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Portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Burma’s Hope Imprisoned

… hope for freedom has been embodied in that brave woman. Thinking that more than a decade of house arrest had ended Suu … is co-editor of the first two volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King and a writer for the History News Service. … …
DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… most of the news media covering the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and other black men doesn't usually … the interests of capital. So anyone who was you know, striking or protesting or advocating radical political ideas, … the exception of the riots that took place after Martin Luther King's assassination. Most of the riots that took …

The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq

… government consisting of both Shi'is and Sunnis, thereby making a deliberate effort to draw support from the Sunni … history) by Balami.   The defining crisis stemmed from the assassination of Ali (r. 656-661), son-in-law of the Prophet … father’s death 19 years later. Yazid proclaimed himself a king of the new Islamic empire by virtue of family ties. And …
Cover of Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean by Molly Greene.

Pirates, Pirates Everywhere but Not Enough of Them in This Book

Review of Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants, by Molly Greene (Princeton University Press 2010)
… move the spotlight from the center to the periphery, from kings and popes to merchants and midwives, from inquisitors … crusade to take back Constantinople and the Holy Land. Kings such as Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire and … against him contrary to the wishes of their "master" the king of France.  The further irony with this pirating …
Anti-draft protest outside the Department of Justice in 1967.

The Draft — for Democracy

… U.S. armed forces beginning in 1948, fifteen years before Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Universal conscription …
scene from the video game Valiant Hearts, The Great War

Top Ten Origins: Historically Themed Video Games

… very large percentage of Koei games cover either the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history (2 nd -3 rd Century C.E.) … Of 41 playable characters, 32 were members of the three kingdoms of Wu, Shu, and Wei and have “Musou Modes,” i.e. … comes from the 15 th Century novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms , which itself was based on older histories dating …

The American Dream after COVID-19

… American self-understanding. For hundreds of years, looking beyond disasters has been the norm for American … Civil Rights Act of 1964. Among the guests behind him is Martin Luther King, Jr. The extension of democratic freedoms to …

The Ethiopian Civil War in Tigray

… of 2019, for not only instigating the conflict but for stoking its fires long after they should have burned out. Some … These highlands are dominated culturally by the Semitic-speaking Amhara and Tigrayan peoples (Tigrayans constitute about … claim a continuous tradition stretching back to the kingdom of Axum in the medieval period and further back into …
Glass negative of Kaiser Wilhelm.

A New Kind of Anti-Americanism

… Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, Jr., is being replaced with stereotypes of …
The Olympic flag flies at half-staff during a memorial service to the slain Israeli athletes, September 6, 1972.

The Munich Olympic Massacre

… goal of self-determination for Palestine. In 1970, Jordan’s King Hussein ruled more Palestinian refugees than … response to the tragedy led to the creation of an Israeli assassination campaign, known as Operation “Wrath of God.” Learn More: Klein, A. J. (2005).  Striking back: The 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and Israel's …
President JFK giving an address on civil rights in June, 1963.

A President Who Was Still Growing

… After forty years, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy continues to … order in federally financed housing. Instead of attacking segregation head-on by supporting congressional … pursue detente that provoked the CIA into engineering his assassination. There are also indications that the …
Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877, oil on canvas

Silent Spring Revolution, a Conversation with Douglas Brinkley

… Commoner (an environmental justice advocate), Coretta Scott King (an antinuclear activist), Stewart Udall (the secretary … testing movement scene with Norman Cousins who founded it. Martin Luther King Jr. said this, but he said it in many …

Right-Wing Politics in India

… doctors educated in the western style, often in the United Kingdom. They met regularly to air their grievances against … that goal. He promoted idealized versions of former Hindu kings, such as Shivaji, as enlightened rulers in contrast to … nuanced than Hedgewar’s in some ways. They agreed that taking an anti-British stance would endanger the existence of …

The Road to Same-Sex Marriage: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and the American Family

… about “their role as husbands and fathers.” Likewise, Vera Martin, an African American lesbian mother who raised her … them and losing her job with Los Angeles County. In 1959, Martin and her lover Kay, who was also a lesbian mother, … time, and men and women who were a part of them began talking about the realities and politics of gay and lesbian …
We Are Our Mountains (Tatik u Papik) Monument, Stepanakert.

A Postcard from Nagorno-Karabakh

… Artsakh was a proudly independent principality within the Kingdom of Armenia for many centuries.  It enjoyed … principality of Syunik.  After the fall of the Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia in 1045 and later the Georgian-sponsored Zakarid Armenian Kingdom, Syunik and Artsakh (by now known as Khachen) …
The Great Mosque of Djenne. This image illustrates the influence of Islam in the region and the building style of the region. Its origins are unknown but it shows the power of the emperors who built this structure that still stands today.

A New View of West African Empires

Review of African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa, by Michael A. Gomez (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)
… region, which include the growth of the city of Gao and the Kingdom of Ghana. In this section, Gomez also introduces his … span of the Empire of Mali. Mali grew out of the Ghanaian Kingdom, and Gomez charts the emergence, development and …
Undated photo of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany.

Democracy-Building Will Be Tougher This Time

… eventually formed Japan’s cabinets, much as in the United Kingdom, for example. The Japanese military usurped the … matter. That country has seen incessant military takeovers, assassinations, political executions, and factional and … prolonged total war, in a way we assume Iraq will not be, making them more prone to accept the Allies’ democratic …
Heroin bust.

Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)

… World Brionna Mendoza Previously on Prologued … Miriam Kingsberg Kadia I would actually submit that the war on … get his legislation for some reason; he was very good at asking Congress for something and receiving it. Brionna … country where they don't have any real jurisdiction and making these relatively minor busts and then turning them into …
Escobar: Paradise Lost, directed by Andrea Di Stefano

2/6/2015: At the Movies: Escobar

… formulaic: Nick enters the world of Colombian drug trafficking , gains the trust of the kingpin, and must choose whether being a part of that world … television and radio broadcasts to point out his tactics of assassination, employing child soldiers, and bankrolling …
“Aux amateurs de physique.” Likewise portraying the Tuileries flight, this cartoon mocks the unwashed masses who wished to see the spectacle without a ticket, but the scaling of the garden walls also illustrates how the balloon as a “people-machine” ignited the determination of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime.

Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture

Review of The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe, by Mi Gyung Kim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
… elaborate and closely monitored displays (the balloon as a “king-machine”). Yet for the masses, the balloon served as an … the disciplined spectators below portrays the craft as a “king-machine” that embodies the monarchy’s obligation to … but does not explicitly tie it into her analysis, making it particularly difficult for readers who do not have a …