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… and canals, the cinemas and supermarkets, and the subway – refreshingly cool even during the heat of summer – and … fourth century B.C.E. Khorezmians were minting their early coins by the second century B.C.E. A century later the … Heritage City. Arabkhan madrasa, 1616. (Photo by author) Visitors are greeted with comfortable hotels, restaurants …

… in 2009 surveying aquatic life in Newport, Oregon. In other ways, however, Trump has effectively pressed a traditional … Act, which has required environmental impact statements for federal projects since it became law in 1970. With this … more and more reliant on toxic substances, the shortcomings of this approach became increasingly apparent. The …

… I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer … An atomic age was dawning and Oppenheimer was leading the way. The potential of science and reason to offer a solution … to violence, a core idea of the Enlightenment, would forever be upset by the onset of the nuclear age. The …

… point, Infertility in Early Modern England explores the ways in which religion, medicine and gender interacted to … and legacy. Women, on the other hand, struggled to comes to terms with their infertility in large part because … of this dimension of infertility is intriguing and it best illustrates the connections between religion and …

… National Convention in August 2013 . “No one is taking away your benefits. Your veterans’ healthcare is safe.” A few … be neglected by state and local health systems, or become—in World War I-era parlance—“public charges.” Alongside … and a violation of every American's right to decide what is best for themselves and his or her family.” Perhaps the most …

… great paradox. With its fast-growing economy, China has become the leading producer of CO2 (though not on a per-capita basis). Simultaneously, it has become the world's leading producer of green and renewable … environment, and what global role China might play in the coming years in confronting climate change. ( Image Source ) …

… years, has eloquently described their deeper meaning: One way to look at the national park system is as an … the parks offer, rather than as a ranking of the best—something that really is impossible, since all of us … (and the only one outside of Alaska) that truly demands visitors be self-reliant. It also demands something more …

… in the mid-19th century that the parade as we know it took form. Its appearance coincided with both the massive influx … pluralist implication of the St. Patrick's Day parades becomes more apparent as we look at the events held in cities … the unprecedented degree to which Americans have found ways to weave ever more disparate groups into their national …

… On May 8, 1946, shortly before 10 p.m., two teenage Estonian schoolgirls, Aili … only hearing the explosion behind them as they made their way through the streets of Tallinn. As an adult, Jürgenson … the new Estonian government erected nearly 200 monuments to commemorate Estonia’s newfound freedom from the tsarist …

… of well-publicized workplace raids to terrorize immigrant communities. Although immigrants bear the brunt of these … operation, rounded up 167 immigrants and took them away in buses with blacked-out windows to a jail-like … the raid, a Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, visited Portland and cheered the actions of the ICE, linking …

… west became (if ambivalently for some) the second former communist-bloc state to assume the rotating presidency of … it represents a greater sense of unity and a progression away from European warfare. For others, it offers the free … with U.S. politicians and businessmen during his time as a visiting professor in Chicago, helped win U.S. support for …

… are Hindus (more than 1 billion people), with Muslims comprising the next most populous group at 15%. First-time … affiliations. Dr. K.B. Hedgewar established the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1925. Though they were on the … India should be a Hindu state and that militancy was the best way to achieve that goal. He promoted idealized …

… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... … and small. We also offer book review essays that cover the best of today’s history reading. Connecting History catches … help you understand the world more fully. To provide the best and most interesting content, we have and continue to …

… law. Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev is best known today for his creation of the periodic table of … chemists had worked to find an organizing principle that encompassed all of the known elements and that could be … poised to destroy the periodic system. Chemists had always considered elements to be substances that could not …

… first took root in America.    In response, in varying ways across the 20th century, anti-urbanists called for the decentralization of the city, both its population … virtues of independence and self-sufficiency. In this way, by the middle of the 20th century anti-urbanism was at …

… Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, … on gender, race, ethnicity, and politics as it examines the ways that the old fur trade families experienced and … to the pluralistic nature of American communities and the ways that power, gender, race, and ethnicity were contested …

… country’s archrival about whether they would look the other way if U.S. bombers were to reduce this rogue state’s … Khrushchev and Chinese leader Mao Zedong during a 1958 visit in China ( left ). Captioned “We use the skill of the … now, the president argued, a limited test ban offered the best means to limit diffusion. Harriman surmised from …

… Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to … and significant aspects: its promotion of film as a vehicle for raising the people’s consciousness, inspiring their efforts at social transformation, and articulating a new …

… Historians have come to love the milestone anniversaries of significant … topic, but they are to be found nearly two thirds of the way through the text. The seventh of nine chapters is … chapters make a compelling argument that the venture is best understood as part of the larger process of competition …

… it casts doubt on the legitimacy of the winner and the way that he was chosen. The last time the Electoral … or the opening of world markets to facilitate competition across national boundaries. Record campaign … if they want to influence the major parties. Nader polled best with unskilled workers threatened by free trade's …

… the book argues that each legend presented Alexander in a way that met the needs and outlooks of the narrating culture … birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … Persia. The Jewish and Arabic traditions relate Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and his founding of cities. In the Jewish …

… NAWSA prevailed upon him that the federal amendment was the way to go, that the state by state method was inordinately … Newman and Rose Schneiderman to view the vote as their best form of protection. In the wake of the Triangle … be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… the ambiguity that debt has occupied in banking and finance for three thousand years” (p. 332), and believes … cultures, collecting interest represented a possible way to impoverish people. Such an act, scholars and … law, for instance, usury is now accepted as a standard accompaniment to the modern market economy. Indeed, one of …