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This is the third Strasbourg astronomical clock which is located in the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was built in 1843, the first clock was built 1352-1354.

Paleotechnic Machines in the Middle Ages

Review of Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art, by E.R. Truitt (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)

… period. These medieval machines included mechanical water and steam powered clocks, mechanical knights and …

Copy of an 1890 lithograph depicting the Battle of New Orleans during the Revolutionary War.

A New Resource in the War Against Terrorism?

… reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.” In other words, it is time to consider reviving …

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

… Mitt Romney wants to open up more federal lands and waters to drilling for oil and natural gas. His party is …

Bronze statue of Sir William Blackstone.

Back to the 17th Century: Money and Political Speech

… to weaken the campaign finance reforms passed after Watergate. One of the justices even coined the shorthand …

A Postcard from Newfoundland

… In 1497, Venetian explorer John Cabot declared that the waters off the coast Newfoundland were so rich with cod that …

A Postcard from Brazil: The Old Struggle for a Better Future

… of the archive complex. A security guard gave me a glass of water and asked me to sit down. I, privileged civilian, was …

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

… property of a defeated nation. After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 the Duke of Wellington returned thousands …

President Nixon looking at a CIA map in 1970.

Why an Intelligence Inquiry Is Needed

… covert actions in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the Watergate conspiracy. Before that, the House Un-American …

In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman

After Midnight

Review of Midnight’s Descendants: A History of South Asia Since Partition, by John Keay (New York: Basic Books, 2014)

… , begins in these same mangroves, where the maze of waterways serves as a metaphor for the subcontinent’s …

Will the GOP Find a New Reagan?

… after the triple blows to the American psyche of Vietnam, Watergate and an economic crisis that lingered into the …

President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton in 1993.

Why Clinton Will Survive

… The specter of Watergate has hovered over the Clinton scandal. Yet …

Napoleon, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, and King Frederick William III and Queen Louise of Prussia in Tilsit.

The Global Reach of the Napoleonic Wars

Review of The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History, by Alexander Mikaberidze (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)

… battles, such as Austerlitz, Trafalgar, Borodino, and Waterloo , all occurred either in Europe or close to it. But …

Book Cover of In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 By: Professor Conklin

OSU Historian Interviewed on NPR's Counterpoint

… between science, society, and empire at the high water mark of French imperialism and European fascism, as …

Woodcut print depicting the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618

Out the Window: Religion, Politics, and a Defenestration in Prague

… window. Ages of indulgence in vodka, brandy and other fire waters with the concomitant excitement of thrusting an …

A view of Cinicinnati in 1841. The waterways that brought cholera to the city feature prominently in this depiction.

Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19

… both new and terrifying. A view of Cinicinnati in 1841. The waterways that brought cholera to the city feature …

The “Unimaginable” Has, in Fact, Often Been Imagined

… to a forbidden zone, called Man-Hattan, overflowing with water. He makes his way, a child searching for home, past …

Views of the White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece.

A Postcard from Thessaloniki, Greece

… Greece. This fortress now presides over an ahistorical waterfront plaza that provides a gathering place for …

When Congress Failed to Stop the Vietnam War

… houses opposed the bombing as illegal and ill-advised and Watergate had already undermined Nixon’s popularity. …

Firefighters working on the San Diego wildfires in 2007.

San Diego’s Natural Disaster Wasn’t Entirely Natural

… own little Katrina, but instead of being inundated with water, the city is surrounded by smoke and fire. Certainly …

Advertisement for DDT featured in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. This image illustrates the rosy reputation that pesticides enjoyed before the publication of Silent Spring.

A World Drenched with Pesticides: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

… killed insects and plants, while also accumulating in water , soil, and the bodies of fish, birds, and people. …

FLN soldiers next to an Algerian Flag, by Zdravki Pecar, CC BY-SA 4.0

The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace

On Sunday, 18 March 1962, the Algerian War for Independence came to an end.

… the French side of Lake Geneva better known for its bottled water than its role in diplomatic history: Evian-les-Bains. …

A view of New York City behind Secretary Gale Norton in a lower Manhattan office space in 2006.

Downsizing Becomes Normal

… rash of downsizing throughout the 1990s represents a major watershed in American experience. Layoffs have ripped the …

A view of the World Trade Center in New York City

Responding to Terror: No Good Choices

… of Afghanistan’s infrastructure of roads, power grid and water lines would be both satisfying and serve as a salutary …

Nazis at Marienplatz in Munich during the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.

Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and Weimar’s Resolve

… and establish a new nationalist regime. Often cited as a watershed moment in the rise of National Socialism, Hitler’s …

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