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Cover of Apache Diaspora by Paul Conrad.

“Diaspora” as a Creative and Historical Force

Review of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival, by Paul Conrad (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… for words. Indeed, for historians of Native America, the way words are used to frame the Native past is critical. … ties of kinship linked together larger collectives. There was not historically (nor is there in the present day) one … as well as Cuba. In the end, the complexity of terms fades when the narrative emerges beyond the middle nineteenth …
The Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C.

“What I Did On My Summer Vacation,” by the President

… of this month at his ranch in Crawford, Tex. By fleeing the White House, he continues a tradition of more than 200 … vacation can also help shape a great president. Washington became the nation’s capital in June 1800. … be this: Lincoln was one president who rested easiest when he was busy listening and learning. Matthew Pinsker …
Flag of the People's Republic of China

With Enemies Like These…

… Looking back over the stories relating to China that have appeared on the … near future) than those associated with Taipei (where it was feared only months ago that Beijing missiles might fly … bars, there can be much worse enemies to have than one who, when aiming across the seas, usually tends to end up doing …

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… Dressed in white gowns, the group of Russian pilgrims gathered silently by the steps … the river.” Her audience nodded and one girl complained it was too hot. The Russian baptism ritual completed, the … “stands on great vaults which are high enough for the times when the Jordan is in flood.” The sick and disabled also …
Cover of Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Hanioğlu.

Kemalism: "The Religion of the Turk"

Review of Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography, by M. Sukru Hanioglu (Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2011)
… As the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk … and technological advances of the time. Salonika was a great example of Ottoman cosmopolitanism (more than … East. 1 Not all Ottoman Turkish sources were available when the book was written. For instance, Presidential …
Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Olympics

Revival and Reinvention: the Olympic Games, Athens 1896

… In April 1896, participants from 14 countries converged on Athens to compete in a festival that was simultaneously ancient and modern. An artist's … to celebrate the London 2012 Summer Olympics. At the outset when the Games were relatively small, this did not prove …
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation

Top Ten Origins: Vaccination

… vial with smallpox virus. Outbreaks of measles across the globe have once again set off the great debate over … dangerous diseases not only locally but globally. The Earth was declared smallpox-free in 1980; in 2000, the United … Neither vaccine, however, was used on humans. This changed when Pasteur developed a rabies vaccine after long …
Liu Bang, or Emperor Gaozu of Han

Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor

… “The two most far-sighted and influential political figures … – not to mention a remarkable degree of luck. Such a person was Liu Bang, who rose from obscurity to be crowned emperor … he was famously said to have ordered his chamberlain, when asked about the implementation of courtly etiquette. He …
Tank in Syria

The Syrian Civil War: Alawites, Women's Rights, and the Arab Spring

… guests Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer and Patrick Scharfe on the the civil war in Syria, which continues to dominate … to power into a 1970 as the first president. And he is, he was coming from a relatively well off family, Alawite family … and the state in that manner. Leticia Wiggins  And when did this state feminism, as we term it, develop and is …
A Sherman tank enters Fort Santiago

The Battle for Manila

… By the end of February 1945, the Philippine capital of Manila … republic soon after, but the U.S. Army awaited word from Washington as to the political status of the Philippines. … in a vain attempt to halt the bombardment. Nevertheless, when the fighting ebbed, civilians swarmed the American …
Robert Smalls pictured between 1870-1880.

The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls

… In the early morning of May 13, 1862, several enslaved … the city. The architect of this daring escape to freedom was Robert Smalls, whose leadership and courage would go on … Carolinians . They could not be totally reversed, however. When Robert Smalls passed away on February 23, 1915, he died …
 Monte Albán

A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico

… Situated atop a large hill at an altitude of 5000 feet, the ancient city of Monte Albán was the Zapotec civilization’s cultural, political, and … surrounding Oaxaca City. Oaxacans look forward to the day when the daily wage they receive accords with the wealth of …
From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.

Top Ten Origins: Climate Change

There is perhaps no greater challenge facing humanity (and … the planet. At other times in the Earth history, climate was much warmer, with no ice caps or glaciers at all. Many … climatologist Michael Mann and colleagues was controversial when first released in 1999. However, the temperature trend …
H.G. Wells’s novel, War of the Worlds, described hissing, tentacled, tripodal invaders from Mars.

Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast

… October 30, 1938. The first signs were those explosions.  The news interrupted … at regular intervals on the planet Mars.”  Whatever was happening, the gas was moving at enormous speed straight … on the audience was generally undermined in the 1950s, when the heirs to Cantril’s Princeton Radio Project …
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)
… Western civilization owes much to ancient Iraq. It was here that the earliest form of writing was developed, which produced … harsh, often death. All of this changed after the Gulf War, when crippling UN sanctions hobbled Iraq and created a new …
scene from the video game Valiant Hearts, The Great War

Top Ten Origins: Historically Themed Video Games

… Historians have widely accepted the value of motion pictures and literature as ways of … Century novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms , which itself was based on older histories dating back to the Three … for supplies that you will need for your party and choose when to embark from Independence, Missouri to the west. …
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller

Kent State after Fifty Years

… Guardsmen opened fire at a loose collection of students gathered across an expanse of leafy lawns and campus parking … kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller moments after he was shot by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State University … within range of rock-throwers. They were verbally abused. When they reached the top of the hill, suddenly, they …

Killing the Arctic

… We have always been killing the Arctic . By “we” I mean non-native Westerners, who began … The hottest Arctic temperature ever, a sweltering 100.4° F, was recorded in the Siberian settlement of Verkhoyansk in … potential disaster was barely contained in January 1968, when an American B-52 bomber, carrying four thermonuclear …
Mata Hari (1876-1917).

Top Ten Origins: Spies, Lies, and Moles: Oh My!

… produces information. Its analysis generates intelligence. The process is priceless. This hardly constitutes a new … New York City, in June 1778 Continental Army General George Washington ordered Major Benjamin Tallmadge to create an … space facility outside of Moscow. Ames came under suspicion when Soviet intelligence officers recruited by the FBI began …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd

… Today we are living through the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as Klaus Schwab argues, … remember him as the legendary machine-breaking saboteur who was once the scourge of industrial capitalism. He has since … themselves in a comparative state of luxury.” By 1818, when these words were written, such supposed extravagance …
Moskvitch 3 vehicles roll off the assembly line at JSC Moscow Automobile Plant Moskvitch, 2022.

Sanctions on Russia: Impact and Efficacy

… full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, the United States and European Union began to levy … seemingly unaffected by the West’s actions. Russia was able to replace its lost oil and gas exports to Europe … firmly opposed to Russia, continue to do business with it when it would be inconvenient to find alternative partners.  …