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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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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)

The Philippines “A Sea of Troubles”

Grade Level

4-8

Teaching Area

World History since 1500

… Philippines has experienced in attempt to find their own national identity. … World History since 1500 … The …

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 …

A Postcard from Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

… the City of Warsaw, and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. POLIN stands as the first public-private …

Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe

Review of Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe , by Margaret Jacobs (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)

… readers to cultivate in order to prevent against militant nationalism and fundamentalist sentiment. Opening the book … the limits of cosmopolite sentiment in the busy international city. During the eighteenth century Avignon was a … was so crucial in the English Civil war and in forming international social circles of scientific and even alchemic …

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders in 1963.

Giving Up on the Dream?

Refugees eating lunch outside the barracks.

Waiting in Limbo: Life as a Refugee in Serbia

… he left everything behind and departed for the European Union. All that stands in his way is the border fence … Save the Children, UNHCR, Praxis, Oxfam and the International Rescue Committee all operate out of their building … Immigration, & Refugees … Civil/Human Rights … International Organizations … Waiting in Limbo: Life as a Refugee …

India-Pakistan Partition

In 1947, British-ruled India was divided into two separate, independent states.

Women of the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared demonstrate in front of La Moneda Palace during the Pinochet military regime.

In Historical Truths, the Road to an Open Society

… In Chile the government of Patricio Aylwin established the National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, also known …

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)

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 …