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W.E.B. Du Bois c. 1911

150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois

… he was a major voice in most of the progressive, international movements at the turn of the 20 th century against … and starved.” Du Bois was among the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People … people at least. Du Bois' also paid close attention to international affairs, and was a participant at the Pan African …
General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.

The Collapse of Ottoman Power

Review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan (New York: Basic Books, 2015)
… Sharif of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali. Tapping into Arab nationalist dissatisfaction with Turkish rule, the British … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Omagh, Northern Ireland in 2001.

Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics

… organizations has now declared a cease-fire. An international decommissioning body has been appointed to help … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Palais de Beaulieu

The Theological Third Way in Latin America

Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left, by David C. Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
… aid individuals, but avoided working through government and national channels. A Gospel for the Poor ends with a … Global/Transnational …
soldiers in Vietnam

Memories of Vietnam in Memoriam

Review of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, by Viet Thanh Nguyen Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.
Three 10th Mountain Division Ski troopers above Camp Hale in the Pando Valley, Colorado in February, 1944.

Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership

What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?
… time for rest and relaxation. Recalling the trip at a reunion 50 years later, one veteran remarked, “We lived like … Brazilians, fighting among the Allies became a source of national pride, international recognition, and self-respect. “We had contact with …
Mather Brown's portrait of Thomas Jefferson.

Joe McCarthy Rides Again

… belief system." But American governments, state and national, have a long history of interpreting radical …
Cover of A History of Iran Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy.

Iran for Beginners

Review of A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind, by Michael Axworthy (New York. Basic Books. 2008)
“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.

The Old Informing the New

Review of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic, by John M. Murrin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)

All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram

… girls from the Nigerian town of Chibok. Despite the international attention, which goaded the Nigerian government to … revolves around their ethnic identity, rather than their national identity. As a consequence, when government forces … as “Western education is forbidden.” According to the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, the name “Boko Haram” is …
Cover of The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts.

Falling for the Fall of Rome

Review of The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)
… misuse of the Germania to provide support for a number of nationalist movements including Nazi ideology. I imagine …