Who Owns the Past?
Grade Level
4-8
Teaching Area
Ancient History
World History to 1500
World History since 1500
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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.
Why Dick Allen Never Reached the Hall
… the more than 180 players who have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 1936. Dick Allen, …
Breaking the Trust: Relation Tensions Between Iraq and the US
Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
World History since 1500
US History since 1877
American Government
War & Peace
Science Beseiged
Review of Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America, by Andrew Jewett (Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press, 2020)
… public confidence. Ideological agendas would shrivel as national unity took hold. “For this crisis, the things that …
A New Chance for Peace in Tibet
… remains China’s greatest challenge, domestically and internationally. Instead of the peace, stability and economic … Despite increased repression, public expressions of Tibetan nationalism continue–even terrorism, with a few bombs … the Tibetan spiritual and lay leader, has successfully internationalized the question of Tibet, resulting in universal …
From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone
The real origins of the iPhone’s power stems from the pioneering efforts of communication innovators that preceded the AT&T engineers of the 1920s.
… long-distance communication really begins with the Western Union post-diggers who laid the first American … Bart Elmore … Atlantic … Science & Technology … Global/Transnational … Internet … From the Transatlantic Telephone to …
Ending the War in Northern Ireland
… reached by the Northern Ireland political parties the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) murdered a retired …
The Federal Government and Policing the Police
Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
American Government
… then interact with a President who will attempt to direct national policy around a hot-button issue like police …
Race and Voting, Past and Present
… explicit basis of race violates American law as well as our national conscience. When Congress passed the Voting Rights …
Hot off the Presses: France and Its Empire Since 1870
… underpin them. It situates modern French history in transnational and global contexts and also integrates the themes …
Reform: The Long-Term Winner in Close Elections
… opening of world markets to facilitate competition across national boundaries. Record campaign spending occurred in … who this year said little about big problems like international child labor or global warming may, pressed by …
Trump’s Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective
… Christopher McKnight Nichols, Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies and Professor of History, The Ohio … Noyes (Moderator), Director, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Arts & Sciences Distinguished …
The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments
Between 1946-1948, around 1,500 people in Guatemala—including prisoners, soldiers, prostitutes, psychiatric patients, and children—were enrolled without consent in unethical studies related to the testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections.
… the dangers involved in allowing scientific knowledge and national security to justify what the New York Times …
Taking a Big Bite Out of the Second Amendment
… by John Ashcroft in 2001 in his infamous letter to the National Rifle Association, which cast aside a hundred years …
Foreign Assistance and Democratic Reform
… American taxpayers. A recent survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland … … Francis Adams … History News Service … Global/Transnational … Diplomacy/International Relations … Democracy/Elections/Voting Rights … …
