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French soldiers overrun Chinese troops during the 1860 campaign in the Second Opium War.

The Second Opium War

… impacts on Chinese politics, public health, and international relations in the late-nineteenth and …
A U.S. military vehicle crossing the Iraq border in March 2003.

U.S. Credibility at Stake in Iraq

… Once again the United States has squandered its international credibility on a war that most of its closest … recognize that Iraq was a significant threat to the international community. Why is that? Because, the United States … of the Yalu River — has often exaggerated the threat to national or international security to justify military …
Crucifixion of Saint Peter by Caravaggio (1600, Cerasi Chapel).

Persecuted Christians?

… ] … Stephen A. Allen … History News Service … Global/Transnational … Christianity … United States … Persecuted …
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 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 …
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 …
graveyard at memorial to Srebrenica

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 …
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 …
An image of Kuwait’s oil fields after they were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the First Gulf War

Oil Empires and Petro-Anarchies

Review of Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East, by Michael Quentin Morton (London: Reaktion Books, 2017)
… U.S.’s desire to promote its regional interests in a post-Soviet era. Without these details, Morton’s description of … to anti-Western sentiment that later defined the region’s nationalist movements. While Morton points to some of these … larger role in Morton’s narrative because the anti-Western nationalist movements were spurred by feelings of …
A view of the World Trade Center in New York City

Responding to Terror: No Good Choices

… during the anti-colonial revolution spearheaded by the National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1960. Hundreds … … Daniel Szechi … History News Service … Global/Transnational … United States … Terrorism … Responding to Terror: …
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!

… denounced the WPA as “We Putter Around.” The new Republican National Committee chairman, Michael Steele, recently …
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

… I'm not sure who these people are. I think it's a class reunion, potentially a high school class reunion. But I'm not 100% sure, that's what the picture is. We … about what blended bodies trigger regarding patriotism, nationalism, and erasure. And I wonder what mixed urban or …