Monday marks 100 years since the Sykes-Picot agreement between Britain and France. With the then-secret agreement, they planned to divide up much of the Mideast…
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Monday marks 100 years since the Sykes-Picot agreement between Britain and France. With the then-secret agreement, they planned to divide up much of the Mideast…
From Tiempo devorado, Vol. 3, No 1 (2016): Bales per vots. Activisme i violència política a Europa des de 1991 ABSTRACT During the so-called years of lead,…
The following Letter to the Editor appeared in the March 2016 102 (4) issue of the Journal of American History. To the Editor: “Interchange: World War I,” the online…
(Note: The following article first appeared on The Daily Call, February 23, 2016.) By Richard DrakeSpecial to the Daily Call On 4 April 1917, Senator Robert La…
(The following post first appeared on The Daily Call on January 26, 2015) The current political campaign reminds us of La Follette’s greater genius as a true leader.…
The following first appeared on The Daily Call, May 25, 2015. Then As Now: We Need To Mourn Our Own And All The Victims Of Our…
In his classic Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, originally published in Spanish in 1971, Eduardo Galeano begins…
Good Italy, Bad Italy: Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future. By Bill Emmott (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), viii…
Prior to sending invitations for the President’s Lecture Series, I do background checks on prospective speakers. As the coordinator of the series, I want to…
The following article by Richard Drake first appeared on June 28, 2015 on the History News Network. It is republished here with permission. The original…