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1960s hippies dancing at a festival.

The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate … Lou Adler and John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, modeled Monterey on older jazz festivals, and convened … festival, offered advice and contributed items for an on-site exhibit consisting of original guitars, outfits, and …
Aerial view of Pearl Harbor, October 1941

Pearl Harbor

… could be met and destroyed in a series of climatic battles in which the Japanese would prevail. After a few serious … the bay, devoid of protective torpedo nets, without combat watches on duty, and lacking accessible ammunition, … War II poster. In the United States, the bombing ignited a passion that President Roosevelt had for years sought to …
Cover of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper.

The Legacy of Luther

Review of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy, by Lyndal Roper (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… The prominent reformer, Martin Luther boasts the most complex legacy of his contemporaries because of how he … I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy grapples with Luther’s complicated legacy through a series of … to the religious upset and then, perhaps, we can move past dismissive arguments that involve the tired phrase …
Woodcut print depicting the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618

Out the Window: Religion, Politics, and a Defenestration in Prague

… spirit and with a large gesture invite an enemy to become an angel without further preparation or a flying … must be sought in the ancestral habits of Russians, Poles, Servians, Sorbs, Polabians, Croats, Cassules, Wends, … in vodka, brandy and other fire waters with the concomitant excitement of thrusting an opponent through the …

Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising

… political ideology is not built on overtly religious principles). Important constituencies of the umbrella opposition … population walked out of the Istanbul meeting as well, complaining that the SNC had no intention of setting up a … with the leadership of 'Adnan Sa'd al-Din, a schoolteacher and writer from Hama, who became General Supervisor of …
Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944

The Liberation of Paris

… four years of Nazi occupation. Following a week of guerilla combat between Resistance fighters and the occupying German … the faces of the people of Paris this morning,” wrote Charles Christian Wertenbaker, Time Magazine’s war … to Paris, 14-25 August 1944. For de Gaulle, however, bypassing Paris was unthinkable. While the city’s value as a …
Photo from 1890 of the first OSU football team

Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports

… Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In addition to completing the monumental  King Era Trilogy , Branch has … mounted a campaign against that. That's exactly the opposite of what you would hope a university would do, which is … all-white powerhouse from Kentucky lost to a team from El Paso, Texas that had five black players. It so enraged …
Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia, 1819.

The United States: Democracy or Republic?

… to monarchy.  A republic would be built on the principles of “republicanism,” a set of virtues that in the 18th century included the selflessness to put the common good above special interests. Only a few (men) could … democracy and republicanism have coexisted, sometimes complementarily, other times confrontationally.  Part of the …