Kamo - History 1

In February 1877, a man led twenty thousand warriors out of Kagoshima and into a war he knew he could not win. He was the most celebrated soldier in Japan. He had helped overthrow one government and……続きを見る

The story of an outsider representing the Hasidic Satmar Jewish community of Kiryas Joel in the Orange County, New York Legislature. Outside Looking In chronicles the saga of Michael Frank Amo, an O……続きを見る

What happens when nations rich in resources try to take control of their own destiny? In the mid-20th century, two leaders-Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo-rose with a sha……続きを見る

Modern social movements frequently serve as a space to voice concerns in a supportive and collective context and thus are an important venue for individuals to learn how to speak up for themselves. ……続きを見る

At its most superficial level, Harry Houdini was what we think of as a magician. A performer who wriggled out of handcuffs, leapt from water tanks, and dared audiences to lock him in anything and ev……続きを見る

In 1919, a young boy in Baltimore stole a car. Or rather, he commandeered one. The newspapers were filled with stories like theseーof boys gone astray, of the creeping rot of modernity and urban lif……続きを見る

One spring day in 1932, a red Lockheed Vega took off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, rising into the mist and fog that blankets the Atlantic. At the controls was a slim woman in a leather jacket, ……続きを見る

In the thirteenth century, when the world was stitched together by the thinnest of threadsーby camel trails, merchant ships, and the whispers of travelers around campfiresーone man crossed almost al……続きを見る

On the night of July 27, 2004, into an audience filled with delegates to the Democratic National Convention, walked an Illinois state senator with a funny name ー Barack Hussein Obama ー who gave th……続きを見る

For her thirteenth birthday in 1942, a girl was given a red-and-white checkered diary. It was just a normal thing ー the kind of thing that is not special in terms of design or price. You could have……続きを見る

In 2005, an American polling firm asked a simple question to a sample of citizens: “Do you believe Jesus actually lived?” Over 90 percent said yes. Not surprising, perhaps, in a country where Christ……続きを見る

One spring day in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., stood at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and described a dream. It was an address that would define not only a man but an era. And yet, like many i……続きを見る

Theodor Seuss Geisel was never supposed to be a household name. If you had encountered him in the early 1920s, a Dartmouth graduate who liked to doodle and had an idiosyncratic sense of humor, you c……続きを見る

The Silence Beneath the Blast When you hear the phrase Manhattan Project, you usually think bomb. We think of mushroom clouds, desert tests and that fateful moment when J. Robert Oppenheimer recited……続きを見る

The Accidental Icon There’s a kind of myth we like to believe about success: the master plan. The teenager who maps out her life in a spiral notebook, the college student with a five-year strategy, ……続きを見る

In the spring of 1971, a small jet touched down in Beijing under cover of darkness. No fanfare. No press. Only a few men in dark suits crossing onto Chinese soil for the first time in more than 20 y……続きを見る

It is tempting to think of the Federalist Papers as ancient artifactsーdusty pamphlets tucked away in some archive, their relevance buried under centuries of change. After all, America today is noth……続きを見る

Let’s start with a paradox. Imagine a movement forged in the name of liberty, equality and fraternityーthe ideals of freedom, rectitude and human connectedness. Now, imagine that same movement chopp……続きを見る

When Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China from atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace on the morning of Oct. 1, 1949, the world suddenly tilted a few degrees off its axis. T……続きを見る

In 1773, a rather strange event took place in the American colonies: men dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded ships in Boston Harbor and threw hundreds of chests of tea overboard in the frigid December……続きを見る

In the summer of 2018, a man in Ohioーlet’s call him Jakeーwalked into a hardware store to buy a set of steel screws for a home renovation project. What Jake didn’t know, as he frowned at the sudden……続きを見る

In 133 B.C, a young Roman tribune, Tiberius Gracchus, addressed the crowd and proposed something unheard of: that land be taken from the rich and restored to the poor. It was, in theory, an invocati……続きを見る

In 221 BCE, a person called Qin Shi Huang announced that he was the First Emperor of all China. Within a few decades, he did what numerous warlords had tried and failed to do for centuries: He broug……続きを見る

It’s one of those images that get seared into the back of your brain, even if you have never been to Egypt: a triangle of limestone and history piercing the infinite blue sky. The Great Pyramid of G……続きを見る

It was in 2013 when a hushed wave hit the Vatican. A new Pope had been elected, but there was something remarkable about him. He wasn’t Italian, or European even. He was not the son of the polished ……続きを見る

It is easy, from the safety of hindsight, to flatten history into caricature. Herbert Hoover, to most Americans, is little more than a punchlineーa president whose name became synonymous with breadl……続きを見る

"[L]es obsessions contemporaines pour le passé ont cependant des manières bien différentes de s’incarner. Il arrive, dans les cas les plus morbides, qu’une vision du passé finisse par se transformer……続きを見る

As the soldiers lifted me from the floor, my father's eyes locked with my own. For just a moment, I thought I saw a shadow of sadness across his face. But it disappeared as quickly as it had arrived……続きを見る

History, ladies and gentlemen, makes way for some defining moments that shape nations and destinies and leave a mark on the world. And my friends, the Battle of Gettysburg is one of those moments. I……続きを見る

In 44 B.C.E., with the blood of Julius Caesar drying on the marble floor of the Roman Senate, the city that once ruled the known world stood on the brink of chaos. The Republic, long constructed fro……続きを見る