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An abandoned building in Chernobyl

A Postcard from Chernobyl

… cloud was detected over Sweden did the full extent become known to the authorities in the Soviet Union’s capital … for “nature”: humans or radioactivity? Some scientific studies indicate an abundance of wild life, especially large … zone on an official tour. We were stopped at check points at the entries to the 30 km outer and 10 km inner …
Bust of Abraham Lincoln.

Getting Wrong with Lincoln

… campaign, he’s already done something that most candidates can only dream about. He’s rewritten a part of … our more prominent pundits have actually repeated, and thus compounded, the movie star’s error. The bogus quotation … he hears one — and Beatty must have understood that his audience would respond better with an appeal to Lincoln’s …
A COVID-19 anti-lockdown protestor in Vancouver, Canada, May 2020

Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective

… As national governments and the global scientific community struggle to contain the spread of the coronavirus … of political and scientific elites and institutional bodies—among them Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, CDC director Robert Redfield, the FDA, and the WHO—created the virus in coordination with a …
Image of a junior high school classroom from Harris & Ewing Photographs.

An Historic Opportunity in Education

… enact this substantial change to Title I. This 35-year-old compensatory education legislation has failed to reach its … fought for the development of national education standards, a policy that would have been unthinkable in previous … and the editor of the Federal Education Policy History website. He is the author of "Failing Grades: The Federal …
Pancho Villa and followers.

Mexico’s Great Transition

… This Friday, December 1st, for the first time since Mexico's modern … taking power.  What ought to be changes of government become changes of regime. Putsches and revolutions substitute … republic. As a result, no doubt the day will soon come when parties in Mexico, like those in the United …
Mural in Guernica based on the Picasso painting. 

Guernica and the Horrors of Modern War

… It was a sunny market day in late April 1937, around 4:30 in the afternoon, when … Guernica was not the first strategically insignificant, non-combatant town ever to be targeted for aerial bombardment, … that the black and white palette of the Guernica mural points to the fact that Picasso, living at the time outside …
A Hawaiian man employing the spearfishing techniques described by Fagan, circa 1890.

Built Upon Bounty

Review of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization, by Brian Fagan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
… The history of fishing predates our own species . Preserved wooden spears suggest that … Some of the earliest evidence of Homo sapien s fishing comes from Central Africa where catfish were captured using … enabled extensive chemical analyses of fish bones. These studies reveal not only what fish species people were …
Protesters during day 14 of Occupy Wall Street

"Class Warfare" in American History

… Doug Dangler   From the Center for the Study and Teaching of … Politics." Thanks for being on the show Sarah, and welcome.  Sarah Siff   My pleasure. Thanks.  Patrick Potyondy   … process of writing through that and have your graduate studies, you're a PhD student in the history department here at …
KKK Rally

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)
… law” (p. 5). This argument revolutionizes the discussion of comparative racism and our understanding of the influence of … on nationalism and citizenry. In chapter two, Whitman elucidates the strongest connection between the Nazi Blood Law, … Krieger, a driving force behind the Nuremburg Laws, had studied race law at the University of Arkansas during the 1920s …
Detail from the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.

Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion

Review of America’s Religious Wars: The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life, by Kathleen M. Sands (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019)
… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … lives, such as equality, freedom, limited government, community, dignity, and the distribution of resources. … as the central fault line in our religious debates: foundations vs. walls. George Washington believed that religion …
Hessian troops surrendering to General George Washington after the Battle of Trenton.

The Return of the Mercenary

… phenomenon. This is why Congress should examine the recommendations made in a 2002 British government Green Paper for a … sector military operators. Mercenaries — professional soldiers who fight for pay rather than out of ideological …