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… 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 …

… 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 …

… “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 …

… 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 …

… as “America's Pastime,” it is often easy to overlook how the sport has firmly implanted itself in the consciousnesses … the year marking racial integration in the National League, was a critical year in the history of Cuban baseball as … fight in World War II.  Havana's “El Gran Stadium ,” which, when first opened for the 1946-7 Cuban League season was …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, but what was a new beginning for Ukraine was a loss of empire and … Russia The two children of Kyivan Rus’ met again in 1654, when the Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossacks, located in the … Bolshevik Revolution confirmed for Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin that nationalism was a force to be reckoned with, but …

… interweaves text messages, journal entries, and letters, the reader is shown the lives of five young adults … their way to Greenland from the North American continent, when sea ice formed a passage across the narrow strait at … Greenland reached as many as 3,000 people and the island was heavily involved in European trade. They relied on iron …

… This past weekend marks the anniversary of what, until Tuesday, was the worst terrorist attack in the history of New York. … That those numbers now seem paltry — statistics from a past when we counted civilian deaths in dozens instead of …

… China in the early 1990s was in a precarious situation. Lingering public resentment … demotion in 1931 during the Chinese Civil War (1927-49), when he was accused of not being "aggressive enough" in … was not his commitment to Marxism, but his appreciation of Leninist democratic centralism. In Deng's view, only an …

… campaigning, President Bush has a manpower problem. The Pentagon has announced that troop levels in Iraq will … Johnson and Richard Nixon understood this dilemma. In 1965, when Americans had been living with a “peacetime” draft for … in . . . the reserves or National Guard. Consequently, when Richard Nixon took office in 1969, he recognized the …

… Donald H. Rumsfeld, entered office determined to restore the authority of the presidency. Five years and many … liberties and rights guaranteed us under the Constitution. When President Nixon covertly subverted checks and balances … in the interest of "national security." Then Congress was reacting to violation of Fourth Amendment protections …

… The perfect companion to nearly any summer activity is a … spurred waves of anti-sematic violence that only stopped when Prussian troops were sent to quell them. Smith’s study … ability of minority communities to coexist peacefully. This was particularly the case in the dismantling of the former …