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… to support their own operations, but Army Air Force commanders tried instead to amass all the planes they could … is that what we have seen in Yugoslavia is likely to become the pattern for future U.S. interventions. But there is … enemy chooses to attack U.S. civilians, rather than soldiers, with bombs or missiles? If civilians once again …

… George Santayana made one of the world’s best known comments about history when he said that those who learn … But such scandals have usually served as a form of cheap entertainment during presidential elections, and, in … triumvirate of 1920s conservative Republican presidents, died in 1923 amid bribery and corruption scandals that were …

… Vietnam analogy is not so much the difficulty of drawing comparisons between two different situations. The problem is … By the early 1970s, American involvement in Vietnam had become a strategic disaster. The war was sucking U.S. economic … of the war, many U.S. allies in Europe and elsewhere had become concerned that a country willing to spend 20 years and …

… in Kyiv,  December 2013 The year 2014 will no doubt become a caesura, a line dividing Ukraine’s history into … we cannot even enjoy our victory there. Because people died, people who in the critical moment, with wooden boards … of a generation of people: why did I survive when others died? Maybe I'm more base, more cunning, a bigger coward? …

… the benefit of the clear military or geographic objectives common to more conventional wars. This lack of knowledge … women and children, in concentration camps; over 20,000 died in less than two years of confinement, mostly from … of MNF-I in February 2007, and Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno, who deployed to Iraq in command of MNC-I late in …

… Kentucky school, 1946 Common Core is a set of voluntary standards in the United … isn’t any more debate, we’ll know we’re in serious trouble. Common Core is no exception and now faces detractors from … For the left, represented largely by teachers’ unions, Common Core is an attempt to take away workplace autonomy …

… in state and local races across the land.  Many pundits are comparing this election to the election of 1994, when anger … gambled wrong.  In that election, the GOP crushed this combined Democratic/Populist party, and the Populist Party … bees:  They sting one of the two major parties.  Then they die.   This is where the Tea Partiers find themselves now. …

… picnics, parades, and softball games to remember those who died fighting our country’s wars. It’s rarely a day for … not incidentally, killed or wounded over 27,000 American soldiers. Apologizing to those soldiers can’t undo the damage … ago, on May 30, 1945, by Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., commander of the Allied Fifth Army in Italy. Truscott was …

… “North Berwick Witches” tried with her is exceptionally complex, involving politics, religion, magic, and conspiracy … personally involved in Agnes Sampson’s trial would soon become king of England, as James I, where he established the Stuart monarchy, commissioned the King James Bible, wrote an important …

… Contemporary televised sport, in many ways, has become a better fan experience than being there live. You get … broadcasts was therefore rudimentary and ad-hoc.   The audience, such as it was, much like the earliest radio … Yet at the same time, sport has also returned to the smallest of screens, given that a large smartphone or small …

… reportedly a casualty of the disease, although he did not die from it. Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San … Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple … that Justinian’s government had to direct the removal of bodies from the city and their mass burial outside the walls. …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a history magazine who aims to bring serious history to a wide audience! Based in London and published monthly, History Today …

… of the intergalactic wars of the Star Trek TV series become as important as the Civil War. An example of how … follows the ratings marketplace can be seen in the commercial cable network, the History Channel, which liberal … historians. Yet it certainly reaches a much larger audience through a more powerful medium than scholars' books …

… presidential losers of the American past. Yes, the time has come for all true lovers of trivia to stand up and be … If Clay felt betrayed, he would have a great deal of company as a perennial also-ran. Other men ran for the … distinguished only by the fact that they "lost big." It is easy to belittle their campaigns, but remember that these …

… of the mounting controversy, the president reminded his audience that, “from the Civil War to our struggle against … us from the ravages of modern warfare, or if they will become the appliances of Orwellian control. What is remarkable … (revenge weapon), the V-1 was like a diabolical Model-T: a cheap, mass-produced, futuristic death delivery system. …

… were Bollywood films. In recent decades, Bollywood has become popular across the world with sizeable audiences in East Asia, North America, Africa, and the Middle … Bollywood productions range widely. They can be artistic or cheaply commercial. They can have low production values or …

… 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 moveable-type press, invented by fellow German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440.  Luther’s nail in the door was …

… northern China. Amid this misery, a mysterious group that combined traditional Chinese folk culture, including martial … court fled Beijing for  Xi’an . Western troops proceeded to commit atrocities of their own, looting much of the city and … Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 . New York: Walker & Company, 2000. Silbey, David J.  The Boxer Rebellion and the …

… lucky. Their ability to afford their monthly payments was compromised first by the falling market, then by mortgages … that has never been able to effectively cope with low-income homeowners who have been typically women, racial and … chartered the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). These corporations market the bundled mortgages as …

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate … she burst out onto the scene receiving incredible audience enthusiasm and critical reception. D.A. Pennebaker … love, and music in the shadow of the Vietnam War . It is easy to consider the Summer of Love as a golden age, a …

… economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the … liberators in the age of revolution. Britons regularly bandied their slave trade ban as proof that they remained at … Barton's humanitarian aid, an estimated 186,655 Armenians died in the autumn of 1896 alone. The memory of the failed …

… attends Operation Plumbbob as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1968 (left). The nuclear reactors at the Hanford … power was a technocratic dream. Clean nuclear energy “too cheap to meter,” as Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss … but in reality private firms came to rely on federal subsidies while they complained about excessive regulation. The …

… Prime Minister’s plan to visit a shrine honoring soldiers who died for his country during World War II has inflamed … of more than $30 million (then an astronomical amount) as compensation to foreign powers for the damage caused by the …