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)
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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 …
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)
Fortifying the U.S.-Mexico Boundary: The 1993 “Hold the Line” Experiment
… lost decade, due to the severe financial instability that plagued many Latin American countries. However, in his …
Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal
… the idea of a bridge over the Bosporus also has a literal meaning that reflected a long legacy of large-scale state …
Black Woodstock: The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
… America (MacMillan Publishers, 2007) Emily J. Lordi, The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s …
Babylon Revisited
Review of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297)
Mom and Apple Pie (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 6)
… the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act of 1963, meaning that women would lose far more than they would gain …
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth
… that the Pacific was much wider than previously guessed, meaning that they owned some of the Pacific islands as …
