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… Civil War, orator of the Gettysburg Address, described by some as the liberator of the slaves, Lincoln continues to … a strong hold on the imagination of the American public. To commemorate “Honest Abe,” Origins offers ten of the most … Orville Browning of Illinois The President demonstrated an extraordinary set of political skills. Uniting the North was …

… declared, the group trains “farmers, women, and indigenous communities in the use of improved technologies in current … Aside from PERU-Hub, research teams from OU recently completed the first phase of collaborative projects with … and few options for recourse. Government officials and some universities acknowledged the inequality. President …

… Is something odd happening to the American economy?        Alan … appliances, and new opportunities in electronics, telecommunications, and aerospace. In the United States the … corporate reorganization, and the challenge of new overseas competitors. Past patterns suggest that the United States …

… hope Sharif’s majority support will enable him to tackle some of the country’s persistent problems, such as … in 1947, Pakistan’s political elites have faced regional, communal, and religious obstacles to building a stable, … should rule. At the same time, Pakistan suffered from complexities of geography and poor relations with neighbors. …

… changed the character of the war; now the soldiers he commanded fought not only for union, but for freedom—in some cases, their own. Lincoln’s resolution to issue the … and he originally favored colonization of freed blacks and compensation of slaveowners for their financial losses. Yet …

… without understanding what preceded it. “There is a complicated history between the United States and Cuba,” … the desire to leave “behind the legacy of colonization and communism,” concluding with the recognition that “change is … Both countries have looked at the same history and seen something very different. The experience of the past 55 …

… Think about some of the iconic images that you would choose to represent … least some of the blame can go to the now-disgraced energy company, Enron, and its misuse of long-held American … images of the financial slight of hand that ruined the company in 2001. But before that point, both Ken Lay and …

… y Buicks y la clase alta famosamente se lanzaba de compras a Miami donde eran conocidos como los del “dame … diferentes ( derecha ). ¿Cuáles son las raíces de esta extraordinaria caída económica y democrática? Para comenzar, … Migration and the Americas ;  Latin American Drug Trafficking ;  Brazil’s Elections ;  Brazilian Politics ;  …

… With the horrific assault of Sept. 11, “terrorism” has become the new American watchword and scourge. Yet as George … nor anyone else has defined what terrorism is or where it comes from. Doing so may help us to face a frightening … Robespierre’s Jacobins executed, often for flimsy reasons, some 12,000 people deemed enemies of the Revolution. Since …

… which we live. Current events, however dire or exciting or complicated they may be, have been made by history. They … know that the phrase “what is past is prologue” is a vital component of our jobs. We recognize that, in order to … case for the majority of women. Most women still worked, sometimes they still worked in the home. And it was …

… "throttlebottom" thus passed into the language to refer to someone with no competence or apparent purpose. It turns out, however, that … in 1940 as a symbol of the administration's continuing commitment to the New Deal, was given significant …

… to remain an unsettled and unsettling question. In years to come, hundreds of articles and books will flow from the pens … of that state's election such as instructions and e-mail communications between the Florida secretary of state's … Archives. This option is problematic because there is some question whether state law permits officials to turn …

… not obscure the fact that this conflict, with all its complexity and tragedy, belongs firmly to the present. This … the history of 20th- and 21st-century warfare? Is it, as some would say, a regression to a form of past warfare that … to have long ago disappeared? Bruno Cabanes : The images coming to us from Ukraine can almost feel like they’re …

… about *which* Roman decline and fall is the best parallel. Some commentators prefer the fall of the Roman Republic as the … leads directly to the crisis of the present, “[Rome] had become a powerful metaphor to speak about the present and …

… Agency (WADA) Dick Pound presented “The Independent Commission Report #1” to the press corps. The 323-page … From Curiosity to Controversy There is good evidence that some athletes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth … and preservative virtues” of Peruvian coca-leaf extracts by performing experiments on both himself and …

… People understandably clamor for some response to the events of September 11, 2001. … the terrorist attack seems too much to bear. Professional commentators, and current and former government officials … then fled to nearby Serbia. When tiny Serbia refused to extradite him, mighty Austria felt itself compelled by …

… the test of the first Soviet atomic weapon in 1949. The combination of the Soviet Union’s atomic weapons and its … placed the United States at a severe disadvantage that some feared would only get worse. The position the United … with the military strength of the United States. This extraordinary situation may explain why the president …

… 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. First, a radical left-wing … by personal rather than social motivations. Certainly some suicide attackers appear to have been motivated by … centralized. Its leader, Vellupillai Prabhakaran, exercised extraordinary control over the group’s rank and file. …

… forces, however, the South Korean military repelled the Communist attack and eventually pushed them north of the … portrays the Sinchon massacre of Fall 1950, which killed some 30,000 people, as a U.S. mass killing of innocent … North Korean diplomats in Africa became infamous for trafficking ivory and arms. The North Korean government, …

… of the Heaven’s Gate suicides now blame everything from comets to cults to cyberspace to the dead themselves — the “weak” among us, as commentator David Gelernter put it. Perhaps when we have … and their incessant talk of heavens beyond us. But some readers proved more gullible than Hawthorne could have …

… civilians in Punjab were shot by British soldiers under the command of the now infamous “Butcher of Amritsar.” British … War I; here, Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916. The Rowlatt Acts outraged the Indian National … Nehru and his son Jawaharlal, and a man who would soon become very well known—Mohandas K. Gandhi. In 1919, Gandhi was …

… that their cousins to the west became (if ambivalently for some) the second former communist-bloc state to assume the rotating presidency of the European Union, Slovaks became the second former communist-bloc state to adopt the common European currency, … Becoming 'European:' The Diverging Paths of the Czech and …

… And I put everything into it I could, and still do. . . . Somebody once said football's a matter of life and death to … opportunity to delve into a subject dear to my heart but completely outside of my own research. Much to my delight, … Gripping as these chapters were, the ones I found most compelling were those that grappled with Holland's …