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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 …
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.  …

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 …

America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System

… scene plays out again and again in American public life in the 21 st century. In the wake of a mass shooting such as … are few to none. Whether Nikolas Cruz’s mental illness was a factor in the shooting is still being investigated, … psychiatric profession was still relatively small and the bureaucracy around mental health care was primarily …