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Casting the Long Shadow of the CIA

Review of Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA, by Randall B. Woods (New York: Basic Books, 2013)
… William Colby has become a more or less forgotten figure in the turbulent … Vietnam. The South Vietnamese regime headed by Ngo Dinh Diem was problematic from the American perspective. Because … policies of the Ngo government. They urged Diem to adopt some sort of popular program to counter that …
Stamp of Salvador Allende, the former Chilean president overthrown in 1973.

Regime Change: New Name, Dangerous Old Policy

… in Iran (1953), Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala (1954), Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam (1963) and Salvador Allende in Chile (1973). … support for opponents of the local regime. The overthrow of Diem began our descent into the hellish quagmire of the … property, the rule of law, a willingness to make political compromises and to accept the outcome of free elections. In …

Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900

… relations between the United States and Iran have been complicated and edgy as long as anyone can remember. … world" that Iran would prevent such atrocities in the future. Although the Shah of Iran was insulted by Uncle … satisfy the Royal Navy's rapidly expanding appetite for diesel fuel by pumping oil from the world's largest refinery …
Marker: "90 Miles to Cuba. Southernmost Point, Continental USA. Key West, FL"

Rethinking Cuba Libre

… director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. I've written a little bit on Cuba. My most important … of takeaway question, what does the past tell about the future in this case? That is, can we use past relations, … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu , on iTunes and on SoundCloud, and …

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

… It would be a "crazy project," as Erdogan and the public coined it. Turks imagined : Could it be a cultural center … on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … history—Turkey's founding as a nation-state in 1923—and its future centennial celebrations in the next decade. Said …
A view of the World Trade Center in New York City

Responding to Terror: No Good Choices

… and anger are settling into a cold rage against whoever committed the atrocity and those who may be sheltering the … lesson to those who might contemplate such acts in the future. Recent history suggests, however, that even massive … weapons. At what point should we retaliate? When a million die in Boston or Seattle from a nuclear blast? The same …
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.

The Black Death and its Aftermath

… came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … rural and urban: the daughter of King Edward III of England died of the plague in the summer of 1348. But quickly—at … survived the plague, her children tended to survive; if she died, they died with her. In the late 1340s, news of the …
a woman at a witch trial. she is wearing white and has her arms up in air with lightening bolts coming out of them. A judge, lawyer and an audience of people look on.

What was Wrong with the Judges at the Salem Witch Trials?

… Speaker's Note: Matt Goldish would like to add a more complete response to one of the questions asked him after … Jewish-Christian intellectual relations and Sephardic studies. Matt has a B.A. from the University of California Los … afflicted girls. So, we don't know much about them in the future but it's interesting that whoever asked that …
First Cabinet of President Barack Obama in the White House East Room.

The Distant Horizon of a President

… cautious, thoughtful Obama was just plain weak, or worse: incompetent. Well, health care legislation has passed, the … four or eight years but rather several decades into the future.   Obama seems to be grasping this fact in ways that … opportunity to self-destruct.   It cannot be entirely coincidental that the Obama administration has spoken often …
Depiction of the Battle of Bosworth Field by the eighteenth-century painter, Philip James de Loutherbourg.

The Battle of Bosworth Field

… August 22, 1485, King Richard III of England (r. 1483-1485) died fighting in the Battle of Bosworth Field. The victor, … the titular role, albeit placing the king 500 years in the future and acting as a fascist dictator.  This fascination, … son of York and was also Edward’s brother.  But when Edward died in April of 1483, he left two young sons (both under …
The Prima Porta Statue shows a powerful and youthful Augustus making an address

Celebrating Roman Emperor Augustus

… August 19, 14 CE, the most influential man in Roman history died. Augustus began his career by fomenting a civil war, … forming a military junta, then violently eliminating any competition before fighting the other members of the junta. … of what common Romans might have thought, surely, the soldiers who died with gashes in their thighs or fractured …
People arriving at Ellis Island in the early 20th century.

Noncitizens have the obligations of citizens-so why not the right to vote?

