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1864 reproduction of the Emancipation Proclamation from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Obama’s Evolving Position on Same-Sex Marriage Is Similar to Lincoln’s Evolution on Antislavery

… protect slavery, Lincoln was compelled to consider the real meaning of his previous warnings that the nation could not …

Young Child dressed in a Uncle Sam costume

Coming to America to Contribute

Review of Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century, by Robert L. Fleegler Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013

… phrase to the lexicon. The “melting pot” had a variety of meanings. For some it embraced the contributions that …

The coat of arms of the Republic of Texas from the 19th century.

Is Sharon Following in the Steps of Nixon and de Klerk?

A memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) in Yaroslavl.

From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War

Review of Russia: The Story of War, by Gregory Carleton (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2017)

Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev

Mendeleev's Periodic Table

… orbiting a nucleus explained some of the anomalies that had plagued the periodic system from the start. The periodic …

Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy

"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"

Review of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2014)

A card celebrating March 8 as International Women’s Day.

Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century

Review of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)

Spanish and French troops in Afghanistan in 2005.

Calling Al-Qaeda Fascist Doesn’t Make It So

… sharply, and these differences render Bushs comparison meaningless in the realm of strategy. For example, Al-Qaeda …

Democrats — the Party of Disorder, and Achievement

The Long-Term Legacies of Brown v. Board

… The danger is that the same racial stereotypes that once plagued our society will become re-ingrained in the …

“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.

The Old Informing the New

Review of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic, by John M. Murrin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)

Immigrant Rights Protest by Betty Tsang, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The Federal War on Immigrants Is a War on All Workers

Nationalist police forces in Barcelona preventing voting in the October 1, 2017 referendum.

Top Ten Origins: Catalonia (Catalunya) and Spain

Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order

… has not been enough to provide western countries with any meaningful influence compared to that of Moscow and Beijing. … when they occur, are largely devoid of any democratic meaning. The fairness of most elections held in the region …