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The last Soviet forces leave Afghanistan via Friendship Bridge in February of 1989

What They Left Behind: The Soviet Union in Afghanistan

… advances but, above all, of the problems with which history suddenly confronts society.” Kopp saw the Bolshevik …

"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent

This 1878 engraving shows the chaos at the scene of the Boston Massacre

Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation

… too politically correct. But as Captain America’s 80-year history reveals, this is far from a new development. From … 2018) Matthew J. Costello, Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America (Continuum, …

Scene from the 11th century Bayeaux Tapestry depicting Norman cavalry attacking Anglo-Saxon soldiers.

The Norman Conquest of England, 1066

Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… took power in a bloodless coup. The Peruvian military had a history of intervening in national politics to preserve … As one spokesperson in Cuzco indicated in 1974, “Our record books are all blank because we do not know how to write …. …

A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter

… While students in men’s colleges were studying mathematics, history, and the sciences; women at QMC were taught subjects …

Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution

… their own distinctive alphabet during a continuous history that dates back centuries. Armenia’s neighbors …

Cover of Mother of Invention by Robert I. Field

Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?

Review of Mother of Invention: How the Government Created "Free Market Health Care", by Robert I. Field (Oxford University Press, 2013)

… Taxol, in particular, the best-selling cancer drug in history, is the product of a long back-and-forth between the …

The Amazon Rainforest under Threat

… indifference, it is essential to understand the history of the human presence in the region and the ways in …

The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe

… War This is by no means the first time in Zimbabwe's history that "the other half of the sky" has taken such a … and Steven Conn; participants in Ohio State's Public History Seminar, Fall of 2009; and Stephen G. Hall, Claire …

Original Origins

Djiboutian workers fill bags with wheat destined for Ethiopia, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at the Port of Djibouti, Africa, Jan. 7, 2013.

The Birth and Death of USAID

… a group of liberal intellectuals spent the 1950s writing books and building new academic departments dedicated to the … past to value a stronger, healthier global community. The history of foreign aid provides many examples of failed …

Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot

Views of the White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece.

A Postcard from Thessaloniki, Greece

… Museum, thus propagating an era that predates Ottoman history. And the Hamza Bey Mosque became a movie theatre …

Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin

Review of The Last Days of Stalin, by Joshua Rubenstein (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015)

Colonial Land Injustices in Post-Independence Zimbabwe

… National Union (ZANU) in 1963 were watershed moments in the history of Zimbabwe. With the support of the Eastern Bloc at …

John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller

Kent State after Fifty Years

… the Guard more times than any governor in the state’s history and obliged without hesitation. He already had … ready, marched into the field, students with their notebooks wandered past peers who were hurling tear-gas …