… revolution, such a proposition was not far-fetched. It was common sense that government should rest on the consent of … about the newcomers, the nature of citizenship, and the future of democracy in America. Non-citizens work in every … the laws that govern citizens, serve in the military and die defending the United States. Their numbers are …

Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis

… the Supreme Court and amidst growing public criticism. To compound the confusion, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, sitting … the significance of Israeli-Palestinian relations to the future of the region, the issue was almost absent from … ideology at the time was that of the melting pot, a phrase coined by Zionist activist Israel Zangwill in a 1909 play …
This photo shows Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR), which was transported from bases in the U.S. and air dropped to regions of Afghanistan where the displaced people are at risk of starvation.

Democracy’s Vital Ingredient — Food

… wise to heed Marshall's warning and rally the international community to increase food aid to the Afghan government. … the insurgency. There is also the challenge of heading off future humanitarian emergencies by establishing food … to building a food reserve within India to cope with future emergencies. The Indian minister of agriculture …

European Disunion: The Rise and Fall of a Post-War Dream?

… has been characterized by friction, contradictions, and competing visions of the goals of union. The most recent … of values.” The celebration of shared values and a common future was nevertheless lukewarmly greeted by the 42 percent … local policy decisions remained in the hands of national bodies, many of these tensions could be debated in the …
Two Nord Stream pipes are welded together on the Castoro Sei pipelaying vessel in preparation for laying them beneath the Baltic Sea, 2011.

The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

… superpower status. Its narrowing, unstable economy has become dependent on the export of a single commodity: energy. … around 12 km from the accident site. In this animation, diesel oil is visible in the Ambarnaya River on both May 31 … identifiable in crimson red. Just recently, 20,000 tons of diesel fuel leaked from the Norilsk thermal power plant into …
Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul in August, 2021.

Who are the Taliban?

… to everyday and intimate forms of violence. Their foot soldiers have asserted the right to assault men and women whom … program of political action that would lead to a more just future than what was on offer in Moscow or Washington. The … apparatus was a crucial step. They published a website in the late 1990s but soon abandoned it, preferring …
Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE.

The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response

… In the face of disasters we have come to expect that our governments will respond. … erected statues of him. Tiberius then struck and circulated coins celebrating his rebuilding efforts, the ancient … for the first time in the history of the city to prevent future fires. Buildings had to be built with ground floors …
This 1952 illustration by Robert Thom of Sims' gynecological experiments involving enslaved women is part of a larger collection entitled Great Moments in Medicine.

Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19

… orchestrated. Governor Andrew Cuomo and the medical community praised Lindsay. She was a healthcare hero . … procedures and completed follow-up paperwork. When the men died, Rivers encouraged their families to allow Tuskegee … (known as HeLa cells) were taken without her consent and studied in laboratories, and the forced sterilization of Black …
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"

The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now

… invited three historians to discuss the past, present, and future of the Equal Rights Amendment, and how it fits into … professor of History and director of the American Studies program, specializing on gender, women, and science.   … Hamlin  Sure. So the legal scholar, Kimberlé Crenshaw, coined the phrase in a 1987, I think, article, where she …
 Monte Albán

Una Postal de Oaxaca, México

… impresionante, la ciudad de Oaxaca ofrece vistas de la compleja historia de México. En 1521, Hernán Cortés mando a … a la izquierda se ven niños de edad escolar practicando el futbol; a la derecha una demuestra de la danza tradicional.  … Guerra Mundial, no habían muchas carreteras modernas que dieran servicio a los confines del sur del país. Asta hoy en …
Cartoon by Ali Delim in honor of 20th anniversary of Said Mekbel’s killing. The cartoon reads: “Said Mekbel in Heaven for journalists. Here it is not the quills that are missing.” (Cartoon used with permission)

1/30/2015: The Dangers of Being a Humorist: Charlie Hebdo Is Not Alone

… have been levelling their ire with deadly consequences at comedians whose work they have deemed to be blasphemous or … was kidnapped and murdered in September 1995, while Dorbane died when a bomb that militants had placed near the offices … threats on numerous occasions prior to his murder. In the future, humorists and especially cartoonists might prove …