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A pro-union demonstration in Romania, 2009. The flag translates to "Moldova Our Sister"

Moldova and Romania: A Long and Complicated Relationship

… have led to blackouts across Moldova, Russian missiles have violated Moldovan airspace and crashed onto its … Anderson famously defined nationalism as an “imagined community” binding together a widespread group of people … to be influenced by Russian culture and lacked a strong connection to the newly defined Romanian nation. Towards a …
The United States Army Drill Team.

Should the Military Take Charge in Emergencies?

… of the military later found expression in the Posse Comitatus law of 1878, still in force. Archaic as the title … the Constitution. For 70 years, troops served in police roles, including monitoring the polls to keep drunks and women … to respond to an Indian attack or an outlaw’s rampage. Necessity led military commanders to take the law into their …

Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary

… 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton secured enough delegates to become the Democratic nominee for president of the United … women who have run for president, several others have come within striking distance of the nation’s top post … by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: the right to criticize, the right to …
Crowd with sign: "Black Caucus for Chisholm"

"Earn Your Spurs" (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 7)

… beginning. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an organizer of the Seneca Falls convention that began the women's rights … as president of the NCN,W the organization deepened its commitment to the Civil Rights Movement, with Height joining … and some women prefer the republican party for the opposite reason, Sarah Paxton A lot of this partisanship is …

WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations

… Arabic, European, and Persian architectural styles, the complex embodied purposefully Egypt's place at the … before departing abruptly on a motor scooter. The disconnected scenes flow to Washington every day, like a … Little was known of the man beyond the fact that he had visited a website associated with radical Islam—but his name …
Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart.

Women’s History and a Woman’s Subtle Power

… a black president at the nation’s helm, even the most glib commentators can justify focusing on black history. But … force. History books have been filled with wars, battles, campaigns, successions and elections, as well as their … of a first lady. She was the first wife of a president to command the unofficial sphere of power. During her tenure, …
Cover of Apache Diaspora by Paul Conrad.

“Diaspora” as a Creative and Historical Force

Review of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival, by Paul Conrad (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… of “violence.” Pekka Hämäläinen made an argument that the Comanche past constituted an “empire.” Benjamin Madley, … and others saw “genocide” in the destruction of native peoples. In Paul Conrad’s Apache Diaspora , the author thinks … compensate for historical silence, though occasionally, and necessarily, they flirt with conjecture. Should these cases …
Mosul Grand Mosque in 2007

Bush Needs War — FAST

… UN weapons inspectors be given months or even a year to complete further investigations in that country, President … on February 14 gave the Bush Administration hints of a troublesome future. Critics of the Administration’s policy … offered a glimmer of hope that war with Iraq might not be necessary, at least for the immediate weeks ahead. Reacting …
Poster that says, "Resist," at a Yale University anti-draft rally in 1968.

The Political Costs of Filling the Ranks

… a result, thousands of men openly defied draft laws and welcomed prosecution. And tens of thousands evaded the draft by leaving the country, faking illness or using connections to get appointments in . . . the reserves or … presidential candidates. All over the Internet — at the web sites for Bring Them Home Now, Military Families Speak Out, …

Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis

… the Supreme Court and amidst growing public criticism. To compound the confusion, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, sitting … example, divisions over territorial compromise with the Palestinians; divisions between Jews and Arabs; and conflicts … worldview. But there was nothing inevitable about the connection between Mizrahi identity and right-wing politics. …
Photo of a healthcare worker holding an elderly person's hand.

Ducking Out on Retiree Benefits

… government at cut rate. The word on Wall Street is that unless workers accept big cuts in their benefits, these … on a mix of public and private pensions. Like it or not, company pensions are part of public policy. This struggle … old-age security, but these were mainly posturing. Among companies claiming to offer pensions, 84 percent did not …
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)

Tribal Militias in Sudan

… million people, according to United Nations sources. Relentless bombardment has destroyed the feeble infrastructure of … because SAF leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti, … where Arabs are in the majority. South Darfur is also the site of the most serious rebellion against the government by …
Soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division provide perimeter security for Iraqi policemen at a traffic control point in Tikrit, Iraq.

