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Pinterest Hien Luong Bridge - Ben Hai River, Quang Tri, Vietnam

Vietnam Revisited: Forty Years after the Paris Peace Accord

… government and mainstream media sources represented the meaning and conduct of the war. I recently completed a book, …

Why the Buffalo Still Roam

… Congress to overcome the railroads and pass a law creating meaningful protection for wildlife in the park. For the …

Alawites and the Fate of Syria

… control of Syria in 1920, imposed the name “Alawite,” meaning the followers of Ali, in order to accentuate the …

The Second Opium War

… ago. When the Second Opium War has been remembered, its meaning and legacy has often been twisted. At the time, it …

Six founders of the Algerian FLN: Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi, 1954

The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace

Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell

An unidentified U.S. Marine Corps corporal fires his weapon at a wounded, unarmed Iraqi lying on the floor of a gutted mosque in Fallujah, Nov. 13, 2004. by Kevin Sites found on NPR.org

Shooting the Wounded: What Are the Rules Now?

Artistic rendition of Space Station Freedom with the STS Orbiter Vehicle

No Cheap Ticket to Outer Space

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

Review of Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)

… nuclear age as well as conveying the cultural and political meanings of the bomb to the larger public. From the end of …

Depiction of General Scott capturing Mexico City during the Mexican-American War.

Getting Away from the “Quagmire” Cliché

French troops under Charles VIII entering Florence, 1494.

The Blood Behind the Beauty

Review of The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West, by Catherine Fletcher (New York City: Oxford University Press, 2020)

President Bush at His — and Our — Crossroads

… The president still has time to avoid the mistakes that plagued Andrew Johnson’s presidency. He can strengthen …

A view of the World Trade Center in New York City

Responding to Terror: No Good Choices

The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC

Review of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC, by David W. Anthony and Jennifer Y. Chi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. pp. 254)

… chapter it is easy to understand why their function and meaning remain hotly contested. But they have played a major …

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks' declaration from Flag Day 1919 that forbade membership in the organization to anarchists, Industrial Workers of the World, Bolsheviks, and other organizations perceived as unpatriotic.

Sanitizing American Tradition

Review of Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo, by Jack David Eller (London: Reaktion Books, 2018)

John Quincy Adams: An Example for Our Times

A photograph from the tumultuous German-Czech border in 1938 during World War II. The Sudetenland had long been a hotspot of contact between the two groups.

The Space In Between

Review of Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands: Migration, Environment, and Health in the Former Sudetenland, by Eagle Glassheim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)

… and healing. Glassheim argues that if historians produce meaningful two-way histories that discuss both the history …