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Keeping Veterans Day Alive

… after the city council cut the parade’s funding. Only a firestorm of protests from the Florida city’s residents …

Gunpowder Plot conspirators in front of a bonfire celebrating Guy Fawkes Night.

Powder Treason, Bonfire Night, and the English Art of Reinventing the Past

"The National Game. Three Outs and One Run." Drawing depicting the four candidates of the 1860 United States presidential election (L to R): John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The artist is comparing the election to a baseball game.

The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery

… That evening, in a foreshadowing of events to come, fireworks lit the sky above Fort Sumter. Who could doubt, …

Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years Later

… protests and calls for Morsi to step down. When an assassin fired at him in 1954, Nasser was speaking at Manshiya Square …

European Disunion: The Rise and Fall of a Post-War Dream?

… example of tensions within the EU were on full display when fireworks lit up the sky and Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” (the …

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) launches a Tomahawk missile in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn on March 19, 2011.

What Can Air Power Achieve? From Rolling Thunder to Odyssey Dawn

… but Obama has yet to specify how the cruise missiles fired into Libya or a no-fly zone will oust Gadhafi or …

General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.

The Collapse of Ottoman Power

Review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan (New York: Basic Books, 2015)

… Mediterranean division of the German Imperial Navy—opened fire on a Russian gunboat and a mine-laying vessel. The …

It’s Gay Rights, Not Gay Genes, That Matter

… from the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station in Idaho set off a firestorm of controversy. In an effort to understand what …

Transnistria: The History Behind the Russian-backed Region

… fought to a stalemate with the Moldovans. A ceasefire in July 1992 secured Transnistria’s de facto …

From Commonplace to Controversial: The Different Histories of Abortion in Europe and the United States

… Representative Todd Akin (R-Missouri) caused a political firestorm this August when he told a television reporter …

Grover Cleveland, painted by Anders Zorn in 1899

Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century

Review of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)

… why and how Alexios, cooperating with Urban, kindled the fire of crusading spirit in the souls of westerners, and how …

Protesters during day 14 of Occupy Wall Street

"Class Warfare" in American History

… start overturning boxcars, and setting warehouses on fire. And so class warfare was an actual thing that …

Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones

… inhuman depravity portending society’s doom, mechanical misfires that are both ineffective and humorous, and … out his dire scenarios. His prediction of aerial torpedoes fired from Germany or France into population centers proved … wrought by German robots, the Allies were already fighting fire with fire. The U.S. Army Air Force’s “War Weary Bomber” …