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Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)

It was the spark that emboldened the people’s movement to overthrow King Louis XVI.

Cover of Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad.

Putting the Middle Kingdom in the Middle

Review of Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750, by Odd Arne Westad (New York: Basic Books, 2012)

… present-day China and its possible development. Restless Empire extends the vision of China's interaction with the … failure in the First Opium War (1839-42) broke down the empire's 18th-century frameworks for foreign affairs. … others treat China (p. 642). Within 11 chapters, Restless Empire lets us sail through the past 250 years, a period …

Barry Faulkner's mural, "The Constitution," depicts the framers of the U.S. Constitution.

Term Limits: Thank Goodness We Didn’t Have Them in 1787

This iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor"; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard. Contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as Native Americans.

Tea Parties Then and Now — A Crucial Difference

… business would help the East India Company stay afloat, the empire would get its taxes, and, because middlemen would no …

Cover of Mother of Invention by Robert I. Field

Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?

Review of Mother of Invention: How the Government Created "Free Market Health Care", by Robert I. Field (Oxford University Press, 2013)

A memorial to the Heaven’s Hundred in Kyiv. Serhii Kemsky’s photo is in black and white under the words Nebesna sotnia.

Heroes Never Die

Cover of Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Hanioğlu.

Kemalism: "The Religion of the Turk"

Review of Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography, by M. Sukru Hanioglu (Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2011)

… from the ashes of the six-hundred-year-long Islamic Ottoman Empire. In fact the legacy that he and his supporters have … that had previously received only limited support in Ottoman and Turkish societies" (6). The book begins with …

The Second Amendment Goes to Court

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin Book Cover

Byzantium for Dummies

Review of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008)

… place in history, as the continuation of the Roman Empire from the reign of Constantine, who moved the capital … Egypt and extending over Persia. Eventually, it fell to the Ottoman Empire. Byzantium fulfills some of our ideas about … down to the 15th century, when Byzantium falls to the Ottoman Empire. Herrin sets about her goal by dividing her …

Patrick Henry Addressing the Virginia Assembly. Lithograph from the painting by A. Chappal. Engraved by H. B. Hall.

A Time to Listen

person holding up sign that reads, end racism

Racism, Hate and Free Speech: The Search for New Boundaries of Sensitivity

… these cases reflect more than the battles riculums at the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival raging today …

Gwangju Then and Now

Gwangju, a major city in southwestern South Korea, has been widely recognized as a center of civil resistance since May 1980, when a brutal military crackdown targeted citizens protesting against dictatorship.

Juan and Evita Perón standing in a car waving, a soldier on horseback is beside the car

The Birth of Peronism

On October 17, 1945, hundreds of thousands of Juan Perón's supporters clogged the streets of Buenos Aires marking a consequential moment in Argentina’s history and the birth of Peronism.

On the first day of the uprising, protesters assembled around the fountain outside the Jeollanam-do Provincial Office, a site that would become central to the struggle against military oppression. Courtesy of the 5.18 Foundation.

Gwangju Isn’t Over

Hessian troops surrendering to General George Washington after the Battle of Trenton.

The Return of the Mercenary

Official Presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson (by Rembrandt Peale, 1800).

Jefferson: Founding Father and Connoisseur

a man kneeling down near tributes to fallen heroes

Heroes Never Die: The Legacies of Euromaidan

Emily Channell-Justice explores the goals and lived experiences of Ukraine’s watershed Euromaidan protests of 2013-14.

President Edelmiro Farrell (left) and the Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945.

Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism

Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.

Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking

Review of A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 , by Susan Pinkard (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009)

A History of Athens Beyond Decline

Review of Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian, by Ian Worthington (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)

… to the margins. Ian Worthington’s latest book, Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor … 338 BCE, through the wars of the successors to Alexander’s empire, and into Roman influence and then dominance, ending … chapters). As a narrative political history, Athens After Empire is light on argument and analysis. Worthington does …

A manuscript image of Pope Innocent IV excommunicating Emperor Frederick II at the Council of Lyon.

Medieval Public Relations Battles

Review of The Two Powers: The Papacy, The Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century, by Brett Edward Whalen (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

… communications battle between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire that was really a disagreement over strategy rather … ideology. At the heart of The Two Powers: The Papacy, The Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth … the conflict between Emperor Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire and two different popes who declared war on him, …

The Ukrainian Crisis: In Russia's Long Shadow

… claimed by the Russian and Polish (and later Austrian) empires. They were only reunited at the end of World War II, … often made by historians of Ukraine: Russia cannot be an empire without Ukraine and coming to terms with Ukraine’s … acquired two smaller Ukrainian-populated areas from the Ottomans and the Hungarian Kingdom. All Ukrainian lands in …

The Hajj and Europe

… world’s Muslim states, only Persia , Afghanistan , and the Ottoman Empire escaped European colonization.) In the decades before … the auspices of Islamic empires. The Mamluk, Mughal, and Ottoman imperial governments all spent large sums to support …

Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.

All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire

Review of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)

… Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, is no. Based on extensive research in original … of the of the dominant goals for the age: industry and empire." (9) The turn toward the gold standard was part of … Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire , by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University …

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