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Picturing Black History

… Participants: Bob Ahern | Director of Archive Photography for Getty Images Dawn Chitty, (Ed.D.) | Director of … was taken. But much as photography can be used to document division or conflict, it can also be used to unite and help … And we can do this in a number of ways. First, we can revisit our own analog collections. Just 1% of our analog …

Sudan in Crisis

… government. Yet the protests persisted until he was finally forced from office. These events join 1964 and 1985 as … conflicts in Sudan were largely caused by ethnic divisions created by the British colonial administration … coexisted with Egyptian schools, missionary schools, community schools, and Sudanese private schools. In the …
President James A. Garfield

The Assassination of President Garfield

… D.C. After a hectic first four months in office, he looked forward to taking the train to the New Jersey seashore. … As the president made his way to the train, chatting companionably with Secretary of State James G. Blaine, a man … the end of party strife. After Garfield won the presidency, division between the Stalwarts and the rest of the party …
Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen

Such a Disappointment

Review of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders, by Dennis C. Rasmussen (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… by the idea that the present seems pretty terrible in comparison with the past, even if that past is mythic or not … Dennis Rasmussen’s book Fears of a Setting Sun is the book for you. The sub-title – The Disillusionment of America’s … simply see slavery as a source of increasing national division, but as he grew old he defended the need for
Mugshot of Aili Jürgenson taken at the time of her arrest,1946.

How Two Schoolgirls’ Bomb Ignited Decades of Debate Over Estonian Public Space

… On May 8, 1946, shortly before 10 p.m., two teenage Estonian schoolgirls, Aili … the new Estonian government erected nearly 200 monuments to commemorate Estonia’s newfound freedom from the tsarist … passed away in 2017, Ageeda Paavel lived to see this latest debate over monuments in Estonia reignite. She passed …
A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target.

Rumsfeld May Spark Space Weapons Debate

… U.S. military researchers were busy inventing new weapons for the next war. The new Secretary of Defense, Donald H. … launching deadly fighter and torpedo planes. Even as newspapers reported investigations of “the munitions makers” … which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying …
Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul in August, 2021.

Who are the Taliban?

… the United States as guests of UNOCAL corporation. They visited Texas, Nebraska, and Washington, D.C. A number of … intelligence experts insisted on the existence of divisions within Taliban ranks. They discerned “moderates” … authority in locales they controlled. No one was safe. Rivals could be labeled “Taliban” and sent to a CIA “dark …

All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram

… government. First Lady Michelle Obama making a plea for the return of the Chibok girls, 2014 “[We] need . . . to … The consensus among many academics, journalists, and commentators is that Boko Haram is an Islamist organization … from Mali, North Africa, Egypt, and the Saharan oases visited the region of West and Central Africa known as …
Sylvester I and Constantine in a 1247 fresco.

Top Ten Origins: Popes Before 1500

… Do cardinals really behave that badly? Are elections for new  popes  always so politically fraught? And most … The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … died somewhere far from Rome, probably never having even visited.   Nevertheless, Christians in Rome from the third …

Making Sense of the 'Hermit Kingdom': North Korea in the Nuclear Age

… significant opposition, the Bush administration quickly complied with the terror-list demand (in return for certain limited assurances about disarmament, … ruled with an iron fist, having purged his largest power rivals by 1957 and expelled Chinese troops in 1958. Kim thus …
 protests by the Yellow Vest movement

France at the Barricades, 1934

… Daladier stepped down to avoid increased violence. For the first time in the history of France’s Third … French cities. In fact, the riots of February 6 th have become shorthand to describe the protests and violence that … been dissolved and, in its place, born from the political division of the previous decade, was an authoritarian …
Government of National Unity in 2009. Left to right: Arthur Mutambara, Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai, and Thabo Mbeki.

A Lesson for South Africa? Zimbabwe’s Path to Multi-Party Rule

… (ANC) failed to secure a majority vote, leading to the formation of a Government of National Unity (GNU) for the … 1965 to official independence in 1980.   Political factors complicated matters. Since the early 1960s, the British … used currency following Prime Minister Tsvangirai’s visit to the U.S. in 2009, and it has remained so to date. …
1992 portrait of General Wesley K. Clark.

Wesley Clark: In the Tradition of Generals Who Make Peace

… opposed to the administration’s war policies and hungry for a candidate with national security bona fides. A … officers as presidential contenders. Generals who have become president (there were ten, six of them notable as … does he hunger for war. Historian David Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and …

A Century of Sanctions

… administration has added more than 1,000 individuals and companies to sanctions lists. The president has gloried in … provisions to impose sanctions on an array of Cold War rivals. The logo of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of … absolutely no fear of you!” ( top ). President Bill Clinton visiting Hanoi in 2000 after normalization of relations …
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

… of identity erasure, invisibility and hyper visibility for Urban Indian, graduate students who attended an … Dr. Lucy Murphy  Hello, welcome to "Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College … Dependent and Neglected Children in Denver, Colorado when I visited on March 25, in 2018. This picture is on the grounds …
Mexican flag in a square

Una Postal de la Ciudad de México

… ubicada en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, prosperó como una ciudad hace casi dos mil años. El ascenso y la … Aztecas, el sacrificio humano probablemente era una de las formas más profundas de apaciguar a los dioses. En 1519, … Aparte de ser un lugar estupendo que turistas pueden visitar, el Zócalo también es usado para protestar contra …
The Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C.

“What I Did On My Summer Vacation,” by the President

… Bush will spend most of this month at his ranch in Crawford, Tex. By fleeing the White House, he continues a … view of wartime Washington. On most mornings, Lincoln commuted into the city, but during hot summer months his … president shut the doors of his cottage to uninvited visitors. Lincoln met with antiwar politicians while at the …
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.

A Postcard from Solovki

… stand at the bow of the ferry as the water of the White Sea comes in wave after wave through the hole in the gunwale for the anchor chain. Stepping up on the coiled ropes lying … and other factors on the growth patterns of this flora. Visitors stroll in the Botanical Gardens, Solovki. The monks …

American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

… with a column praising the strategic savvy and tactical competence of abdicated Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Broder … grasp of what was happening to them economically, but for complex cultural reasons they believed that it could … Pseudo-Conservative Revolt" (1954), "Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited" (1964), and "The Paranoid Style in American …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd

… and consumers of the world and causing backlash. In a 2015 Foreign Affairs article, Schwab outlines the previous three … in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … smart technology, Big Data, and automation herald the latest revolutionary cycle, defining the transnational …