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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
soldiers patrolling in Iraq

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 …
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 …
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.
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)
General MacArthur Memorial

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 …
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 …