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… education in the United States. During that period, the future looked bright and boundless; new campuses sprouted … universities to yield an annual, independent source of income. Endowment size has served as a proxy for academic … as well as the pursuit of grants and government subsidies. Tuition hikes also seemed to manifest the incessant …

… As the president made his way to the train, chatting companionably with Secretary of State James G. Blaine, a man … body for two and half months. Surrounded by his family, he died on September 19, 1881, plunging the entire nation into … ballot, Congressman and Senator-Elect Garfield emerged as a compromise candidate, ultimately winning the nomination on …

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

… whose work manifested such promise and hope for the future. Particularly in the central chapters, where Weitz … Weitz helps the reader understand how and why the fragile, complex, and tense culture of Weimar Germany motivated these … do. The discussion of the sexual revolution in Germany comes closer to touching on the wide variety of general …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … Online highlights an award-winning podcast that brings audiences in touch with the wide world of history. History Hit … I, and fly in military aircraft, while also picking up medieval dance tips. The frequent, diverse topics and …

… I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer … Department of Sociology and interdisciplinary Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego and is currently a lecturer in science and technology …

… Guiteau, a disgruntled political hopeful. Garfield later died from an infection which ravaged his body for two and …

… one day after the author's arrival. ( United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees ) We came to Greece with only a … measures imposed on Greece by Europe's central monetary bodies . A pro-refugee banner from Piraeus. (Photo by author) … to know refugees as individuals. Abdul, for example, had studied civil engineering at university in Afghanistan , and …

… Pinsker, set the pattern in 1881. Anti-Semitism “can never die,” he maintained. Wherever Jews live among foreigners, … as a permanent fact of life. The Zionists aimed to overcome that psychological infirmity by making the Jews a … Holocaust theologian Emil Fackenheim once told an audience that Israel might be destroyed by its enemies. Still, …

… rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s … scheme would, he hoped, “prevent the labouring class from becoming preponderant in Parliament.” Society has changed even …

… How do cold wars begin? The question is becoming more than academic as the Bush administration gropes … No single dispute was big enough, in itself, to cast the die for or against prolonged cold war. But each one required … our choices. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… of violence and instability until 1922. Multiple communities of former tsarist imperial subjects imagined the future in radically different ways. Written by Mayhill …

… the French Duke of Normandy. It is a reminder that the complicated, ambivalent, and sometimes hostile relationship … In January 1066, Edward the Confessor, King of England, died without an heir, which motivated several claimants to … Tapestry depicting Norman cavalry attacking Anglo-Saxon soldiers. Was William’s claim to the English throne legitimate? …

… in American history. Burr fatally wounded Hamilton, who died the next day. Hamilton’s premature death transformed …

… pluralist implication of the St. Patrick's Day parades becomes more apparent as we look at the events held in cities … this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we have come.   So when this weekend's St. Patrick's Day parades pay …

… The 1972 Munich Olympics were billed as Die Heiteren Spiele —the “Happy Games.” West Germans hoped … Games” soon became the “Olympics of Terror.” A global audience watched a tragic attack on the Israeli athletes … met to plan Operation “Ikrit and Biram” under mission commander “Issa,” Arabic for Jesus. Ikrit and Biram were two …

… between present-day immigration and the flood of newcomers who came in the past. ProjectUSA’s website is emphatic on this point. Making this distinction … in the respectable clothes of high-minded concern for the common good. To cite but a few examples: In the 1840s …

… had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body. Theywere … became inalienable." [Book description from the publisher's website .]  …

… this end, the Bush administration is now deciding America’s future international security strategy and the size and … and means to maintain its present overseas positions and commitments, it will fail, as did Great Britain in the late … cuts in defense might render the United States unwilling to commit forces to one region in fear of leaving other regions …

… There is the same whiff of hysteria about prospects for the future that one finds in current administration … the test of the first Soviet atomic weapon in 1949. The combination of the Soviet Union’s atomic weapons and its … country in the world is more or less on the level of Panama compared with the military strength of the United States. …

… of the Second World War began. 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 …

… Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier met in Munich with German and Italian dictators Adolf … countries agreed to hold an international conference on the future of Palestine — with one word: “Munich.” But Bush and … really premeditated collusion with the dictators to fight communism elsewhere. Had they carefully examined the …

… he was dead. The implication was clear—although Stalin had died, his influence would be keenly felt in the Soviet … pardoned or remitted the sentences of prisoners whom had committed minor offenses. As they worked to dismantle … narrow” for the United States and the Soviet Union to come out on the other side with a better relationship, …