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Rick Santorum at prayer, 2012

Rick Santorum and Fundamentalist Catholicism

… in the polls among GOP voters precisely because he is so comfortable mixing politics and religion. He presents a … of his Catholic faith in order to curry favor with fundamentalist Protestants, many of whom regard Catholicism … the kind of bigotry American Catholics have tried to overcome. What may be less familiar is that Santorum’s brand of …

The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

… in the United States and in the suffrage movement itself. Ida B. Wells-Barnett with her four children in 1909. The complex international connections and strategies that … for women’s rights before a mixed-race and mixed-sex audience—embraced a diasporic vision of freedom when she asked …
Crowds outside the Bank of United States in New York after its failure in 1931.

Blame It All on Unintended Consequences

… can agree on why the world’s economies are in free fall today. More than 70 years later, there’s still no agreement on … consequences to explain how individual ambition served the common good. It’s not from the benevolence of the butcher, … unintended consequence of their self interest, mediated by competition, was better and cheaper meat, beer and bread. …
Miklós Horthy, Hungarian regent, and Adolf Hitler in 1938.

Hitler’s Gamble with Destiny, 1941

… Hitler created the opposite of what he intended to accomplish by invading the Soviet Union. Instead of destroying … again. Although the idea of containing Germany has never completely disappeared, the EU has taken on a robust life of … of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union will eventually die out. But in terms of historical cause and effect, 60 …

Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina

… Bullrich. The government’s “deception has inflicted serious damage on our people,” added Deputy Carlos Brown. “It’s … where tourists and porteños (inhabitants of Buenos Aires) come to exchange currency. As one walks the streets, the … of inflation and devaluation, Rosas slashed public subsidies and public works. A proponent of small government, …
 Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner book Cover.

He Led His People Into the Desert

Review of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
Cygnet, Ohio, in Wood County was a booming oil town with 13 saloons and many workers when this photo was taken in 1885.

An Energy Plan for You!

… more pipelines.” Environmentalism and renewable energy be damned, supply-side energy policy reigns and fossil fuel is … Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … to be completely captured by his fossil fuel buddies. Eisenhower, in fact, ended up vetoing the deregulation …
Advertisement for DDT featured in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. This image illustrates the rosy reputation that pesticides enjoyed before the publication of Silent Spring.

A World Drenched with Pesticides: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

… plants, while also accumulating in water , soil, and the bodies of fish, birds, and people.  Rachel Carson devoted her … with the landscapes surrounding her childhood home of Springdale, Pennsylvania. She studied marine biology and graduated … on chemical over-use. While the public, USDA, chemical companies , and farmers embraced pesticides with a fervor …
The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan Book Cover.

Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century

Review of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
… would send out a call throughout western Christendom for soldiers to come to Alexios' aid by appealing to the western desire to … limitations, and may certainly wish to dispute individual points of Frankopan's argument along the way. It is worth … Kyle Shimoda
Cover of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History by David Farber.

The Far Right Stuff

Review of The Rise and Fall of Modern Conservatism, by David Farber (Princeton University Press, 2010)
… a table with friends and fight over.  I mean that as a high compliment, since there are far too many books out there, … the book with Robert Taft – offered little more than an updated free-market fundamentalism; socially, they clung to notions of family, tradition, and institutional obedience that were alternately nostalgic and retrograde. …
 A Chinese laboratory technician conducting tests on SARS.

Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)

… discovered since the mid-1960s (four of which just cause a common cold in humans). A microscopic image of SARS-CoV It … viewpoint on how we might understand and respond to today’s novel viral threat. On November 16, 2002, the first … of Hanoi and who first identified the disease for the WHO, died of the disease on March 29. Though his death was …
Church and belltower at Usol’e.

A Postcard from the Ural Mountains

… of Russia’s Kama River on 11 July 2016 for an intense five-day excursion through the Perm-Ekaterinburg region, we … to and from Siberia in 1734 and again in September 1742, commenting from Nev’iansk: “I had little interaction with … from the Savior Cathedral bell tower, Kungur. After climbing to Kungur’s highest point, nothing could make us …
John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club.

Conservation — An American, and Republican, Tradition

… of personal virtue, but not a sufficient basis for a sound comprehensive energy policy,” he turned his back on a major … what one historian has called “the myth of superabundance” and advanced a new ethic of regard and restraint … D. Keith Naylor is an associate professor of religious studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles and a writer for …
Cover of Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Hanioğlu.

Kemalism: "The Religion of the Turk"

Review of Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography, by M. Sukru Hanioglu (Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2011)
… in Foreign Affairs in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, offers a unique and in-depth … begins with Mustafa Kemal's youth as a Muslim boy in modern-day Greece, a European province of the Ottoman Empire, … Darwinism, who shaped Ataturk's ideas about the role of soldiers and military leaders in a society. Goltz famously said …
Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.

Invisible Man

Review of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer , by Wendell E. Pritchett (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
A rendering of the Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, which was fought on April 12, 1864 in Tennessee.  It ended with a massacre by Confederate soldiers of at least one hundred surrendered black troops serving the Union, exemplifying one of the Civil War's transgressions of the norms of warfare.

The American Civil War, Then and Now

Review of The War that Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. … New historical estimates put the death toll at 750,000 soldiers, or 2.4% of the American population in 1860, which … McPherson gives much credit to their agency, he also points out that the primary mechanism of liberation for most …

Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya

… On Sunday, January 27, 2008, I phoned Nairobi to speak with two … going to take their seats the next day and that they were completely resolute in overturning the election and bringing … only survivors were two persons buried alive in a pile of bodies. The media have also discussed how the Kenyan political …
Statue of Peter the Great in Moscow

The Past and Future of Russian-American Relations

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of … remained heavy. Russia is undergoing a similar process today. To compete in the modern global economy, the Soviet …
The FBI’s finely tuned image as a scientific, fact-driven investigative force, cultivated in images like this, often overshadowed how the Bureau’s priorities on issues such as homosexuality were shaped by popular fears rooted in homophobia.

G-Men, Gays, and Government

Review of Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program, by Douglas M. Charles Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2015.
Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev

Mendeleev's Periodic Table

… chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev is best known today for his creation of the periodic table of elements. … chemists had worked to find an organizing principle that encompassed all of the known elements and that could be … characteristics—they were largely inert and resistant to combining with other substances—but the entire set fit easily …