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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 …

The Long Legacy of World War I

… United States, where World War I is not written into family history in the same ways as World War II or Vietnam. Almost … from the war were traumatic. For the first time in modern history, death in combat reversed the normal succession of … World War in Russia. And they irrevocably changed world history, bringing to life the planet’s first officially …
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)
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz Book Cover

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

Review of Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2007)
… an odd quality to an avowedly cultural approach to the history of the period. The relationship between culture and …

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 …
Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, 1987

The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back

Review of Iran Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power, by Malcolm Byrne (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2014)
Refugees crowded emergency trains leaving to India or Pakistan c. 1947-1953

India-Pakistan Partition

… occurred. Some seek its underlying causes in the long history of colonialism, which fractured the population along … more hopeful collective futures. To learn more about oral history stories from 1947, see the 1947 Partition Archive …
Group of women marching with signs: "GWU Women's Liberation," "I'm a second-class citizen," "Women demand equality"

A Slut from East Toledo (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 5)

… Fernandez is a professor of 20th century Latino and Chicano history at Rutgers University. He told me that not only were … from the last episode, a historian of 20th century women's history at The Ohio State University, Susan Hartmann Some …
a rocket being launched in the Middle East

War and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Today & Yesterday

… in Historical Perspective —brings to life the vibrant history of war and geopolitics in the Middle East to help … Doctrine The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing With a Little Help from Our … in Perspective (New Brunswick and Oxford: Transaction Books, 1986), pp. 61-84. For a firsthand account, see Henry …
Ottoman Empire (1256), Europe (67), Colonialism/Imperialism (1289), Middle East (142), Islam (154)

Süleyman the Magnificent

Süleyman, who would be known to the west as “the Magnificent,” began his reign as sultan of the Ottoman Empire in September 1520.
… Süleyman’s reign lasted 46 years, the longest in Ottoman history. Over that span, he rose to be one of the most powerful and influential monarchs of European history, feared on the battlefield and the conqueror of new …

The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State

… terms) from 1974 to 1979 than in its entire independent history . Indeed, during this time, this Gran Venezuela had … 2016 the country became the seventh in Latin American history to experience hyperinflation . Despite the …
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 …
Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.

Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor

… against Hindus and should therefore be wiped from the history books (as was the recent fate of the entire Mughal Empire in …