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"The National Game. Three Outs and One Run." Drawing depicting the four candidates of the 1860 United States presidential election (L to R): John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The artist is comparing the election to a baseball game.

The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery

Cartoon by Ali Delim in honor of 20th anniversary of Said Mekbel’s killing. The cartoon reads: “Said Mekbel in Heaven for journalists. Here it is not the quills that are missing.” (Cartoon used with permission)

1/30/2015: The Dangers of Being a Humorist: Charlie Hebdo Is Not Alone

The detonation of the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb

Top Ten Origins: Civil Defense, Nuclear War, and Duct Tape

Blackouts: Symptoms of Our Dependence

West Berliners stand amid the rubble of WWII and watch U.S. Air Force transport planes land at Templehof Airport during the Berlin Airlift in 1948.

No Julian Castro without Mother Rosie Castro

The ruins of Cassino, May 1944 - a wrecked Sherman tank and Bailey bridge in the foreground, with Monastery Ridge and Castle Hill

The Nature of World War II

World War II was a total war—a mobilization of nearly all human and natural resources.

Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.

Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor

… whose intolerance instigated the communal violence that plagues South Asia today. To Hindu nationalists, he is the …

Atomic bomb damage on Hiroshima gas building.

Time to Confront the Ethics of Hiroshima

India and Pakistan highlighted on a map.

“Open Skies” for India and Pakistan?

The Anatomy Murders

Review of The Anatomy Murders, by Lisa Rosner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)

Antichristus, a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder: the pope depicted as the Antichrist, using his temporal power to grant authority to a generously contributing ruler.

The Bible as a Political Tool

… a set of empty and banal cliches, divorced from context and meaning, ready to be deployed at will. Moore is simply the …

Print of "The Epiphany of the New Antichrist" by Romeyn de Hooghe.

The Myth of the Jewish Antichrist: Falwell Stumbles Badly

President Kennedy surrounded by cameramen after signing the Cuba Quarantine Order on October 23, 1962.

How Bush Might Have Profited from Kennedy’s Example

The Prima Porta Statue shows a powerful and youthful Augustus making an address

Celebrating Roman Emperor Augustus

The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi Book Cover

Clashing Shades of Red

Review of The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)

A portrait of U.S. Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, who advocated for air power in the 1920s.

Rumsfeld Must Modernize U.S. Armed Forces

Mikhail Bakunin speaking to members of the International Workingmen's Association at the Basel Congress in 1869.

Back When a Socialist Was a Socialist

Carrie (left) with her mother, Emma Buck, at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 1924.

The Sterilization of Carrie Buck

From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics

… past, and as more Americans identify with class issues, the meanings of the term "class warfare" have become even more …

Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones

… and cents. I only know that it’s very, very large.” Though plagued with malfunctions, over 2,400 German UAVs under … strikes on Tokyo would teach “Japanese civilians [the] meaning of total war.” By 1945, indiscriminate drone strikes … to develop drones (fearing V-1 attacks on Moscow) was plagued with setbacks and not viable until 1952. Yet Soviet …

President Ronald Reagan Says Goodbye to Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev After The Last Meeting at Hofdi House Reykjavik Iceland, 10/12/1986

The Presidential Candidates Should Vow to Complete the Nuclear Arms Reduction Efforts Begun by President Reagan in Reykjavik

Cover of "Our Hemisphere"? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall.

Episodes of Ambivalent Empire

Review of “Our Hemisphere”? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by : Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021)

… convey a certain ambiguity about the consequences and meaning of U.S. power in the Western Hemisphere. The …

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