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Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen in 2012.

War Crimes: The “New Era” Looks Like the Old

Image of a large turkey on a postcard from the early 1900s.

The First “First Thanksgiving”

The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg Book Cover.

How the Sun Rose Again on the City of Light

Review of The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg (New York: Basic Books, 2012)

Protesters with signs in support of immigrants: "We are all here thanks to immigrants", "If you don't want immigrants, stop destabilizing their countries"; "Defend DACA"

Honduras, TPS, and U.S. Policy

The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949

The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State

Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer of November 16, 1919, reporting the first use of cloture by the United States Senate.

The Founders Cared about the Majority Principle

Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen

Such a Disappointment

Review of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders, by Dennis C. Rasmussen (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021)

Idi Amin's Coup d’État, Uganda 1971

The four women Supreme Court Justices: Sandra Day O'Connor, Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan. O'Connor is not wearing a robe because she is retired from the Court.

Should Catholic Justices Recuse Themselves on Certain Cases?

The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe

War Without End Brings Endless Dangers

US Marines fight rebellious Boxers outside Beijing Legation Quarter, 1900 – copy of painting by Sergeant John Clymer

The Boxer Rebellion

19th century engraving showing Wall Street from the corner of Broad Street.

The First Wall Street Bomb

The Dalai Lama during a visit to Boston, Massachusetts in 2017.

An Effective American Policy on Tibet?

… former. A. Tom Grunfeld is a professor of history at SUNY/Empire State College, the author of "The Making of Modern …

A Century of Sanctions

… norms reappeared in the 1960s. With the end of European empires in Africa and Asia, dozens of new nations took seats …

Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly

Palestine and Israel: A Case of Incomplete Decolonization

… the author of "Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire" (1998) and a writer for the History News Service. … …

Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944

The Liberation of Paris

Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock

… nation-state to their own exclusive club. The nationalist revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries …

Crowds outside the Bank of United States in New York after its failure in 1931.

Blame It All on Unintended Consequences

Bob Knight: A Latter-Day MacArthur?

… at Western Illinois University. He is the author of Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American …

Djiboutian workers fill bags with wheat destined for Ethiopia, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at the Port of Djibouti, Africa, Jan. 7, 2013.

The Birth and Death of USAID

… appealing to Britain and France with their expansive empires, but they were joined by an increasing number of …

USS ARIZONA sinking during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.

The 1942 Internments and Today’s Security Crisis