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… more likely to remember it as a tragic war—a near loss at best, a debacle at worst. It will also likely be remembered … with a willful misleading of the public, and a war that committed a democratic nation’s armed forces to a … regime-changing invasion. To color the war in such a way may be emotionally satisfying, but it oversimplifies a …

… it does a Second Cold War will begin. The failed launch buys the United States some much needed time to revise its … But in the Second Cold War, the United States will face incomprehensible foes that cannot be counted on to respond as … kill millions in retaliation. Or they may just behave in ways that are radically at odds with their nation's …

… indicating various locations in Georgia and Azerbaijan visited. Georgia My first stop was Georgia, a small country … Nino (296-335 C.E.), the (female) saint who is responsible for Georgia’s conversion, was determined to build a church … only after St. Nino spent an entire night praying for it to come back. From its bark, once it was grounded, flowed holy …

… and as a massacre by its detractors. But there are other ways of referring to the event: the Chinese word for June 4 … vigil. This individual was the rights lawyer Teng Biao, best known in the West for his defense of the blind human … reported that only a few family members were allowed to visit the graves, and Zhang Xianling of the Tiananmen …

… explore the history of women's movements, and address the ways in which the flourishing of new media is transforming political and artistic expression throughout the … to signal their opposition to the Shah. So I think it's always, when you're talking about the veil, it's always …

… The perfect companion to nearly any summer activity is a good book. And, … buried stories of the past, or because they offer a new way understand today’s world. 1. Helmut Walser Smith, The … in the first half of the century. The book is at its best in its analysis of World War II and the immediate …

… History , historian Anna M. Peterson joins the show all the way from Oslo, Norway. Host Patrick Potyondy interviews her about one of the … today— abortion —as well as her research experience in a foreign country. ( Image Source ) … and European history. Anna joins us today from Oslo, Norway, where she's been conducting research. Welcome to the …

… Trans-Pacific Partnership ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to the state for a fundraiser. The figures depicted … half-century during which the world was, in some important ways, more economically integrated than it is today. As the … trade enabled businesses to export their goods to willing buyers while facing little competition from imports. With …

… that mission is complete. Coalitions operate in similar ways to "wartime alliances," although the latter may have a … of familiarity with one another's commanders and staff, visits, the creation of liaison teams, multinational … intellectual energy has been devoted to uncovering how best to develop and implement counterinsurgency operations …

… Protestants. Evangelical-Catholic relations have come a long way over the last generation, but for all their papal cheer … two branches of Christendom hold in common. And in the best-selling Christian novel, “Left Behind” (the first in … History News Service …

… political and economic bullies. "Free competition" has always been our rallying cry and the Sherman Antitrust Act has … of small, locally-owned factories; the trusts tried to buy them out. Those factories have all rusted away, or have … it benefits consumers. He believes that Windows is always best for the consumer, and that splitting Microsoft would …

… cloud was detected over Sweden did the full extent become known to the authorities in the Soviet Union’s capital … we—an international, multi-disciplinary group of scholars—visited in June 2016, we posed for a sombre photograph in … and red forest, they were higher. And there were hotspots, away from the roads and paths, where radioactive debris from …

… neglected by historians. Raghavan describes his book as a way to better understand how India shaped and was shaped by … 1939 to over two million in 1945 (64). This process was accompanied by considerable growing pains. Indian troops … in East Asia had been lackadaisical and overconfident at best (181). While the fall of Hong Kong and Malaya were …

… accepted the value of motion pictures and literature as ways of delving into the past. Video games, which exploded … (1994) Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) began developing computer games in 1979, but only established itself as a … Koei experimented with a variety of places and times. The best of these games and the only one with an enduring cult …

… interests in the U.S. textbook publishing business. Liberal commentators and religious libertarians denounced the board's resolution as misinformed in fact and offensive in principle.  But this latest … was founded in 1996 by Joyce Appleby and James Banner as a way to bridge what they believed was a growing disconnect …

… citizens to stay home, avoid unnecessary travel, and keep away from large-group gatherings. Urban streets, rural … snakes, or bamboo rats, and then transferred to people buying meat in a poorly regulated “wet market” where meat … number of microorganisms become many, and they find their best sources of survival, not in the barnyard nor among wild …

… gas lines at home — it wound up lashing out at the American way of life. Carter decried Americans' "self-indulgence and … didn't move beyond their own self interest and embrace a common good. He called on Americans to unify themselves … but gained their support.   What better time than now to revisit Carter's speech? The Senate is just about to debate a …

… unlikely as it might seem, South Dakota provides one of the best places in the United States to examine the consequences … first place. From Farms to Finance South Dakota has not always been like this. Even before it became a state in 1889, … promoting tourism on reservations, with the goal of someday buying the land back. Most significantly, in 1991, people in …

… measles, typhus, and influenza decimated Indigenous communities in the Americas is a commonly held one. Like so much of our popular conceptions … the Americas. Aztecs wrote about a smallpox epidemic just before Spaniards came among them: “there spread over the …

… and west were not wrong to perceive the country was moving away from them economically and politically. Though … scientists to consider the possibility that politics was best understood psychologically rather than economically. … Pseudo-Conservative Revolt" (1954), "Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited" (1964), and "The Paranoid Style in American …

… It seems as if apologies are becoming a regular part of business and politics. Pope John Paul II apologizes for the Crusades, the Inquisition and the long tradition of … with symbolic apologies is that in a quiet, insidious way they release us from the obligation to know why the …

… the shooting." In reality the Olympics, in their own small way, do help promote peace. But defenders too often cite the … egalitarian ideology of the Games: the philosophy that "the best athlete wins," regardless of race, creed or color. It's …

… Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan has provoked comparisons with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Like … But, like FDR before him, it looks as if Obama is on his way to neglecting women. An injustice then, it would be even … breadwinners, the Roosevelt administration gave the best jobs to white men and minimized the number of women …

… "Introduction to Solid State Chemistry," "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming," "Quantitative Methods in … on two principles that have continued to influence the way in which we think about higher education in the United … Improving the skills and knowledge of farmers was the best method to reverse this decline, in Morrill's …