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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

Glory and the New World Order

The Unfinished Struggle: Civil Rights and the March on Washington

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 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

… anything anymore.” Revolution, Memory, and Nostalgia The meaning of the February Revolution today can be more fully …

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)

Time to End Deregulation

Cover of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui.

Forces of Good and Evil

Review of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

… period, including how the conflict offered “new spaces of meaning” for photography. This a frustrating omission in …

Official Presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson (by Rembrandt Peale, 1800).

Jefferson: Founding Father and Connoisseur

The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan

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