From Dailyhistory.org Following the assassination of the Haitian President in July of 1915, President Woodrow Wilson used that incident as a pretext to send the United States Marines into Haiti to restore order and maintain political and economic stability in… Read More ›
From History Workshop by Charlotte Lydia Riley: The history of the British empire has never been free from controversy. Historiographical battles have addressed motivations for imperial expansion, reasons for decolonisation, and the extent to which ordinary British people participated in… Read More ›
From Smithsonian.com by Sarah E. Baires: Around 1100 or 1200 A.D., the largest city north of Mexico was Cahokia, sitting in what is now southern Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Built around 1050 A.D. and occupied through… Read More ›
From The New York Review of Books by Kenan Malik the author of The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics: The sun may have long ago set on the British Empire (or on all but a few… Read More ›