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The National Crest of Transnistria.

Transnistria: The History Behind the Russian-backed Region

… five to ten individuals planted 12 anti-tank mines at a telecommunications complex, destroying two large radio antennas. More recently, … on orders from Moscow. In all likelihood, the Russian soldiers themselves decided to intervene because they had …
The University of Algiers, ca. 1920.

The University of Algiers Library Bombing

… of thousands of books, periodicals, and manuscripts had become fuel for the flames.  Newspapers around the world … universitaire d’Alger et de sa reconstitution après l’incendie du 7 juin 1962 . Bibliothèque universitaire d’Alger, … de la Bibliothèque universitaire d’Alger.”  Algérie Presse Service . June 6, 2022,  …
Two vials of modern insulin named Actrapid (left) and NovoRapid (right) by the manufacturers.

The First Insulin Injection as a Treatment for Diabetes

… a chronic condition that can have serious, life-threatening complications if left untreated. Diabetes is caused when the … concoctions of herbs and seeds and, by the 18th century, dietary changes. In 1870, French pharmacist Apollinaire … one undergraduate assistant, Charles Best (selected by coin toss), to study and isolate the islet’s excretion. …
a military drone in the air over a desert

Military Drones: Terror Weapon or Military Tool?

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
World History since 1500
US History since 1877
Science & Technology
War & Peace
… The lesson plan focuses and grapples the long, changing, and complex history of military drones.  The Origin article that … from being flimsy wood and canvas devises that were more common in science fiction novels than the military to the terror weapons of World War II, and now their complex role in today’s society.  I made the decision to use …
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916

The Amritsar Massacre

… peaceful civilians in Punjab were shot by British soldiers under the command of the now infamous “Butcher of Amritsar.” British … political dissent. Indian troops played many roles in the service of the British Empire in World War I; here, Indian …
The last Soviet forces leave Afghanistan via Friendship Bridge in February of 1989

What They Left Behind: The Soviet Union in Afghanistan

… in February 1989—twenty-five years ago—the Soviet Union completed withdrawal of its combat forces across the Friendship Bridge from the Afghan … society.” Kopp saw the Bolshevik Revolution as an event embodied in modernist architecture, but also facilitated and …
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz Book Cover

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

Review of Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2007)
… Weitz helps the reader understand how and why the fragile, complex, and tense culture of Weimar Germany motivated these … do. The discussion of the sexual revolution in Germany comes closer to touching on the wide variety of general … across the spectrum is an outstanding touch, because they communicate not just the intellectual but also the artistic …
a billboard with flags of many countries and the word Peace on it.

A Conscientious Objector Looks Back

… were symbolic munYou would the announcement over the intercom: .. Youhear would hear the announcement sentiment was … patient to the wall until he calmed down. of alternative service in the national interest. down. Edwards remembers … are equal in about the way the hippies had been treatsoldier and leave him there to die? It would to attend anti-war …
President Bush visiting American troops in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day, 1990.

Selling Iraq with the Wrong Pitch

… President Bush likes to tell his usually hand-picked audiences that Iraq will become more democratic and prosperous because of America’s … environment.   Iraqis now suffer a lower level of basic services than they did a year ago, despite our having spent … History News Service

Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya

… going to take their seats the next day and that they were completely resolute in overturning the election and bringing … Kenya's already weak governmental provision of social services. The Kenyan government has never protected its … only survivors were two persons buried alive in a pile of bodies. The media have also discussed how the Kenyan political …

A History of Stolen Citizenship

… the amendment restored voting rights to ex-felons who had completed their prison sentence and been released from … laws like the one Floridians voted to eliminate. More common are states that extend disfranchisement through … are most common in the South today, nor is it simply a coincidence that African Americans remain disproportionately …
The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean, by Peter Earle Book Cover

The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean

Review of The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean, by Peter Earle (St. Martin's Press '07, $25.95, 292 pages, ISBN #0-312-36142-4; index, source notes, bibliography, unillustrated)
… most valuable colonial possessions in an era of uncertain communications and increased European competition. It also details the diplomatic problems faced … trade routes to protect and only a handful of trained soldiers, ships, and funds to protect them with, even the most …
W.E.B. Du Bois c. 1911

150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois

… anniversary of the birth of W. E. B. Du Bois. Although he died more than 50 years ago, his life and work command more attention now than ever before. Many of his … and exquisite poetry. In all of his work, he called for a commitment to the truth as far as it could be determined, to …

Populism and Anti-Americanism in Modern Latin America

… Brazil and Chile, are not populists. Consequently, the most common definition of populism in political science today … to "the people." In other words, populism is a way of competing in elections and governing once in office that … (most likely killed by the military that dropped their bodies in the shark infested ocean). Furthermore, declassified …
Flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

NATO Expansion in Eastern Europe: For What and For Whom?

… funded by the United States, to contain/encircle Soviet and Communist power in Eastern Europe, prevent powerful … no need to maintain military expenditures as corporate subsidies, and no need to wield a global big stick against Third … in New Brunswick, N.J., and a writer for the History News Service. …

The Year of Africa

… After touring British colonies in Africa, Macmillan had become increasingly convinced that “national consciousness” … and indirect means. The French writer Jean-Paul Sartre coined the term “neocolonialism,” and Kwame Nkrumah used it … of Lumumba’s anti-Western sentiments and as a result of soldiers’ mutinies and secessionist movements in the southern …

Erdoğan’s Presidential Dreams, Turkey’s Constitutional Politics

… of the Turkish Republic since its founding in 1923: the uncompromising secularism of the first Turkish president, … the AKP and the moderate religious group known as Hizmet (“Service”) led by Fethullah Gülen was shattered in 2013 when … Fundamental Organization Law of 1921 was a temporary expedient intended to facilitate military resistance against the …

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

… collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Central Asia has become an increasingly important pivot in international … as cotton in Uzbekistan)—even if the end of Moscow's subsidies for unprofitable factories put the local economies in a … such as justice and the police but also in small public services, education, agriculture, and industry. The …
A Mobil gas station in 1982.

A Case for Gasoline Price Controls

… successfully cut back many consumer prices. Bush frequently compares the war in Iraq to World War II. Last month, at a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War … in Arlington, Tex., and is a writer for the History News Service. … History News Service
Voting booth exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Library.

God in the Voting Booth: How Religion Shapes the Politics of Both Republicans and Democrats

… Office in February 2025 to “assist faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship in their … inaugural address four years later. After reminding his audience that new scientific developments had given people the … In the early 1970s, Richard Nixon’s White House church services and denunciations of the permissiveness of the …
Mural of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.

‘Til All the World’s an Ebenezer

… women, who saved the church that nurtured him and composed the movement whose spokesman he became. King was … as a "maids' church," Ebenezer still held its major Sunday service after the women of the congregation had finished … to offer it. Two years after King's birth, his grandfather died and his father became the pastor of Ebenezer. During …