The Limits of Shock and Awe

… Smith returned to England, proclaiming his mission accomplished; but the Virginia Indian wars lasted for decades. … this terror from the air." Any society would experience "a complete breakdown," as civilians, seeking to end their … as they called it — and fighting face to face. These lessons of the limitations of "techno-war" were forgotten, …
Nationalist police forces in Barcelona preventing voting in the October 1, 2017 referendum.

Top Ten Origins: Catalonia (Catalunya) and Spain

… ten historical moments help us understand the long and complicated relationships Catalunya has had with Spain as well as with the international community. 1. The Nineteen Autonomous Regions of Spain The … Marches, borderlands where war-parties roamed, until Charles the Bald incorporated the region into a hereditary …
Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.

Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century

… over 1.4 billion  Catholics  worldwide, consider what troubles the 267th  Bishop of Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … the papacy of Leo XIV may herald the end of an era,  recent commentary celebrates several notable firsts.  Besides being …
Harper's Weekly illustration

Top Ten Contested Political Conventions

… on how you score the Democrats in 1860) at which the outcome wasn’t clear at the outset. Anti-Masons 1831 William … felt more disposed to smile than to frown.” Wirt nevertheless won seven electoral votes. Democrats 1844 A political … from Grant Park with truncheons and tear gas as Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff placed Senator George …

The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe

… Mugabe has dominated Zimbabwean politics since 1980, having come to power on a wave of popular support developed during … that you are equal to men compadres." Liberation, but Not Necessarily for Women Immediately after independence from … during colonialism and continues to be used today to discredit and dismiss WOZA and other women's groups in Zimbabwe …
Chris Anderson asks: "Will you run again?" Gore replies, "Ohh, you aren't going to get me on this one!"

But Gore Did Help Invent the Internet

… When Al Gore allegedly claimed he invented the Internet, comedians, political  pundits and Republicans had a field … The 1991 law directed over a billion dollars to connecting computers into national networks linking … anyway. While true, it would probably have occurred with less public and educational access, and definitely later. …
Carrie (left) with her mother, Emma Buck, at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 1924.

The Sterilization of Carrie Buck

… one-sixteenth or more ‘negro blood’ and indigenous peoples as those having the same proportion of ‘ Indian blood … of rape. For Buck’s foster family and the doctors who recommended sterilization, a pregnancy out of wedlock was one … mental defect.” Over Buck’s objections, the Court recommended that she be sterilized because, according to the …
The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg Book Cover.

How the Sun Rose Again on the City of Light

Review of The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
… with collaborationist neighborhoods, areas of union and communist strength, and the German headquarters district. As … concerned about the advancing Allied armies, now only 30 miles from the Paris suburbs. De Gaulle's supporters inside … would inhibit German movement on the streets while connecting the insurrection to well-known revolts such as the …
Book cover of To Break Russia's Chains by Vladimir Alexandrov

Terrorism as the Path to a Better Russia

Review of To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks by Vladimir Alexandrov (New York: Pegasus Books, 2021)
… and sent to Vologda. It was there he decided to become a writer, sending his first short story to Maxim Gorky. … 1917 resulted from a belief that a coup might be necessary to save Russia at that time. He ultimately … that his determined pursuit of a goal resulted in the opposite of what he wanted.” (The first came with Savinkov’s …
Early OSU football game

4th and Goal? The Past of the American University and the Future of the NCAA

… Patrick Potyondy   This is your host Patrick Potyondy and welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone … very well. And the second point I would make to try to connect this to my earlier point about there being criticism of … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
The federal government commissioned a series of public murals from the artists it employed: William Gropper's Construction of a Dam (1939) is characteristic of much of the art of the 1930s, with workers seen in heroic poses, laboring in unison to complete a great public project.

Guess What? The New Deal Worked!

… Since the economic crisis we’re now in is being compared to the Great Depression, the solutions being … Deal made to the structure of our economy brought the cycles of the economy under better control; and, finally, the … top 10 percent, the middle class has survived largely on credit cards and home equity loans. Now millions have no way …