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… Bob Knight, nicknamed "The General," for defying university officials and for violating a "zero tolerance" policy … rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … of North Korea, Truman, MacArthur's commander-in-chief, ordered preparations to negotiate peace. Instead, after …

… even have gorilla enclosures in the first place? It should come as no surprise that zoos make headlines. According to a … They opened restaurants, rides, concessions, and souvenir shops. They waved banners for the “advancement of … . Guy became a London attraction for more than 30 years and was studied for the production of the classic …

… protection for gays?  Perhaps the same impulse — the same combination of religious fervor and fear of social collapse … started to rethink the necessity of Prohibition. By the 1930s, alcohol no longer seemed to be a threat to the American … generations of American political and social leaders likely will not see homosexuality as a threat to the nation. If the …

… Lyndon Johnson ordered a task force, the Gilpatric Committee (named after its chairman, former deputy defense … in the number of nations engaged in nuclear weapons program will occur.” Nuclear proliferation would, in the committee’s … danger of nuclear confrontation. Today, Bush administration officials are fearing a similar domino effect. South Korea, …

… On August 28th, America will commemorate the anniversary of the March on Washington … the problem of underrepresentation for black elected officials who account for a dismal 1.7% of the total elected …

… to give black men full citizenship. For that much, Bush and company can claim a worthy lineage. But as early as 1876 — … Richard Russell of Georgia groused that Dirksen had "killed off a rapidly growing Republican Party in the South." But … whom wrote off the black vote and pursued white voters with coded racial appeals. In 1988 Bush tarred Democrat Michael …

… in Iraq: the longer we stay, the stronger our enemies become. We cannot defeat either the insurgency or the civil … the defeated Ottoman Empire after World War I, but British officials ignored the ethnic and religious antagonisms … As predicted, Sunni and Shiite clerics declared holy war against the British, and their followers assassinated …

… That paper, simply entitled “Declarations Drawn up in Common Agreement,” was signed in a town on the French side … was France’s most entrenched settler colony. Invaded in 1830, the littoral of the colony became an administrative part … international opinion. FLN leadership perceived any peace offer from Paris as an attempt to undermine the goal of full …

… These epithets merely delay the day when Americans will consider the import of having used nuclear weapons. Our … indefensibility of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is becoming a part of the national conservative creed." But times … Review editorial from 1987, are "wrong, and profoundly offensive to all Americans and Japanese who died in that …

… face of the Earth.” But Reagan’s great aspiration seems far off today. Both Russia and the United States hold thousands … In 1996 two retired generals, Lee Butler and Andrew Goodpaster, put forth a plan for the nuclear states to begin … for new nuclear weaponry. The U.S. refusal to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to eliminate nuclear test …

… Michael Axworthy, a former British Foreign Service officer and a lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the … its weather, and the origin of the word "Persian," which comes from Fars province in southwestern Iran, home to … discusses the first Persian Empire, the Achaemenids (550BC-330BC), founded by Cyrus, extended by his conquering …

… Its image illustrates postcards, coffee mugs and magnets commemorating this relaxed, yet urbane port on the Aegean … century. The Ottoman Empire captured Thessaloniki in 1430 and ruled it until 1912. A young man from Istanbul tells … prosperity, cobbled streets, cable cars, street lights, and shop windows. A 1907 postcard showing the White Tower before …

… I say that? Because the outcry that many expected over the combat deaths of American women in Iraq has not taken place. … the women who continue to fight, and sometimes to die, off-camera? It’s a question we’ve been asking for more than … maybe, the reality of women soldiers who no longer look good in camo bikinis will force us to reconsider our old …

… has taken a hardline on immigration. News from the U.S. border that asylum seekers are being turned away, that … Jessica Vinas-Nelson  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … horses killed, by different counts, somewhere between 30 and 40 people in the next week, and that remains in …

… gains, opposition to gay rights, exemplified by government officials like Kim Davis, remind us that considerable … licenses to gay couples represents an example of the often complex relationship between government officials and … century, with a specific focus from the years between the 1930s and the 1990s. The FBI’s finely tuned image as a …

… “Socialism!” That’s the alarm many conservative commentators and legislators are sounding about the latest … slope towards socialism or at least a day when government officials run American businesses, the American economy and, … institutions. In the 1810s and again in the early 1830s, despite the protests of state directors, many state …

… early days of the Cold War. Now, as then, threatening words will probably do more harm than good, even if they are never translated into action. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower committed the U.S. government to a first-strike nuclear …

… behavior better than almost any other Confederate officer. He served in the Grant administration and rebuked … preferred shorter names of five letters or less. Gen. William J. Snow—the Army’s Chief of Field Artillery and in … moves from the Jim Crow era. The opportunity to change our common legacy rests fully in our hands. Renaming these bases …

… law” (p. 5). This argument revolutionizes the discussion of comparative racism and our understanding of the influence of … meeting between Nazi lawmakers, judges, and high-ranking officials, these men decided that the American racial … monograph looks primarily at the years between 1880 and 1930, and at episodes the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1888, the …

… At times it has professed adherence; at others, it has scoffed. Even the reasoning for rejecting these conventions is … These French units exploited the unclear lines of their own command authority to act somewhat independently of the rest … operatives can use torture to extract information that will save lives. But in the long term, the widespread use of …

… the second largest military contingent in Iraq, after the (official) U.S. military force. Mercenaries are being hired … phenomenon. This is why Congress should examine the recommendations made in a 2002 British government Green Paper … athletes of their day. The British hired more than 30,000 German soldiers — the famed Hessians, some of whom …

… The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will vote early in March on the Bush … government." The commission was essentially the state's official arm in a campaign of "massive resistance" to the … laws governing public accommodations and employment. For good measure, the commission also conspired to disrupt the …

… Project ]. Canada’s Houses of Parliament (its House of Commons and the Senate chambers) sit on the unceded … in the tepee to listen to their concerns even as the official national celebrations commemorating that … of British Columbia and Alberta, beginning in the 1930s, and continuing until the early 1970s, were …