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… year of anticipating “Y2K” has served to remind us that the computers we call “personal” actually answer to specialized … lever that permits drivers to roll up windows by hand.) Visit the hospital, and you will confront a forbidding array … and flashlights. Yet life in the United States has always proven precarious. What has changed is the character of …

… and political soundbites, this "you weren't there and therefore don't have any right to offer your views" argument … the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught … decisionmakers thought at the time.  It allows us to forget, or easily marginalize, those brave and patriotic men — …

… — went so far as to say that Falwell would burn in hell for inviting gays to attend Sunday services in his church.  … protection for gays?  Perhaps the same impulse — the same combination of religious fervor and fear of social collapse … alcohol no longer seemed to be a threat to the American way of life, and economic stagnation replaced moral decay as …

… What would cause an apparently normal young woman to commit such a brutal act? Some commentators believe they … infanticide rates reached] approximately one death for every 63,000 people each year. According to the FBI’s … the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre …

… resolution to this decades-long conflict seems farther away than ever. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in … give and take. It has been an ongoing fight over “who gets what, when, and how,” to borrow Harold Lasswell’s … of the Other When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat visited Jerusalem in 1977, he said that some walls …

… strong support for his candidacy, Mike Huckabee failed to get the GOP presidential nomination. And for all the … as those who for years had insisted that America has always been and remains a Christian nation. That hope, … citizens to celebrate this week,” she indicated that no comparable proclamations for, say, Alaska’s Jews or Muslims …

… victories in recent elections. There is still time for him to adopt a more flexible position in the fashion of … showed too much sympathy for southern interests. They complained that he would not compromise with diverse and … Identifying specific violations of the Constitution is always a difficult task. Furthermore, leaders in both major …

… In this season of a million mothers marching for the cause of gun control legislation, we ought to … children. What is different today is the often fatal outcomes of children's brutality towards one another, owing to … accounts about violence against children, we need the good news of a movement of concerned mothers –and "all others." …

… in order to secure my doctorate. Only those who are truly committed to their religious faith can understand the pain of that decision. Mel Gibson is paying a similar price for his just-released movie, “The Passion of the Christ.” … God. William C. Kashatus's is a writer for the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money Pitcher: The …

… War to defend their position. Then and now they argue, the commander-in-chief during wartime has an obligation to place … encircled by Maryland’s and Delaware’s pro-secessionist forces and to ensure the transit of loyal troops to the … Congress. William C. Kashatus's is a writer for the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money Pitcher: The …

… Every commentator in America is drawing the parallel between the … pointed to America’s growing vulnerabilities. The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st century, a task force chaired by retired Air Force Gen. Charles G. Boyd, … The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the History News Service. …

… Congress recently voted to appropriate $162 billion more for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the bill, the … the end of the government’s fiscal year only a few days away, Congress was considering a continuing resolution to … debt ceiling. These routine but necessary measures became complicated when the Eagleton Amendment was added to them. …

… People. Dr. Jacob is the Intercultural Specialist for Native American and indigenous Students and Dr. Rivers … homelands and contemporary homelands as well. So the way that today is going to proceed is we have received a … take some time to answer those through a conversation together. We will also be collecting conversation or excuse me …

… Once again Congress has debated and, at least for the moment, defeated a proposed constitutional amendment … career began in 1775, when he was elected to the local committee of safety and then to the Virginia Convention, … Policy at Albany Law School and a writer for the History News Service. …

… in 2001, this is a perilous threat to a free citizenry. For example, a leaked FBI memo sent to all police agencies … to keep close tabs on them. Spying on dissidents has become official policy since police departments were advised … concerns about terrorism running high, the practice of targeting legal, peaceful antiwar dissenters is hardly …

… the first stage of the air war against the Taliban regime completed, the United States now enters a more difficult and … the war in Vietnam. In his address to Congress on Sept. 20, for example, Bush’s words eerily echoed those offered by … University in Delaware, Ohio, and a writer for the History News Service. …

… in Iraq: the longer we stay, the stronger our enemies become. We cannot defeat either the insurgency or the civil … Iraqi government wastes the billions we have allocated for rebuilding, while the middle class flees to avoid the … City University of New York and a writer for the History News Service. …

… the precious, much-loved document has been in seclusion for much needed repairs. There is no reason for concern. … was brilliant, but the process nearly destroyed the text. Compounding the damage was the decision in 1841 to put the … could be done to protect the document? The only practical way to stop the deterioration was to remove it from public …

… slaveholding as a matter left to individual states, and for decades many had found this a comforting justification for their tolerance of an … all of Lincoln’s success as lawyer, politician, orator, and commander-in-chief, perhaps what should be most celebrated …

… of San Francisco's catastrophic earthquake is a good time for the nation to ask what we have learned about coping with … that followed the earthquake wiping out its business and commercial districts. Still the scope of the two disasters … that sometime in the next fifty years California will be revisited by an event similar to the 1906 quake or the …

… could be permanently enslaved. The British, who did not form their first antislavery organization until seven years later, are usually credited with this accomplishment, having banished slavery in their remaining … intricate statutes elsewhere, every Northern state found a way to phase out unfree labor. New Jersey was the last to do …