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French soldiers overrun Chinese troops during the 1860 campaign in the Second Opium War.

The Second Opium War

… more important to their imperial interests, including the Crimean War (1853-1856), Anglo-Persian War (1856-1857), and … substances in circulation today. Such careless misuse of history is a powerful argument for recalling the events of …
Advertisement for DDT featured in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. This image illustrates the rosy reputation that pesticides enjoyed before the publication of Silent Spring.

A World Drenched with Pesticides: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

… and Wildlife Service publications in 1939 and wrote popular books on ocean life. These works illustrated the connections … University Press, 2005.  Davis, Frederick Rowe. Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology. New … of Kansas, 2015.    Nash, Linda. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge. Berkley: …

Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis

… have been experiencing perhaps the worst drought of their history, the "Big Dry," as they're calling it. The drop in … nation—has long been considered the worst in Australian history. By 1902, Sydney's water supply was running out, and … Fleet sailed into Sydney harbor in 1788. Through their history, Australians have often been, in the insightful …

The Alpha and Omega of the Greek Debt Crisis

… seen, but what is not debatable is the long and complicated history that led Greece on a trajectory to the crisis … would be to misunderstand the country’s complex financial history. Economic troubles began with its creation and were … Crisis ;  1989: The Year That Changed It All ;  The Fate of Crimea ;  Memories of the Great War ; and  Armenians, Turks, …
Man Celebrating Repeal Day with a banner that says "Good Old Days Are Back Again!"

Celebrating Repeal with a Drink, Not a Joint

… weekday, after all—but by briefly examining the regulatory history of our closest modern-day analog to Prohibition: the … Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition,” Richard Bonnie … than whites. Bonnie and Whitebread wrote that the legal history of alcohol prohibition in the United States …
President Carter shakes hands with General Torrijos of Panama after signing the Panama Canal Treaty

The Missing "Third" of the Third World

Review of Latin America and the Global Cold War, by Thomas C. Field, Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
… World properly situated in its Cold War context. It is a history of how the geopolitical atmosphere dominated by the … this collection of essays reexamines Latin American history from a “Third Worldist” perspective, defining the … the fields of Latin American, Third World, and Cold War history points the way toward much future research. With …
NASA marks Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.

“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism

… our current environmental crisis. Thinking about the history of Earth Day provides perspective on both the … chronicled the ill effects of postwar consumer abundance. Books such as The Quiet Crisis (1963) by Stuart Udall, Ralph … to action catalyzed the largest demonstration in American history to date. On April 22, 1970, over 20 million people …
Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist

(Bicycle) Wheels of Change

Review of The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s, by Evan Friss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Habana Lions Baseball Players 1946-47

Baseball Without Borders

Review of Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League, by Cesar Brioso (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015).
… in the National League, was a critical year in the history of Cuban baseball as well. Brioso frames his … of organized baseball, Brioso does little to provide a history of baseball in Latin America or Cuba.  Although he offers tantalizing insights into the history of Cuban baseball, such as José Marti's interest in …
man with a gun in a holster

Top Ten Origins: Gun Regulation

… prevented Congress from enacting federal legislation. The history of gun control predates the nation itself. American … “gun rights” and “gun regulation,” both sides rely on history to make their case. So here is a review of ten crucial moments in the history of gun regulation in the United States. Student …
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… highly convincing. Readers with interests in Middle Eastern history, human rights, and peace studies will glean …
 Pinterest Hien Luong Bridge - Ben Hai River, Quang Tri, Vietnam

Vietnam Revisited: Forty Years after the Paris Peace Accord

… the Paris Peace Accord. It was then the longest war in U.S. history; although commonly dated as beginning in 1965 with … D.C. that resulted in the largest mass arrest in U.S. history. Of the Hanoi 9, I had the longest connection to …
soldiers in Vietnam

Memories of Vietnam in Memoriam

Review of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, by Viet Thanh Nguyen Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.
… to Nguyen, is that the industry of memory seeks to create a history of humanity that ignores the inhumanities which are …
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans

400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism

What lessons can be learned from the thought and actions of Galileo, who became the “Father of Modern Science”?
… the partial unbanning of Galileo’s Dialogu e and Copernican books in general by Pope Benedict XIV (in 1740–1758); the …
Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District

1885: A European Colonial Dream and an African Nightmare

… of an era. Its dry, legal language hides a violent history and was the translation of a frenzied fever dream.  … as an anti-slavery crusader exists to this day. The African History of the Berlin Conference? How we mark the Berlin … Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa. Basic Books, New York, 2019. Chérie N. Rivers,  To Be Nsala’s …
An Armenian woman leans over her dead child near Aleppo, Syria,1915.

On the Armenian Genocide

… two distinct stories about 1915 have been told: an Armenian history largely for Armenian readers; and a Turkish and Turkophilic history for Turks and their friends. The two literatures … in Perspective (New Brunswick and Oxford: Transaction Books, 1986), pp. 61-84. For a firsthand account, see Henry …

American Presidential Scandals

… it seems as if the administration is collapsing the history of American political scandal down to a singularity, … outlandish and perplexing scandal in American political history had been one of the earliest: the treason case … Nixon cruised to one of the biggest landslide victories in history. Nixon’s second term, however, was immediately …

How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure

… infrastructure , which briefly summarized the “history” of the situation. After a mid-20 th -century … infrastructures has worked well over the course of American history. Government investment has been an economic … empowering private enterprise to prosper. Infrastructure history is incredibly complex and unpredictable. All …