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… him, believes that his only responsibility to the team comes on game day. Other anti-heroes, such as Michael … William C. Kashatus's is a writer for the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money Pitcher: The Tragedy of Indian Assimilation." …

… of the military later found expression in the Posse Comitatus law of 1878, still in force. Archaic as the title … purposes, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed the Posse Comitatus Act. Rejecting 70 years of … historian in Houston and a writer for the History News Service. …

… his wife, Abigail, that he had proposed the “Choice of Hercules” as the image for the seal. Adams believed that … a secular allegory for that moral lesson. The other two committee members proposed images that drew on Old Testament … and Form of Government We have assumed.” Of all of his accomplishments, Jefferson selected just three for his …

… public interest. Neither did Whitewater in the 1990s. Commentators can’t decide whether Americans are too … the property of the bank’s directors and lawyers. Exquisite houses came down, imported furniture burned in the … in the Early Republic" and a writer for the History News Service. …

… day in Dallas in 1963. In an inaugural address that has become a poignant reminder of the idealism of the 1960s, JFK … else who has inspired us as deeply or challenged us as passionately to act on the selfless idealism that we find so … the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money Pitcher: The Tragedy of Indian Assimilation." …

… holding a variety of assets — real estate, weapons, communications equipment and large amounts of cash and … Center in Washington and a writer for the History News Service. Anthony A. Cipriano is an independent researcher who specializes in military and diplomatic history and …

… that Iraq was a significant threat to the international community. Why is that? Because, the United States — from … The problem was the second attack never occurred. Naval commanders couldn’t even confirm whether their ships had been hit, much less whether North Vietnamese patrol boats had struck them. …

… in the polls among GOP voters precisely because he is so comfortable mixing politics and religion. He presents a … the kind of bigotry American Catholics have tried to overcome. What may be less familiar is that Santorum’s brand of Catholicism — what … History News Service …

… with President Obama's birth certificate, still not completely laid to rest, is an extreme version of a tactic … spread that, if elected, Jefferson planned to confiscate Bibles.   Jefferson was elected in spite of his Frenchness, but … American birth (in Colorado) and U.S. military service, his opponents succeeded in portraying him as not …

… Fort Sumter, the Federal military installation in the Charleston, South Carolina, harbor.  Almost ceremonially it … or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed." For Confederates, first and foremost, this was a … war on northern politicians such as Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner and Pennsylvania Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, whom he …

… formally by a court or informally by a non-judicial “truth commission”? Or should he be applauded as a patriot?   Look … that office he had to deal with Catiline — a talented, ruthless and ambitious Roman senator from an old patrician … convinced that strong measures were urgently needed, passed what is known as “the Ultimate Decree” — that is, a …

… officers as presidential contenders. Generals who have become president (there were ten, six of them notable as … Henry Harrison, a hero of the Indian wars, professed selfless public service as the rationale for his candidacy, as did the … History News Service …

… Sandino was still at large, but the national guard had come under the control of Anastasio Somoza. Somoza then used … United States got what it wanted in the short run – an anti-communist regime – but the oppressiveness of the Somoza clan … of California-Riverside and a writer for the History News Service. …

… on faculty hires. Suddenly, new Ph.D.s found themselves competing with a hundred or even a thousand other candidates … despondent souls at any academic conference, squirming uncomfortably in their suits and waiting — always waiting for … of people to work building bridges, parks, and highways. Less familiar is the so-called “white-collar” New Deal, …

… at the bottom of your screen on soon. And then I'll pass the questions on to Professor Butler. Now, without … named woman. Thus, woman is the work of man. While man is a site full of consolation for woman, neither of them could … kill no one, wound no one, torture no one. They are not treacherous. They set no fires, disinherit no one, poisoned no …

… foreign observers predicted that the days of the Chinese Communist Party were numbered. And yet, as we mark the 18th … of California, Irvine, a writer for the History News Service and the author of "China's Brave New World -- And Other Tales for Global Times" (2007). …

… Vietnam analogy is not so much the difficulty of drawing comparisons between two different situations. The problem is … between Iraq and Vietnam are almost precisely the opposite of what President Bush often argues. The correct … was only after the war ended that most Americans could look past the bloodshed and divisions caused by the conflict and …

… evangelical Rev. Billy Graham rose to celebrity denouncing communism as a "satanic religion," while Secretary of State … the pledge. Then, in February 1954, the Rev. George M. Docherty, a Washington, D.C., Presbyterian pastor, gave a sermon — with President Eisenhower in …

… determined to never again have to sit back and look on helplessly as a candidate outside the control of the established … and make their own choices free from the influence of the common people. Instead, nearly all states allowed the … the voter and the official a political machine with a complicated system of caucuses and conventions, by the easy …

… the recent attacks on New York City and Washington were committed by a transnational organization. But it is hard to … of attrition strategy. It is a strategy that attempts to bypass an enemy’s strengths and attack his weaknesses. In the … and Balancing" (2003) and is a writer for History News Service. …

… the American people that the federal courts would not become oppressive, the framers of the Constitution argued that … because of how they might be decided, it damages the principles of separation of powers and checks and balances. It also … arguments, but before it handed down its decision, Congress passed a law over a presidential veto denying the Court the …

… 3 presidential election in oil-rich Venezuela, the time has come for an overhaul of the Bush administration’s … Chavez has accused his electoral opponent, Manuel Rosales, the governor of the western state of Zulia, of … in oil-rich Zulia state advocating regional separation. Rosales is a right-wing politician who signed the infamous …

… The decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland ought to be a … spectrum are now locked in dialogue and committed to principles of nonviolence. All but one of the myriad terrorist … not be followed by others? Each generation rewrites the past according to its own interests. Political activists …