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A U.S. FBI agent sorts through rubble. (Photo by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)

The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings

… the 9/11 Attacks: Naftali, Timothy. Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism . New York: Basic Books, 2005. On Suicide Bombing: Lewis, Jeffrey. The Business of Martyrdom: A History of Suicide Bombing. Annapolis: Naval Institute …
Illustration of Packing Room in Opium Factory at Patna, India

The World of Opium: From “Free” to Illicit Trade

Review of Opium’s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control , by Steffen Rimner (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… aspect of using a transnational framework to study world history is the acknowledgement that information, ideas, and …
June 4th, 2014, at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author)

Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong

… the Tiananmen student movement have long since entered textbooks in the West. June 4th, 2014, at Hong Kong’s Victoria … exile. Most prominent among them was the Peking University history student and leader Wang Dan (pictured left), who … Party’s unease with mourning reflects the tenuous state of history in China. Deaths from the Great Leap Forward famine …
The Olympic flag flies at half-staff during a memorial service to the slain Israeli athletes, September 6, 1972.

The Munich Olympic Massacre

… Sayigh Bergman, R. (2018).  Rise and kill first: The secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations . Random House. … (1973). Black September: militant palestinianism.  Current History ,  64 (377), 5-8, 37. Bohr, F. (2012, August). …

Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?

… of war crimes in official government statements and history textbooks. It is also manifest in the ongoing territorial … exhibited at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History (left) . President Park Chung Hee signs the treaty …
2009 Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, wearing the yellow jersey on June 26, 2009.

The Tour de France and the Yellow Jersey

… two orphans as they traverse France, learn about its history, regions and populations, uniting all of France … Tour de France has become both a celebration of France, its history, and landscapes and a means by which the race unites …
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Between Black and White

The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations
… Miscegenation, or racial interbreeding, has had a long history in Brazil, dating back to the colonial period when … political arena where Afro-Brazilians could speak out. The history of the Second Republic (1945-1964) and the military … elections, judged to be among the freest in Brazil's history, ushered in a new political phase: civil liberties, …
2009 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador

The Tour de France and The Yellow Jersey

In 1919, Eugene Christophe was awarded the first yellow jersey, but he did not win the Tour de France that year.
… did not win the Tour de France that year. Learn about the history of the yellow jersey and why it was adopted as a …
Two women in masks in 1918

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

Estimates suggest that this flu claimed as many as 50 million lives around the world between 1918 and 1919.
… On its centennial anniversary, it is worth remembering the history of the “Spanish” flu and how it set us on the path …