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The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Finale)

… where we’ve been in our past can direct us in our present and future. … The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, … Brionna Mendoza  Previously, on Prologued...   Alexander Aviña  So it's a really, like, complex, messy matrix, … marijuana with the influx of Mexican immigrants into the southwest and California. And so prejudice against Mexican …
US propaganda leaflet used in Afghanistan, with bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Fighting a Cold War Against Osama bin Laden

… tape, released last week through Al-Jazeera, blew both hot and cold. He threatened the United States and its allies yet hinted at conciliation. Which part of his … thousands were injured, the overwhelming majority of them Africans. Then there were the never-to-be forgotten attacks …
Zog I of Albania in front of the Albania Republic flag.

Albania’s First Republic

… founded the First Albanian Republic on January 31, 1925, and elected Ahmet Zog to the position of President to govern over parliament and uphold the newly crafted constitution.  It was a … throughout the duration of WWI. Italy occupied the south, France the east, and Austria the north.  Once WWI …
Crucifixion of Saint Peter by Caravaggio (1600, Cerasi Chapel).

Persecuted Christians?

… Catholic nun is abducted, stripped, threatened with rape, and forced to drink her captors’ urine. This is the latest … that included the brutal murder of an Australian missionary and his two sons in January. Although the possibility that … “most hate crimes in America today are not directed toward African-Americans, or Jewish people, or lesbians. They are …
The Statue of Liberty in New York City.

Where Will “Liberation” Lead?

… representative government. Democracy will replace tyranny, and freedom will rise from the ashes of brutality. That … this country,” he declared, “which are infinitely precious and especially American — a love of freedom, a feeling for … suppressed democracy. Choosing to back dictators such as South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem, Nicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza, …
Rural school children looking at a globe in 1943.

The Debate That Won’t Die

… ended their accounts with the creationists vanquished and the debate buried. But in retrospect it appears that the … Then, twenty years ago, with the rise of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority, the hostility against teaching … include the creationist stories of the American Indians, African cultures, or Mexicans?) Even Al Gore, according to …
The four women Supreme Court Justices: Sandra Day O'Connor, Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan. O'Connor is not wearing a robe because she is retired from the Court.

Should Catholic Justices Recuse Themselves on Certain Cases?

… the ones who want to make up for decades of prejudice and discrimination. But because of the Catholic Church’s active opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage, and capital punishment, it raises serious questions about … Lyndon Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American justice and President Ronald Reagan, the …
Monica Lewinsky's official government ID photo from 1997.

Another Watergate?

… Clinton may have had an affair with a White House intern and persuaded her to lie about it had not been public for an … assert that the only connections between Watergate and the current matter are that the intern, Monica Lewinsky, … to implicate President Kennedy in the 1963 assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem; exchanging government …
 In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch Book Cover.

In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement

Review of In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
… influential? How did the anti-evolution movement originate and how has it developed into the "intelligent design" … traces the growth of fundamentalism in the United States and the almost simultaneous rise of a coherent … movement to other social movements, such as the southern civil rights movement and American women's …
Portrait of Neville Chamberlain, who was the Prime Minister of United Kingdom during the early months of World War II.

Lessons of Munich

… 29, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier met in Munich with German and Italian dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini to … have a free hand on the European continent in central and South-East Europe.” Obsessed with communism, Chamberlain was …

Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

… of 2003 I collapsed at a college debating tournament dinner and soon found myself in quarantine in Guelph, Ontario. Collapsing with a cough and fever is worrisome at any time. It was particularly … influenza A—H1N1—began appearing in Mexico and the American southwest. By June, the World Health Organization announced …

Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising

… presciently called it the last chance to avert a prolonged and bloody civil war—opponents of the Ba'thi order remained … of the internal friction grew out of deep-seated mistrust and animosity between Islamists (groups whose political … 'Alawi and Isma'ili communities of the western and southern provinces. Policies adopted by the Ba'thi …
the word History in script

Why Study History?

… "That's history." We've all heard this expression, and we all know what it means. "That's history," or, even … past is irrelevant. Sure, history happened. But so what? And why, most of all, should we bother to learn it? One … about what is "natural" and "Christian." The only African-American on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, says …
Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan posing for a photograph in the White House Library.

The American “Nation Building” Mission and Russia

… Americans "have to have a sense of mission in the world" and that people everywhere look to the United States "as a … that are figuring out how to chart their own course" and asserted "the only people who are going to reform Russia … dreamed of taking Mikhail Gorbachev up in a helicopter over southern California to show the Soviet leader the homes, …
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

… month’s podcast, three Ohio State historians travelled far and wide to bring us first-hand stories of how the Great War is being commemorated … feeling aftershocks of the wars of the past 25 years . And Keshia Lai reported from Singapore, then an important … from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to unify with other south Slavs and independent state. And, of course, there's …
tanks and soldier fighting in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The World’s Longest War

… intractable one. The current struggle between Israel and Hezbollah is the sixth episode in a 58-year-long war between Israel and its Arab neighbors that commenced in 1948 when the state … and the Middle East continued on many battlefields: North Africa, Spain, France, Palestine, the Balkans, Asia Minor. …
The Warren Court (1953–1969).

Blending Empathy and Justice

… when he identified “that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people’s hopes and struggles, as an … implicitly elsewhere, violated the constitutional rights of African Americans. Warren concluded that when a political … U.S. Laws and Legislation …
John Trumbull's portrait of Alexander Hamilton.

This Won’t Be the Last Political Sex Scandal

… Another political sex scandal is in the news. It’s hard to keep up with the growing … derailed 1987 presidential bid seems like ancient history. And now New York’s governor, Eliot Spitzer, had to resign … gay sex; a racist politician carrying on an affair with an African-American woman; or, in the case of Spitzer, an …
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.

The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex

Review of State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2012)
… today are higher than they were at any point between 1946 and 1992. And those budgets don't include the costs of the Iraq and … spending produced a new "gunbelt" in sections of the south and west. If, as Koistinen observes, all this military …
The Great Wall of China: Perhaps the greatest collection of walls in human history.

Top Ten Origins: History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?

… In the midst of a migration crisis in Europe and strident talk by some American politicians about Mexican … two-and-a-half-mile-wide buffer zone between North and South Korea. The DMZ was constructed along the 38th Parallel … have agreed to allow families divided between Northern and Southern halves of the border to reunite in a rare effort at …
The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

With God on Our Side

… Bush seems confident that God’s truth marches with him and his nation. During the Civil War, by contrast, Abraham … might be a “difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.” To deny this truth was to deny that there was a … its bloody end, he observed that both sides, North and South, “read the same Bible and pray to the same God; and
President Bush makes remarks in 2006 during a press conference in the Rose Garden about Iran's nuclear ambitions and discusses North Korea's nuclear test.

After 50 Years, a Great Military Debate Resumes

… the United States to use its troops more unilaterally, and he wants them used primarily for fighting. Vice … Gore is more inclined to act cooperatively with allies and to use troops for peacekeeping. This difference revives … Europe and assume the right to unilateral action in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Now that the Cold War is gone, …