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Ratko Mladić, Srebrenica, and the Dissenting Judge
When Ratko Mladić died at the end of August, The New York Times referred to him as “the former Bosnian Serb general … held responsible for Europe’s…
Oct 31
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Kyle Orton
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Not Every Bad Thing Is “Genocide”
The struggle to make sense of the world in the shadow of Soviet active measures
Oct 23
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Kyle Orton
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The Politics of Genocide Recognition: Azerbaijan and Khojaly
The nasty war in Nagorno-Karabakh was not only fought on the battlefield
Oct 21
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Kyle Orton
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The Road to the First Nagorno-Karabakh War
How a long-suppressed nationalist struggle re-emerged as the Soviet Union crumbled
Oct 15
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Kyle Orton
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The Arithmetic of the 1915 Armenian Catastrophe
Another case of historical atrocity numbers that are virtually useless
Oct 3
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Kyle Orton
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Little Saint Hugh, the Blood Libel, and the End of Jewish Life in England
A thirteenth-century craze with a long afterlife
Sep 24
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Kyle Orton
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Remembering 9/11 A Quarter-Century Later
Anyone who lived through it will never forget that moment
Sep 11
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Kyle Orton
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The History Told By the Armenian Genocide Museum
The Armenian national account of 1915
Sep 6
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Kyle Orton
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Podcast: What Do We Know About the Origins of Islam?
Navigating the tension between faith and history
Aug 27
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Kyle Orton
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Disinformation, Palestinian Terrorism, and the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Revisiting the Jaleh Square disaster
Aug 19
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Kyle Orton
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The Sojourn of Arculf: An Eyewitness to “Early Islamic” Jerusalem
A Frankish bishop sheds some light on a historical dark age
Aug 16
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Kyle Orton
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The Labour Party, the Soviets, and Britain’s Worst Unknown Spy Scandal
It never came out at the time, but it was worse than Profumo
Jul 27
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Kyle Orton
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