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… 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 …

… 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, …

… On February 7, 1964, the Beatles made their arrival in the United States. … that a new kind of British Invasion had begun. Little was that nation aware that these British gentlemen would … to choose what music they were hearing and where and when they were hearing it. Once teenagers had this power, …

… 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 …

… The current debates about NATO’s actions against Slobodan … had to operate against hostile people in a strange terrain. When the war did not progress as planned, military … for this misguided reference to history. Milosevic was troublesome, acknowledged the critics, but the Serbian …

… When George W. Bush’s advisers brief him for his October trip to Beijing, they may be tempted to only discuss recent conflicts. They … and Japan arrived to crush the uprising. When the Protocol was drafted, it placed all of the blame on China. The treaty … Jeffery N. Wasserstrom …

… Benjamin Franklin famously quipped “when the well is dry, we learn the worth of water .” What was the worth of water in Ancient Rome? Floating along the … Review of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome , by Brian Campbell (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012) …

… In the fall of 2016, the Chinese government embarked on an … a significant percentage of the Uyghur population. By 2019, when the campaign had extended to other Muslim populations … Xinjiang is a Chinese term that means “New Dominion.” It was coined in 1884 when Xinjiang was raised to the status of …

… The story line for the upcoming November elections has been … years ago American women finally got the right to vote. It was a close call, however, because of the fierce opposition … Southern states ruled by conservatives. That changed only when the liberals in the federal government passed the …