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Protestors against the U.S. Trump administration voice their commitment to the world's dispossessed.

The Politics of Refugee Aid in America’s “Short Century”

Review of Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed , by Stephen R. Porter Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
… U.S. presidential election, Stephen R. Porter’s Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s … of international responsibility. … Review of Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's …
a ceremony in Ukraine

Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell

When the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917 during World War I, the lands of today’s Ukraine became a battleground of violence and instability until 1922.
… When the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917 during World War I, the lands of … Seeger and Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle. … When the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917 during World War I, the lands of …
book cover - Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

Top Ten Origins: Summer 2019 Must Reads

… 3. David Olusoga, The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire , Head of Zeus, 2014.  Reminding us that the war’s … University Press, 2007.  At the end of World War I , the empires of Eastern Europe lay in ruins and new nation-states … was particularly the case in the dismantling of the former Ottoman Empire , where, in the aftermath of the war, roughly …
Royal Irish Rifles in foxhole at Battle of the Somme, 1916

Legacies of the Great War

… of which were Germany, Austria, Hungary, as well as the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and the Allied and associate powers, … the entente powers of Britain, France, the Russian Empire. The principal addition to that, of course, much …
Cicero denounces Catiline painting 1888

Falling for the Fall of Rome

How can we compare modern America with the declining Roman Empire?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
… How can we compare modern America with the declining Roman Empire? … Kyle Michl … US History since 1877 … Falling for …
Buildings along a waterfront in China

China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power

… in 1949 came on the heels of the collapse of Japan's Asian Empire, which had included large sections of mainland China … movements need arms and support to kind of wage their revolutions against South Africans and Rhodesians and empires that are slow to devolve like the Portuguese Empire, …
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.

The Justinianic Plague

… a pandemic of bubonic plague in the Late Roman or Byzantine Empire, which first appears in our sources in 541 CE. The … it spread westward through regions of the former Roman Empire, reaching as far north as Germany and Britain. Map of Byzantine Empire ca 550. The green indicates the conquests during …
Crowds of people in Kyiv, Ukraine

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part I

… in the sixth century, Crimea was part of the Byzantine Empire, but in the aftermath of the Mongol invasions and the …   But because of Crimean War, and because of this war was Ottoman Empire, and as Myroslava mentioned, the Tartar are not Crimean, are not a solid state of Ottoman Empire, Alexander the Second decided to change …
1911 portrait of King George V, ruler of the British Empire.

The Risks of Unilateralism

… may doom the United States to the fate of the British Empire. The beginning of the decline of American world … and literally, the sun never set on the British Empire. The British exerted their control over the colonial empire with unchallengeable military might. In a series of …
A crowd of Syrian refugees in the Vienna airport

Road to Europe: The 2015 Migration Crisis

… is today, it formed the heart of the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire. And towards the end of the nineteenth century, there were two phenomenon that were going on. One is the Ottoman Empire contracted, you had large numbers of refugees …
Ivan Aivazovsky, a Native of Feodosia, Crimea, is known as one of Russia's greatest painters, and one of the world's best at seascapes. The Battle of Sinop (Russian and Turkish Navies), 1853

Top Ten Origins: Stories from Crimea

… the steppe north of the coast, combined forces with the Ottoman Empire and expelled the Genoese merchants from Caffa, their … to Europe. Partly independent and partly subject to the Ottoman Empire, the Crimean Khanate existed from 1441-1783. …
The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, which was constructed by the Umayyads in the 8th century.

Islamic Imperialism: A History

Review of Islamic Imperialism: A History, by Efraim Karsh (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006)
… toleration originated from selfish motives, as their empire was run strictly for the benefit of the Arab … landscape of the Middle East until the rise of the Ottoman Turks. In the book, Karsh identifies a handful of … for the last of the great Islamic empire-builders, the Ottomans. By the early 16th century, they had unified much …
President Joe Biden with other foreign leaders, sitting around a table with others looking on

How does Ideology Drive U.S. Foreign Relations?

… peoples political claims to membership in the British Empire were far from fixed. And often they placed colonials … forward, it's compared to nations that have, say, had major revolutions, invasions, occupations, or society-shaking … developed during a really critical period of anti-colonial revolutions across Central and South America. One element at …
Depiction of the eleven-month-long siege of the Russian naval base at Sevastopol, Crimea, during the Crimean War

Crimea: A General Introduction

Review of Crimea: A History, by Neil Kent London: Hurst & Company, 2016.
… through the Middle Ages, the Crimean Khanate, and the Ottoman Empire, leading into Crimea’s integration, along with … called Novorossiya , or “New Russia”) into the Russian Empire. Map of Russia (blue), Ukraine (green), and Crimea, …
Cover of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster.

Babylon Revisited

Review of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297)
… This region produced the first towns, cities, states and empires in human history, and also witnessed pioneering … administration and economic system of the region's first empire, that of Sargon of Akkad (d. 2279) and his grandson, … Amorite ruler, according to the authors. He centralized his empire in Babylon politically, economically and culturally; …