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… Reframing the Year of Africa: Independence as a Process By Katherine … Everett The year 1960 is known as the “Year of Africa,” when 17 countries across the continent celebrated the joy, … and possibilities of independence. But liberation in Africa was more than this one moment in the global process of …

… The Iraq war has produced more ironies than successes. The … belongs to the past. Before the invasion of Iraq, it was possible to imagine American power as unbounded. Today … nose in the tent of national sovereignty appeared in 1975 when 35 nations gathered in Helsinki and signed a set of …

… an ambitious education plan that would significantly boost the federal government’s role in public education. If his … educational results only makes sense. This is a rare moment when both Republicans and Democrats are calling for more … “A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform,” was made public. It detailed the educational malaise that …

… A week before the historic election of 2008, a small group of historians and journalists was invited to the White House to chat and lunch with First … it means Americans might not have appreciated her when we had her. Our new First Lady, Michelle Obama, is from …

… A week before the historic election of 2008, a small group of historians and journalists was invited to the White House to chat and lunch with First … it means Americans might not have appreciated her when we had her.   Our new First Lady, Michelle Obama, is …

… Watch out for George W. and his gas and oil pals. They’ve got an energy plan for us! White House chief … reigns and fossil fuel is still King. Not since the 1950s, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican … We Americans seem to prefer simple answers. Jimmy Carter was probably the only president to understand that supply …

… The unexpected and nearly unprecedented resignation of Pope … media star. His down-to-earth style, which included his washing the feet of two female juvenile inmates in a … Byzantine emperors to force them to adhere to Chalcedon. When the Muslims completed their conquest of Egypt in 641, …

… In March 2017 Nevada became the first state in 40 years to ratify the Equal Rights … of the ERA?   Susan Hartmann     The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1923, just three years … was extended to 10 years. So the clock ticked until 1982, when the bill stalled at 35, after which point, some of the …

… On April 24, 2015, much of the world will commemorate the centennial of one of the most … thousand and 1.5 million Armenian people. The result was the physical annihilation of the Armenian communities … writing on the Armenian Genocide, key questions of why and when the Ottoman authorities ordered the deportation and …

… Americans are no strangers to political scandal. Over the past three decades, headlines in respected newspapers … Hastings impeachment trial. Hastings, ultimately acquitted, was brought up on charges ranging from corruption in his … loosely stated, is corruption, scandal, and power. And when Dirks contemporizes the topic, it is. The bulk of the …

… The period just after the death of a public figure like … the size of government. His role in ending the Cold War was less important than the Soviet Union’s collapse from … platitudes about “morning in America” on which it rested. When he began his run for the presidency in the late 1970s …

… him — as he did former secretary Robert Gates — to review the War on Terror's combat decoration recipients and upgrade … with only a medical bag and a field knife. He was shot in the leg, and an enemy grenade knocked him to the … out, tended the wounded, and set up a second perimeter. When another chopper arrived, Benavidez dragged the wounded …

… systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to … where she placed blame on a diet rich in meat and so on was bad for the Earth. Most of studies of the food crisis … world food system of the 19th and early 20th centuries when Britain was the dominant world economic and military …

… Although few know it, the anniversary of one of the world great human rights … state found a way to phase out unfree labor. New Jersey was the last to do so, in 1804. In New York City, where one … confidence in his diary that “the time is not far distant when the colored man will have his rights in Connecticut.” …

… Following the recent bombings in London, Britain’s home secretary, … printed texts or word of mouth. As long as 125 years ago, when neither desktop computers nor the Internet existed, men … injured more than seventy people. The bombers’ technology was not so different from today’s. A timed detonator, made …

… The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was … Propertied women continued to vote in New Jersey until 1807 when the state’s legislators limited voting to white, male …

… I saw the ad on a real estate web site a week ago. For sale: 3952 … Detroit—the vortex of poverty that is consuming what once was the nation's fifth largest city—that's not news at all. … a summer day sometime in the late 1960s, though precisely when I couldn't say.  I'm in the backyard of that house on …

… just relinquished its weapons of mass destruction programs. These recent developments no doubt bring comfort to some. … possibility that the scarce resources that we have might be wasted in a ruinous and manifestly absurd nuclear armaments … stood in their way. Some nations disagreed on how or when the treaty should enter into force. When a treaty was …

… You can't read the newspapers or surf the web without coming face to face … rest on the efficiencies of "sustainability." And when it comes to energy, much has changed in recent decades. … and cheap energy to all consumers desiring service. That was the theory, at least. In fact, regulators faced …

… Spreading democracy has become the nation’s principal foreign policy goal. Yet there has … ancient Greece for its political and moral values. Here was a chance to act on that admiration. Americans held … the Greek revolt in the House of Representatives. As today, when the war in Iraq dominates the news, foreign policy then …

… The entanglement of the United States in Middle East … Americans could make to democratic self-government was by cultivating democracy at home. Virginia’s John … summed up the issue in words that are relevant today when he insisted that the United States could best help …

… strong, are turning 65 at a rate of 4 million per year in the United States. The press, the government, and the … and its related expenses. Neither of these conclusions was foregone; both were expedient answers to social and … to attract public and political attention in the 1930s, when industrialization, urbanization, mass unemployment, and …

… and political ideal, that of democracy, our way of choosing the president seems fatally flawed. It also provokes … presidential campaigners. Then there are times like these when the popular and electoral votes roughly coincide in … of American distinctiveness is a Bad Thing. But when was uniqueness a disqualification for American pride? And, …