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Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald

1989: The Year That Changed It All

… Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora … Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , smart conversations about today's … Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website origins.osu.edu on iTunes and on SoundCloud, and as …
Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol

Six Days That Shook The World

Review of The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, by Guy Laron (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
… administrations that deemed the application of force a welcome distraction from domestic problems. At the same time, … War (1962-1970) at the same time that Egypt’s overextended commitment of troops to North-Yemen’s republicans had … offensive mindset—“Rabin’s Schlieffenplan,” (145) as Laron coins it in pointed allusion. Rabin's "Schlieffenplan:" an …
The Algerian flag.

Torture in Iraq: Lessons from Algeria

… These French units exploited the unclear lines of their own command authority to act somewhat independently of the rest of the military. This ambiguous command authority also allowed them to set up a vast network … the time between being rounded up as a suspect and officially documented as a prisoner was particularly …
An influenza hospital at Camp Funston

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

… in Kansas where few noticed the signs of the pandemic to come amid the ongoing war. On March 4, 1918 company cook Albert Gitchell, possibly patient zero, … outbreak. Fatalities peaked in November 1918. Military officials were often the first to realize the severity of …

Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America

… I saw the ad on a real estate web site a week ago. For sale: 3952 Chatsworth Street, Detroit, … the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the … white flight. And even as the black population spread, the official oppression—the relentless oppression—never lifted.  …
A teacher and her students in an elementary school classroom.

When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right

… California has something to offer the nation as it comes to terms with last month’s Supreme Court ruling … Even more important, they provided easy ways to file complaints and measure compliance. Achieving such a sweeping … standards has depended upon the good will of elected officials, always a variable. If other states follow …
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 … Chili Queens . Though often derided by public health officials, these women street vendors in the main public … a military town with transient servicemen and as a tourist site based on a fantasy heritage of the Alamo brought in …
Man Celebrating Repeal Day with a banner that says "Good Old Days Are Back Again!"

Celebrating Repeal with a Drink, Not a Joint

… and Washington, the news media are now brimming with comparisons of alcohol to marijuana prohibition and “lessons … drinking habit. In 1970, two legal scholars wrote a comparison of alcohol and marijuana law that I believe still … The courts generally came to see the state legislatures as competent to decide whether drinking was a public evil and …
 Reagan in 1982.

Measuring Reagan for Greatness

… immortality. A better approach than polling is to compare Reagan with past presidents who are now regarded as … Reagan left office. Great presidents are also effective communicators. Lincoln was the finest speechmaker in … support for New Deal legislation. Reagan, dubbed the “Great Communicator,” was an enormously successful speaker. A …
The University of Algiers, ca. 1920.

The University of Algiers Library Bombing

… of thousands of books, periodicals, and manuscripts had become fuel for the flames.  Newspapers around the world … efforts, in April 1968, the University of Algiers library officially reopened.  Although it was eventually possible to … the issue of the destruction of cultural and intellectual sites in wartime is by no means resolved.  Recent United …
Depiction of the eleven-month-long siege of the Russian naval base at Sevastopol, Crimea, during the Crimean War

Crimea: A General Introduction

Review of Crimea: A History, by Neil Kent London: Hurst & Company, 2016.
… the Greeks, the Romans, and the Goths, among others. This comprises the first chapter of Kent’s history. The next … Crimea is, at its core, a part of Europe, with much more in common with the West than the East. He writes that “its … factual inaccuracies. For example, Kent refers to the “last official census before the current political upheavals,” …
Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.

"Lone Wolves" No More

Review of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, by Kathleen Belew (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… A soldier named Tim McVeigh . . . ―Charlie King, The War is Coming Home , 1996 On April 19, 1995, a date fraught with … former soldier Timothy McVeigh—along with several accomplices—detonated a three-and-a-half ton fertilizer bomb … a new level of White Power animosity toward government officials, even as they resulted in acquittals. By 1983, the …
U.S. soldiers in Iraq in 2007.

Nation-Building Demands Heavy Lifting

… years after World War II, not a single U.S. soldier died in combat either in Germany or in Japan — in sharp contrast to the nearly 600 U.S. combat deaths in Iraq since the end of “major combat … this conflict. In making the case for war, administration officials have exaggerated intelligence findings, insulted …

Erdoğan’s Presidential Dreams, Turkey’s Constitutional Politics

… of the Turkish Republic since its founding in 1923: the uncompromising secularism of the first Turkish president, … Mustafa Kemal Atatürk . Although Erdoğan insists that he is committed to secularism, he has won the hearts of millions … a willingness to move against opposition journalists and officials in the name of the popular will. Clearly, the …

Apres Poutine ? Les Elections Presidentielles Russes

… Russie Unie, soutenu par Vladimir Poutine. Le Parti communiste arrive en second avec seulement 11 % des voix, … historique et social, elles s'inscrivent, afin de mieux comprendre leur portée. Il me semble en effet que … le Kremlin dès 1994-1995, a connu une première tentative d'officialisation en 1996 (Boris Eltsine avait alors proposé …
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916

The Amritsar Massacre

… civilians in Punjab were shot by British soldiers under the command of the now infamous “Butcher of Amritsar.” British … Nehru and his son Jawaharlal, and a man who would soon become very well known—Mohandas K. Gandhi. In 1919, Gandhi was … unknown. Early estimates ranged from 291 dead (British officials) to 1000 (Congress report). After the massacre, …
Various sedimentary rock strata are visible in many areas of Badlands National Park.

Ten Moments of Insight in America’s National Parks

… of natural areas as well as historic and other cultural sites, are often touted, justifiably, as world-class travel … the intellect with emotion and place. You can follow our common fight for independence and creating and keeping a … into the control capsule for a 24-hour shift. Off came the official jumpsuits and on went sweats, shorts, even …
Tilden illustration - a hand on another hand that is on a gun on a table with papers

Top Ten Origins: Other “Unprecedented” Elections in American History

… in the moment. Some, however, really do represent something completely new in American political history, and not always … set subsequent political norms, permanently altered the composition of national political coalitions, or revealed … headline in its early edition. 10. 2000 A Florida election official reviews a paper ballot during the 2000 recount. The …
Reagan in 1982.

Exit Gen. Grant – Enter St. Ronald?

… who watched the Kremlin used to study photographs of official Soviet events to see which Communist Party members were visible and which had been …