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An image of the castle in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando.

Banning Harry Potter

… Twain’s characters for using racist language.  With National Children’s Book Week just around the corner, even …
This 1952 illustration by Robert Thom of Sims' gynecological experiments involving enslaved women is part of a larger collection entitled Great Moments in Medicine.

Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19

… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … Karen Flynn … …
KKK Rally

From Dixie to the Third Reich

Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
… the first two Nuremburg Laws and the American policy on nationalism and citizenry. In chapter two, Whitman …
British Fleet Spanish Armada of 1588

1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses

… there, the French love holidays. May the first, International Labor Day, May 18, Ascension Day, May 29th, … on the market in 2020 and all 10 were purchased for the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth for 600,000 …
The port of İzmir, pictured here in 1883, was an Ottoman quarantine station.

Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza

… (particularly those from Britain) regularly used international sanitary conferences as venues not only for airing … of placing Ottoman quarantine protocols under greater international scrutiny. Despite such challenges, however, the … measures by smuggling goods, exploiting loopholes in international sanitary agreements, and, in some cases, openly …
President Bush makes remarks in 2006 during a press conference in the Rose Garden about Iran's nuclear ambitions and discusses North Korea's nuclear test.

After 50 Years, a Great Military Debate Resumes

… could pretty well ignore their concerns. Today the European Union is an immense force to be reckoned with in every … News Service … Europe … United States … Diplomacy/International Relations … International Organizations … After 50 Years, a Great Military …
A traditional glass of Weissbier

Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot

… By the 1980s, the growing availability of large multinational beer brands like Heineken and Carlsberg began to … that the Reinheitsgebot was protectionist, the European Union struck down the law as an impediment to free trade in … styles of beer. Bavarian beers now compete on an international stage—one of the United States’ largest craft …
scene from the video game Valiant Hearts, The Great War

Top Ten Origins: Historically Themed Video Games

… one year of archival research, oral interviews, and international travel. The art team flew to Normandy, France, to … compared their notes against images from the United States National Archives to design digital environments that … factions with varying interests, and make use of U.S. or Soviet aid without alienating the other side. But the lack …
Copy of an 1890 lithograph depicting the Battle of New Orleans during the Revolutionary War.

A New Resource in the War Against Terrorism?

… how “war has been privatized.” Al Qaeda functions as a multinational corporation, with subsidiaries in more than fifty … as an honorable and effective way to provide for the national defense. Privately owned vessels, not ships of the …