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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 …
The Golubac Fortress was a medieval fortified town on the south side of the Danube River

A Postcard from Djerdap, Serbia

… the Romans and Byzantines, Bulgarians and Serbs, and later Ottomans and Hungarians. These waves of conquest each left …
Palais de Beaulieu

The Theological Third Way in Latin America

Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left, by David C. Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty of Waitangi

… achieved the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833 turned its attention to the plight of …