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2013 St. Patrick's Day parade in Wappingers Falls, New York.

The Wearing of the Rainbow

… 'Tis shocking but true — the St. Patrick's Day parade in America … … History News Service … United States … Ireland … United Kingdom … Migration, Immigration, & Refugees … The Wearing …
This 1878 engraving shows the chaos at the scene of the Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre

… extremely tense. Governor Thomas Hutchinson, the highest-ranking British administrator in the Province of Massachusetts … the British military occupation was clearly untenable. Seeking to calm the situation, Hutchinson arrested Preston and … … United States … U.S. Revolutionary War/Era … United Kingdom … Colonialism/Imperialism … Atlantic … The Boston …
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 …
The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Book Cover

The Jamestown Project

Review of The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)
… The Jamestown Project. This book will surprise readers looking to delve immediately into the adventures of Captain … University Press, 2007) … Larry Skillin … Reviews … United Kingdom … Early Modern … North America … …
photo of Dan Snow

Best in History Online: Dan Snow's History Hit

… of World War I, and fly in military aircraft, while also picking up medieval dance tips. The frequent, diverse topics … have shaped who we are today. … Connecting History … United Kingdom … Best in History Online: Dan Snow's History Hit …
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.

Kitchen Wisdom

Review of Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen, by Wendy Wall (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
… recipes…offered practitioners the occasion for undertaking and scrutinizing nothing less than world making” (3). The recipe archive, she argues, offers a … portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces …
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 …
Frankenstein's Monster

The Origins of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

On January 1st, 1818, Mary Shelley, at age nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein.
… … 19th Century … Science & Technology … Literature … United Kingdom … The Origins of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …