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Mexican flag in a square

Una Postal de la Ciudad de México

… ubicada en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, prosperó como una ciudad hace casi dos mil años. El ascenso y la … de los Mexicas ó Aztecas (los términos son intercambiables). Ellos fundaron la ciudad que hoy en día se conoce como la Ciudad de México. Se cree que la civilización Azteca …
Seal of the University of California.

How Does a Nation Protect Itself in Wartime?

… Americans ended up damaging their democratic principles and hurting innocent citizens. Perhaps the best-known … to act decisively, during World War I President Wilson took command of telegraph and telephone systems, issued executive … What is proposed now is a shadow of those extensive measures.  Following the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush halted air …
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

Black Woodstock: The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

… Grapevine".   Additionally, like other such events, it refuted the racist belief that Black people could not gather … Mongo Santamaría and Style in Harlem.   1969 was a complex moment. Even as the festival affirmed the victories … upstate at Woodstock.  Given these connections, it is no surprise that the Harlem Cultural Festival later became …
 How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore Book Cover.

The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightened Matrimony

Review of How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
… His friends admired him for his intelligence, honesty, and commitment to virtue, but thought that maybe a little … By promptly renaming them Sabrina and Lucretia, Day ensured his foundlings severed all connection with their … kept utterly in the dark about their strange role in Day’s future plans, they were also forced to wait on him hand and …
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.

The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex

Review of State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2012)
… to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … have ignored Eisenhower's warning entirely. The anatomy lesson begins with the institutions of government: a chapter … and indirectly through our foreign aid. This is a quiet, measured history, but it is not without a point of view, one …
Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Ten Protests in Sports History

… in American sport involved white athletes refusing to compete against or alongside African-Americans. On at least … protest. Efforts by American opponents of Nazism to pressure Germany not to discriminate against Jewish athletes, to … – and ruin the league’s prime-time broadcast window – unless the league agreed on the spot to bargain with the NBPA …
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.

The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War

… forces, however, the South Korean military repelled the Communist attack and eventually pushed them north of the … and other civilians on state-funded trips to this site. Complete with wax figurines of long-nosed, beast-like … posture and shows no signs of retrenchment in the near future.  …
Count Gaston aboard his Jeantaud electric, 1899.

The Jeantaud Electric Car Land Speed Record

… single kilometer. Although the only electric vehicle at the competition, the Jeantaud handily beat its gasoline-powered … landmark win represented the dominance of electric vehicles at the turn of the 20th century.  France was an early … Road to Mass EV Adoption: Three Barriers To a Sustainable Future”  Forbes Technology Council  (August 30, 2023)  …

Updating ‘No Child Left Behind:’ Change, or More of the Same

… in American society. Educators tended to take an opposite view of these developments, believing that they … the war against Hitler's genocidal racism did much to discredit the racist ideologies (that is, biological … and education activists who wanted to influence the future of No Child Left Behind and other policies of the …
Emergency servicemen and volunteers remove rubble and demine territory after Russian shelling, Kyiv, Oblast, 2022.

Ukrainian Architecture at War

… Derzhprom building on Kharkiv’s Freedom Square is the most complete example of constructivist architecture in the world … a speedy two and a half years, 5,000 workers labored on the site working in three shifts using simple hand tools, … the current war: a weak economy has resulted in little surplus money to invest in preservation efforts and a lack …
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969 with the American flag behind them.

Thirty Years since Apollo 11

… economic system. Apollo was also a stunning technological accomplishment. NASA moved in eight years from launching a man … By contrast, NASA’s budget now is only $13 billion, less than 1 percent of federal spending. NASA’S elaborate … last year, six American rockets, three military and three commercial, have failed, with a loss of more than $3 …
The ruins of Ludlow

Which Side Are You On?: The Ludlow Massacre and Class Struggle in 1914

… however, has more than its share of ghosts. It is the site of the deadliest labor war in American history. Since … above in 1914) had struck for union recognition; the company's obedience to Colorado's 8-hour day law; the right … a fair day's pay for a fair day's work, not to mention a measure of dignity for those men that earned their bread in the …
President James A. Garfield

