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Cover of The British Way of War by Andrew Lambert

Redefining Strategy in 20th Century Britain

Review of The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021)
… for a National Strategy, Andrew Lambert, Professor of Naval History at King’s College, London, examines the debates … state’s strategic culture, geographic considerations, and history. Strategic doctrine would then enable leaders to set … It is relevant to anyone interested in British military history and students of strategy. While fault can be found …
A promotional still from the 1951 Broadway production of The King and I

Top Ten Origins: Historical Musicals

… flying umbrella. Yet, musicals have also sought to bring history to life onstage, with varying degrees of creative … was one of the most famous public figures in the city's history. In Fiorello! , playwrights Jerome Weidman and … of Argentina, has been depicted in everything from comic books to the design of an entire neighborhood, shaped in her …
Various sedimentary rock strata are visible in many areas of Badlands National Park.

Ten Moments of Insight in America’s National Parks

… poetry, sculpture…. And much, much more. Our parks are our history, our environment, our culture, our fights and our … where you suddenly understand something deeper about history, about nature, about others, about yourself. Here I … its bare wood floors, mismatched shelves, untidy piles of books and magazines, and robust typewriter—a working room of …
Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913

I have many things to say (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 2)

… episode, I talked with Dr. Kimberly Hamlin, a professor of history at Miami University in Ohio, and a foremost authority on the history of the women's suffrage movement. Kimberly Hamlin So … Ann Gordon referred to as “the most famous speech in the history of the agitation for women's suffrage.” But despite …

Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis

… Today, more people are hungry than at any point in human history. They are concentrated in the developing world, and … systems, economic forces, and international politics. A History of Food Systems The historical origins of today's … lie well before the mid-twentieth century. For most of history, humans hunted or grew food for their own …
Cover of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome by Brian Campbell

Rome's Wondrous Rivers

Review of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, by Brian Campbell (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012)

The Politics of International Adoption

… children have circulated among families throughout human history. Children have been adopted, legally and … of Strangers , John Boswell uncovered a previously hidden history, tracking the lives of children abandoned in Europe … matter requiring state supervision. If 1851 was late in the history of adoption, it was actually early in the history of …
A pro-union demonstration in Romania, 2009. The flag translates to "Moldova Our Sister"

Moldova and Romania: A Long and Complicated Relationship

… ideas differed greatly in Romania and Moldova, and this history reverberates today. The people who today speak … Of particular note is Nicolae Bălcescu’s seminal work, The History of the Romanians under the Voivode Mihai the Brave. … unification.  Today, Romanian unionists tap into this history to justify their vision of a united Greater Romania. …
illustration of Prince George IV

Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?

Review of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, by Noelle Gallagher (New Haven: Yale, 2019)
… Pox is an unapologetic literary analysis and not a medical history. The four chapters, especially when read as …
Amish schoolhouse in 1941 Pennsylvania.

1/13/2015: Top Ten Origins: The Common Core Curriculum

… outsider influence; and the nation’s troubled racial history has meant that the vast majority of schools have … now.” As David Tyack and Larry Cuban pointed out , American history is filled with repeated efforts to reform the … left authority with the local level. 7. Math this time, but history most times Americans react most strongly to …

Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts

… symposia and conferences, exhibits and television specials, books and lectures. 781 events of one sort or another in 45 … small, temporary exhibit in the National Museum of Natural History, and that opened only in September, 2009. To be … , they used a dark and embarrassing episode in American history to critique the era of McCarthyism. The play ran on …
KKK Rally

From Dixie to the Third Reich

Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
… when countries such as France had racist statutes on their books as well. A broader, more expansive search into more …
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)

Tribal Militias in Sudan

… the war between the two armies began.  In fact, the deep history of Sudan’s multiple, ever-changing militias has … instability that has reigned in the region for decades. The History of Militias in the Sudan: The British The roots of … are not related ethnically or linguistically and have a history of conflict with one another. Tensions between …

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

… or not there were such plans in 2012, there is a long history of threats and conflicts in the Nile River Basin. … The Nile’s seasonal flooding is a central theme in Egyptian history. The river flow follows regular patterns, increasing … Nile and dreaded floods or droughts. Five millennia of Nile history show how years with high water have produced ample …

Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

… in 2003 had been ominous for those familiar with medical history. SARS produced pneumonia in otherwise healthy … of 1918-1919, the most widespread and fatal in recorded history. That pandemic of the influenza A virus killed … dotted the landscape of the twentieth century. A Very Brief History of Pandemic Influenza Influenza is a perpetual …
men fighting with swords and some are on horseback

The Battle of Bosworth Field

The Battle of Bosworth Field was one of the last major battles of the Wars of the Roses, a decades-long conflict between the House of York and the House of Lancaster over claims to the English throne.
… Curry.  Bosworth 1485: A Battlefield Rediscovered . Oxbow Books, 2013. Hicks, Michael.  The Wars of the Roses . Yale … of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors . Penguin Books, 2015. Jones, Michael.  Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a … 2002. Langley, Philippa.  The Princes in the Tower: How History’s Greatest Cold Case Was Solved . Pegasus Books, …
Mary Mallon and other women sitting outside in chairs at a hospital. The women have blankets wrapped around them.

Who was Typhoid Mary?

In the early 1900s, Mary Mallon, a domestic cook, was unknowingly a healthy carrier of Typhoid fever.
… Perspective at the Goldberg Center in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and the Department of History at Miami University. Be sure to subscribe to our … 2025 Jan–. PMID:30085544.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519002/ . Bourdain, Anthony.  Typhoid Mary: An …
buildings in ancient Rome on fire

The Great Fire of Rome

Mid-July, 64 CE, in the heart of Rome, tragedy struck as fire erupted into a massive inferno.
… Learn more about the Great Fire of Rome: Roman History Introduction: Potter, David S., Ancient Rome: A New History . Third Edition. New York, New York: Thames & … Life and Death in the Ancient City . Witness to Ancient History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. …
Cover of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe by Jeff Sheehan.

How the Mighty European Military State has Fallen

Review of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe, by Jeff Sheehan (Illustrated. 284 pp. Houghton Mifflin Company)
… and his two-hundred-page tour of twentieth-century European history that question is how did it come to pass that … into a judicious and unpolemical account of modern European history. Sheehan describes the evolution of European … Sheehan offers his overview of modern European political history with a twist. Instead of focusing on World War I, …

The Real Marriage Revolution

… one man and one woman. In a majority of cultures throughout history, the most favored form of marriage was polygyny—one … the family structure most often mentioned in the first five books of the Old Testament.  It was common throughout … had different duties, rights, and power. Female husbands in history were almost always women who for one reason or …