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the cover of a Captain America comic book

Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation

… and artist Jack Kirby in the eponymous Captain America Comics #1 , the patriotic hero became a breakout star for … role in an experimental program meant to create an army of super soldiers to defeat the Nazis, only to become the … II, Captain America waded into national debates with sometimes blunt force. Since the 1960s, his stories have reflected …
Demolition of the former Penn Station concourse raised public awareness about preservation.

Choking Off Our Past

… the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City to Acoma Sky City in New Mexico. NTHP activists are gathering in … current efforts aimed at protecting the Apollo 11 landing site and 106 pieces of equipment left at Tranquility Base on the lunar surface. Enshrining the site where mankind first set foot on the moon goes to the …

Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama

… economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the … the president to act. The Maine 's explosion is rightly credited with rousing mass sentiment for war. However, elite … might have required containment, but for Niebuhr, any superpower utterly convinced of its transhistorical role …
The University of Algiers, ca. 1920.

The University of Algiers Library Bombing

… the main building of the university was engulfed in flames, lighting up the skyline of downtown Algiers. … of thousands of books, periodicals, and manuscripts had become fuel for the flames.  Newspapers around the world … the issue of the destruction of cultural and intellectual sites in wartime is by no means resolved.  Recent United …
Andrés Manuel López Obrador in front of Mexican flag

"Juntos Haremos Historia": AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation

… Lauren Henry  Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together … day of his presidency, they unveiled a new logo for the website of the govierno de Mexico the website, which is kind of … see them, wherever you go within Mexican history, so super familiar to everybody. To me, it's like that's how you …
Employees operating a testing center at the Walmart Supercenter in Elizabethville, PA, August, 2020.

Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance

… A common response to the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide has been … were not made exempt from further scrutiny. Just the opposite: they actually shouldered additional burdens of … to be fully integrated with the country’s “social credit system,” meaning one’s health score will be largely …
Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India,

The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster

… flowers to be sacrificed on the altar of profit - we are flames, committed to conquering darkness, and we will continue the … poisoning, discovering severe contamination of the factory site, surrounding land and groundwater. Levels of mercury in …
A Nuclear Power Plant in the Untied Kingdom against a blue sky.

How Green Is the Atom?

The Past–and Future–of Nuclear Energy in the United States
… industry representatives, but many environmentalists have come to see nuclear power as key to end world dependence on … with decommissioning, thermal pollution, construction times, and skyrocketing costs. Nuclear Waste  While nuclear … radioisotopes that fill the environment.  By 2017, 46 NPP sites had leaks or spills that involved radioactive tritium …
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.

A Postcard from Solovki

… stand at the bow of the ferry as the water of the White Sea comes in wave after wave through the hole in the gunwale for … Russian national park and have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992 . Map of the White Sea and Solovetskii …
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, United States President George W. Bush, and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after reading statement to the press during the closing moments of the Red Sea Summit in Aqaba, Jordan, June 4, 2003.

A Flawed Basis for Middle East Peace

… may instead prove to be a stumbling block. To their credit, the Saudis persuaded 21 other Arab states to agree … opportunity to attack Israel and destroy Jewish religious sites. For 19 years after Israel became a state in 1948 the … flaw in the Saudi proposal. No political or territorial compromise on the part of Israel, including diplomatic …
Wartime poster. Canada. The Bureau of Public Information was created in September 1939 to disseminate information about Canada’s war policies.

Can the New Administration Keep Canada as an Ally in Afghanistan?

… put Canada at the top of his list. Thus far, however, the incoming administration’s message to Canadians has been disappointing. The principal … states had the resources necessary to compete with the superpowers.   Halifax’s ideas were neither new nor …
A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, 2014. UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID

Sahelian Arabs and their Role in the Sudan War

… RSF as terrorists. Yasir al-Atta, the Sudanese army deputy commander, said in an interview on August 3, 2024, that the … its paucity of resources, the Arabian Peninsula would at times become over-populated. This led to mass migrations … writer al-Sadiq al Raziqui wrote on Al-Jazeera’s website that mercenaries returning from  Yemen in 2019 were …
The Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem.

A Peace Plan That May Be Worse Than War

… In preparation for hosting an upcoming summit of Arab heads of state, Saudi Arabian Crown … opportunity to attack Israel and desecrate Jewish religious sites. For 19 years after Israel became a state in 1948 the … destroyed or desecrated synagogues, schools, homes and other relics of two thousand years of Jewish …

Punishing the Past: Presidential Elections in Times of Crisis (1932, 1968, 2008)

… for the political party whose policies promise the best outcome. But if we had any way to make such calculations—if we … Protestants. For these Protestants, God was not so much a supernatural creature but was immanent in our social life, … Franklin Roosevelt. In 1928 Hoover and his party had taken credit for the prosperity of the 1920s, and at the end of …
Plate of enchiladas at a Mexican restaurant.

Mexican Food in the United States

… Powder  The food tradition of the American Southwest has come about through various populations’ contributions over … his New Braunfels, Texas restaurant in 1894. He is widely credited as the inventor of this product. He soon thereafter … a military town with transient servicemen and as a tourist site based on a fantasy heritage of the Alamo brought in …
Cover of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman.

Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

Review of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend, by Richard Stoneman (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2008)
… the Alexander legends. The Egyptian tradition, for example, credited Nectanebo, the last historical pharaoh of Egypt (r. … birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), Persia's …
The Slave Trade by Auguste Francois Biard (1833).

When Free Trade Meant Something Else

Review of Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition, by Bronwen Everill (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020)
… institutions . The 1619 Project, directed by New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, has brought public … the global economy. This conversation has raised uncomfortable questions about contemporary businesses and … business transactions, delving into issues of fraud, credit, and government relations. Merchants involved in …
A drawing by Italian artist Achille Beltrame imagines Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination by Gavrilo Princip

The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip

On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world.
… lives and change the face of the planet for generations to come. Gavrilo Princip Legend tells that shortly before his … and exploitation. Socialist-era Sarajevo memorial site where Gavrilo Princip shot the archduke. Reads: "From … organizers claimed to present a forward-looking “global message of peace,” the events themselves showed how …
The American Historical Association Logo

3/26/2015: Best in History Online: The American Historical Association

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into … attention to the American Historical Association's (AHA) site. The AHA functions as an inclusive organization, …
History in Pictures Twitter Page Profile

Two Teenagers are Behind the Most Popular History Twitter Feed

… how this kind of online popularity is achieved by a history site. The Atlantic’s tech writer, Alexis Madrigal, provides … Madrigal explains, with great technological power and reach comes great responsibility. @HistoryPics often ignores issues …
Portrait of Francisco Franco in 1964 from Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa

The Death of Franco

… prisoners, the Valley of the Fallen is a mass burial site that was designed to commemorate the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) as a … negotiated the political transition that followed under the supervision of King Juan Carlos, whom the dictator had …

Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration

… during Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations  in 2017 [photo credit:  TML Weekly Information Project ]. Canada’s Houses of Parliament (its House of Commons and the Senate chambers) sit on the unceded … 2018. Indeed, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s website “ Beyond 94 ” that tracks which of the recommendations …

'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan

… by the specter of our nuclear past. And given Japan's complicated past with nuclear issues, it is especially … unabated. By the mid-1950s, most of the easily dammed sites had already been developed. Likewise, Japanese sources … in cooling towers that hold the water until it is no longer super-heated. Many nuclear plants regularly dump this water …