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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 …

Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks

… on December 13, 1931. The international monetary system, meaning also the international system of trade credits and …

1992 portrait of General Wesley K. Clark.

Wesley Clark: In the Tradition of Generals Who Make Peace

Women from Jericho's Palestinian refugee camp going to fetch water, 1961.

An Environmental “Nakba”: Water, Trees, and Farms as Tools of Israeli Policy Toward Palestine

This iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor"; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard. Contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as Native Americans.

Tea Parties Then and Now — A Crucial Difference

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

The Unfinished Struggle: Civil Rights and the March on Washington

Glory and the New World Order

Ludwig van Beethoven in front of sheet music from his first symphony.

Beethoven’s First Symphony

The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

Review of The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)

A Postcard from Yeongju, South Korea

South America’s ‘Sleeping Giant’ Wakes: Brazil’s 2010 Election

… for the renegotiation of Brazil's foreign debt and for meaningful redistribution of Brazil's highly unequal income …

For Iraq, a Lesson from Africa

Stamp of Salvador Allende, the former Chilean president overthrown in 1973.

Regime Change: New Name, Dangerous Old Policy

1866 cartoon by Daumier, L’Equilibre Européen, representing the balance of power as soldiers of different nations teeter the earth on bayonets.

Democracy by Force, or by Example?

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)

School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover

Playing Politics with Our Children's Health

Review of School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine (Princeton University Press, 2008)

… in the 1970s and 1980s. Still, a central problem that had plagued school lunch programs since the early twentieth …

Top Ten Origins: The World Series

Demolition of Alexander III Monument, Moscow 1918

Russia’s February Revolution and the Precarious Politics of Nostalgia

First Lady Michelle Obama reading a Dr. Seuss book to children at the White House.

Celebrating the “Seussentennial”

A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi

The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq

A rendering of the Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, which was fought on April 12, 1864 in Tennessee. It ended with a massacre by Confederate soldiers of at least one hundred surrendered black troops serving the Union, exemplifying one of the Civil War's transgressions of the norms of warfare.

The American Civil War, Then and Now

Review of The War that Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)

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