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Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq

Iraq's 1920 Revolution

… leniently, even as retreating British forces routinely set fire to the settlements they passed through and butchered …
Jackie Robinson

Living Up to Jackie Robinson

… and poured gasoline on them in an attempt to set them on fire. If today's players don't respect themselves, they can …
The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger launching in 1983.

Mars: A Planet Too Far?

… an important Cold War objective. Bush’s proposals may fire the imaginations of some, but without a better …
The FBI’s finely tuned image as a scientific, fact-driven investigative force, cultivated in images like this, often overshadowed how the Bureau’s priorities on issues such as homosexuality were shaped by popular fears rooted in homophobia.

G-Men, Gays, and Government

Review of Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program, by Douglas M. Charles Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2015.
… Welles to the point where Roosevelt cut his losses and fired his friend. Welles, who served as Undersecretary of …

Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?

… Echeverri (a.k.a. Timochenko), signed an accord for a ceasefire in a multi-decade armed conflict. While not the final … led to the La Uribe agreement in 1984 that included a ceasefire. That agreement contributed to the formation of a new … agreement for the right to life. No to a blood and fire rescue.” In March 2008, the Colombian military struck a …

Right-Wing Politics in India

… commitment to inclusivity and secularism also came under fire from a closer quarter: those Hindus who felt their …

The Real Marriage Revolution

… did not have a right to marry, and some employers routinely fired workers who got married. Individual choice was even … marrying and denied employers such as airlines the right to fire employees when they married. By the late 1960s, …
Israeli soldiers stand around their tanks during the Yom Kippur War.

The Yom Kippur War and the OPEC Oil Embargo

… the Golan Heights. On October 22, a  U.N.-sponsored ceasefire collapsed; Israel pressed the attack across the Suez, … the destruction of the Third Army threatened a diplomatic firestorm. The Soviet Union promised intervention if Israel … on October 25, all parties of the conflict signed a ceasefire.  The oil embargo, however, continued and the Nixon …
Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.

"Lone Wolves" No More

Review of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, by Kathleen Belew (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… 1993, federal troops stormed the compound, setting it on fire and killing 76 cult members, including 21 children. For …
A scene from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Remembering '56: The Hungarian Revolution

… in Budapest as Soviet forces began to withdraw after a ceasefire was declared on October 28. Against impossible odds, it … new prime minister. Using both deception and overwhelming firepower, Soviet forces arrested the leaders of the …