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… Hillary Rodham Clinton secured enough delegates to become the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.  … through the line of succession. Representative Nancy Pelosi was second in line for the presidency from 2007-2011 (after the vice president) when she served as the first, and to date the only, female …

… Forty years ago on January 27, 1973, the U.S. War in Viet Nam officially concluded with the signing of the Paris Peace Accord. It was then the longest war in U.S. history; although commonly … to promoting peace as the result of their journeys. When I learned that a group of American activists, all of …

… Here's an essay question for you.  When future generations look back on our times, what do you think they'll remember as its major event?  1. the end of the Cold … way to kill time on a long car ride.  A few months back I was participating in a workshop where the featured guest …

… During the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, 14 Australian Hornet … involvement in multinational and interagency operations, was established under the direction of the Chairman of the … that coalition dynamics become all the more intricate. When countries such as the United States decide to fight …

… Daily we search for explanations of the violence in the Middle East. Is it the vaunted clash of … struggles. Violence has accompanied decolonization whenever the goal of political independence is blocked. … Southern Rhodesia and South Africa no formal imperial ruler was available to negotiate the transfer of power. What the …

… Like most American historians, I've been repeatedly asked these past few days the same question: "What do you think of … and other human shortcomings as other occupations. When scholars make mistakes, they are reported in the … otherwise sad incident. James M. Banner, Jr. a historian in Washington, D.C., was co-founder of the History News …

… Sometime in 1851, the Oatman family, Mormans from Illinois, were following … a part of the Colorado-Gila Rivers basin.  The journey was ill-fated from the start.  By the time the group reached … for four years before they returned her to the white world when the US Army ransomed her and threatened war.  During …

… Thanksgiving dinner: never has the history of a meal been so obscured by myth. Every year … educated hypothesis of what the Pilgrims ate, how they ate, when they ate and what they wore at that first Thanksgiving … out the bill of fare. In colonial times, a person ate what was available, when it was available. No one back then saved …

… There’s something special about learning how to ride a bike. … or without the assistance of a parent is unforgettable. When I was six years old, I distinctly remember falling off my …

… “Hands up, don’t shoot!” Demonstrators chanted these words at police in the aftermath of the shooting of … direct spending – and this does not tally the cost of those wasted lives or the devastation it has brought on families … development of America’s prison crisis came in July 1964, when Thomas Gilligan, an off-duty white lieutenant in …

… In 2006 a small group of historians startled the world by announcing the discovery and publication of a … gospel to appear is The Gospel of Judas .  Its publication was first published in the spring of 2006. It surprised a … the word used for “thanksgiving” here is “eucharist.”  So when the disciples are portrayed as saying “thanksgiving …

… A young woman interviewed after the first presidential debate told the BBC that she was voting for Bush despite the fact that she thought he had … not support what he “knows” is true, it is to be ignored. When asked, as he was again in the second presidential …

… All of the Republican presidential candidates say that gay people … on the block in the Republican race, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, was the featured speaker at an AFA-sponsored prayer rally on … was picked up by the U.S. military during World War II, when American propaganda posters showed blond Nazi soldiers …

… On July 1, 2011, the United Nations welcomed its newest member. South Sudan's … United Nations, like many collective security alliances, was created in response to the last great threat to peace … the ability of the U.N. to speak in a unified voice when authorizing military action has often proved …

… Ariel Sharon’s victory in the Israeli elections has stirred fears throughout the world … of Israel’s right-wing opposition for nearly 30 years when he became prime minister in 1977. The accords led to a … ran a “College of Cowardly Communist Containment,” it was Nixon who radically improved relations with the Soviet …

… whether a political opponent is a "real" American. It was first employed more than 200 years ago when Thomas Jefferson ran against President John Adams in … H. L. Mencken called the president "a blood-brother of Lenin."   Roosevelt was popular enough to overcome these …

… deadly, viral  disease  that can be traced back at least to the time of the pharaohs. It played a historic role as the disease for which the  first vaccine was developed (in 1796); and it was a disease that was … another momentous role in the history of  public health , when the  World Health Organization officially declared the …

… Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring shocked the American public when it was published in the summer of 1962. Carson hooked readers …

… Whether Barack Obama or John McCain finds himself taking the … closer to today’s mess: forgotten Martin Van Buren. When Martin Van Buren placed his hand on the Bible on March … and in the press.   Van Buren, like Obama and McCain, was forced to focus on the economy in his campaign. Doubt …

… Historical preservation in the United States got hit by a freight train when President Obama recently released his FY2011 budget. … be regarded as a monument in the annals of earth history was known from the moment they left the lunar surface.   …

… In the past few months, extreme weather patterns and a … prospects on this volatile planet. The "winter that never was" in North America, as coined by a Canadian magazine, and … cycles of grand solar minima, called the Hallstatt cycle (when the strength of the sun on the planet is at a minimum). …

… Peter Frankopan's The First Crusade: The Call from the East is a provocative … on to show why and how Alexios' role in the First Crusade was eventually - and he argues deliberately - washed out of … was not in fact teetering on the brink of disaster when Alexios came to power in 1081. Instead, the devastating …

… If the political pundits are to be believed, the next president … elements — the leader, the followers and the situation. When contemplating leadership, most people focus primarily, … II and created the Marshall Plan, or John F. Kennedy, who was elected by the narrowest of margins, to see that men …