… The Normandy Invasion (PDF File) (June 6, 1944) wasthe … attack despite the fact the plan was in its advanced stages when he assumed command. During the invasion, the commander …
… Giuliani’s administration prepares its lawsuit against the giant utility Consolidated Edison for the 19-hour … and rarely caused major damage. In 1950, residents in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Montana were affected when a series of power plants in the Pacific Northwest …
… On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world. A Bosnian-Serb youth Gavrilo Princip, aged only … motorcade passed by on the streets of Sarajevo. Princip was promptly arrested and imprisoned, where he would die of … masses from Austro-Hungarian oppression and exploitation. Socialist-era Sarajevo memorial site where Gavrilo Princip …
Review of India’s War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia, by Srinath Raghavan New York, NY: Basic Books, 2016
… As India assumes the role of one of the global powers, there has been a … his book as a way to better understand how India shaped and was shaped by the war, using military history, diplomacy, … Indian troops needed vast amounts of equipment at a time when Britain was hard-pressed to outfit its own troops (70). …
Review of Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian, by Ian Worthington (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
… The story of “Western civilization” is familiar: It begins … Mesopotamia, reaches a peak in Greece , which, in turn, was supplanted by Rome . Marching ever westward, Western … or choosing the losing side could be punished harshly, as when Sulla sacked the city in 86 BCE for supporting …
… Does President Bush have the constitutional authority, as he claims, to order the … wartime. Lincoln, confronted with a destructive Civil War, was constitutionally obligated to protect and preserve the … a nation) has a legitimate duty to defend itself when attacked by armed forces either from within or outside …
… Sometime in the next several months, Kosovo is going to receive … exceptions. In Europe, the prohibition on secession was codified in the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, which has been … What’s needed is an agreed set of principles to determine when, and under what conditions, secession should be …
… Who are the Taliban? The question has confounded international … victims. This self-image of righteous victimhood was forged during a pivotal moment of Afghan history, the … power by overthrowing then-President Mohammed Daoud Khan. When PDPA revolutionaries appeared to falter, the Soviet …
… ahead for daylight-saving time note that you're holding the tool Western Europeans used to conquer the world. A … the time to start or stop trading, or go to church. This was a sharp contrast with days marked only by dawn and … and command me to divide my day into bits and pieces, but when I rise, especially with one less hour of sleep, I …
… Fear of cataclysm often numbs. It renders the trembling disoriented and inert, unable to imagine how … later recalled, something suddenly hit her tent and “I was scared, screamed, and woke up Ivan.” As they got up, the … seeking sunshine and life. One has an uncanny feeling when one sees thick giant trees snapped across like twigs, …
… The COVID-19 pandemic has brought widespread changes to the … The American Dream in American History The phrase itself was coined in 1931 by historian James Truslow Adams . Adams … Environmentalists call recent times the Anthropocene Era , whenthe human species has wrought enormous impacts on …
… The victory of moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani in Iran’s June … after being sworn in as president, Rouhani declared that he was open to direct talks with the United States, while a … in 1953, respectively. Iranians brandished his portrait whenthey demonstrated against the shah in 1978-79, and they …
… 22 to 25, 1986, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue to protest President … much of the world—the U.S. government in particular—was perfectly willing to overlook the corruption of the … to begin speculating about the dictator’s successors. When Ferdinand Marcos boldly called for a “snap election” in …
… after independence from British colonial rule, Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, collapsed into a civil … constructed from the inherited colonial boundaries, was fragile, even untenable. Indeed, most historians would … become the Nigerian Civil War began on January 15, 1966 when a group of military officers, mostly of the Igbo ethnic …
… A common response to the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide has been rigorous testing … testifying that the person named in the document either was not visibly sick or was arriving from a town not then … We should probably keep this history in mind when considering coronavirus passports today, and be …
… The organization created to end war, the League of Nations, … U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (right). The meeting was marked by a most conspicuous absence. One seat at the … 1920, the Senate reopened consideration of the Treaty. But when a second resolution of ratification was put to a vote …
… “We are not flowers to be sacrificed on the altar of profit - we are flames, committed to conquering … to as “ Hiroshima of the chemical industry,” and one was an activist working with the survivors for over two … by combining alpha naphthol with methyl isocyanate. Whenthe Bhopal factory started its operation, MIC was being …
… India is now suffering a massive second wave of COVID-19 and the crisis is spilling into neighboring countries. As Indian … there is also a longer history that helps explain why India was so vulnerable to COVID-19 and to the tragic collapse of … of Indian public health begins in the nineteenth century, whenthe British imperial government ruled over a sprawling …
… On October 31st more than 135 million voters went to the polls in Brazil to elect their next president. They … Dilma Rousseff of the leftist Worker's Party (PT), who wasthe hand-picked successor of Brazil's current president, … could borrow on international markets. By September 2002, when a Lula victory seemed likely, fears of default left the …
Review of Latin America and the Global Cold War, by Thomas C. Field, Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
… The term “Third World” emerged in the 1950s to describe … of The Global Cold War (2005) by Odd Arne Wested, wasthe Third World properly situated in its Cold War … even as it sought economic resources from the Eastern socialist bloc, and Vanni Pettinà documents a similar …
… “We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing … ignorant. We must call this sort of behavior out when we see it. However, Santorum’s comments point to a much …
… On May 23rd 1951, the "Seventeen Point Agreement of the Central People’s … of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" was signed. This agreement legitimized claims of the … armed conflict over the borders, most recently in May 2020 whenthe PLA and the Indian army clashed in the Galwan …
… Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887). … at the 2019 Hamilton Exhibition in Chicago. In 1804, when Burr began a campaign for governor of New York, … representing his faction in the election, his loss was also seen as a humiliation to the party as a whole. …
… Although the Olympics are intended to celebrate unity through sport, … gay games. Homosexuality in Russia Today The controversy was sparked by a new Russian law. In June 2013, the Duma … enables Russian observers to accuse the West of hypocrisy when Western critics attack Russian practice, an accusation …