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Image of Shirley Chishorm, Hillary Clinton, Condaleeza Rice, and Kamala Harris

The New Normal (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 8)

… back and what we have learned over the last seven weeks and forward to what this means for the future of women in American politics.  … my guests are historians. We look back and study what has come before and  this …this is a decidedly forward looking … be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …
Chinese manufactured goods, like this jar from the Ming dynasty, were highly desired trade items.

Borne by the Waves: The Ocean’s Role in Global Trade

Review of The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans, by David Abulafia (Oxford University Press, 2019)
… oceans. As the sub-title suggests, this book is first and foremost a human history. While environmental factors like … are addressed, this work is not focused on ecological communities or human impact on marine habitats . Rather, … shaped human settlement, migration, political power, and commercial ventures. Abulafia divides his work into five …

The Amazon Rainforest under Threat

… On August 21, 2019, #PrayForAmazonas became the top trending hashtag on Twitter after the combination of smoke from Amazon forest fires, a weather … who defended the institute’s use of satellite imaging to compile data about the fires. INPE determined that 4,500 …
Portrait of Thomas Paine from 1793.

Common Sense: Salute Paine, Not Jefferson, on the Fourth

… Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence will, once again, command center stage. It will be quoted and read in its … Thomas — Thomas Paine — that served to mobilize the masses for revolution and inspired Jefferson’s Declaration itself. … to determine the political temper of the colonies, reading newspapers and frequenting the taverns and coffeehouses of …
Woodrow Wilson in 1911.

The Peril of Absolute Power

… will on others. Following the American Revolution, and for most of America’s history, the United States was a weak … for a reformation of the world order in his famous Fourteen Points address. Not only did he urge a world governed by … of “a general association of nations,” what would become the League of Nations, to adjudicate international …
Courtesans such as Lilly Langtry (in this 1885 photograph) are claimed to have started utilizing underwear as tool of seduction.

Where’s that Sexy History Under There?

Review of Exposed: A History of Lingerie, by Colleen Hill (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Yale University Press, 2014)
… - mostly through means of fashion photography and short accompanying descriptions - Hill attempts to describe lingerie … and girdles. When draped over mannequins, these artifacts come to life as one flips through the pages and watches the … and gender control, if perhaps the author made room for this in her own analysis. This ladies underwear …
Sir Winston Churchill in 1945.

Churchill on Iraq: “Living on an Ungrateful Volcano”

… Great Britain’s colonial secretary, the man responsible for the administration of the British presence in Iraq, … the Arab officials of Iraq’s British-backed King Feisal “incompetent.” He noted the gross over-expenditure of monies in … invasion. He insisted that “there is scarcely a single newspaper . . . which is not consistently hostile to our …
Portrait of James Madison.

The Hidden Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform

… The campaign finance reform bill passed by Congress will affect not only the … discussion of issues over party politics but make political compromise even more difficult than it is today. In 1787, … over politicians by non-party organizations able to use unlimited money in elections. However, the Supreme Court …
Engraving of René Descartes.

A Triumph for Religion as Well as Science

… thus cannot be taught in public high schools, is a triumph for science and for the separation of church and state. But … and natural theology was a debate within the scientific community of the day. Within the modern scientific … of Massachusetts Amherst and is a writer for the History News Service. …
Top view of person serving themself a rice dish from a table of food

Food for Thought: Diet in History

… history.   Mark Sokolsky   Okay, great. Well, thank you all for joining us. Just to start off,we're going to just ask, … in the sense that because it's so everyday, because it's so common, historians of the past tend to overlook it in favor … of economic stress, that linkages, those linkages become points of vulnerability. And so if you have an import …

Clampdown and Blowback: How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt

… about a year ago, just after al-Sisi and the Egyptian army forcibly overthrew Mohamed Morsi, then the first … on July 3, 2013. The video quickly went viral on news and social media sites and was watched not only by … that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that ousted Morsi, the Egyptian …
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's 1912 illustration, The First Thanksgiving, 1621

Now, About that First Thanksgiving Dinner…

… to eat with family and friends. Some gather to give thanks for all that they have received over the previous year; … are uncertain. The only documentary evidence of the event comes from the journal of Plymouth Colony’s governor, Edward … that the historical evidence of Thanksgiving is not as compelling as the myths that cloud our memories. It’s too …
A 1960s photo of a hallway inside the Philadelphia County Prison.

Have We Learned Nothing About Prisons?

… Attica, Attica.” The mere word packed a powerful punch for the angry mob and for those who saw the movie. Now … the world, trailing only Russia. The prison industry has become big business: billions of dollars are being spent on … Television replaced reading as the preferred source of news and ideas. And inmate educational programs were sharply …
The Dream of Worldwide Democratic and Social Republics – The Pact Between Nations, a print prepared by Frédéric Sorrieu, 1848.

Nationalism in Decline

… wanting to write its own ticket and wishing to speed efforts to solve the world’s problems. Conspicuously first … concerns. Whether subduing Iraq and Afghanistan, combating sex trafficking, restricting nuclear weaponry or … for Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was visiting London for medical attention. Now a foreign …
President George W. Bush in 2004.

When the Axis Was Truly Evil

… world. To many, Bush’s phrase appears to be a trial balloon for a much bigger war in the name of fighting international … peace than Bush’s “axis of evil.” The president’s comments have led to denunciations from the three nations he … in New Brunswick, N.J., and a writer for the History News Service. …
June 4th, 2014, at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)

Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a … reported that only a few family members were allowed to visit the graves, and Zhang Xianling of the Tiananmen …
U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon

Ten Terrorists Attacks in History

… we should remember that terrorism has been with us for well over 150 years and the patterns have evolved over … by failing to address the problems in Russian society that compelled the radicals to violence, Russian leaders … condemned him for his willingness to work with Italy’s communist Party, an act that they believed would undermine …
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.

A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404

… man who Europeans called Tamurlane. If possible, he was to forge a peace treaty with the world-conqueror, whose sack of … noted that work on the largest mosque in the city had been completed just before his arrival, but Timur ordered its … here to Hajji Muhammad al-Qazi, a Chagatai courtier who had visited the court of Castile in Toledo several years …
General George S. Patton waving to crowds in Los Angeles, California in 1945.

Pragmatic de-Baathification is Key to Rebuilding Iraq

… Now that American forces have entered Baghdad, the U.S. military moves to the … or expediency.” (This situation replicated itself in the communist states of eastern Europe; Vaclav Klaus, the first … Party. A blanket de-Baathification order may win political points in the United States, but it will impede the stable — …

Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth

… Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk spoke about his company's plans for interplanetary travel and his belief in humanity's … Aldrin in 2016 at a preview of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex exhibit on Mars ( bottom ). Mars as Empire …
Pedro Albizu Campos, noted anti-imperialist, addressing a crowd in 1936

Reframing the American Empire

Review of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel Immerwahr (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)
… the flag of the United States of America, and to the Empire for which it stands.” According to Daniel Immerwahr, this … of overseas bases. These bases, in turn, became focal points from which American culture spread abroad. … both in and outside of the United States. To write this comprehensive history, the author travelled to Alaska, …
Mr. Ernesto Zedillo, Chair GDN Board of Directors, kicks off the 10th annual GDN conference.

Broken Promises in Mexico

… Clinton will soon be traveling south of the Rio Grande for a summit with his Mexican counterpart Ernesto Zedillo. … bilateral trade, illegal immigration, and joint efforts to combat drug trafficking. Political reform in Mexico should … harsh realities of Mexican politics during his upcoming visit.  To champion President Zedillo as an agent of change, …