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Bird's-eye-view of the 1993 border blockade enacted by CBP Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas as part of Operation Hold the Line.

Fortifying the U.S.-Mexico Boundary: The 1993 “Hold the Line” Experiment

… its provisions to increase the number of immigration agents and judges at the border.  He also proposed deploying … which he claimed was responsible for the deaths of thousands of children. Biden said, “This bill would save lives … Act, among others, demonstrate the hardening of the U.S. southern border in the 20th century. The region has always …
A French Quarter Pontalba Row building.

A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana

… sits on Basin Street, within the Tremé neighborhood and about a block north of New Orleans’s famed French … along the river, lending French, Spanish, English, and African influences to the architecture, food, and music—all … city’s image, recognition of the slave trade that brought Africans to New Orleans is often relegated to the …

What's All Happening at the Zoo?

… the treat with his long tongue, pulled it into his mouth, and received a bullet in his brain. Then, before a crowd of … British traveling menagerie show that included a variety of African, Asian, and South American animals. In the late eighteenth and early …
Cover of Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz.

The Gifts That Keep On Giving

Review of Philanthropy in America: A History, by Olivier Zunz (Princeton University Press, 2012)
… at the beginning of his splendid history of philanthropy and it serves as a double reminder: first, philanthropy in … this. "Philanthropists were allowed to finance schools for African-American children in the South," he writes at one point, "but were subject to a host …

The Fate of the Kurds

… in October 2019 with an astonishing display of ignorance and callousness. He dismissed objections to abandoning them … with a population of some 35-40 million people centered in southeastern Turkey, western Iran , northern Iraq , and … Inside The Forgotten War ; Women in the Mideast and North Africa ; and the Syrian Civil War and Arab Spring . … Janet …
Cover of Zoot Suit The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style by Kathy Peiss.

A Suit, or a Statement?

Review of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, by Kathy Peiss (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
… the United States experienced a wave of wartime tensions and explosions of violence from New York City to Detroit to … the suit, the historian must move past the quintessential African and Mexican American wearers to examine the youths … which is the premise of chapter six. From Mexico to Canada, Africa and the Caribbean, the zoot suit quickly appeared …
seedlings

Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

… Bart Elmore takes us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came … book tentatively entitled, Country Capitalism: The American South, and Global Ecological Change. With that introduction, … can use its phosphate, that it's mining by the way out in southeast Idaho at great expense and at great capital cost …
Glacial ice on Lake Baikal

Climate Change and Human Life

… , three environmental historians, Sam White , John Brooke , and Nicholas Breyfogle , discuss past patterns of climate … and stress and a brown Earth. We are the children of East Africa. We didn't really face the glaciers. But we are the … time. It's a disastrous series of occurrences in the U.S. south, what is now the U.S., in the North American …
IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

… global war on terror, that now reaches 76 countries and seems far from over. Although American thought on … American, a guy who went into a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot and killed nine worshippers in the … as eventually the government of Nicaragua, but of course, Africa and so forth. As it carried on, the idea that Cuba …
A wheat field in Ukraine resembles the colors on the country's flag.

Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe

… February 24, 2022, international agencies such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations … portion of Ukraine’s cultivated agricultural land in the south, as well as blockading ports on the Black Sea, a … of poverty.  Countries in the Middle East and North Africa such as Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia are very …
Soldiers in Kosovo

Kosovo: The Lessons of History?

… how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and children?” “How are we supposed to peacefully resolve … might of the United States be applied in Kosovo and not in Africa? The answer seems to be that the United States has … commitments and economic interests in Europe than in Africa. But such a rationalization made me feel like Henry …

Becoming 'European:' The Diverging Paths of the Czech and Slovak Republics

… In Prague, the last hours of 2008 were crisp and clear, and in that sharp winter chill the flood-lit … very same clear and crisp New Year's Eve, 181 miles to the southeast, a significantly different scene was unfolding in … Austro-Hungarian Empire covered much of East Central and Southeastern Europe. The present-day Czech Republic was …
Abraham Lincoln

Top Ten Origins: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

… things to know about his presidency, his assassination, and his legacy. 1. Presidents Killed in Office President … to serve in the White House; and a native of the Upper South who ended slavery. 6. Lincoln as a Politician Orville … level. That meant a hundred years of discrimination against African-Americans and the most blatant violations of …
The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson Book Cover.

Capturing a Moment

Review of The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
… the best thing a historian can do is drill down into and fully decipher a particular historical moment. We tend … survival had he chosen to walk away from supporting South Vietnam, making his decisions appear that much more … American troop levels to 175,000 to prevent the collapse of South Vietnam. Some members of Congress and the American …
Three 10th Mountain Division Ski troopers above Camp Hale in the Pando Valley, Colorado in February, 1944.

Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership

What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?
… elite glacier-goggled “ski troops” rock climbing, skiing, and snowshoeing Colorado’s snow-capped peaks under heavy … fought as joint-combatants with an unlikely set of allies—South American soldiers of the  Força Expedicionária … “We had contact with Americans, British, and South Africans,” one Brazilian veteran wrote after the war, “and

The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing

… On February 1, 2013, a suicide bomber killed himself and a security guard at America’s embassy in Ankara, Turkey. … example the bombings of American embassies in East Africa in 1998 and the attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Yet … Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon. The Shiites of south Lebanon, already reeling from civil war, were caught …

From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics

… of Americans facing unemployment, losing their homes, and racking up student loan debt, the idea of a struggling … to a handful of businessmen to connect the West and the South to the heart of the Union by rail. Oil and steel … people." Hayes campaigned for economic development of the South and currency stabilization, both of which he argued …

Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama

… If he were alive today, William McKinley would understand Barack Obama's 2011 humanitarian intervention in Libya. … Like Obama, McKinley confronted geopolitical disorder and economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. … denomination had established a parish on Chicago's south side in the late 1960s. Derided as a "white church in …

Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment

… to sour with remarkable regularity: in 1914, 1920, and, of course, during the Great Depression. A long stretch … lured more and more Americans off the farm. By the time the South fired on Fort Sumter, cities like New York, … transcribing the life stories of ex-slaves in the rural South. It is crucial to underscore, however, that Franklin …