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… capital and, with a population of nearly 1 million, over one-third of Albania’s inhabitants call the city home. What … dotted with reminders of this past, but the residents welcome visitors with true Albanian hospitality and intend to … dot the countryside today. After a 40-year rule, Hoxha died in 1985. With the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse …

… average citizens with no connection to crime have become victims of this policy —especially poor and young … nature of this policing, those arrested may be imprisoned for up to six months before appearing in court.  … According to testimonies after the massacre, the common soldiers’ saying “one dead child, one less guerrilla” was …

… important new biographical details to the traditional commander-in-chief profile. After having 43 presidents cut … from the same cloth, we finally seem poised to elect someone different. The similarities of our previous White House … between the ages of 42 and 78. They have invariably embodied conventional social choices (at least publicly). Almost …

… while other jurisdictions declared these children unwelcome. A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border … as a person residing in a nation-state other than the one in which he or she was born. That percentage translates … as a part of the Bracero Program, 1954. The British West Indies’ complementary Temporary Foreign Worker Program ran …

… August 22, 1485, King Richard III of England (r. 1483-1485) died fighting in the Battle of Bosworth Field. The victor, … crowned King Henry VII (r. 1485-1509).   This battle was one of the last major battles of the Wars of the Roses, a … and the House of Lancaster over claims to the English throne.  A century later, this battle was memorialized by the …

… the nation’s military. The administration has already abandoned a strategy that called on American forces to fight and … wars simultaneously. Now U.S. forces must be able to win one war and carry out a number of holding actions around the … and means to maintain its present overseas positions and commitments, it will fail, as did Great Britain in the late …

… What can and should members of the international community do to honor 1989’s Beijing martyrs? Not … ago. There are, however, two other things, less often mentioned, that can and should be done to show respect for the … version of events, which erroneously states that brave soldiers and traitorous troublemakers were the only ones who …

… and all-but-consummated crime, we are, all of us, guilty. One can fairly ask why Arcticide merits any more attention … or the shrinking of the Aral Sea? These, too, rank as tragedies of the highest order. The Arctic, defined as the lowest … patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, …

… Revolution--and learn that women in America have never been completely united.  … While more women do tend to vote than men--and have done so since the 1960s--men arguably remain the dominant … Take, for instance, Abigail Adams’s famous “Remember the Ladies” letter, in which she implored her husband, John Adams, …

… The 1972 Munich Olympics were billed as Die Heiteren Spiele —the “Happy Games.” West Germans hoped … met to plan Operation “Ikrit and Biram” under mission commander “Issa,” Arabic for Jesus. Ikrit and Biram were two … window detailing the terrorists’ demand: the release of prisoners—234 from Israel and two from West Germany—by 9 am, or …

… The degeneration of the Iraq conflict into a low level but nonetheless murderous civil war between Sunnis and Shi'is has … in the Islamic world and the reasons why they have become so explosive in Iraq, it is hardly surprising that … individuals accepted the authority of scripture as embodied in the Quran and the hadith , and recognized the …

… Guantanamo Bay has become one the most infamous places on earth.  In the United … to own a piece of Cuba, and how that naval base has functioned over the past century. Stephen Irving Max Schwab seeks …

… children. What is different today is the often fatal outcomes of children's brutality towards one another, owing to the widespread availability of guns: … limitations of that perspective, too. Though the march's website invites "mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, …

… that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that ousted Morsi, the Egyptian … the Muslim Brotherhood ( Jamā`at al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn ), one of the most important Islamic revivalist organizations … the year since Morsi’s overthrow, an estimated 1,400 have died as a result of political violence, many of them Ikhwān …

… as faces and they have the right to check citizens’ smartphones to see if they carry unauthorized content or “harmful … more recently, of settler colonialism. It is also based on competing visions of history and of who belongs to the land. … the number is closer to 45%. In the 1950s, demobilized soldiers were settled on the land, and during the Cultural …

… Spend a few minutes browsing news websites or blogs and you will see a barrage of infographics … of the production of new maps and the conservation of old ones. In "Mapping the Past," the author describes how … Johann Georg Kohl, cartographer and geographer, to come to the United States where he worked for the Coast …

… of living, demonstrators soon widened their criticisms to encompass the full impact of Bashir’s three decades in power: … working on a new book on the history of Islam in Lusophone Africa. Professor Searcy, thanks for coming on the show. … Rhodes. Song and band information can be found on our website. And you can find our podcasts and more on …

… deal with criminal, or incapable, heads of state in times gone by? What did they do with monarchs who outraged the … Before 1600 (the period most of the English precedents come from), of course, one has to be careful when using … is a distinct possibility that William II was assassinated) died violent deaths at the hands of their subjects. Some, …

… season brings a new round of presidential analogies and comparisons. Two years into his presidency, Barack Obama has … Truman, John F. Kennedy and even Dwight D. Eisenhower. Opponents have latched on to Jimmy Carter and Woodrow Wilson. … and George H.W. Bush as important role models. But there's one president whose name has rarely been mentioned: William …

… into a two-thirds majority. She will in fact be replacing one of the two Protestants who remained on the court. This dramatic change in the composition of the Supreme Court can be traced to the … to achieve equality. It reflects our better selves, the ones who want to make up for decades of prejudice and …

… Liu Bang also became the symbolic father of the Han people. One fifth of the world’s population now self-identifies as … of China’s greatest imperial dynasty was, like Mao, a commoner. As with many dynastic founders, it is difficult to … and “Madam Liu”). They were farmers, working the rice paddies that stretched out from the Yellow River northward over …

… squashed by the ascension of dictators and the onset of one-party rule and political repression. Dreams of wealth … State , the preceding volume to this work, Young adopts a comparative approach. As he outlines in his introduction, a … his detailed footnotes, Young manages to avoid creating a superficial work. Rather, he offers a thoughtful macro-level …

… elected a president who was accused of cohabiting with one of his slaves (Jefferson), one whose marriage was of questionable legality (Jackson), … Elections Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a …