Chad Slater Nov 16 6 min Operation Pike- When the Allies almost declared War on the Soviet Union in 1940
Christine Liu Sep 23 4 min Whodunit, How and Why? The Evolution of Japanese Detective Fiction Literature
Janus Editorial Board Mar 2 7 min "Evil Customs of the Past Shall be Broken off": The Meiji Restoration as Revolution
The Janus Editorial Board Feb 23 4 min Book Review of The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
‘All Necessary Measures’: Lyndon Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin ResolutionOn 4 August 1964, as the USS Maddox was conducting reconnaissance in the Gulf of Tonkin, it was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boat...
Tropicalization: American Attitudes and the Entrance of the BananaIn 1876, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, many Americans tasted a banana for the first time.[1] Wrapped in tinfoil, eaten wi...
Deus Vult: The Far-Right's Demented Obsession with the Middle AgesI am a college-aged, white male interested in the history of the crusades. There was a time when this was not a dangerous demographic, bu...
Not Now, John: Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut and the History That Inspired ItIn 1983, Pink Floyd released The Final Cut. Despite the middling reviews it received from contemporary critics and fans alike, the album...
The Julio-Claudian Women Reshaping the History BooksThe fledgling Roman empire is a source of continued fascination and inspiration for the modern-day historian. The appeal of the era, with...
Dehumanization and War AtrocitiesWorld War II engulfed every aspect of life in the United States. The climate that was created by World War II affected every aspect of a ...
Cannabis Policy in Action in DCResidents within the DC metropolitan area ponder with consistency whether cannabis within the jurisdiction is legal or illegal to purchas...
The Manchurian Candidate: Politics of Gender and Sexuality in 1960s Cold War CinemaIn many Cold War films of the 1960s, the dangers of femininity were stressed as causes for communism or other moral failures of men. This...
From East to West: The Western in the US and USSRThe Western is a genre of movie that does not get as much love as it once did. The last Western to win best picture was 1992’s Unforgiven...
Hitler's Foreign Legions: Volunteer Units on the Eastern FrontWithin the borders of the Third Reich, the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, led by Joseph Goebbels, painted the country’s war against the Soviet...
