Adolphe Duperly’s painting depicting the destruction of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica during the Baptist War in January 1832. Wikimedia Commons
by Ana Lucia Araujo,...
Cuban leader Fidel Castro checks out former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s pitching form prior to a baseball game in Havana in 2002. Sven Creutzmann/Mambo...
Will the US election put the brakes on any attempt to engage with Cuba? Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images
by Jason M. Blazakis, Middlebury
The U.S....
The men’s dormitory at a new center for asylum-seekers in Portland, Maine. Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images
by Karen Jacobsen, Tufts University
Immigration has...
by Nancy Mitchell, North Carolina State University
When historians and pundits praise Jimmy Carter’s achievements as the US president and extol his exemplary post-presidential years,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In June, during one of the best stretches of his presidency, Barack Obama strode through a West Wing hallway exclaiming, "Offense!...