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Statue of Samuel J. Tilden in New York City.

Presidential Electoral Controversy Nothing New in Florida

… to resolve the issue in 1876 through a special Electoral Commission and a resulting complex set of commitments that came to be called the … University-Billings, and a writer for the History News Service. … History News Service
Cover of The Battle of Adwa African Victory in the Age of Empire by Raymond Jonas

When Ethiopia Stunned the World

Review of The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire, by Raymond Jonas (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2011)
… and, due to a series of blunders by his subordinate commanders, his force was overwhelmed. Aside from numerous … also captured 1,900 Italians and 1,500 Askari (African soldiers serving in the Italian armed forces). The scope and … the battle. His narrative navigates seamlessly between commanders and commoners and sheds new light the conflict. …
The flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

A European Future for NATO?

… France is rejoining military NATO, the United States is becoming more distant. This may be the best way the United … France would no longer participate in NATO’s integrated command and that NATO military headquarters and U.S. … Carolyne V. Davidson is a writer for the History News Service and a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale University. …
 Cover of Chivalry in Medieval England by Nigel Saul

Knighthood As It Was, Not As We Wish It Were

Review of Chivalry in Medieval England, by Nigel Saul (Harvard University Press, 416 pp, 2011, ISBN 978-0-674-06368-6)
… wished that things could just be like they used to be. A common sentiment, it is actually responsible for distorting … ends and actual history begins. In Chivalry in Medieval England , Nigel Saul aspires to these aims as he … minor faults, Saul delivers on his promise to separate the common impression of chivalry as a fantastical code of …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders in 1963.

Giving Up on the Dream?

… to stir the nation after four decades. Yet the black community still struggles to decide whether to follow King’s … He had already been jailed for his non-violent civil disobedience in pursuit of those goals. Today’s black leaders have … William C. Kashatus's is a writer for the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money Pitcher: The Tragedy …
Burning ships after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.

Not Only Action but Accountability

… Every commentator in America is drawing the parallel between the … pointed to America’s growing vulnerabilities. The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st century, a task force … Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for strategic studies at The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the History News Service. …
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.

The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis

… patients’ access to lifesaving medical assistance, all compounded by the emergence of a new variant that may be … to challenge the underlying health inequities that have become so glaringly apparent in India’s second coronavirus … historic neglect of health and called for health services to be made available to all Indians. Looking to …
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq

Iraq's 1920 Revolution

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary … uprising brought together Sunnis and Shi'is , elites and commoners, city dwellers and tribespeople. It caught the … several strategically situated southern towns. Captured soldiers were treated leniently, even as retreating British …
President Clinton and President-Elect Bush in December 2000.

Leadership and the New Bush Administration

… dimples, chads and absentee ballots has raised the ire of diehard partisans who will try to weaken the president by … otherwise, is a dynamic process that revolves around three complex elements — the leader, the followers and the … of the New Era" (2004) and a writer for the History News Service. …
Palais de Beaulieu

The Theological Third Way in Latin America

Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left, by David C. Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
… Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I [Jesus] have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19 NIV). This Great Commission found at the end of the first gospel of the New … Evangelical Left , explores the development of the understudied—and by many accounts, unacknowledged—Latin American …
A judge's gavel resting in front of legal books.

Windows and the Bench: Microsoft and the Judges

… industrial power in the Railroad Age. Like so many complex cases decided under that statute, this one will take … modern conditions. But the procedures of the act, which commit antitrust decisions to the judiciary and the … University of Michigan and a writer for the History News Service. …
Abraham Lincoln Campaign Poster 1860

"Great God, What does it Mean?" - Lee's Escape at Williamsport

… history is the Battle of Gettysburg. While many will commemorate the battle itself, the decision not to press this victory to complete destruction of Confederate forces was perhaps … and gravel roads in makeshift wagons, begged to be left to die. Cavalry guarded Lee’s precious supplies as the army, in …

The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now

… from the priesthood in February 2019.  All of these tragedies are tinged with a sense of déjà vu. Similar patterns of … changing sexual mores since the 1960s. Occasionally, commentators have referred to an insular institutional … Yet today’s crisis of the Catholic Church, which commentators have called the gravest since the Reformation , …
President Lyndon B. Johnson visiting American troops in Vietnam in 1966.

The Ambiguities of “Cut and Run”

… that Eisenhower did the responsible thing when he quickly completed the truce negotiations that ended the fighting in … that almost half the 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam died during Nixon’s presidency. The real mistake during what … Did Ronald Reagan “cut and run” in 1983 after 241 American servicemen died in Beirut in the suicide bombing of the …

Hong Kong in Protest

… returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … PRC. Undeterred, Hong Kong transitioned successfully into a service-based economy and is now one of the most important … its window to the outside world. Cover of Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial magazine in 1970, during the Great …
Saxonburg Memorial Church.

Does the First Amendment Separate Church and State?

… Delaware Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell's recent comment–wondering whether “separation of church and state” … O'Donnell even more. It's true, of course, as many commentators have pointed out, that the words "separation," …
European Union flag fluttering in the wind.

Europe Already Has a Working Constitution

… a dramatic reconciliation in the European Coal and Steel Community.Ê Founded with four other countries in 1951, it … problems – especially expensive agricultural subsidies and institutional inefficiencies and cronyism. Though … online education, and a writer for the History News Service. …
members of the Tea Party holding signs

The Great American Debate Recommences

… Constitution yet their principles were most fiercely embodied not in our current Constitution, but in the Articles of … that Congress was debating a declaration of independence, a committee was drafting the Articles. Its purpose was to form … Louise W. Knight, who writes for the History News Service, is the author of "Jane Addams, Citizen: Jane Addams …
wind turbines

Energy Policy: How is the “Long Transition” from Fossil Fuels Doing?

… over the last four years.  The reasons for that are many, complex, and subject to change in the near and far future.  … the height of the Great Recession in 2008, and through a combination of possible trader manipulation , political … Let’s remove one false idea right now:  Public subsidies support both carbon-based and alternative energy …
William Calley Jr. mugshot for charges involving the My Lai massacre.

Was William Calley a Scapegoat?

… a Kiwanis Club gathering in Columbus, Ga. Calley told his audience that “not a day that goes by that I do not feel … who has been assigned blame for another’s actions. Calley committed murder at My Lai and ordered his men to do the … of the Vietnam war and a writer for the History News Service. His "War Stories: Swift Boaters, Winter Soldiers, …
Lawrence Halprin

Lawrence Halprin and Two Modern Spaces

… outside of Haifa, then Palestine , working on a kibbutz (a communal farm). When Halprin returned to the U.S. he trained … Parks. Born in the same year that the National Park Service was created, Halprin worked primarily in urban … drugs at one end of the fountain, walk to the other end and die. This was not the “interactivity” Halprin had in mind. …