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… Published just before the November 2016 U.S. presidential election, Stephen … U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … circumstances, wishing to return home. Eleanor Roosevelt visits Hungarian Freedom Fighters in Salzburg, Austria, …

… Dick Cheney invoked historical memory to mock Kerry’s call for a “more sensitive” war on terrorism. Cheney told a … one of the most sensitive and successful coalition commanders of all time. Cheney forgets that Ike diverted … in Antebellum America" (2002) and a writer for the History News Service. …

… how to remember the past. More than a simple residence for millions of Germans, it also contains a tumultuous … dot the landscape and stand beside opera houses and statues commemorating prominent figures of German cultural heritage. … gradually become taller and more imposing the deeper the visitor wanders into the center. Berliners respect what the …

… half journey through the city of Paris from the Temple, the fortified medieval monastery where he was imprisoned, to the … and Navarre, c. 1779. He traveled in the mayor's coach accompanied by his confessor, Henry Essex Edgeworth de … with his people. The shift in public opinion was swift. Newspapers of a range of political positions critiqued and …

… and persuaded her to lie about it had not been public for an hour before many observers were uttering sentences … at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An abbreviated list of what came to be … “a third-rate burglary.” So far, we have no proof that the latest addition to Starr’s amorphous investigation was even …

… existed in the United States. The trial of Edgar Ray Killen for the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, … those ends were radically different. That difference points up the wrong-headedness of the Bush policy in Iraq. … including 35 churches and numerous homes in this state. McComb, Miss., came to be known that summer as the bombing …

… Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pressuring him — as he did former secretary Robert Gates — to review the War on Terror's combat decoration recipients and upgrade some to the Medal … new evidence. Hunter disagrees with the current process; he points to 32 Distinguished Service Cross upgrades made in …

… it was being spoken about by fans of literature, who often complained about the stifling power of the novel and the … which caused people with strong nerves to risk illness and forced those with weak nerves to give up reading it … of pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta committed by ex-student Rodion Raskolnikov were “the purest …

… is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … high priests of nature change. In these years, there was unlimited optimism in Australia that with these … dramatic decline in rainfall in Perth since the 1970s also points to a more fundamental change in climate. From …

… is more, climate conditions there serve as a bellwether for planetwide trends. Indeed, rather than simply … patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, … via the northern coasts of Scandinavia and Russia—paid a visit to the Greenland ice cap. During this journey, he …

… of scientific knowledge, and of political power. For the Mayan Empire, centered in modern Southeast Mexico, … Itzá, one of the central and sacred sites of the empire, visitors can both see and hear representations of two … Site. It stands as a vast historical source that enables visitors to glimpse the spiritual world, the scientific …

… What is the afterlife of an old communist statue? Just what to do with all the Soviet-era … of how the monuments have been dealt with across the former “Soviet bloc:” some blown up or knocked down, others … well as the removal of Lenin’s statues, images of local communists, and red star symbols—have come to represent a …

… 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton secured enough delegates to become the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.  As everyone knows, this … wealthy. In 1870, they began publishing a women’s rights newspaper called Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly . Woodhull …

… new book Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam is primarily a political and diplomatic … Le Duan and Le Duc Tho, the police state they and their comrades built in the North to solidify their power and … how "Le Duan and Nixon sought to find each other's breaking points in the battlegrounds of Cambodia and Laos rather than …

… China and the United States, with perilous implications for the twenty-first century. “A blood debt must be repaid … of the colony. The walls and barred doors of the New China News Agency were plastered with placards and petitions of … a lengthy analysis in July 1989 explaining how the “anti-communist forces” of the capitalist world, led by the U.S. …

… at … well, any number of things. Lumping them together, the commentariat called all these angry voters “populists” and … ( bottom right ). Whatever else they may or may not have in common ideologically, these populists share an antipathy … when things go wrong with our health. Obama’s preference for arugula lettuce became a means for opponents to paint …

… Hurricane Elena was responsible for the best meal I had as a college freshman. The 1985 … . Young Hamilton survived this encounter and went on to become the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United … winds of the San Felipe hurricane in Puerto Rico. Schwartz points out its similar appearance to the Christian Cross (p. …

… ...And Water For All is an educational documentary about water … done it with these water and sewer systems that have become ubiquitous in our lifetimes.   Nicholas Breyfogle  The … tells us what parameters we have to test for, what sampling points at the plant we have to... if it's the raw influent, …

… be drawing lessons from the wrong Hollywood flick, though, for American experiences in the Middle East are beginning to … a villain and his henchmen threaten the safety of a western community, whose cowardly citizens cringe in the face of … culture and politics, and is a writer for the History News Service. …

… 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 …