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Cover of The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner

The Anatomy Murders

Review of The Anatomy Murders, by Lisa Rosner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
… cobbler he and his mistress supplemented their income by taking in boarders.  With so many itinerant laborers moving in … with the face just in case the authorities came around asking questions. As long as the medical practitioners of … McMillin … Reviews … Europe … Science & Technology … United Kingdom … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Crime … The …
A 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty of Waitangi

… settlements have recognized Māori tribal identities making some, but not all, tribes significant players in New … … Oceania … Indigenous Communities … New Zealand … United Kingdom … Colonialism/Imperialism … The Treaty of Waitangi …
A group of boys at Chirec International School in India playing Cricket, 2015.

Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game

… of the 2024 World Cup. The United States, who were making their tournament debut, defeated the established … oldest form of the game, with the first official match taking place in 1877. The name reflects the demanding nature … Afghans, the Taliban lifted its ban on cricket in 2000, making it the only sport approved in Afghanistan.  The fall of …
1911 portrait of King George V, ruler of the British Empire.

The Risks of Unilateralism

… Service … Global/Transnational … United States … United Kingdom … Colonialism/Imperialism … Terrorism … The Risks of …
illustration of Prince George IV

Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?

Review of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, by Noelle Gallagher (New Haven: Yale, 2019)
… Gallagher writes that fear of venereal infection was “lurking around every corner” in the Britain of the long 18th … races and form a basis for racial politics, frequently attacking Jews and persons of African descent as bringers of … Haven: Yale, 2019) … Jim Harris … Reviews … Europe … United Kingdom … Sexuality & Reproductive Rights … Public Health, …
Idi Amin addresses troops during a visit to border regions

Idi Amin's Uganda

When Idi Amin, commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in Uganda on 25 January 1971, there was hope among many Ugandans that a new beginning beckoned.
… … Richard Reid … Africa … Uganda … Decolonization … United Kingdom … Military/War/Peace … Idi Amin's Uganda …
This stamp features the first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn."

The “Shot Heard Round the World”: April 19, 1775 and the American Revolutionary War

… painted the British Redcoats as brutal aggressors, attacking civilians and destroying private property. In fact, as … as the exhausted Redcoats were pursued back to Boston, taking fire from all directions, including from inside and … discharged in the process of being loaded, thus provoking the volley from the British. But undoubtedly we will …
A dry ice bomb mid-explosion.

It’s Not How to Make a Bomb That’s the Problem, But Why

… legislation that would criminalize downloading bomb-making instructions from the Internet. Once again, the … the target of law makers who seek a simple remedy for making a complex world safe again. If only it were so easy. A major flaw in blaming the Internet for terrorist bomb making is that no one has ever sufficiently demonstrated that …
battle scene of men with axes fighting men on horseback

1066: The Normans Conquer England

The Battle of Hastings, which took place on October 14, 1066 was a pivotal moment in the invasion from across the English Channel that resulted in the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England by William, the French Duke of Normandy.
… the French Duke of Normandy. … Wenxi Liu … Europe … United Kingdom … Medieval … Military/War/Peace … 1066: The Normans …
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)
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 …
Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.

Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century

… this landscape, Leo XIII deplored the conditions of the working class as “a yoke little better than that of slavery … Pope Leo is not the first Augustinian to make history.  Martin Luther was a devout Augustinian in 1517, when he hammered …
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; …