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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 …
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 …
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)
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 …
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 …
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Best in History Online: Public History Commons

… Commons ! The Public His tory Commons is a project of the National Council on Public History, “designed to serve the … in full! … Connecting History … Education … Global/Transnational … Best in History Online: Public History Commons …
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe , by Margaret Jacobs book cover.

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 …
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)
… divided city with collaborationist neighborhoods, areas of union and communist strength, and the German headquarters …
The Dalai Lama speaking in front of Tibet's flag.

A New Chance for Peace in Tibet

… remains China’s greatest challenge, domestically and internationally. Instead of the peace, stability and economic … Despite increased repression, public expressions of Tibetan nationalism continue–even terrorism, with a few bombs … the Tibetan spiritual and lay leader, has successfully internationalized the question of Tibet, resulting in universal …
Multicolored hanging telephones

From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone

The real origins of the iPhone’s power stems from the pioneering efforts of communication innovators that preceded the AT&T engineers of the 1920s.
… long-distance communication really begins with the Western Union post-diggers who laid the first American … Bart Elmore … Atlantic … Science & Technology … Global/Transnational … Internet … From the Transatlantic Telephone to …
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 …