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… scientists hoped that vaccines could be used to eradicate common childhood diseases such as mumps and rubella. Yet … could and should be eradicated. Conis writes, “Nature was something to be overcome with technological breakthroughs and scientific …

… Conference on West Africa was signed.  The conference has become known for “carving up  the African continent ” for the … inroads into their lands to rule, possess, “civilize,” and extract resources.  The meeting in Berlin was an effort by … a previous “resource” for the global economy.  After some years, Leopold II turned to concessionary companies to …

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in Beijing’s … Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author) The story goes something like this: In the wake of Mao Zedong’s death … of this “second liberation,” inequalities and corruption—combined with an era of relative openness—led to calls for …

… talking about Martin Luther King, one of the questions most commonly asked is: “What would Dr. King say about…?” The … Had he lived longer, King would undoubtedly have changed some of his opinions. That means that we cannot simply rely … by the end of traditional colonialism and international communism, and domestically by the end of legalized racial …

… men.  Acknowledging both the scarcity of evidence and the fickleness of college students’ opinions, Oldstone-Moore … ancient Mesopotamian history. The bearded warrior kings and completely shaven priestly classes established a clear … ages.  The choice of evidence presented in the book remain somewhat patchy.  Although the author has taken a great deal …

… devoid of animal or plant life. This initial isolation, combined with its location at the confluence of three … one island has a mocking-thrush and a second island some other quite distinct species... But it is the … to the Galapagos environment. Yet it also highlights the somewhat arbitrary process by which we in the Anthropocene …

… Some Americans recall the event with shame and express their … indefensibility of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is becoming a part of the national conservative creed." But times … In recent decades most American conservatives have become uncritical of America's use of atomic weapons and …

… Calley’s credit, but he was not a scapegoat. A scapegoat is someone who has been assigned blame for another’s actions. Calley committed murder at My Lai and ordered his men to do the … nothing else like My Lai, nothing on such a scale, nothing comparable to the deliberate daylight killing at close range …

… Lecture Review: R. David Edmunds' "Something Useful for a Change: Historians and Modern Tribal Communities" Wednesday, March 26 at The  Ohio State … can academic historians engage with modern Native American communities in the United States?  He is a storyteller, and …

… ill-fated revolution that ended with the re-imposition of Communist rule and the flight of some 200,000 Hungarians to Western Europe and the United … been stationed in Hungary since 1944. Since his Hungarian Communist Party took power in 1948, Rákosi had presided over …

… Bush and his administration appears to be War without end. Sometimes hot, sometimes cold, the war is projected against … the diplomatic efforts and foreign aid needed to solve complex international problems. During the Cold War, … Designating many states and organizations as threats accomplishes several goals for the president: It justifies …

… one likes Chávez's loopy Cold-War language, but he's onto something with his nutty words: the way the Bush administration has compromised American foreign policy and jeopardized world … sea lanes of trade free and open, counter illicit trafficking and provide humanitarian assistance and disaster …

… They were likely to make bad choices when “stimulated by some irregular passion.” The best remedy would be “the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens,” the … votes for president. But he looked like a backwoods ruffian compared with the venerable John Quincy Adams. So elite …

… in the voting booth. Barack Obama’s victory proves that some analysts gave too much weight to race, not only in … and hear Obama and learn more about him, they became more comfortable with the notion of his leadership in the White … they have watched many blacks delivering the news on CNN or commenting on television about the recent elections.   The …

… deciding its merits. Then, on Sept. 23, the House did something extraordinary. Rather than take a chance that the Supreme … the American people that the federal courts would not become oppressive, the framers of the Constitution argued that …

… among hot button topics in American public life there is something perverse about the dynamics of the debate over … Amendment does not prohibit robust gun regulation, it compels it. Today’s gun rights ideology is antithetical to … about an obligation citizens owed to their government and communities to contribute to public defense. They also …

… been falling as if stricken by an international disease. Some business leaders are now expressing fear that an … and the Nineties, and does history offer “lessons” from a comparison? Some of the similarities are certainly … susceptible today to the wild investment schemes that were common in 1929. Furthermore, the Fed has played an effective …

… not just “file it and forget it.” She took action. She got some cooking materials together, found a room, arranged a … the effect of child hunger in war-torn Europe, started a committee to bolster the existing national school lunch … these efforts the journey to end child hunger is far from complete. There are still huge gaps in participation in the …

… was the worth of water in Ancient Rome? Floating along the extraordinarily diverse rivers of the Roman world, historian … the wetlands of Italy and Britain. The Roman world included some of the most remarkable rivers in the European, Middle … religious aura of rivers enhanced the status of riverine communities” (31). Rivers were ascribed human qualities and …

… Beatty’s pseudo-presidential campaign, he’s already done something that most candidates can only dream about. He’s … our more prominent pundits have actually repeated, and thus compounded, the movie star’s error. The bogus quotation … Central Railroad, one of the largest and most “insolent” commercial interests of the era. As a devoted member of the …

… how they diverge from the history we know but to respond to some of the questions being raised. Why do we so commonly talk about the golden age of piracy the way that we … city of Columbia nothing but a piece of fantasy or is there something to Bioshock Infinite‘s portrayal of power and …

… creatures in his quests to vanquish evil forces. But some parents think Harry is the evil being who should be … too crude for refined readers. Twenty years later, critics complained that the characters were poor role models. By the … evil. Harry’s true magic is that he is empowered by his compassion and tolerance of others.   Potter’s antagonists …

… in Los Angeles were such displays of violence attributed to something seemingly harmless: —the zoot suit. The fierce … songwriters and animators utilized the suit to make commentary on American life during a time of war. Chapter … and Harlem. Understanding how a style which had once communicated a variety of meanings became tied to racial …

… a man running for his life, I immediately knew the answer. "COME IN!" someone was yelling. I need not have been told; the gunshots … already made my way back through the gate of the archive complex. A security guard gave me a glass of water and asked …