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Zionism and the Creation of Israel

Zionism is a movement that led to the creation of Israel, a nation for Jewish people, but what started this zealous movement for a Jewish...

The Occupation of Alcatraz

54 years ago this November, Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco. In fact, there were three...

Trajan: The Greatest Emperor You Have Never Heard Of

Who is the best Roman Emperor? This is a subjective question with no agreed upon answer. Many claim that Augustus was the best for...

Robes of Red Brocade: Dressing for Death in The Tales of Heike

In Book Seven of The Tales of the Heike, an epic chronicle compiled anonymously in the 1330s, the Taira samurai Sanemori of Musashi...

The Man Who Saved the World

Many would say the closest humanity has ever come to the Cold War turning hot was during the Cuban Missile Crisis...

The Cod Wars: When Iceland Defeated the British

In the middle of the 20 th century, Iceland, a small and sparsely populated island nation, bested the United Kingdom, formerly the...

“Like Shattered Jewels”: Shōwa Japan’s Creation of a Nationalist Wartime Mythology

In a 2011 interview, ex-kamikaze pilot Hisao Horiyama recounted, “When we graduated from army training school, the Shōwa emperor visited...

Sorghagtani Beki and Toregene Khatun: Female Power in the Mongolian Empire

The Mongol empire stands in stark contrast to many other empires during its peak for many reasons, one of the most interesting being the...

The “Fathers”, “Sons”, and “Grandsons” of the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia

In 1897, the first-ever census of the Russian empire categorized the entire population by different regions, languages, social groups,...

Celebrating 10 Years of Justice for the Mau Mau

CW: Discusses torture, sexual and gender based violence. October 5th, 2012 marked a key legal victory for the Kenyan people known as the...

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