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Archives: History
![GOP Politician: ‘ISIS Has Won’ After Confederate Monument Removed](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/gop-politician-isis-has-won-afte-187x137.jpg)
![Dear Marine Le Pen: Only a Fascist would Praise Colonialism . . . Oh Wait](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/dear-marine-le-pen-only-a-fascis-187x137.jpg)
Dear Marine Le Pen: Only a Fascist would Praise Colonialism . . . Oh Wait
Jessica Northey | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - Marine Le Pen's declaration that colonialism was a positive thing is not only a denial of France's painful history, but an example of the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/9780520292154-639x960-1-187x137.jpg)
Mideast Partition Plans won’t Bring Peace, just Imperial Social Engineering
By Laura Robson | (Informed Comment) | - - The idea that partition and population exchange might represent “solutions” to Middle Eastern conflict, long advocated by a wide variety of observers and…![Washington’s demonization of Foes jumps Shark with Sean Spicer on Hitler](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/washingtons-demonization-of-foes-187x137.jpg)
Washington’s demonization of Foes jumps Shark with Sean Spicer on Hitler
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - White House spokesman Sean Spicer is as ill-suited for his job as his boss Donald Trump is ill-suited for his own. The most…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/image-20170330-4555-11a10if-750x577-1-187x137.jpg)
What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments
By Ingrid Anderson | (The Conversation) | - - This February, more than 100 gravestones were vandalized at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society Cemetery outside of St. Louis, Missouri and at the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/trmpv-1-187x137.png)
No, supremacists, the Vikings wouldn’t have put up with “Teuton” Donald Trump
By Keith Ruiter | (The Conversation) | - - It has been suggested that Donald Trump “may get his assertive rather than passive manner from his alleged Viking ancestors”. Or so says…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/dower_violent-180x137.jpg)
The Untold Violence of the Pax Americana
John W. Dower | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - [This essay is adapted from “Measuring Violence,” the first chapter of John Dower’s new book, The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since…![Syrian Musicians Celebrate Palmyra’s Liberation](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/syrian-musicians-celebrate-palmy-187x137.jpg)
Syrian Musicians Celebrate Palmyra’s Liberation
TeleSur | - - The city and its ruins, designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 1980, have traded hands several times during Syria's six-year civil war. The 15-year-old's voice floated over…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/qajargirls-1-187x137.jpg)
Photo of the Day: Sad Girl, Happy Girl, Iran 1900 (Sykes)
British Museum | Sir Percy Sykes | - - Two rural Iranian girls of the Qajar era, 1900, one sad, one mischievous. Via British Museum Museum number: Sykes.453 Description: Lantern slide, showing…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/image-20170110-29009-16s2n1m-750x500-1-187x137.jpg)
Understanding Islam means understanding its and our Multiculturalism
Kishwar Rizvi | (The Conversation) | - - There has been much misinformation about Islam. Reports in Western media tend to perpetuate stereotypes that Islam is a violent religion and Muslim women…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/madabajrdn-1-187x137.jpg)
Top Five ways Jesus was not White
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Given the alarming rise of white nationalism in the United States and the ways in which it is often entangled with Christian nationalism,…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/51731186-1-187x137.jpg)
Egypt’s Special Courts in time of Crisis are Nothing New
by Yoram Meital | (Informed Comment) | - - The toppling of a regime, whether by civil insurrection or military coup, invariably gives rise to a fierce struggle over the lineaments of…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/Muh._Front_Cover-1-187x137.jpg)
What Everyone Should Know about the Prophet Muhammad
Steve Scholl | (Spirituality and Health Magazine) | - - Muhammad has become a strangely unifying figure in America—able to get conservative Glenn Beck and liberal Bill Maher to agree that Islam…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/shadowars-1-187x137.jpg)
Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East
By Christopher M. Davidson | (Informed Comment) | - - Swept along on a tidal wave of euphoria, by spring 2011 many had cautiously begun to believe that the wave of Arab…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/Rt_Hon_Anthony_Eden_MP-718x960-1-187x137.jpg)
60 Years later, Suez Crisis looks a lot like Iraq War
By Nigel Ashton | (The Conversation) | - - Does history repeat itself? Never perfectly or precisely, but some of the parallels between Anthony Eden’s handling of the 1956 Suez Crisis and…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/The-Ellesmere-Manuscript-revised-1-187x137.jpg)
Return of Virulent Nationalism: how language is being used to mark national borders
Mario Saraceni | (The Conversation) | - - According to a series of newspapers, immigrants will apparently change the English language in Britain beyond repair over the next 50 years. The Daily…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/map-story-of-palestinian-nationhood-187x137.jpg)
Colonial Slow Genocide: Palestinian Leader Abbas asks Britain for “Balfour” Apology
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine, is asking Britain for an apology for its having in 1917 issued the infamous "Balfour Declaration." He won't…![Inside ISIL’s looted antiquities trade](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/06/inside-isils-looted-antiquities-1-187x137.jpg)
Inside ISIL’s looted antiquities trade
By Fiona Rose-Greenland | (The Conversation) | - - For excavators – archaeologists, but also looters like the [so-called] Islamic State, or ISIL – the opportunity for discovery in modern Iraq and…![Top 3 sources Immigration to US every Decade since 1820 (Animated Map)](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/05/top-3-sources-immigration-to-us-187x137.jpg)
Top 3 sources of Immigration to US every Decade since 1820 (Animated Map)
Metrocosm | (Animated video) | - - "From 1920 to 2013, 79 million people obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States. This map visualizes all of them based on their…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504145929im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/05/sykespicot_map-1-187x137.jpg)