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Kosovo is located to the south of Serbia.

The Perils of Breaking Away

… in the next several months, Kosovo is going to receive international approval for its quest to become an independent … independence provided the impetus for creating a new international consensus for handling separatist conflicts. Today, the international community is supposed to respect existing states’ …
Hiroshima after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.

Terrorism: A New Kind of War?

… strategy during the Cold War was designed to deter the Soviet Union from attacking the United States and its allies by … on New York City and Washington were committed by a transnational organization. But it is hard to imagine that such a …
Flag of the Republic of Venezuela (1930-2006)

An End to Interventionism in Venezuela

… money to the opposition through the U.S. taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy. Chavez has accused his … Rights … U.S. Politics … Diplomacy/International Relations … An End to Interventionism in Venezuela …
Hospital workers

Corona in context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic of 2003

Soon after SARS was discovered, labs around the world shared information in search of a cure.
… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.   … Soon after SARS … … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Global/Transnational … East Asia & Southeast Asia … International
Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech.

How Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech Still Matters

… years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter went on national television to give a jolting speech. Billed as an … that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will," he asserted. Today, we should listen to his …
Two women in masks in 1918

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

Estimates suggest that this flu claimed as many as 50 million lives around the world between 1918 and 1919.
… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … Estimates suggest … and 1919. … Jim Harris … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Global/Transnational … World War I / WWI … Military/War/Peace … The 1918 …
An HIV AIDS patient in Mozambique

What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care

HIV and COVID-19 have both laid bare that stark racial disparities exist in population health and in access to quality medical care in the US.
… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.       … HIV and … … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Global/Transnational … International Organizations … What HIV Teaches …
Emperor Nero

The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response

After a devasting fire in Rome in 64 CE, Emperor Nero successfully rebuilt the city.
… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … After a devasting …
Plague doctor mask

The Black Death and Its Aftermath

When it was over, the populations of Europe, China, and India were cut by a third to a half.
… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … When it was over, …
“Aux amateurs de physique.” Likewise portraying the Tuileries flight, this cartoon mocks the unwashed masses who wished to see the spectacle without a ticket, but the scaling of the garden walls also illustrates how the balloon as a “people-machine” ignited the determination of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime.

Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture

Review of The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe, by Mi Gyung Kim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
… in Revolutionary Europe , the balloon became the national artifact of late eighteenth-century France , …
1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies.

The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal

… created jobs for the unemployed, while others, such as the National Industrial Recovery Act's industrial policy, helped …
President Richard Nixon

Republican Character

Review of Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan, by Donald T. Critchlow (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
… poor electoral timing led to consistent shortcomings on the national stage. Critchlow compares Nixon and Rockefeller in …
Cover of The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein

There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies

Review of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014)
… the political arena—all the more at a low-point in American national confidence. So despite all the malaise of the … finds that old-time religion just in time to run for national office. And the burgeoning conservative movement …
Book Cover of For Peace and Money French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars By: Jennifer Siegel

12/15/2014: Hot off the Presses: Peace, Money, and Tsars

… and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To … the Anglo-French relationship, and, ultimately, on international relations in the twentieth century, was grim and … ] … Connecting History … Europe … Russia … Diplomacy/International Relations … Economics/Business/Trade … 12/15/2014: …
Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.

Greenland Fantasies

… protectorate of Norway in 1261 CE. Following the personal union of Norway and Denmark in 1380, power shifted south to … Land.” The dispute went to the Permanent Court of International Justice, which decreed in 1933 that Denmark had … were recognized as a distinct people under international law.  In 2012, Greenlandic became the sole official …
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.

The Black Death and its Aftermath

… It also set the stage for the rise of stronger national identities and ultimately for the Reformation that … the 1721 plague outbreak in Marseille. As with the rise of national universities, the building of quarantine structures … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, …
Turkish soldiers standing over skeletal remains during Armenian Genocide

Armenians, Turks, and the Genocide Question

… in 1923, with its aggressive focus on secular Turkish nationalism. The Armenians, meanwhile, have long called for … the complexities of the label genocide in history and international law. So stay tuned.   Dr. Ronald Grigor Suny   I'm … Convention from 2006". And I've been involved in some international litigation in relation to genocide.   Leticia …