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Good Guys and Bad Guys with Guns: Gun Control in Canada and the U.S.

… Corporal Nathan Cirillo, part of the honor guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. He then burst into the … “has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government.” In other words, states were largely … to kill at such high rates. Canada did not begin compiling national crime statistics until the 1920s when the homicide …
Pamphlet of "Virginia Women Opposed to Suffrage"

Equal Suffrage Awaits Trial (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 3)

… level amendments encouraged hope in the suffragists. The National American Woman Suffrage Association, or NAWSA, had … activism as well. Alice Paul took over the Congressional Union Committee of NAWSA and staged the 1913 March on … together and found the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and they organize strikes and marches and again for …
In Mauritania, Aissata Abdoul Diop shows how the maize ears have dried in the drought stricken garden, 2012. 

Hunger Is Not Eradicated: The Food Crisis in Africa

… in food crisis—desert locusts, supply chains, seeds, international food standards, and so on—as part of a campaign to … government in Mogadishu is reluctant to ask for international aid because it does not want to discourage … Africa and South Asia.   As we enter 2023, the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement (IRCRCM) warns that …
One of the McMinnville UFO photographs. Skeptics have concluded that the UFO was a small model suspended by wires or string from the power lines visible at the top of the photo.

The Air Force Investigation into UFOs

… that U.S. air space was traversed by foreign, potentially Soviet, flying craft. The newly established U.S. Air Force … foreign weapons. It concluded that UFOs did not threaten national security. The Air Force terminated Project Grudge … on the precipice of the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union and was the most comprehensive and involved effort to …
U.S. Supreme Court building.

Tearing Down the “Wall of Separation between Church and State”

… opportunities to debate the proper role of  religion in national politics.  But "the wall of separation between … Baptist Association why he refrained from proclaiming national days of fasting and thanksgiving, Jefferson wrote … champion of religious liberty, James Madison — proclaimed national days of thanksgiving, fasting, and prayer. And even …
"We the People" Inscription located on the facade of the National Constitution Center.

How Europe Might Learn from American Constitution-Making

… their votes and make their state the 11th member of the new union. Then laggards North Carolina and Rhode Island finally … History News Service … Europe … Legal history … Global/Transnational … How Europe Might Learn from American …
John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams: An Example for Our Times

… duty, above all, to effect mental, moral, and national improvement. Commitment to improvement of self and … that the South’s “peculiar institution” threatened national progress, Adams fought the gag rule unsparingly … until the gag was finally repealed in 1844. If only the national conversation–why not, in the spirit of Adams, a …
Reagan in 1982.

Exit Gen. Grant – Enter St. Ronald?

… Saving the Union by defeating the Confederate army and being elected … want to be reminded that Richard Nixon tried to create a national health care system.   No, the current Republican … watched the Kremlin used to study photographs of official Soviet events to see which Communist Party members were …
A map showing China and the United States

Another Cold War? China This Time?

… Largely with that objective, Christian groups, trade unions, and politicians, including presidential hopefuls … guarded trains, mines, and other facilities for the Chinese Nationalists, who were then fighting the founders of today’s … & Southeast Asia … China … United States … Diplomacy/International Relations … Another Cold War? China This Time? …
a couple in a wedding dress and soldier dress uniform

Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

… after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: … after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed—from meeting and courtship to … after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe. …

Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones

… securing a second term, Obama appeared at Fort McNair’s National Defense University to launch a public discussion … and slow” by comparison. Months later, Spaatz predicted the Soviets had “improved on the German buzz bomb” capable of … attack by the Warsaw Pact.” By 1991, the year of the Soviet Union’s collapse, fictional drones were once again …
Coach Bob Knight holding a chair

Bob Knight: A Latter-Day MacArthur?

… rages. Brand was criticized for his rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was … won victory in the Pacific, Knight coached Indiana to three national titles and eleven Big Ten championships. But in the … rating him a page-one story in The New York Times and a national interview on ESPN. In support of Knight, students …
Unification council of Orthodox Church in Ukraine, 2018.

The Religious Roots of the War in Ukraine

… grounds. In 1596, the Ruthenian bishops signed the Union of Brest. The resulting Uniate church accepted Roman … Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) in 1921.   Soviet antireligious policies crippled church structures and … both Orthodox and Catholics claim the mantel of being the national faith.  The Catholics participate in the universal …
Minaret Islam Khoja in Khiva

A Postcard from Khiva, Uzbekistan

… medieval Islamic world. Abu Raihan al-Biruni depicted on a Soviet postage stamp. Many of the scholars who worked at the … 150 years before the region became incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Khorezm Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1920s, …
Photo of A. Mitchell Palmer, a congressman from Pennsylvania who later became the U.S. Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson.

Cracking Down on Dissent

… a private institution; the student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; and four members of pacifist groups … With the onset of the Cold War, genuine apprehensions about Soviet power and the widespread fears it engendered prepared … back in the courts, as the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild in Albuquerque have …
President JFK giving an address on civil rights in June, 1963.

A President Who Was Still Growing

… By issuing such a challenge, he inspired a strong sense of national purpose and pride, especially among young … invasion led to a critically dangerous showdown with the Soviet Union over Cuba, while his continued support of South …
President George W. Bush shakes hands with China's President Hu Jintao following his visit and meeting Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, with the Chinese leader at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leaders compound in Beijing.

What Open Skies Can Do For Chinese-American Relations

… in the American arsenal. The United States, Canada, the Soviet Union and other European nations began in 1989 to discuss … East Asia & Southeast Asia … United States … Diplomacy/International Relations … What Open Skies Can Do For …
Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.

Japan’s Meiji Restoration

… conscript army, launched new industries, and established a national education system, all under the slogan “rich … and a constitutional monarchy modeled on Prussia. It held national elections, seated a national parliament, and transformed Japanese social and …
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… the Ottoman treatment of Armenians in 1915. In the name of "national security," the Turkish legal system criminalizes … defeats in WWI, and, above all, a belief that Ottoman "national security " demanded a permanent solution to the … in the homogenization policies of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), the Young Turks' governing body …
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pictured in 2002

Apologizing for History

… … Daniel Szechi … History News Service … Global/Transnational … Economics/Business/Trade … Genocide … Apologizing …

The Alpha and Omega of the Greek Debt Crisis

… bank was closed and every ATM was empty. A line at the National Bank of Greece in 2015 with a “vote no” poster in … exit from the Eurozone (the countries in the European Union (EU) using the Euro as currency). A 2015 march against … that Germany controls the money within the European Union, fuels animus today towards Merkel and the German …