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Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist

(Bicycle) Wheels of Change

Review of The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s, by Evan Friss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)
… to Chicago to San Francisco - The Cycling City presents a history of cyclists and how they shaped a place for …

Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective

… of refugees and most violent forced migrations in human history, especially as a result of the First and Second … is perhaps one of the oldest routes of contact in human history, going back to the Iron Age and the great empires of … current refugee crisis is but one moment in the much longer history of refugees, immigrants, and displaced persons in …
Habana Lions Baseball Players 1946-47

Baseball Without Borders

Review of Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League, by Cesar Brioso (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015).
… in the National League, was a critical year in the history of Cuban baseball as well. Brioso frames his … of organized baseball, Brioso does little to provide a history of baseball in Latin America or Cuba.  Although he offers tantalizing insights into the history of Cuban baseball, such as José Marti's interest in …
man with a gun in a holster

Top Ten Origins: Gun Regulation

… prevented Congress from enacting federal legislation. The history of gun control predates the nation itself. American … “gun rights” and “gun regulation,” both sides rely on history to make their case. So here is a review of ten crucial moments in the history of gun regulation in the United States. Student …
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… highly convincing. Readers with interests in Middle Eastern history, human rights, and peace studies will glean …
 Pinterest Hien Luong Bridge - Ben Hai River, Quang Tri, Vietnam

Vietnam Revisited: Forty Years after the Paris Peace Accord

… the Paris Peace Accord. It was then the longest war in U.S. history; although commonly dated as beginning in 1965 with … D.C. that resulted in the largest mass arrest in U.S. history. Of the Hanoi 9, I had the longest connection to …
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.
… to Nguyen, is that the industry of memory seeks to create a history of humanity that ignores the inhumanities which are …
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans

400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism

What lessons can be learned from the thought and actions of Galileo, who became the “Father of Modern Science”?
… the partial unbanning of Galileo’s Dialogu e and Copernican books in general by Pope Benedict XIV (in 1740–1758); the …

Singapore at Fifty

… have often argued that prosperity is not a given. They say history has demonstrated that city-states do not have good … be taken for granted. Indeed, throughout its documentable history over the past seven centuries, the small island of … Singapore River. Over much of its 700 years of documentable history, the island has been part of some larger entity, …
An Armenian woman leans over her dead child near Aleppo, Syria,1915.

On the Armenian Genocide

… two distinct stories about 1915 have been told: an Armenian history largely for Armenian readers; and a Turkish and Turkophilic history for Turks and their friends. The two literatures … in Perspective (New Brunswick and Oxford: Transaction Books, 1986), pp. 61-84. For a firsthand account, see Henry …

American Presidential Scandals

… it seems as if the administration is collapsing the history of American political scandal down to a singularity, … outlandish and perplexing scandal in American political history had been one of the earliest: the treason case … Nixon cruised to one of the biggest landslide victories in history. Nixon’s second term, however, was immediately …

How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure

… infrastructure , which briefly summarized the “history” of the situation. After a mid-20 th -century … infrastructures has worked well over the course of American history. Government investment has been an economic … empowering private enterprise to prosper. Infrastructure history is incredibly complex and unpredictable. All …

A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation

… however, may miss the point because each version of this history is so central to the collective identity of each … sat down at the same table for the first time in history. In spite of an acrimonious beginning, bilateral … will root it in decades, centuries, or even millennia of history, it is mostly a creation of the nationalism that …
A makeshift influenza hospital at Camp Funston, 1918.

Top Ten Origins: Flu

… but it is an important reminder of the long and harmful history of human interaction with the influenza virus . As … influenza for decades to come. 5. The 1918-1919 Pandemic: A History by the Numbers 1918-1919 influenza mortality in the … century endured the two most important case studies in the history of infectious disease: the 1918-1919 influenza …
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.

All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire

Review of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
… Sometimes the coincidences of history are uncanny.  On Sunday, September 14, 2008, the … the conventional elements of late 19th century economic history, rather he contextualizes the use of gold with other … withdraw the paper that had flooded the economy during the Crimean War (1853-56).  Colonies, such as India under the …
Secretary of State John Kerry continued his meetings in Lausanne with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif. Under Secretary Wendy Sherman and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz are participating in the meetings.

Iran’s Nuclear Diplomacy

… lack of strategic empathy that the careful consideration of history provides. The Legacies of the Past With the … from a neglect of the basic scheme of modern Iranian history . It disregards especially the enormous role of … the fraught relationship must therefore be informed by history and by an understanding of how Iran perceives the …
Young Child dressed in a Uncle Sam costume

Coming to America to Contribute

Review of Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century, by Robert L. Fleegler Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
… that immigration is a hot topic. Robert L. Fleegler’s history of immigration policy provides a useful perspective … been expressed in popular culture and public policy. The history of immigration to the United States is characterized … of a more open policy in 1965. His use of school textbooks is especially helpful, because he documents the …
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.

Fifty Years and Counting

Review of The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young (Chicago: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
… and civil warfare. This is a standard narrative of African history in the post-independence era, and Crawford Young's … alone covers the most of the important works on history, economy, and politics on the African continent …
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.

After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807

Review of After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807, by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
… it had outlawed both practices, and it uncovers a hidden history of depravity, hypocrisy, and willful blindness. … trade after 1807. Those interested in British or African history will find After Abolition a worthwhile read. … …
Zelensky and Trump

Trump’s Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective

… Peter L. Hahn, Distinguished University Professor of History, The Ohio State University  Mitchell Lerner, Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Studies Center, The … Hayes Chair in National Security Studies and Professor of History, The Ohio State University Dorothy Noyes …
Cover of Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II by Karel C. Berkhoff

Long Live the Soviet Motherland?

Review of Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II, by Karel C. Berkhoff (Harvard University Press, 2012)
… In a small Ukrainian village last month I toured a school history museum. The principal and her museum director … proudly showed us the one room exhibition in which the history of the region was displayed in objects, images, even …
Cover image of ibook - ruins in the Middle East

Middle Eastern Politics & Culture: Today & Yesterday

… Events in Historical Perspective brings to life the vibrant history of today’s politics and culture in the region. The … Hala, Fattah. A Brief History of Iraq. New York: Checkmark Books, 2008 Suggested Reading Marr, Phebe. The Modern … The humiliating Treaty of Kucuk Kaynarca (1774) gave the Crimean Peninsula to Russia, along with passage rights …