood openly allied itself with … moves. Cadres opposed to negotiating with the regime and working with Khaddam resorted to armed struggle in an attempt …
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]

Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety

… there seemed to be issues with the radio navigation aid, making it impossible to find the field with instruments alone. … Report” called for a number of measures aimed at making aviation safer in the air and on the ground. The … in 1956. The tragedy came at a time when Americans were taking to the air in ever greater numbers. And they were …

Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America

… known interracial marriages between abolitionists—William King and Marry Allen (1853)—resulted in their fleeing the … masse to ferret out “passers.” A certificate from 1924 mockingly “guaranteeing” a person’s racial “purity." … a Polish American from marrying. Sheet music from 1897 mocking African Americans and Chinese Americans ( left ). “The …
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.

The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War

… North Korean diplomats in Africa became infamous for trafficking ivory and arms. The North Korean government, committed … their authoritarianism and the surveillance state by invoking the North Korean threat. North Korean guerillas …
L to R - Indigenous, African American, and Jewish Peoples

Ideas of Race and Racism in History

… open things up for discussion. If you're interested in asking a question, please write it in the Q&A function just at … with the focus on the 20th century. She's currently working on a transnational history of French anti-racism … were wrong. In so doing, these experts gave the backing, the prestige, the authority of science, to the most …

The Fate of the Kurds

… the eastern borderlands against the Armenian “threat.” Taking full advantage of their commissions, these Kurdish … the territorial integrity of what remained of the shrinking empire, but embraced different tactics. The governor of … approach to suppress communities he believed to be working with Europeans to threaten Ottoman territorial …

The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

… use for the next 50 years—the mass petition, public speaking, and the boycott. Transatlantic networks of … for overstepping boundaries of female propriety by speaking out in public threw into sharp relief that, as … suffrage from British Chartists, the first mass working-class movement in England, directly inspired Stanton’s …

Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview

… Russian history is replete with stories of enemies seeking to undermine the state: conspiracy theories, as many … hands of the West stretched to all corners of the earth, working behind the scenes to prevent Soviet achievements. As we … they confirmed that the CIA had played a role in Lumumba’s assassination. The Office of the Historian has stated …

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) is nonetheless working to revive the Jordan River, restoring the basin as a … “which she received with joy and gratitude, drinking it and spreading it over her body to wash away the sins … by 19 th -century Russian travelers described pilgrims taking bottles of holy water and burial shrouds dipped in the …
Royal Irish Rifles in foxhole at Battle of the Somme, 1916

Legacies of the Great War

… of mass mobilization, the use of the media, arms control, taking a small country and making a regional conflict into a global one that these are … the war are told over and over again. We all know about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand on the streets of Sarajevo. …

A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics

… to the west of the Philippines. While not explicitly backing Manila, Obama stressed his commitment to preserving … Pacific coincided roughly with that of Japan, perhaps making a fight over the Philippines inevitable. To  … rights. Nonetheless, Washington remained steadfast in backing the Marcos regime. Playing to nationalist sentiment, …

Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya

… the Kenyan Parliament in early March, the army was cracking down on groups in the western Mount Elgon region who … the cost of a proper repair. Colonialism and the Making of "Tribes" The severe economic and social problems … the political scene and the source of some of the murders/assassinations. But hired thugs have been perpetually on the …

Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present

… team's earlier tour of apartheid South Africa, some walking out of Olympic housing after the Games had already … stage: basketball constitutes a powerful instrument for making the world aware of Lithuania's existence. In my … That story must await the completion of the Games. Looking further into the future, we now see considerable …

Good Guys and Bad Guys with Guns: Gun Control in Canada and the U.S.

… responsible for security at the House of Commons, with taking down the gunman. Commentators not completely caught up … were supposed to be “the nation’s bulwark” slouching, slacking, or sticking their hands down their pants. Militias in … who was shot in the head during John Hinkley, Jr.’s assassination attempt on the President—as well as the …

Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks

… we see signs everywhere of what some observers call the sinking ark of agricultural biodiversity (agrobiodiversity). As … agricultural research centers beginning in the 1970s. Working in collaboration with hundreds of governments, civil … on CGIAR's gene banks to improve their agriculture, taking advantage of the CGIAR's open access to resources for …
Artifact from Benin

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

… museums like to avoid it. Because restitution implies making up for a past wrong and that past wrong and a lot of … But I think for our purposes, what we're really talking about, and you said this, you hinted at this at the, in … about statues, textiles, what sort of objects are we talking about when we have these debates? And are there …