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The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations
… The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Betw-een Black and -white: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations Despite the … Such inaction is a product of ideologies which inhibit the formation of racial consciousness, political climates which …
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Casting the Long Shadow of the CIA

Review of Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA, by Randall B. Woods (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
… William Colby has become a more or less forgotten figure in the turbulent history of the 1960s and … of Scandinavia and preventing the political success of the Communist Party in Italy. In 1959, however, Colby was given …
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Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation

… and artist Jack Kirby in the eponymous Captain America Comics #1 , the patriotic hero became a breakout star for Timely Comics (the company that would evolve into Marvel … “good war.” Four-color McCarthyism could not pull enough coins from adolescent pockets to prevent the superhero …

Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900

… the ruling elite cracked down instinctively with brutal force. Unlike Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, however, Ahmadinejad … relations between the United States and Iran have been complicated and edgy as long as anyone can remember. … with local police outside the White House during the Shah's visit to Washington in late October, Carter took his guest …
Protesters with signs in support of immigrants: "We are all here thanks to immigrants", "If you don't want immigrants, stop destabilizing their countries"; "Defend DACA"

Honduras, TPS, and U.S. Policy

… Trump administration has taken a hardline on immigration. News from the U.S. border that asylum seekers are being … children, and the termination of Temporary Protected Status for 57,000 Hondurans currently living in the U.S. has drawn … living in Honduras, and the dynamics of migration and U.S. foreign policy at the heart of today's debates. ( Image …
Actors in the Berezil troupe, 1922.

Ukrainian Theater on the Soviet Stage

… 1920, in the middle of war , a group of Ukrainians performed Macbeth . They had been in Kyiv, but the city was … Follies. The Berezil’s managing director researched the latest in stage lighting, and the state funded the purchase … cavorted with dancing girls. Finally, the figure of comic writer Ostap Vyshnia was depicted hunting a line of …
Bust of Abraham Lincoln.

Getting Wrong with Lincoln

… actor recently capped a bizarre speech to Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) with a dramatic quotation from … our more prominent pundits have actually repeated, and thus compounded, the movie star’s error. The bogus quotation … his readers that repeated the “money power” lines verbatim. Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter pointed out that Beatty’s …
War News from Mexico (1848).

“Hostilities” and War Powers: Let’s Choose the Constitution

… Nadler of New York warned that "if we don't want to become an empire instead of a republic," Congress must … the bombing of Libya to be "hostilities," he sees no need for Congressional authorization under the War Powers Act, …  Congressman Nadler disagrees.  "The president is becoming an absolute monarch," he said.   As a Democrat, …
“Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states,” 1861.

The Civil War: Losing the War, Winning the History

… April 12, 1861, Edmund Ruffin proudly fired a shot at Fort Sumter, the Federal military installation in the … course, so instead they recast the meaning of the war, transforming it from a war over slavery into a principled defense … Abraham Lincoln may have taken a couple of years before acknowledging that the abolition of slavery lay at the …
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Climate Change: Insights from History

… Hello, everyone and welcome from the College of Arts and Sciences. Thank you so much for joining us for climate change insights from history. A … in the Department of History.   Dr. Jennifer Eaglin  Welcome to our discussion, "Climate Change: Insights from …
French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … at times, to stand against misogynistic violence in all its forms. Recently, the United Nations created the "He for She" campaign, which highlights that violence against …
President Nixon photographed through a window explaining release of edited transcripts, April 29, 1974

Will There Be a Last Nixon Cover-Up?

… official, is negotiating the transfer of the records. As a former archivist with the Archives’ Nixon records staff, I am alarmed by this news. As their administrations come to a close, presidents establish foundations to raise … History News Service …
The Statue of Liberty in New York City.

Where Will “Liberation” Lead?

… under way. With Saddam Hussein’s regime destroyed, American forces will install a new representative government. … of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz dared to undertake a comprehensive land reform campaign, nationalize corporate property and open diplomatic relations with communist countries in 1954, Washington was quick to …

The Fate of the Kurds

… justified his sudden withdrawal of U.S. military support for the Kurds in northern Syria in October 2019 with an … related to Persian. In the largely mountainous region that comprises their homeland, over the centuries Kurds practiced … posed, read the 12 th point of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points as support for their independence. Indeed, the Treaty …
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.

Fifty Years and Counting

Review of The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young (Chicago: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
… debt. A desire to demonstrate to the world the prowess of formerly colonized people thwarted by disease and civil … State , the preceding volume to this work, Young adopts a comparative approach. As he outlines in his introduction, a … these other global regions have. Throughout the work, Young points to the need for effective governments to affect …
Floor proceedings of the U.S. Senate, in session during the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton

Uneasy Lies the Head that Sleeps in the White House

… in Congress at the close of last week. And rightfully so, for the House of Representatives solemnly debated whether … Before 1600 (the period most of the English precedents come from), of course, one has to be careful when using … history at Auburn University and a writer for the History News Service. …
Cover of A Wicked Company The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom.

Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons

Review of A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment, by Philipp Blom (New York: Basic Books, 2010)
… and Voltaire. Diderot is remembered today mostly as a compiler of others people's work in his role as editor of … reason and natural passions. Thus followed a disdain for aristocracy and absolute monarchs, and other … the proceedings.  Blom reminds us of their menace when he points out that in 1768, some readers of Holbach's …
Man Celebrating Repeal Day with a banner that says "Good Old Days Are Back Again!"

Celebrating Repeal with a Drink, Not a Joint

… that was happening anyway, since wealthier drinkers could afford to stockpile liquor before the 18th Amendment took … legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington, the news media are now brimming with comparisons of alcohol to marijuana prohibition and “lessons …
Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy

"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"

Review of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
… to declare independence ensured that the Soviet Union had become an irrelevancy and its dissolution had become an inevitability. Although questions of ethnicity did … signed a decree banning the Communist Party in Russia. Before the coup, Gorbachev was General Secretary of the …

Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution

… and professionals—gathered in the capital city Yerevan for a political demonstration.  Waving the tri-color … role in the mobilization of the population. Indeed,  some commentators noted  that it had more in common with “democratic movements in Latin America [in the …
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin Book Cover

Byzantium for Dummies

Review of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008)
… to Byzantium , Herrin relates a story of two builders coming to her office after passing it daily to ask her what … Herrin's new book Byzantium . Herrin should be applauded for this goal alone, for trying to bring something so broad … I found myself flying through the pages, feeling very accomplished as I finished each short chapter. This division …
Egyptian Prime Minister Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signing the Camp David Peace Accords on September 17, 1978.

Can Sharon Too Become a Peacemaker?

… new general Arab-Israeli war with devastating consequences for Israelis, Palestinians and the entire region. These … theme the denunciation of Democrats as being soft on communism, opened up relations with the People’s Republic of … 1970 and think about predicting that Richard Nixon would be visiting China and Russia, tripling trade with both nations, …