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… But Alexander Mikaberidze’s The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History challenges readers to view these wars and their … part in Mikaberidze’s story. Understanding that the global history of the Napoleonic Wars cannot be fully understood … It is easy to recommend The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History for Napoleonic scholars. Some material may be …

… our backs on the past, on the world at large. The entire history of coasts and coastal people has been forgotten. … to the contrary, the coast as timeless, existing apart from history. America has forgotten that it was once the most … most biodiverse geography.   So let’s recover our coastal history. It will do no good simply to place a plaque where a …

… ties with (or just annex) former imperial domains, from Crimea to Kazakhstan. Many scholars have analyzed the … work. It is not, however, a biography, but rather a microhistory that uses Ungern’s life as a lens through which to … the way he neatly summarizes critical moments in Russian history, from the conquest of Siberia to the Civil War, …

… some very old themes and positions from Republican Party history. His success will depend upon whether these … economic times is very much open to question. The history of both populism, and of Buchanan and the GOP, will … one of the largest expansions of tariff rates in American history and blamed by many for exacerbating the Great …

… at war. There is, however, another element of the unit’s history that is often forgotten: The fact that during its … unit’s wartime deeds would “have a prominent place when the history of the Second World War is written.” Of course, … most experienced units in Italy.  Understanding the fraught history of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force makes it easier …

… In this Origins podcast of Writers Talk History , host Patrick Potyondy interviews historian Alice Conklin about the history and mass appeal of socialism in France . ( Image … Alice Conklin for our latest segment of Writers Talk History .   Patrick Potyondy   Our guest today is Dr. Alice …

… can only dream about. He’s rewritten a part of American history. The Hollywood actor recently capped a bizarre … as hell and much feistier about the class struggle than our history books have suggested. Like a nagging flu bug, this strain of …

… aftermath of war, shows, through his vivid and revelatory history of individuals, organizations, and nations in … description from the publisher's website .]  … Connecting History … Europe … Global/Transnational … World War I / WWI …

… figure prominently in what we call “Early” American history—a past often animated by the meeting between … Like so much of our popular conceptions of Early American history, however, this simple narrative obscures a great … ) brought those ideas to the public, and they appear in textbooks and journalism frequently. Today, we are living …

… force of personality, seemed to find himself vindicated by history. If only history repeated itself so easily.   Obama, on the other … He has Kennedy’s charisma and wry sense of his own place in history, not quite tragic (we pray) but with the manner of a …

… was eradicated, we can learn about its dangers only from history. But history seldom tells us as much as we want to know. … and suffering an outbreak might cause is just a guess. History tells us only that the extent of that threat is …

… inclined radicals, who acquired ordinary chemistry books from libraries, translated their complex instructions … No proof exists that the Internet is unique in the long history of the underground trade of information. And yet, on … studies at Michigan State University and a writer for the History News Service. … Ann Larabee … History News Service … …

… 1800 produced a constitutional crisis, the gravest in our history except for that of 1860. The crisis occurred because … above considerations of person or party — in American history. Bayard cleared the way for Chief Justice John … Jr. a historian in Washington, D.C., was co-founder of the History News Service. He is most recently the editor of A …

… Yeats once observed, sometimes “peace comes dropping slow.” History stands like a ghost at the elbow of everyone involved in the peace process; and history suggests that a final, bloody act of the war has yet … the peace settlement survive? All parties in Ireland use history to justify their actions. The politicians on both …

… longstanding conceptions of what constitutes human nature. History suggests that opponents of these changes will try to … to education and science. Neil Jumonville is professor of history at Florida State University and a writer for the History News Service. He is author, most recently, of "Henry …

… make Blood Sisters a pleasure to read, much like her other books Arbella: England’s Lost Queen (2005) and Elizabeth and … the Wars of the Roses , by Sarah Gristwood (New York: Basic Books, 2013) … Elizabeth Kerr-Poklinkowski … Reviews … …

… through which many of today’s evangelicals trace their history) at the turn of the 20th century. Popular speakers … and that they’re unlikely to do. John Fea teaches American history at Messiah College in Grantham, Penna., and is a writer for the History News Service. … John Fea … History News Service … …

… of “religious pluralism.” In Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation , Peter Marshall retells … for stability during that tumultuous chapter of English history. Although Marshall’s monograph, at just shy of … and Believers is an important update to the general history of the Reformation for the 21st century. What makes …

… full diplomatic relations. The occasion was dense with history. It could hardly have been otherwise, for it is … understanding what preceded it. “There is a complicated history between the United States and Cuba,” President Obama … acknowledged, and admitted too that “we can never erase the history between us.” He affirmed the desire to leave “behind …

… near Ukraine’s most fertile agricultural lands . Their history and identity were influenced by their geography, the … Cossack independence, but instead it initiated a long history of Russian domination in the region. Russia asserted … dominance over Ukraine. Mazepa remains reviled in Russian history, while Ukrainians have remembered him as a hero. A …

… enough to sustain a new hundred days. The post-World War II history of the New Deal followed the history of the Cold War. Harry Truman’s New Deal-derived … ushered in the biggest period of economic expansion in U.S. history. Its institutions worked towards economic equality. …

… next Tuesday will be one of the most important in American history. Such statements, however, are often little more … The most important elections are those in which political history changes course. There have been only three genuine … = 2008.   And we can take some comfort in the fact that history indicates that while realignments are caused by …

… Six years ago, I received a Ph.D. in American history. Today, I hold a full-time teaching job at an … and Zora Neale Hurston, 6,500 Americans wrote stories, guidebooks, and histories for the FWP. If the federal government … does not live by bread alone. It also needs the sense of history and humanity that academics — through many years of …