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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 …

A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation

… however, may miss the point because each version of this history is so central to the collective identity of each … sat down at the same table for the first time in history. In spite of an acrimonious beginning, bilateral … will root it in decades, centuries, or even millennia of history, it is mostly a creation of the nationalism that …
A makeshift influenza hospital at Camp Funston, 1918.

Top Ten Origins: Flu

… but it is an important reminder of the long and harmful history of human interaction with the influenza virus . As … influenza for decades to come. 5. The 1918-1919 Pandemic: A History by the Numbers 1918-1919 influenza mortality in the … century endured the two most important case studies in the history of infectious disease: the 1918-1919 influenza …
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.

All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire

Review of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
… Sometimes the coincidences of history are uncanny.  On Sunday, September 14, 2008, the … the conventional elements of late 19th century economic history, rather he contextualizes the use of gold with other … withdraw the paper that had flooded the economy during the Crimean War (1853-56).  Colonies, such as India under the …
Young Child dressed in a Uncle Sam costume

Coming to America to Contribute

Review of Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century, by Robert L. Fleegler Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
… that immigration is a hot topic. Robert L. Fleegler’s history of immigration policy provides a useful perspective … been expressed in popular culture and public policy. The history of immigration to the United States is characterized … of a more open policy in 1965. His use of school textbooks is especially helpful, because he documents the …
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.

Fifty Years and Counting

Review of The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young (Chicago: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
… and civil warfare. This is a standard narrative of African history in the post-independence era, and Crawford Young's … alone covers the most of the important works on history, economy, and politics on the African continent …
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.

After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807

Review of After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807, by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
… it had outlawed both practices, and it uncovers a hidden history of depravity, hypocrisy, and willful blindness. … trade after 1807. Those interested in British or African history will find After Abolition a worthwhile read. …
Zelensky and Trump

Trump’s Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective

… Peter L. Hahn, Distinguished University Professor of History, The Ohio State University  Mitchell Lerner, Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Studies Center, The … Hayes Chair in National Security Studies and Professor of History, The Ohio State University Dorothy Noyes …
Cover of Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II by Karel C. Berkhoff

Long Live the Soviet Motherland?

Review of Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II, by Karel C. Berkhoff (Harvard University Press, 2012)
… In a small Ukrainian village last month I toured a school history museum. The principal and her museum director … proudly showed us the one room exhibition in which the history of the region was displayed in objects, images, even …
Cover image of ibook - ruins in the Middle East

Middle Eastern Politics & Culture: Today & Yesterday

… Events in Historical Perspective brings to life the vibrant history of today’s politics and culture in the region. The … Past and Prospects Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind 1 2 15 28 40 51 63 75 88 … Hala, Fattah. A Brief History of Iraq. New York: Checkmark Books, 2008 Suggested Reading Marr, Phebe. The Modern …
A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.

Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia

… the Chinese state and the Uyghurs that is rooted in a history of empire and, more recently, of settler … colonialism. It is also based on competing visions of history and of who belongs to the land. Two Views of the … of Communist rule in 1949. A Different Chronology of Uyghur History The official Chinese claim is teleological and …
Cover of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin.

Taking it on the Chin

Review of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, by Margot Mifflin (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009)

Tradition vs Charisma: The Sunni-Shi'i Divide in the Muslim World

… other's throats because of the political and socio-economic history of the province. Nor, for all their theological … and son-in-law, was legitimate. Early in Islamic history, some Shi'i Muslims began to publicly denounce the … Islam." Iraqi Shi'is were stimulated by the appearance of books and periodicals from Istanbul and the example of …

Hacer América and the American Dream: Global Migration and the Americas

… a key characteristic of how Americans view their national history and the evolution of U.S. society—an important part … of people annually, migration in the Americas has a deep history that can help formulate sound policies at the local, … in the middle and long terms. In the United States, history suggests that immigration policies must reflect two …
Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, by Kathleen Drowne Book Cover

Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature

Review of Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, by Kathleen Drowne (Columbus: Ohio State University, 2005)
… with political intrigue. Filling a hole in literary history is Drowne's intention. Although the force of her … To her credit, I find myself compelled to read many of the books that she critiques in order to supplement my rather …

From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?

… factors, and basic disagreements over the narrative of history. Over the years, the geography of the conflict has … previous efforts at peace, remain viable approaches. A Prehistory of the Current Conflict Most historians date the … to the Oslo Accords Together with the British Mandate pre-history and the 1948 war, the 1967 Six Day War is considered …
President Theodore Roosevelt helped solidify conservation as a national agenda item along with preservationist John Muir.

Executive Conservation

Review of Presidents and the American Environment, by Otis L. Graham, Jr. (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2015)
… looking for overarching themes or lessons from presidential history might be disappointed, or at the least, find them … did, or didn’t do, in the larger environment of American history. …