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Human Rights at a Crossroads

… showing the members of the League of Nations throughout its history. One NGO in particular was the International … as the most comprehensive call for human rights in modern history. Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt holding the …

Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America

… untangle a few of the many complex strands that make up the history of energy policy in America. And that, I hope, will … the U.S. has enjoyed an abundance of energy throughout its history: from the founding of the country in the 18th … peak oil argument reflects both a constant refrain in the history of oil and the basic boom-and-bust cycles of the …
Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

… Solzhenitsyn discovered by 1994 that the Soviet Union was history and that there were no longer any barriers to his physical return or the return of his books. He came home in a triumphal procession by train … talents made an indelible mark on twentieth century history. Scholars and students continue to marvel at the …

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict

… Behind the tragic events in Darfur lies a complex history of deeply entrenched social inequalities, an … or states, of the Darfur region in western Sudan. A long history of internal migration, mixing, and intermarriage in … persisted throughout Sudan's colonial and post-colonial history. These inequalities are exemplified by the …

Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making

… by common religious beliefs, tribal alliances, and a history of independence from colonial domination. The … Other analysts might venture even further back in history to 2004, when the first of six wars between the … fathers etched their place as immortal heroes in the history of the Yemeni republic. As the members of this …
Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.

Greenland Fantasies

… see beyond fantasies about Greenland, one must look to its history and culture. Only then can we begin to understand … Norse and an implicit warning about the consequences.  The history of Greenland, told from an Inuit perspective, looks … comprising around 160,000 Inuit. From this viewpoint, the history of Greenland cannot be told separately from the …
Women at desk marked "Learn to Vote"

So...what now? (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 4)

… is Dr. Susan Hartmann, an expert on 20th century women's history and a professor emeritus of American history at The Ohio State University. For this episode, Dr. … Perspective , an online publication of the Public History Initiative, the Goldberg Center, and the history
A Sherman tank enters Fort Santiago

The Battle for Manila

… defiance, and horror. The event resonates in the history of a city that has long sat at the crossroads of … American casualties. As stated in the  U.S. Army’s official history , the destruction was regrettable, but “American … tank enters Fort Santiago. Again, the Army’s official history : “That the artillery had almost razed the ancient …
Heroin bust.

Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)

… Global Drug War. You've got the laws that are all on the books at the beginning of the 20th century. But I think it's … States that reverberates throughout all aspects of its history that followed…including its trajectory on drug … drugs; it is a victim of drugs. Throughout this entire long history, the drug war has acted to reconcile these …
Palais de Beaulieu

The Theological Third Way in Latin America

Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left, by David C. Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Auguste Chouteau—Founder of St. Louis and Head of the Chouteau family

Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America

Review of Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi, by Jacob F. Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019)
… Masters of the Middle Waters gives the early history of Middle America the treatment it deserves, placing … find its way into the essential canon of Native American history and Lee should be commended for it. … Review of …

A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti

… had attained a height of prosperity not surpassed in the history of European colonies. It contained 8,000 plantations … blossomed into the largest, bloodiest slave uprising in history. By the end of September, over a thousand … to become one of the most hated and persecuted countries in history. Immediately after Haiti's declaration of …
French troops under Charles VIII entering Florence, 1494.

The Blood Behind the Beauty

Review of The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West, by Catherine Fletcher (New York City: Oxford University Press, 2020)
… by walking the reader through nearly 150 years of Italian history, beginning in the 1450s and ending just before the …
An influenza hospital at Camp Funston

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

… the deadliest month of the greatest pandemic in recorded history: the “Spanish Flu.” Recent estimates suggest that … On its centennial anniversary, it is worth remembering the history of the “Spanish” flu and how it set us on the path … global influenza pandemic left an important legacy in the history of medicine. Beyond shocking tolls, the pandemic …

WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations

… the enemy during wartime. The most notorious leak in U.S. history came in the early 1970s, when Daniel Ellsberg—a … of bureaucratic power. So given this long leaky history, what makes the WikiLeaks material so interesting? … "influence" around the world seem not to understand this history. Today's world is interconnected in novel ways, and …
Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Programme read the news that smallpox had been globally eradicated, 1980.

The WHO and the Eradication of Smallpox

… May 8, 1980, smallpox played another momentous role in the history of  public health , when the  World Health … eradicated. This was the first and only time in human history that a deadly  human disease was eradicated … free of one of the deadliest infectious diseases in human history. Learn more: Ian Glynn and Jenifer Glynn,  The Life …

From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics

… income inequality has been a defining discourse in American history for more than a century and a half. Class Comes to … Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously wrote that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle." When The Communist Manifesto was …

Should Age Matter? How 65 Came to Be Old and Old Came to Be Ill

… irreversible and untouchable welfare program in American history.” On August 14th, 1935, President Roosevelt signed … the correlations between poverty, chronic disease, family history, and psychology to determine that the onset of … to other groups. National health insurance, like the history of voting, would be incremental, bestowed to one …

The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq

… 657 CE.  Folio from a 14th century Tarikhnama (Book of history) by Balami.   The defining crisis stemmed from the … have experienced normalized relations at certain times in history and also moments when Sunnis and Shi'is found that …

Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks

… number of commercial varieties for our food supply. A Brief History of Seeds and Hybrids First as gatherers, then as … one continent to the other. Yet, for all humanity's long history with agriculture, the twentieth century witnessed … disease, pests, changing climate, and rising population. History warns us of the dangers of putting all our …
Captured soldiers along the march with their hands tied behind their backs

The Bataan Death March

… The American people would do well to remember their own history when it comes to the just treatment of prisoners of … the Men Who Lived Through It (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2004) · Commander Melvyn McCoy, Lieutenant Colonel S. … Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986) · Edward S. Miller, War Plan Orange: The U.S. …