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… a stunning achievement and that description of how it was accomplished feels especially poignant today when faith in … Pitiful” The disease was called rinderpest, the German word for “cattle plague,” and it was vicious. It spread quickly … has been humbled and our progress facilitated by this awful visitation. The advent of the white man had else not been so …

… new book Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam is primarily a political and diplomatic … Le Duan and Le Duc Tho, the police state they and their comrades built in the North to solidify their power and … of Le Duan's police state and the disposal of his political rivals. This will also be the starting point for numerous …

… threaten the cultural makeup of Europe due to the alleged incompatibility of the Islamic faith of the majority of new arrivals. Anti-refugee graffiti. Ljubljana, Slovenia, … saw some of the largest waves of refugees and most violent forced migrations in human history, especially as a result …

… the Russias.” Services in Moscow capped a series of events commemorating the Romanovs’ tercentenary, in what proved to … continue to grapple with the Romanov legacy as they search for a usable past after the turbulent twentieth century. … workers were carefully muzzled in advance of the tsar’s visit. Celebration of the Romanovs’ heritage could draw …

… Union in September 1939 shocked the world and set the stage for the German invasion of France , Belgium, Luxembourg, and … order and provide readers bite-sized analyses of complex political, social, and military affairs. For … in a partnership that led to rearmament. The technological component of Soviet-German cooperation stands out as its …

… nation must choose between alternative ways of life, “communist or free,” Truman declared. Truman shook off fears … neutrality allowed. If Bush’s political advisers are hoping for the same success, they may have forgotten how Truman’s … figure. The next time Bush goes home to Texas, he should visit Johnson’s final resting place and ponder deeply. It is …

… is more, climate conditions there serve as a bellwether for planetwide trends. Indeed, rather than simply … patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, … via the northern coasts of Scandinavia and Russia—paid a visit to the Greenland ice cap. During this journey, he …

… in 1945, the United States took control of Earth’s destiny for the first time. After the Truman administration dropped … postwar economic boom took hold, with America becoming the world’s leading hyper industrial and military … Revolution , Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long …

… Opium War (officially 1856-1860), a conflict that not only forced that narcotic drug deep into China ’s politics, … of Qing laws prohibiting the drug. After one Chinese trade commissioner captured and publicly destroyed British opium … ship seized by China on suspicion of piracy—reducing its complex causes to only its precipitating event. …

… The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will vote early in March on the Bush administration's effort to elevate Federal District Judge Charles W. Pickering … does not belong on the Circuit Court. Joshua M. Zeitz is a visiting assistant professor of history at Brown University …

… sixth series will debut in 2017) hundreds of novels and comic books, and countless toys, games, uniforms and other merchandise. Star Trek: The Original Series … thinking of leaving Star Trek when Martin Luther King Jr. visited the set. He insisted that she remain on the show …

… strategist and self-proclaimed “symbol,” King stood at the forefront of a mass political movement with many leaders and … forcing politicians to make hard choices and progressive commitments. Democratic candidates have recently been … then would America’s moral force outstrip all the military divisions it could possibly muster in foreign adventures. We …

… conferences, and publications that in turn disseminated information and ideas. New Zealand suffragists at a London … Ida B. Wells-Barnett with her four children in 1909. The complex international connections and strategies that … they embarrassed President Woodrow Wilson in front of a visiting Russian delegation, whose wartime cooperation he …

… most valuable colonial possessions in an era of uncertain communications and increased European competition. It also details the diplomatic problems faced … commission was to attack Dutch possessions and England was formally at peace with Spain, the Jamaica-based privateers …

… Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" was signed. This … signed between the PRC and a minority people and is part of communist China’s larger nation-building process in its … Tibetans have self-immolated since 2009, with the latest act by Yonten, a 24-year-old former monk from Kirti …

… – "This book is dedicated to the idealists of the world, for whom history always ends in disappointment." The ironic … at the fringes of European and Asian societies, Ho's complex experiences have been canonized at home and abroad, … as his leadership when organizing the autonomous Viet Minh. Divisions among communists at the local levels were no less …

… Although “originalism” was once thought to be the best way for the court to achieve that goal, this controversial … about this theory. What is originalism? Where did it come from? Is it a good or workable theory of constitutional … 2.0 belatedly, a few trenchant historical critiques of the latest variant of originalism have started to coalesce.  One …

… and presidential candidate George W. Bush won kudos for his gutsy appeals to black voters. Alluding to a proud … to give black men full citizenship. For that much, Bush and company can claim a worthy lineage. But as early as 1876 — … be a courageous act indeed. Historian David Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and …

… do as humans. At the same time, water resources — the need for clean and accessible water supplies for drinking, agriculture and power production — will likely represent one of the most complicated dilemmas of the twenty-first century. Speaker: … Dr. Bart Elmore   Welcome, welcome, everyone. This is so great to see everyone …

… who were once suspicious of the institution to now clamor for inclusion—represents a radical break with thousands of … in the first five books of the Old Testament.  It was common throughout ancient India, the Middle East, Africa, … This was the belief that marriage had to be based on a division of labor by gender. On May 18, 1970, two men in …

… War II in Europe. This year as in previous ones, Europeans commemorated VE (Victory in Europe) Day with a combination … turned badly against Germany in the summer of 1944, Allied forces began liberating the concentration camps. Soldiers of … and experienced the Nazi’s brutality. One can also visit the sites where this harrowing history took place. The …

… that way. If bosses and politicians had not put profits before people, the fire might not have happened, or if it did, … watching scores of young women and several young men die, combined with the awful realization that this tragedy could … Investigating Commission, which travelled around the state visiting factories, talking with workers, and observing …

… of nuclear weapons and armament and the potential for war. But from the Cold War, to the Cuban Missile Crisis, … about nuclear weapons and who has them? How did the U.S. become so central in efforts to control them? And how can past attempts to limit … the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union has so many more armor divisions in Europe, and so US nuclear weapons in Western …