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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 …
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)
… For several years, Iran has been at the center of international attention because of its suppression of individual … emphasizes the last shah's undemocratic policies, SAVAK's (National Intelligence and Security Organization) routine use …
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 …
“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)
Garden District of New Orleans.

Learning to Dance With the French

… election — and his marriage — foretold the eventual union of American and French cultures here after the … Diplomacy/International Relations …

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)
Cover of the Measure of Earth The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World by Larrie D. Ferreiro

Figuring Out the Shape of the World

Review of Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro (New York: Basic Books, 2011)
… manages to be such a story. In documenting the first international scientific expedition to measure a degree of … result of this process would be a command from the French National Constituent Assembly to form a new set of … Global/Transnational … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft taken on July 13, 2015.

Discovering Pluto

… debate about Pluto’s planetary status. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU)—the organization generally in charge of …
Cover of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History by David Farber.

The Far Right Stuff

Review of The Rise and Fall of Modern Conservatism, by David Farber (Princeton University Press, 2010)
Cover of A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty by Kirsten McKenzie.

What's in a Name?

Review of A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty , by Kirsten McKenzie (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010)
Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887)

The Hamilton-Burr Duel

… as fragile as ever. 1  Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic  (Yale University …
The Norwegians Land in Iceland 872 by Oscar Wergeland (1877).

Why We Love the Vikings

… countries in Europe were looking backward to form their national identities.  While the English saw the Nordics as …
Pope Francis holding Bible

The People's Pope and the Changing Face of Catholicism

… Orthodox Church elected a new Pope, and the Anglican Communion got a new primate and I kind of discussed why there … were new groups that broke off including the Anglican Communion, which is now also a worldwide organization.   Patrick … the Vatican says, and does versus what actually happens in national and local churches. So what, to what extent is the …