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Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19

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

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)

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

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

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)

Idi Amin's Coup d’État, Uganda 1971

Bird's-eye-view of the 1993 border blockade enacted by CBP Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas as part of Operation Hold the Line.

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 …

Cover of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster.

Babylon Revisited

Review of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297)

9/12/2014: Top Ten Origins: Scotland and the United Kingdom

Group of women protesting against the ERA with signs: "Stop the web of deception," "ERA means Amy register for the draft at 18," "Maternity ward - persons only"

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 …

Zombie scene from the 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead.

Top Ten Origins: Zombies: The Undead Shuffle

Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor

Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea

A posthumous portrait of Ferdinand Magellan, painted c. 16th or 17th century

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 …

Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.

Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century

Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story

Sudan in Crisis

A COVID-19 anti-lockdown protestor in Vancouver, Canada, May 2020

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