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Cover of Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm by Harold James.

Blood and Steel

Review of Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm, by Harold James (Princeton University Press, 2012)
… armaments and the Nazi regime. Harold James' book, Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm , offers a new look at … the relationship between the Krupp business and Germany's history runs deeper, a product of the personalities involved … famed corporate culture, that of the Kruppianer. Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm is a book that will …
Slobodan Milosevic, just after signing the Dayton Agreement

Lessons from the Holocaust Are Relevant to the Crisis in Kosovo

… attacks on Yugoslavia are attempting to draw lessons from history to support their points of view. While many examples from history are relevant to the present crisis, none is as … the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, has published books on popular culture and politics, and is a writer for …
Family members of U.S. Army Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble attending his Medal of Honor ceremony.

Honoring Native American Veterans This Veterans Day

… because this is not the usual story line of American Indian history portrayed in movies or taught in public schools. For … Month typically involves a few lessons in early Indian history, arts and crafts, and the national tragedies of the … This is important material, but after the lessons one of history’s most influential indigenous populations is placed …
Grover Cleveland, painted by Anders Zorn in 1899

The Politics of Civility

… Carter should stop preaching and learn more American history. The last successful effort to insulate politicians … the campaign of 1884 — perhaps the most abusive in our history – a period more familiar to today’s voters began to … the greatest levels of political participation in American history. They might, too, recollect that the emergence of …
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)
… “restore the Ottoman front to its rightful place in the history of both the Great War and the modern Middle East” … at the Iraqi city of Kut was unprecedented in British history. The hopes that allied strategists once entertained … naval campaign. Finally, students of modern Middle Eastern history may be interested to learn that Sykes-Picot …
Portrait of Jane Addams

Million Moms March in Noble Company

… gun control legislation, we ought to remember the powerful history of mothers' activism on issues related to violence … against children has been part and parcel of American history. We need only to recall the horrors of slavery, the … into the twentieth century. Many social critics in American history have seen poverty, too, as a kind of violence …
Unification council of Orthodox Church in Ukraine, 2018.

The Religious Roots of the War in Ukraine

… of Kyiv was baptized by the Greeks at Chersonesus in Crimea before returning to his capital to baptize his people … the Euromaidan revolution , the Russian seizure of Crimea , and the start of war in the Donbas region in … Connecting History
Flag of Israel with landscape of Israel in the background

Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II

… Israel Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Ohio State University, This podcast is brought to you by the Clio Society of the Ohio State History Department, in partnership with the Bexley Public … and Israel after World War II, brought to you by the History Department, the Clio Society and the College of Arts …
Holding a copy of ”Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Red Guards are featured on the cover of a Guangxi elementary school textbook, 1971.

"Mao's Last Revolution": China's Cultural Transformation

… 1981, known as the “Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party,” the Cultural Revolution lasted from … and adult authority, they wandered and read forbidden books. And of course, our focus on young people who would … class not just in terms of property but also through history, standpoint, and behavior. Some critics of the …
Chartwell, the country estate of Winston Churchill

By Invitation Only

Review of The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939, by Adrian Tinniswood New York: Basic Books, 2016
… and expressive periods of country house living in England’s history. Country houses have always been a lifestyle for the … misgiving, The Long Weekend brings needed nuance to this history. The beauty and splendor of the country estate … House, 1918-1939 , by Adrian Tinniswood New York: Basic Books, 2016 …
New York stock market index from 1926 to 1939

Can the Global Crisis of the Nineties Lead to Another Great Depression?

… conditions in the Thirties and the Nineties, and does history offer “lessons” from a comparison? Some of the … but, fortunately, the present is not the same as the past. History cannot simply “repeat itself.” One important … the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, has published books on popular culture and politics, and is a writer for …
People holding signs: "More Mental Health Care + Less Jail Time" and "Support Mental Health - It's the Right Thing to Do"

Mental Health and American Society

… the tide of mass violence. However, Americans have a long history of pointing to mental illness as a panacea for solving social problems and an equally lengthy history of criticizing the treatment of those considered mentally ill. On this episode of History Talk, hosts Jessica Viñas-Nelson and Brenna Miller …
Custis Lee (1832–1913) on horseback in front of the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, Virginia on June 3, 1907, reviewing Confederate Reunion Parade.

