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… the fate of Czechoslovakia. They agreed to Hitler’s demand for German annexation of the Sudetenland region of … Saddam Hussein’s desperate search for a face-saving way to get out of Kuwait before his nation was attacked — … really premeditated collusion with the dictators to fight communism elsewhere. Had they carefully examined the …

… 1920, in the middle of war , a group of Ukrainians performed Macbeth . They had been in Kyiv, but the city was … Hello from Radio 477! . Hello from Radio 477! shows the way Europe shaped Soviet Ukraine. The production was … cavorted with dancing girls. Finally, the figure of comic writer Ostap Vyshnia was depicted hunting a line of …

… the violence had already begun. But the worst was yet to come. Saturday’s rally was scheduled to start at noon, but … in Georgia. A view of the carvings on Stone Mountain, the visitor center, and the surrounding park ( left ). A … violence in Charlottesville has ratcheted up the stakes in ways perhaps unthinkable in our recent past. Although the …

… the French Duke of Normandy. It is a reminder that the complicated, ambivalent, and sometimes hostile relationship … between England and the rest of Europe goes back a long way. Edward the Confessor In January 1066, Edward the … was regarded as belonging to an individual king, who might bestow it on someone of his choosing, though that risked …

… For scholars of the Reformation , the question of legacy is … The prominent reformer, Martin Luther boasts the most complex legacy of his contemporaries because of how he … too. The book is divided into seven chapters that are best described as essays. The first chapter entitled “The …

… had been lost to foreign powers centuries before, had always been part of Russia. Thus, they concluded, Ukraine and … its arguments. Ultimately, Plokhy concludes that the best course for Russia would be to abandon its pursuit of a … and truly non-Russian populations dwelled . Readers might come away with the impression that the Russian Empire and …

… educational mission. Administrators have decided that the best way to promote a university is to field winning men’s … by poorly compensated, short-term contract, adjunct, and visiting professors. Employees Who Don’t Get Paid For over a …

… The success of impersonator autobiographies has always depended on their authors' ability to exploit readers' … as fakes should make readers ask why these cliches are so compelling in the first place. Autobiographies, with their … white supremacists: "Little Tree" became a New York Times bestseller. If there's anything that Carter's story proves, …

… been interwoven with human history. Although the data are incomplete, over 170 volcanic eruptions have been recorded in … seen from the Ring Road; Iceland's Ring Road, Highway 1, was completed in 1974 and circles the island in an … of almost 10% per year since 2000. The number of annual visitors doubled between 2000 and 2010, when half a million …

… former leaders have been brought to account for misdeeds committed while in office. But there are obstacles to trying … other nations — not that he was a domestic tyrant. So the best solution is to create a hybrid court — constituted as a … be brought to light. A mixed court offers us the best way to achieve this. Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow …

… Apple Computer, Inc. has opened an ambitious, brilliant … and should win some awards, but it strikes one false note for those who know the history of the 20th century. Gandhi, … Apple and their advertising agency, Chiat/Day, may find his way of thinking differently is not quite the same as theirs. …

… Historical analogies, comparing something in the present with what appears to be … Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany. Their attempt to buy him off with a strategic chunk of Czechoslovakia failed. … thinking in the missile crisis. He was struck by the way European leaders were boxed in by their military plans …

… a table with friends and fight over.  I mean that as a high compliment, since there are far too many books out there, … or has anything more than artifactual value.  At his best he was clever; at his worst – as when offering tortured … our people lap up and love" p. 133). Any book arranged the way Farber has constructed his invites questions about who …

… and magazines were books, like Frederick Greene's bestseller, The Armenian Crisis in Turkey , which further … played in McKinley's decision for war. The senator's visit and interventionist bent hardly made him distinct. … that "an American Armenia" was festering 100 miles away, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Commercial …

… remember. They just get on each other’s nerves. And they always have. Two centuries ago, the Americans and French … French Louisianians like myself no longer have much in common with our cousins in Paris. But in 1803, following the … American either. It’s a good reminder that the best marriages are based on a certain deference and …

… where it passed like many others. Yet thousands of miles away in Berlin, the  General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa was signed.  The conference has become known for “carving up  the African continent ” for the … described what he witnessed when other Congolese tried to buy up rubber to insert themselves into the trade as …

… raised the question of whether the United States should formally apologize for slavery he stirred a debate that has raged ever since. Apologizing for slavery has become such a controversial issue not only because few … to humankind and must never be forgotten. We should always reexamine the past and those institutions that shaped …

… over 1 million people, most of them men. Just two years before Operation Wetback, the Border Patrol had deported half … 1942 ). The program intentionally recruited only men as a way to safeguard against their permanent settlement in the … less interest in actual immigrants who might settle and become part of the citizenry. The program thus conditioned …

… For a half-century after the end of the Scopes Trial in … that “problems are often not solved. . .they merely give way to others.” Dewey might have added that these unresolved … hibernation. The return of the problem today has been accompanied by its earlier logic. There is a striking …

… to loosen his creativity and imagination. As we have come to know Fitzgerald the person, the chances are good … plot are tied together with national prohibition and the ways in which individuals sought to escape the legal … and its prohibition became a literary topic, not just for Fitzgerald, but for many authors who wrote and published …

… humane. Robert Service, professor of Russian History at Oxford University, counters such speculative thinking with his new biography on Trotsky. Coming after his previous biographies on Lenin and Stalin, … Service's approach is only partially satisfying. The book's best section is Part One, which covers the years 1879-1913 …

… Baker as co-chair, Carter will lead a national bipartisan commission on election reform. His prestige and experience … but they don’t do much for the nation. There ought to be a way to encourage former presidents to remain active and … a constitutional amendment and is not likely make the best use of their influence and abilities. A less formal …

… about this and about *which* Roman decline and fall is the best parallel. Some commentators prefer the fall of the Roman Republic as the model for our current crises while others select the fall of the … Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021) …