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Crucifixion of Saint Peter by Caravaggio (1600, Cerasi Chapel).

Persecuted Christians?

… ] … Stephen A. Allen … History News Service … Global/Transnational … Christianity … United States … Persecuted …
The floor seal of the Central Intelligence Agency

Getting Others to Fight Our Wars

… send in U.S. forces. But after some scorching remarks from Soviet Premier Khrushchev, while Castro was making mincemeat … Henry Butterfield Ryan … History News Service … Global/Transnational … Military/War/Peace … Cold War … Getting Others to …

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… Searching for Wakanda   Nuremberg Judgment   Frankenstein   Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell     … Edpuzzles …
Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev

Mendeleev's Periodic Table

… The United Nations declared 2019 to be the International Year of the Periodic Table, celebrating the 150th …
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.
… the culmination of Uganda’s tumultuous decolonization. Nationalist politics in the 1950s had been ferociously …
graveyard at memorial to Srebrenica

Srebrenica

In July 1995, over 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre.
Dome of the Rock

Religions of the Middle East

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
World History since 1500
… in the Middle East are more a result of religion or nationalism. Conflicts in the Middle East dominate current …
soldiers patrolling in Iraq

The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, 10 Years Later

… despite flagging U.N. support and deteriorating international popular opinion . In the late evening of March 19, … nightmare, effectively squandering post-9/11 international sympathy and support. A far more deleterious effect …
Vicente Fox Quesada

Will Fox be a Mexican Jefferson?

… class, the landowners, the urban middle class and the trade unions. It created vast monopolies while oppressing the … of history for world civilizations, human rights and international law at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, …
Paratroopers of teh 2nd RPC firing a 106 mm SR recoilless gun at an Egyptian resistance point on an Egyptian resistance point in Port Said

The Suez Crisis (1956)

In July 1956, the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a complicated imbroglio marked by the intersection of European decolonization, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Cold War, and the growth of U.S. power.
… began on July 26, when Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company after the United States … and Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle.    … In July 1956, the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a … of U.S. power. … Peter Hahn … Middle East … Diplomacy/International Relations … Cold War … Egypt … Global/Transnational …
President Woodrow Wilson with his wife, Edith, in June 1920.

Making it into the White House

Review of Fit for the Presidency? Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans, by Seymour Morris Jr. (Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2017)
Bust of Harlan Fiske Stone, the 12th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Following Bad Precedents for Deciding Military Justice

… a great deal about whether the administration respects international law. Until now, the Bush administration has … we wish to make them. Nothing in all history or in international law, at least as far as I am aware, justifies such …