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… a little more land may belong to the sea, tomorrow a little less,” shores are in perpetual transformation.   Today more … owners and land developers, and in the process have become increasingly vulnerable. They have become the hard edge of the land rather than a transition zone …

… How do cold wars begin? The question is becoming more than academic as the Bush administration gropes … But each one required Truman to choose between a more and a less compromising stance. The president followed no grand design. …

… United States is characterized by three great waves of newcomers. The first wave came primarily from Ireland, Germany, … textbooks is especially helpful, because he documents the lessons about immigration that elite educators were trying … Revolution of 1917 raised fears that radicals were pouring into the country intending to foment socialist …

… U.S. general killed in World War II, are not names that come to mind for most people.   That's because this is not … American Indian Heritage Month typically involves a few lessons in early Indian history, arts and crafts, and the … New York Gov. Edwin Morgan had turned away Ely Parker's (Seneca) Iroquois Volunteers, and Secretary of War Simon …

… the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has conveyed “water, … community in which the authorities refuse to connect Palestine and Palestinians “to the national electricity … through neighborhoods containing viruses, bacteria, parasites, toxic metals, and other pollution. The industrial …

… Jessica Blissit   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … nations and other things like that. And really the opposite seems to be happening, at least in relation to the west … But I also can't even begin to compare the level of connections that Cuba had with the outside world, even under …

… ground. They are fronts on political theaters of war: sites where vying factions negotiate history, a society’s … that of Nero’s by Vitellius. Damnatio memoriae was most common after regime change. Note however, that the names of … down George’s patina into 42,000 musket balls in a Connecticut foundry. 6. Statue Toppling during the French …

… With election day less than a year away, President Bush must justify something … on “the near absence among the men I worked with… of any comprehension of what Nazism meant.” Commentator Dwight Macdonald called the war simply “the …

… any one issue determined the direction of the vote. Nonetheless, high on the list of issues that helped to sway … hand, would be wise not to take the recent election outcome as a clear mandate that Americans support an aggressive … agenda. A vote against the handling of the war is not necessarily a vote for immediate withdrawal. A vote against …

… investments broadly through risky buyouts of disparate companies. Often they stuffed their pockets with cash while … and investment banking and restricted the use of bank credit for speculative activities. Roosevelt also supported … was good for Gordon Gekko, the movie suggested, was not necessarily good for the U.S. economy or the American …

… that Johnson and his advisers would opt for escalation. Less clear cut was the question of his ability to keep the … Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. If Vietnam fell to the Communists, they argued, so too would the rest of Asia. … and Russia. Afghanistan therefore demands a heavy American commitment, although the degree to which that commitment …

… city for Mount Vernon on September 10, 1793. He later visited the city before the official all clear on November 14, … able to continue their working lives cocooned at home, connected via Zoom, virtually escaping the pandemic. For many … other business carried out virtually over Zoom. The theater company, Gemini CollisionWorks, gathers most of its 22 …

… that Iraq was a significant threat to the international community. Why is that? Because, the United States — from … call to escalate the war by authorizing him “to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the … even confirm whether their ships had been hit, much less whether North Vietnamese patrol boats had struck them. …

… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … relations through the lens of religion or through its opposite, secularism. Conflict between these one-or-the-other … because we cannot keep swinging between two opposite poles: religious belief or faith in secularism . While the …

… Union. Nearly three years, later, however, the final outcome of Brexit remains uncertain. And issues that affect the … changed? What were the political and economic forces that compelled the UK to join the EU in the first place? What … Dream? , Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace , and The EU: Past, Present, and Future . ( …

… other places around the world are only the most recent examples of terrorist violence to make international headlines. … Russia by encouraging its leaders to over-react and abandon necessary reforms in the name of security.  These moves … by failing to address the problems in Russian society that compelled the radicals to violence, Russian leaders …

… west, Magellan then turned to the new king of Spain, Charles I. If Magellan’s expedition was successful, Spain would … in, some of them to work off debts. Magellan’s second-in-command was the Spanish overseer and accountant, Juan de … of Magellan (left) ; a plaque in Cebu commemorating the site of Magellan's death, Philippines (right). Raja Humabon, …

… likely have to endure the result regardless of how much we come to regret it. The nation’s constitutional history is … circumstances of the Great Depression and the momentary discrediting of the Republican Party that had sought to enforce … 14,000 amendments offered in Congress, only 33 achieved the necessary two-thirds approval by both House and Senate, and …

… body-scan. Airline passengers in the United States have come to expect these kinds of security measures as a … Airlines Flight 5 took off from Kansas City, MO for Los Angeles, CA. Before it reached its scheduled stop in Wichita, … day. Two more days would pass before boats found the crash site. It took two weeks to salvage the wreck. Twenty-nine …