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A 1960s photo of a hallway inside the Philadelphia County Prison.

Have We Learned Nothing About Prisons?

… prison where the uprising occurred, would have drawn immediate recognition. During a bank hostage standoff in the … saw the movie. Now that’s all forgotten. One of America’s most notorious penitentiaries, Attica was a powder keg of … the world, trailing only Russia. The prison industry has become big business: billions of dollars are being spent on …
Kagan, Obama, and Roberts before her investiture ceremony, October 1, 2010.

How Empathy Makes Superior Judges – and Justice

… to the Supreme Court.   T.R. recognized that those who become judges invariably have had close association with … its “entire sympathy with all proper effort to secure the most favorable personal consideration for the men who most … T.R. and Obama understood that empathy is often a prerequisite for impartiality.   Justice Holmes’s great colleague, …
Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, by Roxanne L. Euben book cover.

Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge

Review of Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, by Roxanne L. Euben (Princeton University Press, Princeton 2006)
… easily between historical periods, and languages. Her command of her own discipline, political theory, and other … history and literature, is remarkable. Yet Euben's most important and most impressive undertaking is her deft … as knowledgeable and cosmopolitan, and Islam as the opposite of cosmopolitan – a discourse whose only travels take …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference in Holland in 1964.

Asking Martin Luther King…

… talking about Martin Luther King, one of the questions most commonly asked is: “What would Dr. King say about…?” The … we cannot simply rely on “What would Dr. King say…” Informed by his values, we have to think things through on our …
woman with futuristic facial wear

Afrofuturism: Constructing a Better Future

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
World History since 1500
… The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in 1993, but encompasses a long history of African American and African … diaspora through technoculture and science fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared interest in envisioning …
Depiction of the Battle of Bosworth Field by the eighteenth-century painter, Philip James de Loutherbourg.

The Battle of Bosworth Field

… the battle occurred, although a recent study places the site of Richard’s death at  Fenn Lane Farm , about 2 miles … death.  It is easy to see Henry and Richard as polar opposites, especially when the literature after the battle …
American Flag with 15 stars

Best in History Online: The Washington Post's "Made By History"

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … fray," in order to provide historical context to today's most pressing issues, examine the roots of present debates, … the section is to show what historians do. The page aims to combat the tendency to use history as "a tool to advance …
Mary Mallon and other women sitting outside in chairs at a hospital. The women have blankets wrapped around them.

Who was Typhoid Mary?

In the early 1900s, Mary Mallon, a domestic cook, was unknowingly a healthy carrier of Typhoid fever.
… Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. Hasian, M.A. Power, Medical Knowledge, and the Rhetorical Invention of “Typhoid Mary”.  Journal of Medical Humanities  21, 123–139 (2000).  … Oct 12. PMID: 37824810; PMCID: PMC10632844,  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37824810/ “Tuberculosis patient in …
The White House lit in green light for St. Patrick's Day.

9/11 and 3/17: Closer Than You Think

… as hundreds march to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, the most evident colors may very well be red, white and blue, … pluralist implication of the St. Patrick's Day parades becomes more apparent as we look at the events held in cities … this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we have come.   So when this weekend's St. Patrick's Day parades pay …
Great Wall of China

History’s Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?

Walls have a decidedly mixed record in achieving their goals to keep some people in and others out.
… talk by some American politicians about Mexican immigrants coming to the United States, people around the world are … has it, neighborliness has not been the reason behind most of history’s major wall projects. Here is a look at some of the most famous of these insular architectural projects. Written …
Oneida Nation Friendship Statue from The National Museum of the American Indian

3/31/14: How Historians Can Help Native Americans

… Useful for a Change: Historians and Modern Tribal Communities" Wednesday, March 26 at The  Ohio State … this was the standard paradigm as late as the 1960s.  Most of American history is Native American history, he reminds us, and Native history has been among the most influential fields in the discipline for a generation. …
President Bush visiting American troops in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day, 1990.

