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3/22/14: Happy World Water Day!

… the Americas" event at Ohio State University. … Connecting History … Global/Transnational … Water … Environment … …
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Cracking Down on Dissent

… of the Daniel and Philip Berrigan. … Murray Polner … History News Service … United States … Cold War … …
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Religions of the Middle East

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
World History since 1500
… past has on the present.    … Middle East … Islam … World History since 1500 … Religions of the Middle East …
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There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies

Review of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014)
… in the series, won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history, and The New York Times named the second book … ideal of itself than at just about any other time in its history” (xiii). The twists and turns along the way are more … to push. There are no heroes here, Perlstein tells us, and history isn’t necessarily supposed to make us feel good …
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“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)

… this one country and adopt a global perspective on the history of drugs, we find that stories of drug wars are … of Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History . Miriam Kingsberg Kadia I am a historian of modern … Hague on January 23, 1912 marked a watershed moment in the history of the global drug wars. And when we look more …
Cover of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper.

The Legacy of Luther

Review of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy, by Lyndal Roper (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021)

The Ukrainian Crisis: In Russia's Long Shadow

… events became international with Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the eruption of separatist insurgencies in … on March 18 and April 17 (that took liberties with history ). He claimed that for reasons he could not … Alexander II prohibited the publication of any Ukrainian books, now including literature, as well as the use of …
Cover of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China by Dong Guoqiang and Andrew G. Walder.

The View from the Countryside

Review of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China, by Dong Guoqiang & Andrew G. Walder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… including oral histories and six well-preserved notebooks and diaries, A Decade of Upheaval covers the episodes …
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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… The Ohio State University •    Shawn Conroy, PhD Candidate, History, The Ohio State University •    Marianna Klochko, … •    Myroslava Mudrak, Professor Emeritus, Department of History of Art, The Ohio State University •    Mykyta … from all the other republics. But and then he invaded Crimea. But he waited until the end of the Beijing Olympics …
A photograph from the tumultuous German-Czech border in 1938 during World War II. The Sudetenland had long been a hotspot of contact between the two groups.

The Space In Between

Review of Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands: Migration, Environment, and Health in the Former Sudetenland, by Eagle Glassheim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
… opening chapters of the book, Glassheim recounts the long history of German and Czechoslovakian competition to define … work is his incorporation of environmental and medical history into his analysis of the Sudetenland. … produce meaningful two-way histories that discuss both the history of this borderland as a German and Czechoslovakian …
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3/25/2015: At the Movies: "Birth of a Nation" After 100 Years

… Birth of a Nation  was the first 12-reel film in movie history and the first movie to be screened at the White … so taken with the film that he enthused: “It’s like writing history with lightning.” The history presented on the screen came from Thomas Dixon’s …
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The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Finale)

… against communist Cuba, for example, or the long history of drug prohibitionism in the Philippines from US … ones that all point to the importance of approaching the history of and solutions to the war on drugs from a global … in the 60s and 70s, but really go much further back in history than that.   Brionna Mendoza  This is true not only …
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The Jamestown Project

Review of The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)
… documentaries, stage elaborate recreations, and release new books that reflect upon the current state of scholarship …
Cover of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman.

Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

Review of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend, by Richard Stoneman (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2008)
… research into one monograph that allows scholars and history buffs alike to develop a firm grounding in the life …