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tanks and soldier fighting in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The 1862 Morrill Act Honored the Liberal Arts As Well As Technical Education

Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.

Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor

… communal violence that plagues South Asia today. To Hindu nationalists, he is the ultimate villain: an oppressive …

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

Persecuted Christians?

… ] … Stephen A. Allen … History News Service … Global/Transnational … Christianity … United States … Persecuted …

A U.S. military vehicle crossing the Iraq border in March 2003.

U.S. Credibility at Stake in Iraq

"Ukraine, Headed for a Revolution?"

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 …

Second-Guessing Hiroshima?

An Aboriginal leader at the 13th Annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival in 2006.

Westward Expansion & Imperialism: Horse of a Different Color?

Grade Level

9-12

Teaching Area

US History to 1877

The Second Opium War

… impacts on Chinese politics, public health, and international relations in the late-nineteenth and …

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 …

The New York Times Article, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse" Cover Photo

3/11/14: History through People, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse"

… internal documents - are finally making their way to the national stage. … Connecting History … United States … …

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 …

The original Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary, known popularly as the Treaty of Tripoli, written in Arabic, signed 4 November 1796.

Obama Disregards History in Favor of Diplomacy

A homeless man outside the outside the United Nations building in New York with the American flag in the background.

A New Abolition Movement — Against Poverty

The Assassination of President Garfield

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. In the background: Upper and lower Yosemite Falls.

Why Today’s Politicians Love Teddy Roosevelt

… — in Osawatomie, Kansas, the site of Roosevelt’s 1910 “New Nationalism Address.” Roosevelt’s resurgence, however, …

OSU Faculty Contributes to Civil Rights Museum

Srebrenica

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

… reminder of the dynamics and consequences of extreme nationalism, the long legacies that acts of violence leave … and Herzegovina … Military/War/Peace … Genocide … International Organizations … Srebrenica …

With its rhetoric of "the 99%" (the people) against "the 1%" (the elite), the international Occupy movement is an example of a (left-wing) populist social movement.

A New Populism in the United States

… less than half of the American electorate votes in any national election) and increased disaffection from the major …

Religions of the Middle East