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Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.

The Justinianic Plague

… best historical source is Procopius of Caesarea (in modern Israel), a high official in the Roman government, who lived …
IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

… PLO, or general Palestinian groups, and their conflict with Israel. And of course, the most infamous case being the … in the 1970s, by and large, terrorists associated with the Israel-Palestine conflict sought rudimentary exchanges. They … with these hijackers and eventually put pressure on the Israeli government to release a great number of Palestinians …
Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, 1987

The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back

Review of Iran Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power, by Malcolm Byrne (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2014)
… even as it was cut off from Western arms manufacturers. Israel emerged as one of Iran’s unlikely allies and sought … SAVAK, the Shah’s secret police. Ghorbanifar approached the Israeli government in 1985 and claimed to represent a … government seeking missiles for the war against Iraq. The Israelis then approached the United States to ask for …
2013 St. Patrick's Day parade in Wappingers Falls, New York.

The Wearing of the Rainbow

… hatred around the world — in places such as Kosovo, Rwanda, Israel, and of course, Northern Ireland — to appreciate the …

Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900

… during the early 1960s, when Iran aligned itself with Israel under American auspices to curb Soviet influence … by skyrocketing oil prices following the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the ensuing embargo imposed by the … Islamist group that favored armed resistance against Israel. He was also disturbed to learn that Iran was moving …

Human Rights at a Crossroads

… abstained, and four voted against it—the United States, Israel, the Marshall Islands, and Palau. A Decisive Shift or … He called out the Council for its consistent pressure on Israel while also “shielding egregious human rights … has been particularly attentive to violations occurring in Israel , and George W. Bush made much the same charge. In …

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

… by a multi-front civil war beginning in 1975. In 1982 Israel launched a full-scale invasion to destroy Yasser … Islamic Jihad began using suicide bombers against Israeli targets in an effort to derail the Oslo-Cairo peace process, then taking place between the Israeli government and the PLO. Hezbollah trained many of …
Engraving of Robespierre.

The New Species of Terrorism

… for their statehood demands. The 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics and the 1985 … swept the Middle East. Starting in 1979 — the year of the Israel-Egypt peace agreement, the Iranian revolution and the …

Original Origins

…  [PDF] Unearthing The Past: An Archeological Dig in Israel  [PDF] The Man Who Would Be King  [PDF] Volume II, …
The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, which was constructed by the Umayyads in the 8th century.

Islamic Imperialism: A History

Review of Islamic Imperialism: A History, by Efraim Karsh (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006)
… clear that he had no intention of honoring any peace with Israel. However, Western leaders chose to ignore this, …

Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview

… down these tendencies to characterize American support for Israel as aid that slotted into a tendentious tradition. An … this promise, for its puppet delivers military aid to Israel. Untitled Drawing, 1985. Efimov would return to his …
Cover of The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America by Colin Calloway.

Native Americans in Urban Places

Review of , “The Chiefs Now in This City”: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America, by Colin Calloway (New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021)
… was “constantly nurs’d and Entertain’d at” the house of Israel Pemberton in that city. Teedyuscung spoke English and …
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“No News Day” at the BBC

… several members of a fringe group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, …