Trent Lott and the Collapse of Southern Mythology

… With 2002 drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. … Such ghostly visitations are hardly new in a region whose history is suffused with guilt, pride and the divisive issue … the morally indefensible. Caught on the wrong side of history, politicians such as Lott have invoked the white …
Isaac W. Williams (front) in a file photo from the 1960s.

Still Fighting the Civil War in South Carolina

… civil process.  The nation must attend to the pain of its history and the pain that the denial of that history continues to inflict.  For after the band stops … J. Kytle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at California State University, Fresno. He is …
A teacher and her students in an elementary school classroom.

When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right

… Union of Southern California, argued that current textbooks, clean and safe classrooms, and qualified teachers … years, Williams v. California has a surprising political history as well. Gray Davis, who was governor in 2000, … professor, is author of "The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism" (2010). …
 Reagan in 1982.

Measuring Reagan for Greatness

… president, raises the question of how he’ll be judged by history. The current proximity of his life and his … Lincoln was the finest speechmaker in American history. FDR, TR, Wilson and Truman were also dynamic … come to pass, but it’s still safe to say that when the history of the 20th century is written, the 40th president …
Napoleon, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, and King Frederick William III and Queen Louise of Prussia in Tilsit.

The Global Reach of the Napoleonic Wars

Review of The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History, by Alexander Mikaberidze (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
… But Alexander Mikaberidze’s The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History challenges readers to view these wars and their … part in Mikaberidze’s story. Understanding that the global history of the Napoleonic Wars cannot be fully understood … It is easy to recommend The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History for Napoleonic scholars. Some material may be …
Hurricane Sandy Rockaway

Hurricane Sandy Should Inspire New Ways of Building and Living on the Seashore

… our backs on the past, on the world at large. The entire history of coasts and coastal people has been forgotten. … to the contrary, the coast as timeless, existing apart from history. America has forgotten that it was once the most … most biodiverse geography.   So let’s recover our coastal history. It will do no good simply to place a plaque where a …
Cover of The Baron's Cloak by William Sunderland.

An Imperial Person

Review of The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution, by Willard Sunderland (Cornell University Press, 2014).
… ties with (or just annex) former imperial domains, from Crimea to Kazakhstan. Many scholars have analyzed the … work. It is not, however, a biography, but rather a microhistory that uses Ungern’s life as a lens through which to … the way he neatly summarizes critical moments in Russian history, from the conquest of Siberia to the Civil War, …
Caricature of President Nixon in 1970.

Patrick J. Buchanan: a Populist, Not a Conservative

… some very old themes and positions from Republican Party history. His success will depend upon whether these … economic times is very much open to question. The history of both populism, and of Buchanan and the GOP, will … one of the largest expansions of tariff rates in American history and blamed by many for exacerbating the Great …
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?
… at war. There is, however, another element of the unit’s history that is often forgotten: The fact that during its … unit’s wartime deeds would “have a prominent place when the history of the Second World War is written.” Of course, … most experienced units in Italy.  Understanding the fraught history of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force makes it easier …
Communards with flags

The Socialist Legacy in France

… In this Origins podcast of Writers Talk History , host Patrick Potyondy interviews historian Alice Conklin about the history and mass appeal of socialism in France . ( Image … Alice Conklin for our latest segment of Writers Talk History .   Patrick Potyondy   Our guest today is Dr. Alice …
Bust of Abraham Lincoln.

Getting Wrong with Lincoln

… can only dream about. He’s rewritten a part of American history. The Hollywood actor recently capped a bizarre … as hell and much feistier about the class struggle than our history books have suggested. Like a nagging flu bug, this strain of … History News Service …