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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. …
Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.

Japan’s Meiji Restoration

… inconvenient historical truths.  The list of “dark Meiji” history is long: the settler colonization of the northern … of the indigenous Ainu people starting in 1869; a long history of industrial disease and environmental destruction … UNESCO as sites of World Heritage.  This is not to say that history should be easily bifurcated into simple binaries of …

Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina

… Economist   magazine accused the government of “cooking the books” and reported that “since 2007, when Guillermo Moreno, … Yet a look back into Argentina’s economic and social history reveals over-reliance on its agricultural economy, … The northwestern province of Tucumán, which has a long history of producing sugar, provides a case in point. In the …

The Fate of the Kurds

… Death, AFRIN IS NOT ALONE.” Trump does not understand the history of the Kurds and Turks. Far from being mired in an … in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. And this history matters. Solving the uncertain fate of the Kurds and … Relations ; and The U.S. War in Iraq . Listen to these History Talk podcasts on Understanding the Middle East ; …
The headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in 1911.

The Nineteenth Amendment

… ending point, nor or even a beginning point, in the history of women’s political engagement. Years before …
Six founders of the Algerian FLN: Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi, 1954

The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace

… known for its bottled water than its role in diplomatic history: Evian-les-Bains. Known as the Evian Accords, this … between the two nations. Perhaps now more than ever, the history of the Evian Accords underscores the importance of …
artwork entitled Can You Pass the Acid Test

The Acid Tests

… LSD experimentation. “Be Here Now,” along with other books, brought Eastern spiritual culture (yoga, meditation, …

The Soviet Collapse

… state of emergency, placed Gorbachev under house arrest in Crimea , and sent tanks onto the streets of Moscow. But the … and defending Russia’s international interests. The End of History? The collapse of the Soviet Union was the world’s … commentator labelled the Soviet collapse the “end of history,” seeing the liberal democratic order as victorious …

Cops and Robbers? The Roots of Anti-Doping Policies in Olympic Sport

… “Russian doping scandal” really such a big moment in the history of anti-doping? After all, as even casual observers … the last 35 years or so we get a distorted version of the history of doping and anti-doping. The “cops and robbers” … wrong, Indeed, the first lesson to be learned from the history of doping and anti-doping before 1967 is that …
A manuscript image of Pope Innocent IV excommunicating Emperor Frederick II at the Council of Lyon.

Medieval Public Relations Battles

Review of The Two Powers: The Papacy, The Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century, by Brett Edward Whalen (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
… sources. The book restores the place of contingency in history and should serve a reminder that outcomes are never …

Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future

… and religious communities sharing space, culture, and history. Its profile today as a region torn "between Serbs … been a part of various states and empires throughout its history. As a vital part of the medieval kingdom of Serbia, … about and certainly the most notorious part of Kosovo's history. [For more on this topic, see the 1993 Origins print …

A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

… the most dramatic and significant events in the long history of U.S. relations with Iraq. During the nine decades … physical artifacts that would corroborate Biblical history. U.S. oil corporations began probing Mesopotamia for … first century of the relationship. * * * For more on the history of U.S.-Iraq relations by Peter Hahn, see his …
Church and belltower at Usol’e.

A Postcard from the Ural Mountains

… has largely taken over. Nizhnii Tagil also boasts a local history museum originally established at the unusually early … grant for the project “Exploring Russia's Environmental History and Natural Resources” … ww.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/features/russian-environmental-history/ and the Georgetown University Environment …
"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor, 1920

The October Revolution in Russia

… ). The “storming of the Winter Palace” has gone down in history as the climactic moment of the October Revolution. … October Revolution still stands as a seminal event in world history. But no longer can it be seen in Marxist terms as … October Revolution did not, however, mark a new stage in history or humankind’s inevitable progression toward a …

Pirates of Puntland, Somalia

… they must also be understood in the context of modern history and modern notions of borders, state sovereignty, … 8 million inhabitants are Sunni Muslims. Somalia's history goes a long way towards explaining the challenge … their efforts to build a stable state. [ For more on the history of Somalia, see this 1993 Origins article ] A …

Currency Wars, or Why You Should Care About the Global Struggle Over the Value of Money

… the Real's appreciation. [ Read here for more on the recent history of Brazil .] Appreciation and depreciation work a … economic policy changes in response to foreign pressure. History has taught the Chinese that it is more important … economic pliancy ultimately rested on the particular history of World War II, the U.S. Occupation, and Japan's …