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… fend off disaster. That’s unlikely. Today’s crisis calls for a new take on what used to exist: preventative … landscape and lexicon. This trend has left ever more complex financial markets and multinationals to operate in barely regulated risky gray areas. The latest near collapse of one of Wall Street’s biggest firms …

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate with the 1960s, a … later, as well as the music festivals we see today. In comparison to today’s bloated ticket prices, admission for …

… in the mid-19th century that the parade as we know it took form. This coincided with both the massive influx of Irish … 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 … College in Worcester, Mass., and a writer for the History News Service. …

… so doing he has tilted against the Constitution.  During a visit to Syracuse, N.Y., late in October, Bush claimed that “state law reigns supreme when it comes to Indians, whether it be gambling or any other … unambiguously violates the Constitution. As a candidate for the highest office in the land, Gov. Bush ought to know …

… In his latest book, Peter Brown surveys the ways in which … known as “Late Antiquity,” he argues that a total transformation in Christian views occurred in Western Europe over … of the living, and that the property of the church had come to be thought of as being held as a trust with which to …

… What Everyone Needs to Know  should be required reading for any student studying the Black Sea region, and for any … Saint (~ 988) to the present, and it would require dozen visits to Ukraine to understand the land and its people. … the reader.   The reviewer’s photos during the peaceful component of the pro-democracy EuroMaidan protests.  …

… there are also monumental environmental victories, and therefore hope. One such hopeful victory is found in the story of … It aimed to kill 20 animals for museum dioramas, so that visitors at least might see what once had been. Anyone … ethics of the robber barons. Between 1871 and 1883, commercial hide hunters slaughtered buffalo by the millions. …

… For the Bush administration, the road of public policy leads … the Romans had paved for their own armies to travel. If war comes, Iraq will be using the computers and cell phones and radar it got from the United … University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer for History News Service. …

… to consider Ukraine’s architecture during war first and foremost because it is important to the Ukrainian people. Ukrainians are not only fighting for the right to live on their territory, they are fighting … For more information about the Co-Haty Project, please visit https://www.metalab.space/co-haty-ukr Video production …

… was the reinterpretation of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Comparing President Kennedy’s action and President Bush’s … into Cuba. Rumsfeld conveniently overlooked two crucial points in drawing his analogy: Kennedy had conclusive … missiles, and he resisted the advice of the military to use force. Neither can be said of Bush’s current plans to attack …

… history is the Battle of Gettysburg. While many will commemorate the battle itself, the decision not to press this victory to complete destruction of Confederate forces was perhaps equally significant. On July 1, 1863, … after the battle that “I am a great man.” Buoyed by the news of success in Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln …

… over Enron’s collapse will revitalize campaign finance reform and deliver gains in the fall elections. Shredded … and congressional subpoenas may generate interest in this latest example of corporate corruption, but if sex didn’t … public interest. Neither did Whitewater in the 1990s. Commentators can’t decide whether Americans are too …

… the urgent need to modernize the nation’s defense forces. Wisely, the Bush administration had already … believed, the U.S. military services had to become flexible and mobile enough to meet smaller and more … War Europe" (2006), he is also a writer for the History News Service. …

… have derailed President Obama’s popular campaign finance reform bill, it’s time we admitted a sad truth: bipartisanship … it fails in practice. The doomed reform package is just the latest example of that failure, as intransigent Republicans … Fathers designed it to have, while working against true compromise. That’s bad not just for Democrats, but for …

… ultimate solution to problems of (pick one, or pick many) communication, commerce, travel, learning, teaching, … had been thrown across the nation and America’s two coasts forever linked. Just like the internet, the railroad opened … a little cautious about suggesting what the technological sinews of our age will do for us. A hundred and thirty-one …

… reaching the river en route to colonize northern New Mexico for Spain. The El Paso claim notwithstanding, Onate’s … Thanksgiving.” For 136 years, Thanksgiving has been a day commemorated across America. It gives us a moment to recall … history and archaeology, is a writer for the History News Service. …

… the Serbian ultra-nationalist organization, the Black Hand. For the Austro-Hungarians, long embroiled in a bitter … of the Marne. Both sides then dug in along what would become the great Western Front, a series of trenches extending … State University in Billings and a writer for the History News Service. …

… begins to fade, there’s a race among critics to find a compelling Rasputin or a group of gray eminences pulling the … public image has become — with fashion magazine covers, visits to schools and tours of vegetable gardens — few people doubt her intelligence and passion for favorite causes and ideas.   Is she possibly the real …

… it’s an assumption that’s going to doom health care reform. This “social insurance” system is organized around … as the old age pension program), became untouchable. Their commitments were sacred. Their recipients were unequivocally … social insurance.   Defense of this idea has generated flashpoints of debate in both bills (the storm and fury over the …

… fans and flashbulbs from the many reporters who would inform the nation that a new kind of British Invasion had … would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … in race music and began to provide more of these records to complement the demand. Radio DJs like Alan Freed started …

… of 1775: "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" According to … was a motive in his pursuit of liberty; indebtedness was common among Virginia planters, who traded in a global … have was a product of winning admittance to the bar. He accomplished this ironically but tellingly, managing to …

… in the Islamic world and the reasons why they have become so explosive in Iraq, it is hardly surprising that … in Northern Ireland, which have plagued that province for the last half-century. Protestants and Catholics there … but they have not bombed each other's pubs over the fine points of Christian theology. Northern Irish Christians have …

… how the disenfranchisement of criminal offenders was common before the Civil War. Following the 13th and 14th Amendments, … students will begin class by interacting with the main points from the article. Students will be introduced to the …