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Cover of A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty by Kirsten McKenzie.

What's in a Name?

Review of A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty , by Kirsten McKenzie (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010)
… details—overly familiar talk with his "servant," a strikingly Scottish accent, "vulgarisms" in his speech, and poor … McKenzie would have integrated her own experience working with the sources and the questions they raised more … told story.  It deserves a wide audience, and anyone looking for a gripping and global story about a pivotal era …
Queen Mary’s College, opened in 1914.

A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter

… kilometers of land, bounded by the Adyar river and the Buckingham canal in the south and north respectively, on the beach overlooking the Bay of Bengal. Madras was an odd choice for a city … busiest roads, with no pedestrian crossing to reach it! Taking a photo of the War Memorial therefore involves a swift …
Chartwell, the country estate of Winston Churchill

By Invitation Only

Review of The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939, by Adrian Tinniswood New York: Basic Books, 2016
… and its offspring, the Arts and Crafts movement” (82). Looking back on the past, these new owners sought to invoke a … such an environment in contrast to stately palaces, like Buckingham Palace and Sandringham House A drawing of … Books, 2016 … Clint Rodgers … Reviews … Europe … United Kingdom … Cities/Urban & Rural … 20th Century … By …
Omagh, Northern Ireland in 2001.

Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics

… village of Rosslea, Northern Ireland, a plaque linking a rebellion that occurred in 1798 and the present IRA’s … News Service … Europe … Northern Ireland … Ireland … United Kingdom … Military/War/Peace … Guns/Weapons … Diplomacy/International Relations … Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics …
Jurassic Park sign

Who's Afraid of Jurassic Park?

… those long extinct dinosaurs fascinate us so? by Josephine King "\"I"fho's afraid of Jurassic Park? Not VV too many … propagating a one-shot explanation for creation, Josephine King has a degree in Geography and Anthropology from London … recordsocieties well before our advent changed breaking movie of the same name as well the way we view the …
In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow, armed with tsarist insignia and shouting the anti-immigrant chant "Let's give Russia back to the Russians!"

Russia’s Lost Empire

Review of Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2017)
… in former Soviet republics, especially in Ukraine . In Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present , … inquiries under what he calls the “Russian question.” Lost Kingdom both investigates the historical development of this …

Time It Was: 1968 Around the World

… of Lyndon Johnson and not one but two major assassinations. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in early April, and Robert Kennedy …
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat

Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later

… about the tragic couple and their mythic Camelot. Stephen King’s recent best-selling novel 11/22/63 (2012) tells the … that saving Kennedy would also “save his brother. Save Martin Luther King. Stop the race riots. Stop Vietnam, maybe … Get …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders in 1963.

Giving Up on the Dream?

… the 1963 March on Washington. The march’s signature event, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, continues to stir the …
Nationalist police forces in Barcelona preventing voting in the October 1, 2017 referendum.

Top Ten Origins: Catalonia (Catalunya) and Spain

… Peninsula, experienced stability as part of the Visigoth Kingdom centered in Toledo (in present-day region Castile-La … Mancha). In 718, Muslim invaders swept the peninsula, attacking cities in southern France. By 760, the Franks began … Muslims. In 801, Louis the Pious, the son of the Frankish king Charlemagne, captured Barcelona from the Muslims. …
A promotional still from the 1951 Broadway production of The King and I

Top Ten Origins: Historical Musicals

… know it today emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom at the end of the nineteenth century from a variety … Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem about an Acadian girl seeking her lover after they were separated during the forced … The show ends, just as Elisabeth’s real life did, with her assassination at the hands of an Italian anarchist…. and …
Soldiers marching at the Champs Elysee

Recovering the History of the French Far-Right

Review of Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France , by Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020)
… France were jolted from their sleep when a bomb exploded, taking the roof off of room #19 and ending the life of Marx … to find out. And so begins Brunelle and Finley-Croswhite’s Assassination in Vichy , like any good tale of murder and … of the right-wing terrorist organization, the Cagoule. Assassination in Vichy , then, is more than a history of the …
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

… the commemoration for the hundred-year anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.   Patrick Potyondy   In a … what happened. Austro-Hungarian rule ended and Yugoslav Kingdom emerged.   Patrick Potyondy   In considering this … moving forward, I think was pretty salient in terms of speaking to the contemporary, general political situation in …
LA 92, directed by Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin

At the Movies: LA 92: The Right to be Angry

… LA 92, directed by Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin "We have to do with the past only as we can make it … the documentary. Oscar-winning directors Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin endeavored to create a film that explored Los Angeles … efforts in L.A. Lindsay and Martin begin the film by looking back thirty years to the Watts Rebellion that took …
Bastille Prison

Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)

It was the spark that emboldened the people’s movement to overthrow King Louis XVI.
… spark that emboldened the people’s movement to overthrow King Louis XVI. … Mircea Platon … Europe … Civil/Human …
The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean, by Peter Earle Book Cover

The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean

Review of The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean, by Peter Earle (St. Martin's Press '07, $25.95, 292 pages, ISBN #0-312-36142-4; index, source notes, bibliography, unillustrated)
… territories in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the New World, making them the most powerful country in Christendom. Of all … the important Spanish possessions were poorly defended, making it difficult to determine where Morgan's men would … and The Battle for the Caribbean , by Peter Earle (St. Martin's Press '07, $25.95, 292 pages, ISBN #0-312-36142-4; …
Bob Campbell Photograph Of Dian Fossey Filming Orphaned Gorillas Coco And Pucker, Rwanda 1969, Bob Campbell

Gorillas in the Mist: The Life and Legacy of Dian Fossey

Fossey replaced a fallacious stereotype of a King Kong-like, violent gorilla with an almost idealized image of a gorilla that was intelligent, family-oriented and peaceful.
… Seeger. … Fossey replaced a fallacious stereotype of a King Kong-like, violent gorilla with an almost idealized …
Robert F Williams and Mao Zedong

China and the Black Liberation Struggle in America

… From Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., China has a long and complex history of … of have a minor shift. But they mostly discuss the sort of assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, as providing a …
George Holliday's footage of Rodney King being beaten by police in 1991

The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion: “No Justice, No Peace”

… charged in the beating of African American motorist Rodney King to a packed courtroom on April 29, 1992, Los Angeles … crisis . On March 3, 1991, four LAPD officers beat Rodney King using aluminum batons and Tasers. Unbeknownst to the … the 1970s and 1980s. George Holliday's footage of Rodney King being beaten by police in 1991 ( left ), and King's …
U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon

Ten Terrorists Attacks in History

… out the sentence less than two years later. (Right): The Assassination of Alexander II, drawn by G. Broling in 1881. … reform and modernization of Russia’s state and economy. His assassination all but ended this program and resulted in a … state  there, detonated a bomb in the basement of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.  The hotel was the …
The famously burly W.G. Grace was one of Britain's most famous cricket players who stood out from the crowd with both his imposing career and his imposing facial hair.

A Long History of Close Shaves

Review of Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair, by Christopher Oldstone-Moore (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016)
… over the course of the history of Western civilization. King Ashurnasirpal II wore the beard of a warrior king, … far more tangled.  Influential figures like Henry VIII and Martin Luther grew defiantly powerful beards only to have their …
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.

“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)

… Previously on Prologued … Michelle Paranzino So if we're talking about declaring “war” on drugs, I would say the War on … Drugs begins with the Nixon administration. But if we're looking at the creation of a prohibitionist legal regime, and a … during the era of European colonial domination. Miriam Kingsberg Kadia I would actually submit that the war on …