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Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville

… years now, those of us who study the ancient world have become progressively aware that American Neo-Nazis, white … Evropa to the prominent display of the Parthenon on the website of the Neo-Nazi forum Stormfront, classical texts and … immigration. Though over a century old, and thoroughly discredited by scholars, Frank’s article is required reading …
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]

Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety

… body-scan. Airline passengers in the United States have come to expect these kinds of security measures as a … Air Lines Douglas DC-7 ( left ). A TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation ( right ). There are basically two sets … day. Two more days would pass before boats found the crash site. It took two weeks to salvage the wreck. Twenty-nine …
Official ISIS flag

11/12/2014: Top Ten Origins: The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)

… . The surge of U.S. forces to Iraq in 2007-2008 and the accompanying counterinsurgency strategy along with a Sunni … ibn Ali, Sunni and Shi’a Muslims have differed (sometimes violently) on who should rule the faithful. 7. Why does … much of northwestern Iraq this year? A U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornet receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd

… in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … between the original Industrial Revolution and our own times are obscured. The Luddites challenged the emerging … Maguires from Harper's Weekly , January 31, 1874. Numerous superficial analogies to Luddism can, admittedly, be found …
A group of children in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … perhaps in the case of Africa, we're sort of moving the opposite direction, that if anything, these borders are becoming … Africa is viewed by outsiders in this kind of very superficial way, would just be to encourage people, as they …
Botanic Blooming sagebrush on the great plains

Why the Great Plains Are Dying

… and dry places, like much of the American West, will become even more parched. John Wesley Powell is rolling over … wanted to hear, any more than Congress wants to hear that message today, especially not the expansion-minded … the agricultural equivalent of paying your mortgage with a credit card — the bank catches up with you eventually. In …
Mosul Grand Mosque in 2007

Bush Needs War — FAST

… UN weapons inspectors be given months or even a year to complete further investigations in that country, President … early 1970s, two or more years after the escalation of U.S. combat in Vietnam. Protest movements took time to gain … soon limit the President’s choices. A recent New York Times/CBS poll indicated that 59% of the American respondents …

Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900

… relations between the United States and Iran have been complicated and edgy as long as anyone can remember. … and urged him privately to change course. Yet when Carter visited Tehran on New Year's Eve 1977, he felt obliged to … to military purposes, and $1.1 billion in agricultural credits. For their part, the Iranians resorted to human wave …
view looking up into treetops

Climate Change: Insights from History

… Hello, everyone and welcome from the College of Arts and Sciences. Thank you so … were tied to fears over deforestation, or sometimes the opposite, actually hoping to moderate the climate, changing the … made back into the 1890s. The first scientist who's really credited with recognizing that it was happening is often a …
The hazards of an enclosed work environment – a typist with cloth mask during the influenza pandemic in 1918.

The Respirator and Cloth Mask

… understandings of how disease is transmitted within the community. As a general rule, respirators function by … diseases in 1836. Made of silk, leather, and layers of wire mesh, the respirator trapped heat and moisture. This served … illness. Stenhouse’s filtration approach gradually superseded Jeffreys’s design and formed the basic principle …
Under Attlee's direction, the Labour Party's position on foreign affairs in the 1930s was somewhat inconsistent. A believer in the "collective security" represented by the League of Nations, Attlee opposed rearmament even as he pushed for firmer measures against Nazi aggression.

A Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing

Review of Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain, by John Bew (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017).
… – the Labour Party emerged from the 1945 election with a commanding majority in the House of Commons – Attlee … Attlee’s success seems to have less to do with his obvious superiority as a leader than with his lack of effective … into a wartime coalition with Attlee’s Labour Party. To his credit, Attlee accepted this invitation, taking up the …
Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.

Greenland Fantasies

… parties, struggle with their sexuality, track “likes” and “comments” on Facebook, experience domestic abuse, and dream … however, Greenlandic walrus ivory faced competition from superior African and Asian elephant ivory, and demand faded. … of telephone eventually played by writers who had never visited Greenland, reports through the centuries grew more …
Senator J. William Fulbright in 1966.

Advice from the Past about Yugoslavia

… needs to stop demonizing enemies and relying on military superiority and instead find common ground with its adversaries. In October 1962 Kennedy … it failed to accept its ultimatum, the U.S. sent the message to every other culture and state: the U.S. believes …

European Disunion: The Rise and Fall of a Post-War Dream?

… has been characterized by friction, contradictions, and competing visions of the goals of union. The most recent … of the same recurrent dream that for ten centuries has revisited the peoples of Europe: creating between them an … delay origins.osu.edu, they employed complex currency and credit derivatives rather than face EU reprimands or address …
A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942

Operation Barbarossa

… border defenses and had the Wehrmacht running secret wargames with the USSR as an adversary. But Hitler had not yet … and the simultaneous purges, officers were rushed into commission; in 1941, only half had completed any formal … German forces, honed in war since 1936. Using their superior experience, mobility, and communications, …
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)

Tribal Militias in Sudan

… because SAF leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti, … been treated as an unimportant backwater, a pawn in power games, by successive rulers ever since . The British also … where Arabs are in the majority. South Darfur is also the site of the most serious rebellion against the government by …
US propaganda leaflet used in Afghanistan, with bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Fighting a Cold War Against Osama bin Laden

… its allies yet hinted at conciliation. Which part of his message should we believe? A key lesson from America’s last … today as American leaders assess Osama bin Laden’s latest communication. Bin Laden’s audio-taped message offered both stick and carrot. The stick is the …
Hillary Clinton

Representations of Women in Politics in Modern Media

Grade Level
4-8
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
American Government
Gender & Sexuality
… through various media formats over time. The article compared representations of women who have been major … before Hillary Clinton. This article highlights the accomplishments of female political leaders and then discusses … and understand the affects that the media, images, and messages can have on citizens. Students must determine who …
President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.

Marking a Tragic Anniversary

… as a world power that led many voters to embrace Reagan’s message are also long gone. And, as President Bill Clinton … big government” has ended. Future generations will no doubt credit these developments at least in part to the Reagan … legacy with which Americans will sooner or later have to come to terms: today we live in a society of greater …
Spraying Pesticides - NARA 1940

Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let’s Not Roll Back Environmental Protections

…   At the time of its publication, however, both the message and the messenger were roundly denounced. During a … by killer chemicals unwittingly unleashed by the scientific community. “Future historians may well be amazed by our … New Yorker serialized “Silent Spring,” a California reader complained to the magazine’s editor that “Miss Rachel …