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First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History

… declared with 1.5 million Armenians killed. He named it a genocide. This is something Armenian expatriates have wanted … rocky relationship, so be it. A spade is a spade. This is a genocide. He's extended the new stars treaty with the … to make the declarations, like labeling the Armenian genocide or issuing a state about the Floyd case. We're …

A Century of Sanctions

… across America in response to Armenian and Assyrian genocides during World War I ( right ). The British blockade …
Wrangell-St Elias Natl Park by CheWei Chang, Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0

America’s National Parks: 10 Moments of Insight

When you “pair the intellect with emotion and place,” what often results is a moment of insight: an unexpected instance where you suddenly understand something deeper about history, about nature, about others, about yourself.
… the dispossession of Native American land, cultural genocide, the extension of slavery, centuries of conflict …
Cover of Apache Diaspora by Paul Conrad.

“Diaspora” as a Creative and Historical Force

Review of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival, by Paul Conrad (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… “empire.” Benjamin Madley, Jeffrey Ostler, and others saw “genocide” in the destruction of native peoples. In Paul …
a rocket being launched in the Middle East

War and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Today & Yesterday

… warfare, ISIS, Central Asia and Afghanistan, the Armenian Genocide, Israel and Jerusalem, and the Hajj, among many … (ISIS) The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War On the Armenian Genocide Middle East Remains Unstable 30 Years after Attacks … Invasion of Iraq, 10 Years Later Armenians, Turks, and the Genocide Question (Podcast) The Terrors of Suicide Bombing …
Kosovo is located to the south of Serbia.

The Perils of Breaking Away

… under almost all circumstances; intervening to stop genocide is one of the few, controversial, exceptions. In …
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick Book Cover.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Review of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick (New York, Viking Press 2006)
… the brunt of what Philbrick has labeled a "European-style genocide" (179). The overwhelming brutality of this conflict …
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan

Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday

… Criminal Court has indicted Omar al-Bashir for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Can you … roaming in the city of Khartoum. The result was a massive genocide which the United Nation described it as the worst …

A New Congo Crisis?

… million. A major cause of the war originated in the Rwanda Genocide , which triggered the flow of about two million … members of the Interhamwe militias responsible for the genocide, along with local conflict caused by the presence …