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… The war between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the … simmering between the two sides came to a boil on April 13, when the SAF denounced the increased deployment of RSF … condominium (1898-1960). Even though the Sudan was under the joint control of Great Britain and Egypt, the …

… Once the most respected branch of the federal government, the … apolitical, and impartial manner. Although “originalism” was once thought to be the best way for the court to achieve … a constitution is different from what historians do when they make sense of other old legal documents, such as …

… In the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February … Montenegrins, Bosniaks, and Albanians starting in 1944 when Soviet troops moved into those areas and stayed until … them proponents of revisiting the postwar treaties. There was little trust between Hungarians and Slovaks or between …

… Suppose an African American goes to the polls on Election Day. Although she registered to vote … violates American law as well as our national conscience. When Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, many … districts received the laptops. If the phone line was busy, then workers in these precincts would not allow …

… In the wake of Donald Trump’s failure to immediately condemn … of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black … paraders for inciting the violence, but the mass shooting was a clear attempt to prevent expanding voting rights as …

… Two years ago the world was gripped when Boko Haram kidnapped 279 school … the development of Boko Haram’s ideologies and approaches. When Borno was conquered by Rabih Zubzyr ibn Fadallah in …

… the trajectory of twentieth century world history until he was finally frozen by the cult of personality he helped … and perfectibility led him inexorably toward Marxism-Leninism in the wake of the Versailles Conference. According … navigating these political minefields as his leadership when organizing the autonomous Viet Minh. Divisions among …

… Well, this is not the National Basketball Association, where a player who’s … One of Jimmy Carter’s biggest mistakes as president came when he listened to the pundits who told him it was time to get tough. He seemed weak. ‘Never seem weak’ ran …

… The recent carnage in Iraq has made public a dirty little … rather than the exception in the history of warfare. If war was the sport of kings, then mercenaries, immortalized in … and nation-building, in a political environment when the death of a single soldier — whether draftee or …

… People understandably clamor for some response to the events of September 11, 2001. Devastating acts of war … in a war in remote Sicily in 264 B.C. The Romans said yes. When the other side asked Carthage for help, the Romans … by the emperor’s anger) to invade Serbia. The result was World War I, the largest war in history to that time. …

… The Bush administration wants to drop some cash in the … religion. Past leaders understood what we sometimes forget: when religious groups depend upon the state, they abandon … Jefferson and other eighteenth-century leaders knew better. When independence required Virginia to form a new …

… The United States dodged a bullet last week when American … and European prisoners.   Then, as now, the United States was coming out of a long and costly war (with England). …

… After these mid-term elections, the Tea Party populists are … are comparing this election to the election of 1994, when anger at Bill Clinton gave Republicans control of … power in 1994, the best the Republicans could do in 1996 was to run the aging Bob Dole for president.  Clinton barely …

… In the introduction to Byzantium , Herrin relates a story of … after passing it daily to ask her what exactly Byzantium was or is. The ensuing conversation, and her realization … era of the Eastern Roman Empire down to the 15th century, when Byzantium falls to the Ottoman Empire. Herrin sets …

… One of the most remarkable things a human being can say is this: … 13.77 billion years ago, our entire observable universe was compressed into the size of a peach and had a … newly identified particles. (LHCb Collaboration, CERN) When our universe was somewhere around 10 -36 seconds old, …

… Australia has water troubles. For at least the past nine years, the people "down under" have been … each of Australia's cities. In 2007, word in Brisbane was that without sufficient rain, the city would run dry in … Eden would be created. The question was not if but when and how. Leading Australians believed that if only a …

… In recent weeks, the Bush administration has frequently seized on the last … analogies. Historical analogies have their uses, but when they are faulty they only mislead. First there was the reinterpretation of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. …

… Perspective (http://origins.osu.edu) that contributes to the ongoing public dialogue on the significance of Black … onwards, as both printing and camera technology evolved, it was these collections that serviced the huge explosion in … independence might look like in 1960. And then in 1963, when it's achieved, he's very prominent for thinking about …

… The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the United States—and … In this country, in 1933, 25 percent of the workforce was unemployed , another 25 percent underemployed. We … We’ve all seen photos of the breadlines in the 1930s, when hundreds of unemployed workers stood in line seeing a …

… This month, three quarters of a century ago, the most famous battle of the Second World War began. More … than Americans in the entire war. But by February 2, 1943, when the Germans trapped in the city surrendered, it was clear that the momentum on the Eastern Front had …

… At the end of March 2012, Syria's major opposition groups … as the only legitimate representative of the Syrian people. When the collection of Western and Arab Gulf states known as … struggled against the French-dominated imperial order that was imposed on Syria at the end of World War I. The leading …