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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)

… Alexander (perhaps none) had travelled beyond the Persian Empire. But Alexander went for a number of reasons. …

The last Soviet forces leave Afghanistan via Friendship Bridge in February of 1989

What They Left Behind: The Soviet Union in Afghanistan

Jefferson High School Marching Colonials perform on the steps of National Archives Building on Constitution Day, September 17, 1974.

Let’s Do Something Constitutional on Constitution Day

U.S. Army Officers wearing their “Pinks-and-Greens,” 1943. (Library of Congress)

Throwback Army: World War II-Style Uniforms for Today’s Soldiers

Raising a Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei (1945).

The Living Ghosts of the Second World War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… with an emphasis on a powerful Russian state. He saw the Revolutions of 1917 and the Civil War that followed …

Infanticide: Something New Under the Sun?

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

… World War, these efforts hinged on the building of an empire, both for resources and for international prestige. …

Olympic Broadcasting Services covering the men's 10 kilometre marathon swim at the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Big Game on the Small Screen: The Televised Transformation of Sport

The Ethiopian Civil War in Tigray

Painted poster of Saddam Hussein riddled with bullet holes in 2003.

Hybrid Justice for Hussein

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. (Image by Eric E Johnson)

Originalism’s Historical Problems: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of a Controversial Theory

Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

A photo of the Steamship Martha Washington in 1913.

Thinking Differently about “Think Different”

… one last Satyagraha with the Microserfs against the new empire on which the sun never sets, Bill Gates, Inc. If …

Person on horseback faces line of police and military vehicles

Native Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

Review of American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, by Kevin Phillips New York: Viking, 2006

… an overview of how whale oil shaped the fate of the Dutch Empire in the 1600s, the author charts the birth of oil …

The Road to a New American Aristocracy

Clash in the Caucasus: Georgia, Russia, and the Fate of South Ossetia

Patrick J. Buchanan: a Populist, Not a Conservative

… affairs. Buchanan's recent book, "A Republic, Not an Empire," echoes the sentiments of the America First …

From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.

Top Ten Origins: Climate Change

Map of the Electoral College for the 2024 United States presidential election.

Arguing the Electoral College: Con

Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice

… that all slavery be abolished, but the burgeoning European empires paid little attention to this moral idea when so …

Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

1/13/2015: Top Ten Origins: The Common Core Curriculum

September 17: The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

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