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… to act decisively, during World War I President Wilson took command of telegraph and telephone systems, issued executive … Patriotic citizens assembled armed patrols to guard their communities. What is proposed now is a shadow of those … everyone was suspect. Wilson’s administration created a Committee on Public Information, a propaganda agency that …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Pinsker, set the pattern in 1881. Anti-Semitism “can never die,” he maintained. Wherever Jews live among foreigners, … as a permanent fact of life. The Zionists aimed to overcome that psychological infirmity by making the Jews a … Holocaust theologian Emil Fackenheim once told an audience that Israel might be destroyed by its enemies. Still, …

… 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 ] …

… the names and brief obituary information of people who had died. The New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, elected in … everyone thought Roosevelt was up to the task. Political commentator Walter Lippmann called him “a kind of amiable … New Deal and is essential today. The New Deal produced studies and reports on all manner of the nation’s problems with …

… on Prologued...   Alexander Aviña  So it's a really, like, complex, messy matrix, right? So I don't want to say that … 19th and 20th centuries. And there are many other case studies that we simply didn't have the time to examine and … know, prescribed by doctors, and they, you know, were ingredients in products like Coca-Cola. But as immigration picked …

… Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan has provoked comparisons with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Like … women earned only 51 percent of what men did for work of comparable worth.   During the Depression, officials … do "men's work," and the new administration should make a commitment to hire them for "non-traditional" employment.   …

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … I'm an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I specialize in … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website …

… for the virus and denied the possibility of extensive community spread among the Soviet population—offers a … Moscow, 1987. The number of infected was initially low in comparison to the USA, where the virus was spreading more … Soviet Union. The Ministry of Health, the USSR’s all-encompassing health and wellness institution, also stated that …

… that “judicious conduct,” in the best sense of those words, comes from judges insulated from popular emotions. The … has occurred when, and only when, judicial peers recommended a judge’s removal. What DeLay and the others … witnessed over a few judicial appointments would likely become perpetual battles over every federal judgeship. Such a …

… Historians have come to love the milestone anniversaries of significant … underway proposing settlements in Ireland, the West Indies, Guiana, Newfoundland, and New England. Jamestown was … well crafted narrative that should appeal to many audiences with tales of adventure, piracy, warfare, struggle, …

… the fact that she thought he had “showed himself to be a complete idiot. “Why?” the perplexed reporter inquired. … of voters will value consistency above even wisdom or common sense. The whole Bush campaign seems to be centered … who, to cite but two among several major differences, was committed to balancing the budget and was uninterested in …

… I’ve read about it, 1968 was quite a year. Writers have compared it to the most dramatic moments in modern history— … against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. ( left ). A soldier standing guard in Washington, D.C. after riots … stone and concrete plaza awash with blood and to the bodies stacked in adjacent building hallways. The army …

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … away from.” Quoting Saint Augustine, he encouraged his audience: “Let us live well and the times will be good. We are … the papacy of Leo XIV may herald the end of an era,  recent commentary celebrates several notable firsts.  Besides being …

… stand at the bow of the ferry as the water of the White Sea comes in wave after wave through the hole in the gunwale for … and the cold climate would test their spirits and their bodies each day. A Diverse Landscape: The forest on Solovki … without tears in my eyes. For all the years I’ve studied the past and wrestled with what it means to be human, …

… last history play Henry VIII: Or, All is True. A volatile combination of a cheap roof and pyrotechnic effects could … below) returns to her father; the wife, Hermia, who did not die, but has been disguised as a statue, is revivified; and … limitations, but the ability for the poet’s and the audience’s imaginations to transcend “this wooden O”: O for a …

… public interest. Neither did Whitewater in the 1990s. Commentators can’t decide whether Americans are too complacent, too desensitized or too patriotic right now to … of John Adams (who is so popular now among hardcover book buyers), tar and feathers, burned effigies and demolished …

… In the face of disasters we have come to expect that our governments will respond. … and grave expression, personally inspecting the damage or comforting survivors or those who care for them. After the … erected statues of him. Tiberius then struck and circulated coins celebrating his rebuilding efforts, the ancient …

… women, who saved the church that nurtured him and composed the movement whose spokesman he became. King was … to offer it. Two years after King's birth, his grandfather died and his father became the pastor of Ebenezer. During … up against the wall." Such women were the backbone of the community that nurtured young King. "The church has always …

… or paying $350 — big money back then. The wealthy could buy their way out of service while others marched off to … manufacturers who overcharged taxpayers and cost many soldiers their lives. Like these divisive measures, the current … draft exemption for college students. At the time, family income was the largest single determinant of who attended …