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… of United States expansion. Lucy Murphy examines Indian history with attention to the pluralistic nature of American … Connecting History …

… aftermath of war, shows, through his vivid and revelatory history of individuals, organizations, and nations in … Connecting History …

… 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 … History News Service …

… 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 … History News Service …

… 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. …

… 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) …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… look for the circle of buzzards. Actually, his reading of history, or his latter-day pantomiming of history, caused people to refocus on the annexation of … groups today, the Republic of Texas is simply taking real history and molding it selectively to justify present-minded …

… that between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, recipe books became a popular form of print which should not be … basic dishes for the table. Instead, published recipe books offered ways of creating pleasure, remembering … knowledge. As such,  Recipes for Thought  is not a history of food itself. If the reader seeks knowledge about …

… does political engagement on campuses today compare to the history of American campus activism, particularly in the … do they grow? And what can they achieve? On this episode of History Talk, hosts Brenna Miller and Jessica Vinas-Nelson … Bill Shkurti and David Steigerwald —to learn what the history of campus protests can teach campus activists, …

… of the American Dream had already been showing up in recent history. Millennials have come of age hearing they are the first generation in American history who will not do as well as their parents. That … Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Cuba in front of children holding books labelled with various U.S. states. In the background …

… simplistic and shortsighted understanding of leadership and history. These observers argue that such a close election … predictions are not uncommon in American presidential history. Few contemporaries imagined that Truman, Kennedy, … lack an adequate appreciation of leadership and American history. Their forecasts, based on limited knowledge of …

… Its goal is to protect critical pieces of the country’s history. It is responsible for preserving national artifacts … It is the only way of ensuring these manmade icons to human history have real meaning and are worthy of a descendant’s … Base would be regarded as a monument in the annals of earth history was known from the moment they left the lunar …

… kinds of misleading analogies, at a crucial point in the history of China and of Sino-American relations, is a … but the temptation should be avoided. It makes for bad history. More than that, it makes it harder to understand … here and now. Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, a writer …