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Emperor Nero

The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response

After a devasting fire in Rome in 64 CE, Emperor Nero successfully rebuilt the city.
… When we reflect on the history of government response to natural disasters such as … century: Titus, Nero and Tiberius. This video traces their history of response to disasters and how it relates to …

Big-time Bureaucratic Brouhaha

… connects examples of government regulations throughout history from the building of the railroads to the Affordable Care Act. This history calls into question the idea of Government …
Black Women's Rights Leaders

Prologued: Women and the Vote

Analyzing the myth of the women's voting bloc
… the perfect time to re-evaluate the political and electoral history of women in the United States beginning all the way …

Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal

… optimistic. "Target 2023," simultaneously looked to history—Turkey's founding as a nation-state in 1923—and its … construction projects that cram the volumes of human history. Canals throughout history have long been connected … The humiliating Treaty of Kucuk Kaynarca (1774) gave the Crimean Peninsula to Russia, along with passage rights …
portion of a movie poster for the movie Mary Queen of Scots, directed by Josie Rourke

At the Movies: Mary Queen of Scots

… and strength in the past and exemplifies it in the present. History is expertly woven throughout this film but never … murder of David Rizzio , Mary’s secretary. Their actions in history and in the film reinforce the myth that women were … shows us what men are capable of doing to retain power. History is central to this film because it gives a timeless …

Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis

… to become the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history. He began to acquire the aura of an invincible … during elections. Those tensions have their origin in the history of Jewish migrations to pre-state Palestine and … 1970s. The “Upheaval” The year 1977 is known in Israeli history as the year of the “upheaval.” In the elections of …
Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat aboard his Jeantaud electric car, 1899.

The Historical Dominance of the Electric Car

On December 18, 1898, the Jeantaud electric vehicle set the world’s first automotive land speed record of 63.13 km/hr (39.2 mph) over the course of a single kilometer.
… automobile land speed record is set;” https://automotivehistory.org/first-automobile-land-speed-record/ Ernest H. Wakefield, History of the Electric Automobile (SAE International, … 2004). Paul Ingrassia, Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars (New York: …
 protests by the Yellow Vest movement

France at the Barricades, 1934

… is no stranger to political protest. The country has a long history of its people taking to the streets to show their … down to avoid increased violence. For the first time in the history of France’s Third Republic, street protests and …

Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective

… in the 1990s. The confluence of these factors over a long history has created a new medical crisis: the resurgence of … it has plagued humans since the beginnings of recorded history. Smallpox is central to the origins of vaccination. … Our Vaccines” march in Washington, D.C. Furthermore, as the history of science particularly shows, vaccines are among …

The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking

… failed states, and security. But it is the long history of drug production and distribution in Latin … Panama), and drug-trade violence continues to escalate. The history of Latin American narcotics production and … reaching the United States from abroad. Colombia had a long history at the heart of regional contraband trade and …
Albert Hofmann

Albert Hofmann Discovers LSD

… effects was one of the more famous accidents in the history of science. A 1951 vial of LSD manufactured by …

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… relations, international law, politics, geography, history, hydrology, ecology, and social studies. It has been … present themselves as religious places focused on biblical history and archaeological remains, and gloss over the many … that play out along the river. Yet the region’s recent history flows just beneath the surface, cluttering the …

"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms

… as a gunrunner illustrate important patterns in the history of the global arms trade since the advent of … regard, Bout’s activities mark a significant change in the history of the global arms trade: for first time, thanks to … aid in this form. For the first time in modern global history, country-to-country transactions came to typify the …
President Edelmiro Farrell (left) and the Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945.

Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism

… marked a consequential moment in Argentina’s sociopolitical history. The political movement became known as Peronism and … with the state. The national holiday remained on the books until Perón’s overthrow in September 1955; it would … More? Mariano Ben Plotkin, Mañana es San Perón: A Cultural History of Perón's Argentina (2002). … Steven Hyland … …
The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean, by Peter Earle Book Cover

The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean

Review of The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean, by Peter Earle (St. Martin's Press '07, $25.95, 292 pages, ISBN #0-312-36142-4; index, source notes, bibliography, unillustrated)
… is an enjoyable and important contribution to the maritime history of the 17th century. By focusing on a handful of … Sack of Panamá is an excellent introduction to the maritime history of the Atlantic World and the decline of Spanish …

Another Silent Spring

… killers. They were part of the biggest population boom in history, and to feed their babies they demanded more and … in a few words is what we should ask about the ecological history of the most recent coronavirus. Where exactly did it … and protect biodiversity ? How can a new understanding of history, one more informed by ecology and evolution science, …

The Road to Same-Sex Marriage: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and the American Family

… this idea, it has at least been so until very recently. The history is far more complicated, however, and the … definition of the family for at least six decades. This history includes the stories of gay and lesbian parents who … that state’s constitution. At that point in U.S. history, only three municipalities and the District of …
Zog I of Albania in front of the Albania Republic flag.

Albania’s First Republic

… Given the country’s turbulent and volatile political history paired with Italy’s desire for regional hegemony, it … states they deem as fledgling or failing. Distinctive history, embedded social and political structures, and …