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… showing where cholera was thought to spread. The "Court for King Cholera" was the slums, largely due to overcrowding and … has made the death toll from COVID-19 feel all the more shocking. Yet scientists are optimistic about the current …

… An Archeological Dig in Israel  [PDF] The Man Who Would Be King  [PDF] Volume II, No. 3, Autumn 1994 [ View pdf .] …

… Mufti, who opposed compromise, resulting in hundreds of assassinations of Palestinians by Palestinians. While the … the Zionists accepted and the Arabs rejected partition, sparking violence that led to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.  The … Shai Feldman, Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peace Making in the Middle East (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, …

… had served as Vladimir Lenin's (1870-1924) successor. Taking Trotsky's post-exile criticisms of Stalinism at … History at Oxford University, counters such speculative thinking with his new biography on Trotsky. Coming after his … which covers Trotsky's years in exile, from 1929 until his assassination in Mexico in 1940. During this time Trotsky …

… found nothing unusual about Russia’s new law. In the United Kingdom, homosexuality was only decriminalized in 1967. Two … well in Russian society. The new Russian legislation is striking in large part because it underscores the diverging … is to examine the fundamentally different ways of thinking about rights and the individual’s relation to society …

… London Evening News . This was brought to the attention of King George V, who issued a proclamation calling for the … of the war. Austro-Hungarian posters from 1916-1918 asking citizens to take out war loans to support the war … from the United States served the ancillary purpose of linking the U.S. economy directly to the allied cause—to …

… created in Napoleon a ruler more absolute than the Bourbon kings, and spawned a Terror greater in scope than that of … Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons …

… decade, the Tour has hosted stages in Belgium, the United Kingdom, Andorra, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, …

… fire on a Russian gunboat and a mine-laying vessel. The sinking of two Russian ships by a German taskforce under the … with the goal of overcoming the Turkish defenses blocking naval access to the Black Sea. Dominion soldiers on the … The hopes that allied strategists once entertained of knocking the Ottoman Empire out of the war with a single …

… for their own citizens. Many were also interested in making fishing within their EEZs sustainable by placing limits … for conservation. If one fisher voluntarily refrains from taking as many fish as possible, another fisher—lacking any legal or moral restraints on his or her …

… 400,000 daily and the healthcare system reaches its breaking point, patients are left scrambling to find oxygen, … There are plenty of immediate reasons for this heartbreaking tragedy, and chief among them is a failure of … administrators feared the prospect of epidemic disease breaking out in the military, the cornerstone of imperial …

… man discusses cameras with a young photographer taking “art” photos. And then, about an hour and half into the … as it plowed the waters to Solovki, I couldn’t stop thinking that these two men so many centuries before had rowed … asks, “What would make someone leave life behind, seeking an existence of unremitting toil and prayer, where …

… Tanks and troops poured across Georgian borders, picking up South Ossetian militia along the way. The Georgian … spilled onto the streets, waving flags, firing guns, and honking car-horns in celebration. The question is what drove … to deal with; and for Ukraine and Kazakhstan, which are seeking closer ties to the West and have large Russian …

… and abroad, who have had the courage to privilege truth seeking and challenge the official narrative of the Turkish … a permanent solution to the Armenian problem. A striking and well-developed contribution is Akçam's emphasis on … in Der Zor, Syria occurred (p. 277). One final thought-provoking feature of the book is Akçam's discussion of "cultural …

… at the center of the anti-Eaton cabal. The big winner was Martin Van Buren, who, as a widower, had avoided the problem … this combination of scandals contributed to Grant’s ranking near the bottom of historians’ ratings of Presidents , … long been  at or near the bottom  of the presidential rankings due to a  reputation for corruption . The main Harding …

… news.   Jessica Blissit  From regional interventions to hacking to allegations of interference in elections, Russia … Or are they primarily reactions to events that are taking place on the global scale?   Stephen Norris      Well, … in recent works that are quite good ones. Here, I'm thinking particularly of Mikhail Zygar's book, All the Kremlin's …

… ascending to heaven from a stone in the Dome of the Rock, making this site the third holiest in the world after Mecca … to the Jews. Jews have lived in Jerusalem since the rule of King David in 10th century BCE. While many Jews fled … arrived. Cafes and bars now sit alongside vendors, making the market still a wonderful place to people-watch, day …