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… 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 …

… can help guide us into a more just, humane, and enlightened future. Scholars of social reform are especially prone to … implausible. History can promote human improvement, I've come to believe, but not in the didactic or formulaic manner … it may never illuminate the best road to choose. Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at New York …

… are at the heart of often vitriolic public debates. Both futuristic and somehow archaic at the same time, millions … understandings of how disease is transmitted within the community. As a general rule, respirators function by … humidity of lowland Bengal took a physical toll on the soldiers and officials of the East India Company. Upon …

… it was being spoken about by fans of literature, who often complained about the stifling power of the novel and the … of pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta committed by ex-student Rodion Raskolnikov were “the purest … Punishment was published, a student by the name of Danilov committed a similar crime: killing a moneylender and his …

… 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 good or ill, future generations will look to this spring's Marches on … reputation by ordering his men to attack their former comrades in arms with tear gas and riot weapons and burn …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … historians alike to share their ideas, the Public History Commons ! The Public His tory Commons is a project of the National Council on Public … Best in History Online: Public History Commons …

… going to receive international approval for its quest to become an independent nation. While many inside Kosovo and out … is supposed to release a report on the province’s future by the end of 2006, and will almost certainly … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …

… as the war drags on and Americans and Iraqis continue to die. The term "shock and awe" is in keeping with a … Smith returned to England, proclaiming his mission accomplished; but the Virginia Indian wars lasted for decades. … this terror from the air." Any society would experience "a complete breakdown," as civilians, seeking to end their …

… which stand to make hundreds of millions in fees and commissions, and anti-welfare state conservative ideologues, … about the gloomy long-term predictions President Bush’s new commission offers concerning the future of the system. Imagine economists in 1940, when the …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … spirit as well. In this book, Koistinen explains how that complex (he abbreviates it MIC) came to be and how it has … of economists like Seymour Melman and others who have studied the question. He juxtaposes the growth of military …

… 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 …

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

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

… 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 …

… place in colonial New York City (by regiments of Irish soldiers in the British Army). But it was in the mid-19th … 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 … experience in America. From the very beginning it has embodied the spirit of tolerance and inclusion that has helped …

… 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 ] …

… and there was always a world that needed redeeming. When he died ten years later, scores of mourners, from New York to … nonconformist left. Historian Leilah Danielson attempts to complete the work that Muste did not. It is most useful to … and activism for Muste. He believed that liberalism, as embodied by the New Deal order, had failed precisely because it …

… 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 … school breakfast and summer feeding; and when summer comes and schools close the drop in participation is …