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… Prime Minister’s plan to visit a shrine honoring soldiers who died for his country during World War II has inflamed … of more than $30 million (then an astronomical amount) as compensation to foreign powers for the damage caused by the …

… ever before." [Book description taken from the  publisher's website ] …

… in Iraq: the longer we stay, the stronger our enemies become. We cannot defeat either the insurgency or the civil … to fight, but we may well be training the army of our future enemies. We could have been spared this debacle had … assassinated British officials and killed British soldiers. In only a year or two, the British press and public …

… shape the narrative of Nigerian identity and the nation’s future. Map of Nigeria. Equally important, the historical … and cultural challenges. The crisis that would become the Nigerian Civil War began on January 15, 1966 when a … in July 1966. This countercoup turned out to be bloodier, and this time, Igbos were the victims. Many …

… The cause of his outburst? Likely American protests in the future over his moves to hold joint exercises in the … with his nutty words: the way the Bush administration has compromised American foreign policy and jeopardized world … Caribbean. The Navy claims it is resuscitating the fleet to combat terrorism, keep the economic sea lanes of trade free …

… major events of the American Revolution. We learn that the future two-time governor of Virginia, who turned down … was a motive in his pursuit of liberty; indebtedness was common among Virginia planters, who traded in a global … hardly muted the power of his influence. The public and soldiers adored him. Henry's legacy has remained controversial …

… Americans to reexamine their past as well. Austria has become something of a pariah state because its governing … handled gold seized from Jews by the Nazis was beginning to die down. Pope John Paul II recently asked for forgiveness … eventually go to war against Nazi Germany, and American soldiers did help liberate the concentration camps, but some of …

… claim being made lately about the ever-advancing Computer Age. After all, cyber-data is easier to store, … But are books really an endangered species? Predicting the future is always risky business, but looking at past changes … word. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a …

… The Grateful Dead. Acid, also known as LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is a powerful hallucinogen that elicits a … supply of synthetic Psilocybin (the active psychedelic ingredient in “magic mushrooms”) from Sandoz pharmacy. In the … author Tom Wolfe brought the Acid Tests to a much wider audience with the publication of his book The Electric …

… tax credit for children to the nation’s 6.5 million low-income families, and has buried the measure in another round … abolition aroused a cadre of reformers who unsettled public complacency in less than a century. In 1780, Pennsylvania … that those making $20,000 or less a year would be more than compensated by their wage hikes — and that the rest of us …

… Caesar and, therefore, to understand the kind of present or future he is asked to encourage or warn against (21)."   In … Whereas in the 20th century, Caesar could just as easily become the savage conqueror again, someone to be resisted … who would finally surrender to Caesar in 51 B.C., would become the symbol of the revolutionary spirit in 19th- and …

… for civil war. This is not some dystopian vision of the future course of the war in Iraq, but the actual history of … history of foreign occupation, Iraqi civilians would welcome U.S. troops as liberators. Most Iraqis, like most … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … respond to some of the questions being raised. Why do we so commonly talk about the golden age of piracy the way that we …

… renovations at NPR's code switch blog  and stay tuned for a future podcast interview with Drs. Jeffries and Shaw on …

… More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the entire …

… American life, and in his farewell address to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … of economists like Seymour Melman and others who have studied the question. He juxtaposes the growth of military …

… place in colonial New York City (by regiments of Irish soldiers in the British Army). But it was in the mid-19th … century that the parade as we know it took form. This coincided with both the massive influx of Irish immigrants … this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we've come. It's in this sense that the St. Patrick's Day parade …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history …

… Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, … "A case study of one of America's many multi-ethnic border communities, Great Lakes Creoles builds upon recent research … Great Lakes region." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …

… in the need for emergency food aid. These findings coincide with a Feeding America reportthat 20 percent of … the effect of child hunger in war-torn Europe, started a committee to bolster the existing national school lunch … these efforts the journey to end child hunger is far from complete. There are still huge gaps in participation in the …