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Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.

The Justinianic Plague

… during the First Pandemic (541-750),” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (25), June 19, 2019. … Plague: An Inconsequential Pandemic?,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (51), December 19, 2019. … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, …
Cover of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China by Dong Guoqiang and Andrew G. Walder.

The View from the Countryside

Review of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China, by Dong Guoqiang & Andrew G. Walder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… Feng County's remote location, it was China's unpredictable national politics that shaped the conflict in Feng County. … of the conflict, the authors make a strong case that national politics set the tone and tenor for the Cultural … counties could be drawn into the Cultural Revolution’s national maelstrom, but the question remains of just how …
Cover of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals by David SchefferDavid S

Bringing Evil to Justice

Review of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, by David Scheffer (NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… became a test of how well the United States, and the international community could create institutions of governance … cleansing" of Bosnia, the United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia in … Statute in 1998 and the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) that began operation in 2002. …
Print of "Galveston's Awful Calamity".

Galveston 1900: 125 Years After the Storm

… unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather Service (NWS) is trusted to provide timely … a fraction of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The NWS’s National Hurricane Center is now Americans’ primary source …
A photo of Helmut Kohl in1987.

Germany After Kohl

… the “Ostpolitik” or eastern policy. This recognized the Soviet Bloc as a political reality while simultaneously … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Evo Morales in 2006.

Once More, Bolivians Seek Independence

… Bolivians don’t trust their politicians to do anything with national resources that will benefit the country. Bolivians … populism and a defense of the coca leaf as a sacred national plant. One of this movement’s leaders, Evo Morales, …
Official Presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson (by Rembrandt Peale, 1800).

Jefferson: Founding Father and Connoisseur

… executive, he fought bitterly with Congress to cut the national debt. He famously disliked pomp and circumstance, … only his dressing gown and slippers. It caused an international incident.   Yet Jefferson himself couldn’t resist … pursuit of happiness,” embodied in nothing so much as our national pursuit of real estate, .   We can recognize …
An influenza hospital at Camp Funston

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

… residents about the current status of a quarantine ( National Park Service ). The gauze mask was another … Global/Transnational
A U.S. FBI agent sorts through rubble. (Photo by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)

The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings

… on behalf of a coalition of militant groups called The International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders. … In early 2001, when the Bush administration took office national security officials were slow to realize how … Bombings: The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United …
Barry Goldwater in 1964.

The History of the “Right Wing Conspiracy”

… a difficult first year in office. But Kennedy shifted the national debate by attacking the John Birch Society and its … label. William F. Buckley Jr. and his magazine, “The National Review,” in a 1965 special issue, read the John …
Cover of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui.

Forces of Good and Evil

Review of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

The American Dream after COVID-19

… so long for one of these massive disruptions to erupt on a national scale. A poster from 1942 made by The … more of it. Fixation on growth has been hard-wired into our national policies and personal expectations. Presidential … wonder Americans rarely question this design feature of our national self-perception. During the signing ceremony of S. …