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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 …
Juan and Evita Perón standing in a car waving, a soldier on horseback is beside the car

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.
… the plaza and the avenue connecting the Casa Rosada and the national Congress marked a consequential moment in …
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 …
The statue of Saddam Hussein topples in Baghdad's Firdos Square on April 9, 2003.

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
… Religious diversity, the end of colonial rule, and rising nationalism have led to regional conflicts in the Middle … East … Iraq … Education … United States … Diplomacy/International Relations … Military/War/Peace … World History …
Cover of Science under Fire Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America by Andrew Jewett.

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 …
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 …
Police attack protesters on Bloody Sunday in Alabama

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 …
Zelensky and Trump

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 …
Someone's hand holding a paper strip up to a Guatemalan woman's arm. The woman's arm has a white strip on it.

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  …
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)
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 …
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: …
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 …