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… needed domestic programs while endorsing dubious military ones, alienates our allies and discourages the diplomatic efforts and foreign aid needed to solve complex international problems. During the Cold War, … But the United States can now choose to go to war against one or more relatively weak countries without risking …

… what? And why, most of all, should we bother to learn it? One stock answer is that history teaches "lessons." Trotting … future. Scholars of social reform are especially prone to this perspective. By performing "experiments on dead … implausible. History can promote human improvement, I've come to believe, but not in the didactic or formulaic manner …

… that an estimated 1.5 million people were slaughtered here. One of them was a Roman Catholic nun, Sister Teresia … murdered because of her Jewish blood. Some of them have gone so far as to accuse the Church of attempting to … “Christianize” the Holocaust in order to play down Catholic complicity in Nazi atrocities. This controversy comes at a …

… a strong hold on the imagination of the American public. To commemorate “Honest Abe,” Origins offers ten of the most important things … , and John F. Kennedy(1963). JFK’s murder was a touchstone for anyone who was alive at that moment. Lincoln’s …

… to the long list of assaults enacted on the Native American community, put alongside boarding schools, forbidden … like “half-blood” and “full blood” are not mentioned in the 1887 General Allotment Act, also referred as the … period. With the first, those of mixed-descent (with one white parent) were considered smarter and more capable …

… in a “Mumbai-style” attack . This unsettling observation is one of many found in Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History … European cells in Europe and established its own cells commanded directly by leaders in Afghanistan. Despite being … Muslims against incidents like the torture of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison. This comprehensive study …

… The story was much the same in 1876, when Florida was one of three states submitting conflicting electoral … ahead in the electoral vote, with 184 electoral votes, just one short of the majority needed for election. The … to resolve the issue in 1876 through a special Electoral Commission and a resulting complex set of commitments that …

… the initial onset of symptoms. Measles often causes severe complications, including pneumonia and encephalitis … control efforts. By vaccination, we eliminated smallpox, one of the most dangerous infectious diseases that humans … inoculation, but few Boston physicians were willing. Only one of Boston’s 10 physicians, Zabdiel Boylston, was willing …

… reader chuckle. After noting that TR essentially preserved one out of ten acres of U.S. land (including Alaska!), … century) enjoying a splendid, gated summer camp in one of the remaining groves of sequoias not felled to … onto both parties’ national agendas for decades to come and FDR splicing “conservation into the Democratic …

… the long list of presidential misdeeds and scandals, this one stands out. It’s the first time a president has possibly … Office shenanigans. Presidents and their underlings have committed numerous immoral, illegal or dodgy acts. They’ve … agents in danger for the sake of politics. Bush set the tone for his staff by keeping silent until the Justice …

… President Clinton’s commission on race relations is dead on arrival. Most … correct; candor was not its most notable characteristic. No one should be more disappointed about the commission’s work … of racism had created two separate and unequal societies, one black, one white. But within a short time the money …

… In 2009, according to the International Maritime Commission, the waters off the northeastern coast of Somalia … the 2011 memoir by Richard Phillips, tells the story of one of the most sensational events of 2009—the hijacking of … bunker in Eyl, a shanty-town on the Indian Ocean. Summoned by businessmen who arrive in SUVs to demand that he get …

… became the top trending hashtag on Twitter after the combination of smoke from Amazon forest fires, a weather … the offers and suggested that Angela Merkel keep the money and “reforest Germany instead” while his chief of staff … the planet, an astonishing diversity. It is estimated that one in five bird species live in the Amazon, and one square …

… Yemen’s internationally recognized government is sitting comfortably in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 900 miles away from … and ethnic groups as well as tribal areas. Alternatively, one could trace the origins of the current conflict to the 9 … the assassination attempt was ‘Abd al-Aziz ‘Abd al-Ghani, one of the republic’s founders and a political leader well …

… that the election that takes place next Tuesday will be one of the most important in American history. Such … To make the case that an election is momentous, you need to compare it with previous critical ones. The most important elections are those in which …

… Film Institute ranks the film as the third best American comedy ever made and the 39th best film overall. It would be … to the film’s wit. Make no mistake, the movie is funny. One famous scene, widely quoted, starts with an argument … to teach us about challenging the assumptions of unquestioned and undefined war against an implacable foe. The movie …

… 2024 State of the Union Address , President Joe Biden championed  a bipartisan border deal as “the toughest set of … also proposed deploying advanced drug detection machines to combat the influx of fentanyl, which he claimed was … Sancha Cerros, 33, Yorlei Rubi, 10, and Jonathan Agustín Briones de la Sancha, 8 —drowned while attempting to enter the …

… west became (if ambivalently for some) the second former communist-bloc state to assume the rotating presidency of … bringing to 16 the total number of countries in the euro zone. Membership in the EU means many things for the myriad … minorities located within their new postwar borders. Proponents of an independent Czech and Slovak state initially …

… for the first time since June 24, 1948.  The blockade, one of the earliest episodes in the  Cold War , was largely … the stagnant German currency, the  Reichsmark  with a new one, the  Deutsche Mark . The Soviets opposed the currency … new runways in both major West Berlin airports just to accommodate the increased traffic from the large, heavy, …

… dependence on chemical pesticides is widely hailed as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. … by killer chemicals unwittingly unleashed by the scientific community. “Future historians may well be amazed by our … Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970, one year after domestic use of DDT was restricted. On June …

… Contemporary televised sport, in many ways, has become a better fan experience than being there live. You get … in the business of luring people out of the house to spend money on live entertainment were wary of the long-term impact … device that kept people at home.   It took a while for everyone involved to both achieve a small-screen experience …

… Not any funny movie, but “The Mouse That Roared.” That 1959 comedy was based on the premise that by the late 1950s both … seek now. The best American policy for Afghanistan, and one that might make an attack on Iraq more successful, would be one in which Afghans clearly benefit from American …