… political opponents; planning a break-in at the Brookings Institution; forging cable messages intended to implicate President Kennedy in the 1963 assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem; exchanging …
… languages and its 1962 census recorded residents speaking over 1600 native tongues. It is common to find people … is reflected rather spectacularly in Indian filmmaking. Although the world at large generally equates … but the likes of Akira Kurosawa, Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese as well. 2. Bhuvan Shome (Bengali, Hindi, …
Review of Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit, by Hennie van Vuuren (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
… to disrupt any clean break with events before 1994 by asking important questions. Though van Vuuren struggles … France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and United Kingdom, and China. Written in the style of an exposé, … In these, we see both private and public citizens seeking to maintain influence with the then-ruling party. While …
… and cricket matches: Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. These protests, from the late-1960s into the … costs." Economic impact analyses are often guilty of overlooking the ways in which mega-events siphon off monies in the … to "second-order" events such as the Commonwealth Games (Kingston, Jamaica, 1966; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1998), and …
… money to the love of country, Iraq will not develop a working democracy. One of the chief reasons Saddam Hussein was … was only a step away from creating the age-old triad of king, priests and nobles. Beyond the issue of religious … It takes time. Americans know that. They are continually asking themselves, “How do we make democracy work the way it …
… groups who were minority populations in larger empires. Speaking to an international audience in Paris, he denounced … world affairs. A 1933 political cartoon showing Japan walking over the League of Nations. World War II: Evidence for … States officially joined the war, world leaders were working on an international response that would aid in both the …
… States, terrified American lawmakers, the latest menace seeking to snuff out America’s light. The godless Communists, … appoints this commission, which is really intent on taking a moderate, middle of the road approach to drugs. But it all gets lost in the Kennedy assassination and all the other chaos of the 1960s. Brionna …
Review of The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom, by H.W. Brands (New York: Doubleday, 2020)
… it was common in the decades following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination to identify him as the “Great Emancipator,” … newly-freed person is shown as remaining subservient and lacking personal agency. Union generals such as Benjamin Butler … terrorism. While Brown did not achieve his goal of sparking an immediate war of emancipation, his actions polarized …
… auto sales over the last year was caused principally by spiking gasoline prices, tight credit and disappearing … statistics date from the early 1920s. Unlike the shrinking corporations of today, these were the boom years when … milestone in 1968. Amid the turmoil of war, riots and assassinations, few people noticed that the year ended with …
… a modern zoo in the late 18th and early 19th century. Kingdoms are replaced by nation states we see private funded … panorama is to trick the viewer or the zoo goer into thinking or looking into a real environment. Dr. Tracy McDonald Yeah. …
Review of Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins, by J.E. Lendon (Basic Books, New York, 2010)
… that "all time" would be inhabited by the ancient Greeks, taking for granted that his reader would always bring those … campaigns of the Peloponnesian War from 480 BC when Xerxes, King of Persia, invades Greece, through the end of the Ten … narrative into "the wider stream of ancient Greek thinking about foreign relations…lends refinement to our …
… two hundred years. Crimean Tatars, a Turkic-language speaking peoples who inhabited the steppe north of the coast, … The Santa Barbara Affair Screenshot of Marcy Walker and A Martinez as Eden Capwell and Cruz Castillo on Santa Barbara …
… two millennia, discussions about abortion have involved making a distinction between fully-developed and undeveloped … rescue of a nun who had been abducted and raped by a local king. According to the legend, when Kieran discovered that …
… President Frederick de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shaking hands at the World Economic Forum in 1992. In April … Many of the Boers rejected British rule and began “trekking” eastward, displacing native peoples and clashing with the Zulu Kingdom. They established several “Boer states,” including …
… preserving government records of the past, but also for making them available to the public. This latter role is … or withholding — the Nixon White House tapes, the Kennedy Assassination Records, and now the files of the 9-11 …
… Republicans, who wanted to reconstruct the South by making African Americans citizens and creating an interracial … made Johnson a potent symbol of the unrepentant South. Attacking the recalcitrant Tennessean became an effective way of … right sees Bill Clinton as a draft-dodging, pot-smoking, adulterous hypocrite, exuding false empathy, who …
… Reef? Or the clear-cutting of Amazonia , or the shrinking of the Aral Sea? These, too, rank as tragedies of the … northern incursions into the Arctic, but killing was king. One of the earliest medieval references to Arctic … stuck in the ice of Hudson Bay in August, 1697 while making contact with the indigenous Inuit people. The influx of …
Review of Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots, by Thomas S. Kidd (New York: Basic Books, 2011)
… Court appointments, was reduced as a young man to working in a tavern. Early on he twice benefited from lucky or … Stamp Act in 1765. In a stirring speech, Henry accused the King of treason and stunned Virginia's moderate leaders, who …
… been just so fundamental, you know, especially if you're looking in, you know, a pretty long period of time. So looking at it, you know, in the most basic level is really, … surplus of food, which means that you can have priests and kings and warriors. Domestication of animals, which is …
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