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An image of Kuwait’s oil fields after they were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the First Gulf War

Oil Empires and Petro-Anarchies

Review of Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East, by Michael Quentin Morton (London: Reaktion Books, 2017)

… main thesis is unclear as he does not explain his intended meaning of empires, and waits until the 10th chapter to …

Top Ten Origins: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

American Presidential Scandals

Cover of The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein

There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies

Review of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014)

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Joseph Smith Discovers the Gold Plates

Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood

Review of Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization, by Elena Conis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)

A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

… in 1998 by embracing the concept of "regime change"—meaning that he would favor the overthrow of Hussein—but …

poster supporting those lost in Pearl Harbor

Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era

Ruins of Chorrillos after the battle of January 13, 1881. Photograph by Eugene Courret. Glass Plate. National Library of Peru Collection.

The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover on Inauguration Day in 1933.

COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership

America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance

… from the general counsel seeking a surveillance warrant, meaning procedures to reduce the possible interception of …

The Statue of Liberty during the June 10, 2021 solar eclipse.

Solar Eclipses in American History

… their own people . By then, hunger, disease , and violence plagued remaining Indian populations in Ohio: Shawnee, …

General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.

The Collapse of Ottoman Power

Review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan (New York: Basic Books, 2015)

A Postcard from Brazil: The Old Struggle for a Better Future

… relentlessly, and to hope for a better future in a country plagued with socioeconomic and racial inequality. The famous …

Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19

Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Cover of Vodka Politics by Mark Lawrence Schrad

Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?

Review of Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State, by Mark Lawrence Schrad (New York: Oxford UP, 2014)

Woodcut print depicting the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618

Out the Window: Religion, Politics, and a Defenestration in Prague

Energy Policy: How is the “Long Transition” from Fossil Fuels Doing?

Greek amphora, or jug, from c. 540 BCE showing two hoplite phalanxes engaged in combat. Hoplites were the heavy infantry who formed the backbone of most Greek armies in the Classical Age.

A Fragmented History of Ancient Generalship

Review of The Classical Art of Command: Eight Greek Generals Who Shaped the History of Warfare, by Joseph Roisman (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017)

The Jamestown Project

Review of The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)

… particularly as a reflection of our understanding of the meaning and context of the events that we commemorate in …

What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care

… , a novel by Rebecca Makkai (2018). How to Survive a Plague, an Oscar-nominated documentary by David France …

Two vials of modern insulin named Actrapid (left) and NovoRapid (right) by the manufacturers.

The First Insulin Injection as a Treatment for Diabetes

Cover of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome by Brian Campbell

Rome's Wondrous Rivers

Review of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, by Brian Campbell (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012)

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