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… from America’s last great global struggle provides guidance. During the early years of the Cold War, Dean Acheson, … today as American leaders assess Osama bin Laden’s latest communication. Bin Laden’s audio-taped message offered both … when bin Laden goes, as the Soviet Union did after Stalin died. Acheson had developed a plan based on long-range …

… Robles, a Stalinist and Spanish military officer of formidable rank, was arrested and executed by his own red army, a … spread to the Spanish conflict. Robles went to his death a committed Stalinist, but to shroud the reality of the … a lethal wound. Dos Passos lived until 1970, but his art died in 1937. Koch's book is light on the history of the …

… signed between the PRC and a minority people and is part of communist China’s larger nation-building process in its … by the Ganden Phodrang government and headed by the Dalai Lama in the city of Lhasa. It was based on Tibetan … of “ cho-si sungdrel, ” or religion and politics combined. Mao Zedong (middle), Ngabo Ngawang Jigme (left) and …

… The catastrophe in San Diego is not entirely a natural one. As with Katrina, it’s … is San Diego’s own little Katrina, but instead of being inundated with water, the city is surrounded by smoke and fire. … are offering time, money and supplies. Inter-agency communication is decidedly better. And the city owns a …

… we shove into our mouths has shaped our cultures, our bodies, and our planet. ( Image Source )   … we shove into our mouths has shaped our cultures, our bodies, and our planet. So stay tuned.   Dr. Helen Veit   I am … of economic stress, that linkages, those linkages become points of vulnerability. And so if you have an import …

… the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. The comparison is appropriate. In both cases an attack without … 11, 2001, paraphrasing Franklin Roosevelt, as “a new day that will live in infamy.” Forgotten in the comparisons … between 1916 and 2001 are imperfect. Villa killed U.S. soldiers during his raid, not civilians. His reasons for …

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… weapons. The world must act, he said, to “confront these dangers and to end them.” At the same time, the … The Republican-dominated U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a landmark measure negotiated … disarmament and other pledges made in the NPT. Ignoring the commitments made by his Democratic and Republican …

… who had given their lives in the uprising, known as Euromaidan (or simply Maidan), that overthrew pro-Russian President … had a vision of Ukraine’s future. Born in Crimea , he studied political science in the western city of Lviv and came … just as quickly as these initiatives were organized, they died off when they were no longer necessary.   But these …

… of the Second World War began. More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the … had fled… But the main thing was that we had no dependable combat units, and we needed to hold out for three or …

… More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the … team includes Editors Nicholas Breyfogle, Steven Conn and David Steigerwald; Managing Editors Lauren Henry, Sarah …

… and dry places, like much of the American West, will become even more parched. John Wesley Powell is rolling over … The very idea rubs us the wrong way and it did in Powell’s day as well. Yet then as now scientists were telling us that … public land in the West that resulted from Powell’s report died a slow procedural death. Events proved Powell right, of …

… For a half-century after the end of the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925, historians thought that the … hibernation. The return of the problem today has been accompanied by its earlier logic. There is a striking … insisting that “the great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is …

… grapple with the tragic events of November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Conservative radio commentator Bill O’Reilly’s best-selling nonfiction book … of us, this brief clip, with Jackie Kennedy frantically climbing down the back of the car, has become part of our … J. Brendan Shaw …

… goals and lived experiences of Ukraine’s watershed Euromaidan protests of 2013-14. The dreams, values, and actions of Maidan’s heroes remain a driving force in Ukraine’s … is available at https://origins.osu.edu/read/heroes-never-die-ukraine. Video production by Svetlana Ter-Grigoryan, …

… violence. By the end, a few thousand Spaniards under the command of Hernando Cortés fighting alongside many times … modern world, the seat of the Aztec Empire. Written by Diego Javier Luis. Narration by Dr. Nicholas B. … After a brutal 75-day siege, the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan surrendered on …

… vendor of Mexico City, 2006. (Myers, 242) After a brutal 75-day siege, the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan surrendered on … violence. By the end, a few thousand Spaniards under the command of Hernando Cortés fighting alongside many times … people in the early sixteenth century. For a Spanish soldier fighting with Hernando Cortés named Bernal Díaz del …

… rights issues, others Chinese foreign policy, but the most common rhetorical barbs tie back to trade and currency. This … else in its cargo: more than 20,000 Spanish silver coins. The goods the Americans were bringing would not be … of the U.S. than to push their commerce to the East Indies as fast and as far as it will go.” Merchants listened …