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… body-scan. Airline passengers in the United States have come to expect these kinds of security measures as a … FAA is sometimes called a “tombstone agency”: change only comes after a death —and usually only after a large number … building and crashed into a nearby field, narrowly missing an orphanage. Twenty-nine of the 63 persons aboard died …

… June 23, 2016, while most of the world was awaiting the outcome of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was … Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and the supreme commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia … the War of a Thousand Days (1899-1902), various peasant uprisings in the 1920s and 1930s, and the infamous La Violencia …

… not to end slavery. But Stout explicitly avoids addressing the causes of the war or the morality of slavery. He … 24,000 casualties, yet religious leaders only became more committed to their crusades and more strident in their … In Stout's hands the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 becomes the tool of a "total war," a war brought home to …

… because of stereotypes of effeminacy. Military men caught committing sodomy faced courts-martial. During World War II, … Anti-war groups even counseled young, straight men to become “hoaxosexuals” as a way of avoiding service. … and Farsi translators (dozens of whom have been discharged since 9/11), and the rising number of troops (73 percent in …

… to act decisively, during World War I President Wilson took command of telegraph and telephone systems, issued executive … oil and gas refineries, chemical plants, crops, food-processing plants and livestock. Patriotic citizens assembled armed patrols to guard their communities. What is proposed now is a shadow of those …

… to the cost saving measures of the FDLP, especially when compared to the money funneled to private banks through … few decades, the task of making school affordable has become an ever more important social and economic policy goal … a year for the past 70 years. The cost of attending college since World War II, in real terms, has nearly tripled. The …

… of 1918, then nuanced chapters examining the major combatants in technology, logistics, and intelligence, … class, and gender. Scholars and students of the war will welcome the statistical data about war production, finance, and … following acceptance of his Fourteen Points. Stevenson singles out Wilson's contribution to peace, noting "without …

… protection for gays?  Perhaps the same impulse — the same combination of religious fervor and fear of social collapse … has been replaced by a crusade against demonized sex.  This comparison is not as far-fetched as it might seem. In a 1998 … life, and economic stagnation replaced moral decay as a pressing political issue.  Something similar may happen to …

… behind-the-scenes may have been as important to the outcome of events as the men’s on the battlefield. In Blood … and Yorks were descended from Edward III and therefore cousins to one another, which explains why participants called … is the temptation to make claims that, unless more sources come to light, historians cannot prove. For example, in …

… threaten the cultural makeup of Europe due to the alleged incompatibility of the Islamic faith of the majority of new … migrations can be more accurately described as ethnic cleansing and, in the case of the removal and ultimate … very well define the 21 st century. As globalization has become the rule, and as the West has generally benefitted …

… Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … was announced, Martin’s parents let their voices be heard. Using social media, they expressed their disappointment in the trial’s outcome, pain over the loss of their child, appreciation for …

… officers as presidential contenders. Generals who have become president (there were ten, six of them notable as commanders) have usually succeeded by presenting themselves … of America’s global leadership role. Whether Clark sinks or soars on the campaign trail will hinge on many …

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … American attention to mental health, and examining the shortcomings and successes of the mental health system. It seems … hospitals. So there were systems of community care. Every single community in the colonies in colonial America had the …

… in February 1989—twenty-five years ago—the Soviet Union completed withdrawal of its combat forces across the Friendship Bridge from the Afghan … bitter engagement because in the context of the Cold War, losing Afghanistan, in the words of the Soviet foreign …

… of thousands of books, periodicals, and manuscripts had become fuel for the flames.  Newspapers around the world … independence to take place in France and Algeria in the coming months.  It was in opposition to France’s decision to … of almost 500 cultural sites, including 18 libraries, since Russia’s invasion in February 2022. Such attacks …

… to produce genocide. These include the Young Turks' intense commitment to the homogenization of Anatolia (a development … on the role of religion, not simply ethnicity, as a major component in the homogenization policies of the Committee of … of 1916, the Ottomans waged a campaign of ethnic cleansing designed to rid northern Syria of the Armenians. On the …

… cougars, and rattlesnakes. If he hasn’t been rescued by his compatriots, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the … in 1846 — under unusual circumstances, to be sure. To overcome abolitionist objections, President John Tyler resorted to a joint resolution of Congress. Since the Constitution provides no correct way to annex …

… on faculty hires. Suddenly, new Ph.D.s found themselves competing with a hundred or even a thousand other candidates for a single job. One can see these despondent souls at any academic conference, squirming uncomfortably in their suits and waiting — always waiting for …

… Gregory VII chastised Henry IV’s association with excommunicated advisers and his appointment of three Italian … He demanded obedience to the papacy and threatened excommunication otherwise.  Gregory VII’s admonition ignited, … the German king and the pope that had been simmering since Gregory VII’s election in 1073.  Henry IV clung to a …

… For November, our Best in History Online is focusing on a blog of eminent imperial historians at the … of the University’s eminent imperial historians. It comprises of one of the largest groups of imperial and …

… Spreading democracy has become the nation’s principal foreign policy goal. Yet there … of government of other countries. Things have changed a lot since then, but their arguments astutely canvass how best to … one member said, should have nothing to do “with the wrongs committed by other Governments against those whom they …

… may be capable of much good, Acton worried that possessing too much power would tempt us to do wrong. And it has. … of “a general association of nations,” what would become the League of Nations, to adjudicate international … Cold War — but only recently have we abandoned a broader commitment to a world governed by law instead of force. …