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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 … Diplomacy/International Relations …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 … International Organizations …
Cover of Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz.

The Gifts That Keep On Giving

Review of Philanthropy in America: A History, by Olivier Zunz (Princeton University Press, 2012)
… Yale made a donation of books, and in return a small denominational college in New Haven was named after him. Benjamin … on to chart how American philanthropic activity became international, first as a result of World War II, and then … now to a greater extent by government. And what about international development work? Is this the role of the State …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference in Holland in 1964.

Asking Martin Luther King…

… transformed by the end of traditional colonialism and international communism, and domestically by the end of legalized …