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Entrance gate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, "Work Sets You Free," 2013

At the Movies: “Canaries,” A Review of Denial

… mathematics and reason from the Christianizing Roman Empire). Jackson surrounds Weisz with a gallery of great … queen who led her people in an uprising against the Roman Empire. Here, the film seems to deliver its final …
Ukrainian refugees sheltering beneath a bridge in Kyiv, March 5, 2022.

“The Tragedy Has Never Left Us.” On the War in Ukraine

… able to equate those Serbs who fought against the invading Ottoman armies in 1389 with those fighting in the 1980s, … “crimes against peace.” It’s a war of colonization, of empire. An event with global dimension, which rekindles the …
a Galapagos sea turtle swimming in the ocean

What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?

The youngest, westernmost islands are still volcanically active and are thought to be no more than 700,000 thousand years old.
… Spanish galleons returning from the newly conquered Incan Empire in the New World. By 1790, the pirates were replaced …
Mexican flag in a square

A Postcard from Mexico City

… indigenous allies, who were not fond of the expanding Aztec empire. It was a mutually beneficial alliance. Cortés took …
A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942

Operation Barbarossa

… which would mean working together to partition the British Empire. Molotov responded by demanding Germany address …
Cover of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome by Brian Campbell

Rome's Wondrous Rivers

Review of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, by Brian Campbell (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
… riverine trends and connections across the whole Roman empire, he is always mindful of the ways in which the …