Selling Iraq with the Wrong Pitch

… to tell his usually hand-picked audiences that Iraq will become more democratic and prosperous because of America’s … — would give neither his beleaguered administration nor most Americans any comfort. The president has repeatedly … made a substantial and sustained commitment to it. They assumed that U.S. military forces would quickly establish a …
cover of History Today featuring article Napoleon Life after Death

Best in History Online: History Today

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a history magazine who aims to bring … by History Today since it was founded in 1951, as well as most of the articles from History Review - their periodical …
President George W. Bush meets with his cabinet after his re-election.

The Founders Never Imagined a Bush Administration

… George W. Bush and his most trusted advisers, Richard B. Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, … insisted that there can be no limits to the power of the commander-in-chief in time of war. More recently the …
STS-116 mission specialists, NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam and ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang perform extravehicular activity (EVA) during construction of the International Space Station.

Facing Opportunities and Obstacles in Space

… the over-budget Constellation program, have received the most congressional and media attention. What’s been neglected has been the core of … the development of new technologies to reduce the cost and complexity of operating in space.   These proposals, …

NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War

… politics between 1945 and 1991. Some have even proclaimed the start of a new Cold War between East and West. A few … and dangerous, amplifying the sense of tension and competition across Europe and strengthening the sense of … scope of membership and activity. These changes have mostly been adaptations to internal or external shifts in …
President Bill Clinton addressing a high school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999.

The Politics of Compassion

… George Bush has begun his campaign by talking about "compassionate conservatism." After securing the nomination, … Republican leadership in Congress, following, some media pundits suggest, the Clinton precedent of 1992. But … both parties represent the same conservative consensus and compete with each other over patronage and personality. …
 Monte Albán

A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico

… cultural, political, and economic capital for almost a millennium. Besides its stunning mountain views, Oaxaca City also offers vistas of Mexico's complex history. In 1521, Hernán Cortés sent Captain José … in 1821, Antequera became  Cuidad de Oaxaca , and it was named the capital of its surrounding region. The state is …
Mural in Guernica based on the Picasso painting. 

Guernica and the Horrors of Modern War

… Guernica was not the first strategically insignificant, non-combatant town ever to be targeted for aerial bombardment, … on a radically different sort of painting. Several of the most prominent figures in Guernica —the bull and wounded … of war itself, and of the atrocities that continue to be visited upon civilian populations in the form of aerial …
electrical towers

Energy, Deregulation and Prosperity

… 1900 got California out of its energy dilemma and transformed its future. Waterpower once used for gold mining was … came early to the state’s homes. By 1930, ahead of almost every other region in America, California delivered … of electric power, also used oil to fuel the ever longer commute to work at jobs that the electric power industry and …

Colombia: Al Borde de la Paz con las FARC?

… Moon, el presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, y el comandante supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de … final de paz con ese grupo. Desde principios de 1920 hasta mediados de la década de 1930 hubo una serie de protestas … el negocio de la droga en sí. La década de 1980 también demostró el primer intento significativo a una paz negociada …
Cover of Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz.

The Gifts That Keep On Giving

Review of Philanthropy in America: A History, by Olivier Zunz (Princeton University Press, 2012)
… to start with: What do Americans fund every year at levels comparable to annual budget of the Pentagon? Answer: the … in return a small denominational college in New Haven was named after him. Benjamin Franklin helped found several … with their money was a subject of considerable discussion – most famously by Andrew Carnegie – but as Zunz delineates, …
The sickle and hammer on a Soviet Union flag from the 1930s.

A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)

Review of A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History) , by Vladislav Zubok (2007, University of North Carolina Press)
… motives and the messianic revolutionary ideals of Russian communism. 2 Originating in Czarist Russia, traditional … to the origins of the Cold War. 4 He faults Stalin for meddling in Turkey and Iran, claiming Soviet actions outside … shortcomings, Zubok's work does not fall into the trap of most works on the Cold War. He does not center his work on …