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… evangelical Rev. Billy Graham rose to celebrity denouncing communism as a "satanic religion," while Secretary of State … highest form of patriotism. Historian David Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and …

… Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game. The sport debuted at the Olympics … Este's stadium. Image by churl. But nowhere has baseball become more significant than in the Dominican Republic. In … A group of Major Leaguers including Babe Ruth, for example, visited countries like Japan in 1934 not just to spread the …

… cautious, thoughtful Obama was just plain weak, or worse: incompetent. Well, health care legislation has passed, the … and permanent. Everyone’s attention span is short. But the complex job of the president adheres to a different time … are now of Polk and Wilson. These presidents had in common the setting of a few clear goals and great …

… Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … seen whether George W. will allow his administration to be completely captured by his fossil fuel buddies. Eisenhower, … the environmental movement proved to be a formidable competitor for legislators’ attention into the early 1990s. …

… likely have to endure the result regardless of how much we come to regret it. The nation’s constitutional history is full of instances when the outcome of amendments varied from the original intent of those … that a wide range of matters from health care to hospital visitation rights to joint filing of income taxes ought to …

… In fact, as surprising as it may be to sports watchers and commentators, how Americans talk about sports today is a … of its TV contracts and football successes. The annual NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament provides the largest … teams of the 76 universities that comprise the six major Division I athletic conferences. Overall, between 2007 and …

… With a sense of betraying la causa, I carried out mom's command. My mother was equally adamant that I was not to … and preservation. It will also use the suggestions of the community to evaluate how best to promote the public's visitation of these landmarks and to educate the young and …

… The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education has come and gone. But in celebrating its achievements we have … old problem and that parents do not stop fighting when it comes to their children’s education. Children’s real needs … children to inferior and unequal education. Adina Back, visiting fellow at the New York University Institute for …

… nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature. Title page of the … shortly after being born and her half-sister Fanny Godwin committed suicide, a couple of months later Percy’s wife committed suicide, and just before the publication of the …

… of the presidency itself has changed, making his comparisons something of an apples and oranges exercise.  … Morris claims – evidence? – that RFK was insincere when he “visited burned-out ghettoes to ensure that he would get 90 … silly. Finally, Morris's “big idea” in this book is that common sense, cordiality, honesty and the ability to …

… the cable news networks waited to report the outcome … and waited and waited and waited. Much to the … was not yet a news-gathering organization. These editors compiled bulletins from information sent by the British news … media landscape. Unlike the BBC, most modern broadcast news divisions are part of massive transnational media …

… that Iraq was a significant threat to the international community. Why is that? Because, the United States — from … The problem was the second attack never occurred. Naval commanders couldn’t even confirm whether their ships had … on a war it cannot justify. Christopher Gerteis is a visiting professor of East Asian history at the University …

… the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has conveyed “water, … limited sources of water that face “constant threats.”  The company employs dams and other barrages, pumps, irrigation … dedicated to agriculture. The environmental Nakba that accompanied the 1948 conquest destroyed both lives and the …

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of … to the West for the technologies and ideologies needed to compete in European international politics. In the usual …

… that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that ousted Morsi, the Egyptian … al-Minya which left one police officer dead. (A judge later commuted all but 37 of the sentences to time in prison; … of true Muslims from a jāhiliyya society to mean a division in every aspect of life, including politics, …

… legacy with which Americans will sooner or later have to come to terms: today we live in a society of greater … critically weakened the one entity best equipped to combat growing income inequality in the United States: organized labor. …

… year of anticipating “Y2K” has served to remind us that the computers we call “personal” actually answer to specialized … American life has resulted in decreasing measures of both competence and control by ordinary citizens over the vital … lever that permits drivers to roll up windows by hand.) Visit the hospital, and you will confront a forbidding array …

… a stunning achievement and that description of how it was accomplished feels especially poignant today when faith in … Clement XI had sent Lancisi to investigate. The physician recommended culling and quarantines . Governments across … has been humbled and our progress facilitated by this awful visitation. The advent of the white man had else not been so …

… the Russias.” Services in Moscow capped a series of events commemorating the Romanovs’ tercentenary, in what proved to … deemed oppositional, the tsar brusquely cut him off. He welcomed supplicant peasant elders, but Kostroma was part of a … workers were carefully muzzled in advance of the tsar’s visit. Celebration of the Romanovs’ heritage could draw …

… nation must choose between alternative ways of life, “communist or free,” Truman declared. Truman shook off fears … taught the nation that in a cold war the only possible outcome is stalemate, not permanent safety. As dreams of … figure. The next time Bush goes home to Texas, he should visit Johnson’s final resting place and ponder deeply. It is …

… postwar economic boom took hold, with America becoming the world’s leading hyper industrial and military … Revolution , Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long … author), David Brower (director of the Sierra Club), Barry Commoner (an environmental justice advocate), Coretta Scott …

… of Qing laws prohibiting the drug. After one Chinese trade commissioner captured and publicly destroyed British opium … ship seized by China on suspicion of piracy—reducing its complex causes to only its precipitating event. … events entirely. In the 1950s, for example, observers of communist China described Chairman Mao Zedong ’s campaign to …

… officers as presidential contenders. Generals who have become president (there were ten, six of them notable as commanders) have usually succeeded by presenting themselves … does he hunger for war. Historian David Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and …