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Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan

“The Reagans”: The Spirit of Censorship Lives

… history. Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, complained that the CBS script contains … novels, also, present only inspiring depictions of national figures? The emphasis on positive portrayals …
U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon

Ten Terrorists Attacks in History

… the most recent examples of terrorist violence to make international headlines. Terrorism, as opposed to ordinary … and bring to life the world’s first socialist state, the Soviet Union. 2. Irgun: Zionist terrorism Irgun’s bomb collapsed …
Cover of The Battle of Adwa African Victory in the Age of Empire by Raymond Jonas

When Ethiopia Stunned the World

Review of The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire, by Raymond Jonas (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2011)
Cover of With Our Backs to the Wall Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson.

The End of the War as They Knew It

Review of With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918, by David Stevenson (Cambridge, M.A.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
… 1 An expert in World War I history and professor of international history at the London School of Economics and … Science, Stevenson succeeds in writing a nuanced, multinational study of the events in 1918. Stevenson grounds his … … World War I / WWI … Military/War/Peace … Diplomacy/International Relations … 20th Century … The End of the War as …
Bust of Abraham Lincoln.

Getting Wrong with Lincoln

… Lincoln script doctors. During the 1992 Republican national convention, former President Ronald Reagan …
Protester opposing gay marriage in Boston, 2007. The sign compares gay rights in the U.S. to Nazi, Germany.

Gays, Nazis, and the GOP

… homosexuality," Hitler told his aide Josef Goebbels. "The National Socialist State must be a manly state."   Before …
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.

The Justinianic Plague

… during the First Pandemic (541-750),” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (25), June 19, 2019. … Plague: An Inconsequential Pandemic?,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (51), December 19, 2019. … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, …
Cover of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China by Dong Guoqiang and Andrew G. Walder.

The View from the Countryside

Review of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China, by Dong Guoqiang & Andrew G. Walder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… Feng County's remote location, it was China's unpredictable national politics that shaped the conflict in Feng County. … of the conflict, the authors make a strong case that national politics set the tone and tenor for the Cultural … counties could be drawn into the Cultural Revolution’s national maelstrom, but the question remains of just how …
Space Shuttle Columbia launching

Can We Boldly Go There Any More?

… but lacked the political power or will to resolve. International politics is no longer the important factor it was … of space exploration has meant that only the American and Soviet governments could afford to send people into space. … The annual budgets of the Defense Department, NASA, and the National Science Foundation are, respectively, $385 billion, …
Cover of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals by David SchefferDavid S

Bringing Evil to Justice

Review of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, by David Scheffer (NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… became a test of how well the United States, and the international community could create institutions of governance … cleansing" of Bosnia, the United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia in … Statute in 1998 and the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) that began operation in 2002. …
Flag of the People's Republic of China

With Enemies Like These…

… leaders expressing displeasure at the prospect that the Nationalist Party would remain in power on Taiwan, which was … of the once dominant but now increasingly unpopular Nationalist Party. One of the keys to his victory was, …
Print of "Galveston's Awful Calamity".

Galveston 1900: 125 Years After the Storm

… unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather Service (NWS) is trusted to provide timely … a fraction of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The NWS’s National Hurricane Center is now Americans’ primary source …
College Green, Ohio University, 1973.

Our Gilded Bronze Age of Higher Education

… and Wellesley, Harvard alumni in 1915 introduced the first national multi-year fundraising campaign, administered by … legislative appropriations, such as the G.I. Bill (1944), National Defense Education Act (1957), Higher Education …
A photo of Helmut Kohl in1987.

Germany After Kohl

… the “Ostpolitik” or eastern policy. This recognized the Soviet Bloc as a political reality while simultaneously … War … Democracy/Elections/Voting Rights … Diplomacy/International Relations … Germany After Kohl …
Evo Morales in 2006.

Once More, Bolivians Seek Independence

… Bolivians don’t trust their politicians to do anything with national resources that will benefit the country. Bolivians … populism and a defense of the coca leaf as a sacred national plant. One of this movement’s leaders, Evo Morales, …
Official Presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson (by Rembrandt Peale, 1800).

Jefferson: Founding Father and Connoisseur

… executive, he fought bitterly with Congress to cut the national debt. He famously disliked pomp and circumstance, … only his dressing gown and slippers. It caused an international incident.   Yet Jefferson himself couldn’t resist … pursuit of happiness,” embodied in nothing so much as our national pursuit of real estate, .   We can recognize …
An influenza hospital at Camp Funston

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

… residents about the current status of a quarantine ( National Park Service ). The gauze mask was another … Harris … Milestones … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Global/Transnational … World War I / WWI … Military/War/Peace … The 1918 …