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A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

… and other world leaders to fashion a United Nations ceasefire resolution that provided a legal framework for ending the hostilities. Iraq promptly accepted the ceasefire but Iran refused, demanding that Iraq first must agree … U.S. Navy, however, Khomeini eventually accepted the ceasefire in July 1988. From the U.S. perspective, the Iran-Iraq …
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 …

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, …
Illustration from Otto of Freising’s twelfth-century chronicle, which depicts Henry IV and Clement III presiding in Rome in 1084, and Gregory VII’s flight from the city and subsequent death in Salerno in 1085.

The Investiture Controversy

… such as Otto von Bismarck’s famous declaration to the Reichstag in 1872 that Germany “will not go to Canossa” as …
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)