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Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism

… many international agreements ( left ). President Obama speaking to the people of Berlin in front of the Brandenburg … ( left ). The former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno speaking with supporters after Duterte ousted her from office in … campaign, billboards read “The Hungarian reforms are working!” In addition, the new election system created a pool …

Another Silent Spring

… plant and animal species began returning to our cities, making a rather unfamiliar noise with their singing and honking. That clamor of geese, woodpeckers, and swans came from … The biologist and writer Rachel Carson opened her world-shaking 1962 book Silent Spring with “a fable for tomorrow”—a …
Three Afghan police trainees, sitting on ground with guns

Afghanistan: Past and Prospects

… can be taken back to antiquity, really, in terms of looking at it as a modern nation-state. I think it's most … the surrounding agricultural zones, pastoral zones so looking at like Herat in the northwest, Balkh and Mazar e … up to the north. It was a frontier zone. And I think, looking at the ways that Afghans themselves interacted with …

Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising

… in the Ba'th Party and armed forces, particularly high-ranking 'Alawis. But through the 1970s, violence broadened to … the Ba'thi order with a liberal democratic system. In taking this step, the Brotherhood openly allied itself with … moves. Cadres opposed to negotiating with the regime and working with Khaddam resorted to armed struggle in an attempt …
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]

Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety

… there seemed to be issues with the radio navigation aid, making it impossible to find the field with instruments alone. … Report” called for a number of measures aimed at making aviation safer in the air and on the ground. The … in 1956. The tragedy came at a time when Americans were taking to the air in ever greater numbers. And they were …
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.

The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War

… North Korean diplomats in Africa became infamous for trafficking ivory and arms. The North Korean government, committed … their authoritarianism and the surveillance state by invoking the North Korean threat. North Korean guerillas …
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Ideas of Race and Racism in History

… open things up for discussion. If you're interested in asking a question, please write it in the Q&A function just at … with the focus on the 20th century. She's currently working on a transnational history of French anti-racism … were wrong. In so doing, these experts gave the backing, the prestige, the authority of science, to the most …

The Fate of the Kurds

… the eastern borderlands against the Armenian “threat.” Taking full advantage of their commissions, these Kurdish … the territorial integrity of what remained of the shrinking empire, but embraced different tactics. The governor of … approach to suppress communities he believed to be working with Europeans to threaten Ottoman territorial …

The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

… use for the next 50 years—the mass petition, public speaking, and the boycott. Transatlantic networks of … for overstepping boundaries of female propriety by speaking out in public threw into sharp relief that, as … suffrage from British Chartists, the first mass working-class movement in England, directly inspired Stanton’s …

Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview

… Russian history is replete with stories of enemies seeking to undermine the state: conspiracy theories, as many … hands of the West stretched to all corners of the earth, working behind the scenes to prevent Soviet achievements. As we … they confirmed that the CIA had played a role in Lumumba’s assassination. The Office of the Historian has stated …
Royal Irish Rifles in foxhole at Battle of the Somme, 1916

Legacies of the Great War

… of mass mobilization, the use of the media, arms control, taking a small country and making a regional conflict into a global one that these are … the war are told over and over again. We all know about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand on the streets of Sarajevo. …

A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics

… to the west of the Philippines. While not explicitly backing Manila, Obama stressed his commitment to preserving … Pacific coincided roughly with that of Japan, perhaps making a fight over the Philippines inevitable. To  … rights. Nonetheless, Washington remained steadfast in backing the Marcos regime. Playing to nationalist sentiment, …

Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya

… the Kenyan Parliament in early March, the army was cracking down on groups in the western Mount Elgon region who … the cost of a proper repair. Colonialism and the Making of "Tribes" The severe economic and social problems … the political scene and the source of some of the murders/assassinations. But hired thugs have been perpetually on the …

Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present

… team's earlier tour of apartheid South Africa, some walking out of Olympic housing after the Games had already … stage: basketball constitutes a powerful instrument for making the world aware of Lithuania's existence. In my … That story must await the completion of the Games. Looking further into the future, we now see considerable …

Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks

… we see signs everywhere of what some observers call the sinking ark of agricultural biodiversity (agrobiodiversity). As … agricultural research centers beginning in the 1970s. Working in collaboration with hundreds of governments, civil … on CGIAR's gene banks to improve their agriculture, taking advantage of the CGIAR's open access to resources for …
Artifact from Benin

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

… museums like to avoid it. Because restitution implies making up for a past wrong and that past wrong and a lot of … But I think for our purposes, what we're really talking about, and you said this, you hinted at this at the, in … about statues, textiles, what sort of objects are we talking about when we have these debates? And are there …

The Second Amendment Goes to Court

… had nothing to do with firearms. Jefferson was actually talking metaphorically, about having all of the facts one … from the 18th to the 21st centuries is crucial to making sense of the 2nd Amendment today. Consider the language … the modern individual nor collective rights models, making it hard to interpret. The best way to describe the …
Graffiti on wall: "Broken Promises"

Jefferson Cowie on Deindustrialization, Trade, and the 2016 Presidential Election

… and "Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class". During this presidential race, Donald Trump and … the foundation of that idealized past that there are talking about. What were the core characteristics of the New … in 1972 when Wallace, there's an attempted says there's an assassination attempt on his wife in Maryland and at that …

Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis

… water, head-butting water tanks, trampling fences, and licking water from air conditioning units. If the urban areas … Australia were wetland people, and they had a hard time making sense of Australia's particular climate and hydrology. … turned to the Botany swamps, with similar results. The taking of these waters worsened already tense relations with …