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A drawing by Italian artist Achille Beltrame imagines Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination by Gavrilo Princip

The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip

On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world.
… were underway for the centennial anniversary of the assassination, his warning proved apt. Event organizers … meaning of his short life over the following century. The assassination itself was the realization of a plot by a … Serbia and other South Slavic peoples. As plots go, the assassination was one of the most successful ever conceived. …
Abraham Lincoln

Top Ten Origins: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

… the most important things to know about his presidency, his assassination, and his legacy. 1. Presidents Killed in … historians have published surprisingly little on the assassination. The subject appeared to offer nothing of … was shot on Good Friday. 4. The People Connected to the Assassination Mary Todd Lincoln was never to recover from …
A portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

… American cities exploded in the days following Dr. King’s assassination. In communities large and small, stretching … guard following riots in Washington, D.C. after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968. … having failed to persuade federal officials to act. The assassination of Dr. King neither ended the movement, nor …
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964.

The (Character) Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

… with? How has a fairly straightforward case like the King assassination become complicated with such stale, … that the FBI actively promoted a climate in which King’s assassination might not be greeted as unwelcome. Indeed, … … Racism & Racial Ideas … Class & Labor … The (Character) Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. …
President James A. Garfield

The Assassination of President Garfield

… of the Republican Party in 1880, the year before Garfield’s assassination, will sound familiar to anyone following the … year to the day after the shooting of Garfield. Garfield’s assassination and Guiteau’s subsequent trial highlighted … at the crux of the political turmoil surrounding Garfield’s assassination does not seem to have disappeared. Division …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The man we celebrate today is not the man who lost his life on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in 1968.
… & Racial Ideas … Terrorism … Civil/Human Rights … The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. …
Soldiers marching at the Champs Elysee

Recovering the History of the French Far-Right

Review of Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France , by Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020)
… to find out. And so begins Brunelle and Finley-Croswhite’s Assassination in Vichy , like any good tale of murder and … of the right-wing terrorist organization, the Cagoule. Assassination in Vichy , then, is more than a history of the … After introducing Dormoy and the crime itself, Assassination in Vichy proceeds more or less …
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

… the commemoration for the hundred-year anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.   Patrick Potyondy   In a recent article you call the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, one of the most successful assassination attempts in history not only because the …
U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon

Ten Terrorists Attacks in History

… out the sentence less than two years later. (Right): The Assassination of Alexander II, drawn by G. Broling in 1881. … reform and modernization of Russia’s state and economy. His assassination all but ended this program and resulted in a … Egyptian Islamic Jihad  to overthrow the state.  While the assassination was a success, the conspiracy failed and Sadat …
Book cover of To Break Russia's Chains by Vladimir Alexandrov

Terrorism as the Path to a Better Russia

Review of To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks by Vladimir Alexandrov (New York: Pegasus Books, 2021)
… Russia, Savinkov was responsible for several spectacular assassinations, including the Governor General of Moscow, … and a published Silver Age author. A sketch of the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei, 1905. To Break Russia’s … point: Savinkov’s plans never seemed to succeed. The SR assassinations did not bring revolutionary change, nor did …
Egyptian Leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser

Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years Later

… to move against him. Nasser’s speech during the failed assassination attempt was soon broadcast by radio throughout … later became a signature of his presidency. Audio of the Assassination Attempt of October 1954 (in Arabic)   It is not clear who actually ordered the assassination attempt, but the vengeance taken upon the …
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat

Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later

… Decades after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, our boundless … to travel back in time to the 1960s and stop Kennedy’s assassination. Born a generation after the death of JFK, … White House, and the film Parkland (2013) reimagines the assassination from the perspectives of those on the ground …

Time It Was: 1968 Around the World

… the abdication of Lyndon Johnson and not one but two major assassinations. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in … but don’t show up on anyone’s lists. Who remembers the assassination of John Gordon Mein, the American ambassador … guard in Washington, D.C. after riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968 ( …
Destruction in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.

Another Pearl Harbor? Not by a Longshot

… historical comparison to the terrorist attacks is the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Like Tuesday’s … with the thousands who perished this week, Kennedy’s assassination represented the death of a single, very … perspective allows us to see wars, natural disasters and assassinations for what they are: ugly but familiar aspects …
Cover of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport.

Conspirator: Lenin in Exile

Review of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile, by Helen Rappaport (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010)
… On March 1, 1887, Russian police foiled an assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander III.  Three young … group which hoped to mark the sixth anniversary of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by tossing bombs into the …
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 … pursue detente that provoked the CIA into engineering his assassination. There are also indications that the assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem in …
Protesters with signs in support of immigrants: "We are all here thanks to immigrants", "If you don't want immigrants, stop destabilizing their countries"; "Defend DACA"

Honduras, TPS, and U.S. Policy

… right now.   Professor Dana Frank  And a lot of those assassinations were committed by the Battalion 3-16, and … now resurfaced, and are allegedly committing some of the assassinations on the Hondurans today. So there's direct … both the beautiful values that we support, and also her assassination by U.S.-funded state security forces and this …

Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making

… protests took pause. Among the unintended casualties in the assassination attempt was ‘Abd al-Aziz ‘Abd al-Ghani, one of … ). Imam Muhammad al-Badr in the mid-1960s ( right ). The assassination of Yahya in 1948 and a failed attempt to … Unification of Yemen A young Ali Abdullah Saleh. After his assassination by Houthi tribesmen in December 2017, gruesome …