The Assassination of President Garfield

… As the president made his way to the train, chatting companionably with Secretary of State James G. Blaine, a man … in the back. This engraving of the moments just after Charles Guiteau shot Garfield depicts Secretary of State James … which ravaged Garfield’s body for two and half months. Surrounded by his family, he died on September 19, 1881, …
Pullman Strike illustration

Top Ten Origins: American Workers and Strikes

… Socialist Congress meeting in Paris in July 1899. The comrades set the date in solidarity with organized workers … an era of monetary inflexibility put constant downward pressure on prices and wages, and the first large waves of … using technological innovations to move plants to non-union sites while introducing automated processes that gradually …
Engraving of René Descartes.

A Triumph for Religion as Well as Science

… Rene Descartes argued that the universe was made of particles of matter in constant motion. The daring Descartes … But other scientists, like Robert Boyle, were not so sure: they thought that Descartes’s theory promoted atheism. … and natural theology was a debate within the scientific community of the day. Within the modern scientific …
The colorful buildings of Tirana, viewed from the steps of the National Museum.

A Postcard from Tirana: Overcoming the Past

… dotted with reminders of this past, but the residents welcome visitors with true Albanian hospitality and intend to … the Soviet state, and with little regard for the historical sites of the city, Hoxha began a massive building campaign … in vivid colors to reflect the bright outlook of the future. Empty spaces were turned into parks and complexes …
2006 map of North Korea and South Korea.

Applying the Antarctic Solution to the Korean Nuclear Impasse

… prohibits all military activity? The unlikely source of common ground lies in the Antarctic Treaty of 1959. This … attack from the United States. Confidence-building measures, such as those of the Antarctic Treaty, are needed to … the Korean border. Only the demilitarized zone, several miles wide, separates the colossal military forces of North …
Plumes of smoke billow from the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, after a Boeing 767 hits each tower during the September 11 attacks.

Security May Be Too Expensive

… John Ashcroft asks for authority to hold non-citizens incommunicado indefinitely if the government regards them as a … If the administration’s proposal becomes law, security measures will increase. But freedom will decrease. So before … McCarran Internal Security Act and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI files on those he considered subversive, such as Martin Luther …
The Kaiser Permanente Building after the Northridge Earthquake in 1994.

California Freeways: Still Seismically Unsafe

… in 1991 than they were twenty years earlier.  Despite reassurances, the fact remains that the seismic retrofit program … While older structures could be ‘retrofitted’ with cables to keep roadbeds from falling off their supports, the … and undervalued, the seismic program was still incomplete almost two decades later when Loma Prieta struck …
Palestine & Israel flags

Israeli and Palestinian Fantasies Block the Way to Peace

… As any viewer of television news knows, those who comment on the Arab-Israeli crisis offer many different … expectations that keep hostilities going. Both Palestinians and Israelis cling to fantasies about settling … take up residence in or near all Israeli communities.   Not surprisingly, Jews consider peace proposals that include …
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin

Graduate Students Discuss Public Intellectualism

… intellectuals themselves for our podcast, we wanted to be sure and take a moment to recognize the students who are … as the case might be. If we really want to engage the community with historical thinking, a better model might be … television channels to hundreds, as well as thousands of websites and blogs, means that it may be a mistake to refer to …

Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising

… population walked out of the Istanbul meeting as well, complaining that the SNC had no intention of setting up a … with Khaddam resorted to armed struggle in an attempt to discredit al-Bayanuni's leadership. Gunmen attacked a United … that their interests would be accorded greater attention in future. Syria in the Context of the Arab Spring Islamist …
An influenza hospital at Camp Funston

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

… in Kansas where few noticed the signs of the pandemic to come amid the ongoing war. On March 4, 1918 company cook … off, although a third, final, and milder phase would resurge in the spring of 1919. It too passed naturally. … the etiology of influenza with the goal of preventing a future pandemic. Between 1935 and the early 1960s the …