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… employed them in operations to deliver weapons to various combatants in Africa. By his own admission, he had flown … Charles Taylor with weapons to help destabilize Sierra Leone. Previously Bout had supplied arms to both sides in the … surplus of the Soviet bloc that unpaid or underpaid soldiers and commanders were only too eager to sell for ready …

… Several bomb blasts accompanied Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to Pakistan. This was a wake-up call in more ways than one. The moment had come for Clinton to act more boldly as … can look to predecessors for guidance. Alexander Haig is one example. During his brief tenure as secretary of state …

… the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: … visited the Tropicana, the 1950s Ford Fairlane would be one of the last U.S. cars imported to the island, and some … a state-run economy in Cuba. Walking through Havana, one can still see the remnants of the revolutionary economy. …

… to challenge Major League Baseball (MLB). The Red Sox superstar started with the usual. He thanked his coaches, he … baseball.  Then, he went where no white Hall of Famer had gone before. He pleaded, “I hope that someday, the names of … too frequently heard, “if only you were white,” as a compliment to their skills, but also as a reality check that …

… While not explicitly backing Manila, Obama stressed his commitment to preserving stability in  the South China Sea . … the famous terraces of northern Luzon, and positioned themselves as a dominant merchant class. By the late … Boxer Rebellion in China targeted Westerners, 2,500 U.S. soldiers quickly traversed the South China Sea to help suppress …

… short of unleashing the Iranian air force against his opponents. Yet, some Americans nevertheless expected that … relations between the United States and Iran have been complicated and edgy as long as anyone can remember. … satisfy the Royal Navy's rapidly expanding appetite for diesel fuel by pumping oil from the world's largest refinery …

… opportunity to delve into a subject dear to my heart but completely outside of my own research. Much to my delight, … fans and World War II history buffs alike, but also everyone in between interested in the subject of Jewish and … instead that the majority of the Dutch had actually "gone on with their lives" during the Nazi occupation and …

… her pinafore and his frockcoat and long wavy hair, old fashioned even for their time, catch our eye and distance them … our own purposes as well. Zombie Alice at 2014 New York ComicCon. Cosplaying is one way people have taken ownership … what the painful and even fatal consequences were of disobedience. Carroll, however, was on the side of the child, an …

… on how you score the Democrats in 1860) at which the outcome wasn’t clear at the outset. Anti-Masons 1831 William … movement. They had a problem: many plausible national opponents of President Jackson were themselves current or … Protester standing in front of a row of National Guard soldiers, across the street from the Democratic National …

…  They are always fighting the last war.  Generals aren’t alone.   In the wake of the debt-ceiling debacle, freshman … a tea party favorite and a new member of the Congressional Super Committee, wrote an op-ed in which he said that “excessive …

… will likely preoccupy future historians for years to come. While a number of factors contributed to his … television news, are reaping incredible amounts of money from their election coverage. Cable news organizations … The Republican Presidential Debates brought in record audiences. The news media’s obsession with Trump is …

… in between. Historians have traditionally focused on the outcomes of “the chiefs now in this city,” namely, treaties. … and Indians as intertwined concepts, Calloway tells us, “One might argue that Indians saw a frontier as anywhere … was a man who traveled with an escort of Pennsylvania soldiers; who insisted on not only an interpreter but a clerk …

… rising public outcry. Many critics, including Michael Barone in US News and World Report magazine, have argued that … tradition of our history, a tradition which they claim is one of interventionism: the United States has never been an … the Soviet Union, the United States was not a preemptive combatant. It was Joseph Stalins Soviet Union that blockaded …

… assertiveness by opening a new Cold War or renewing the old one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … military and government to fight the technologically superior Poles and Swedes. He imposed compulsory education …

… But is it really over? The latest nuclear accident, this one only 87 miles northwest of Tokyo, left three seriously … reached its peak at 343,086 megawatts, which is not even one-tenth of what the International Atomic Energy Agency … of 1989 in eastern and central Europe and the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union in 1991 brought an end to the …

… of solving a problem facing the entire world, the summit’s composition best resembles a hodgepodge of national-or what … so many players at the table, summit meetings like this one have come to resemble rowdy legislatures with their … United States would parley from their respective heights of superpowerdom to manage both their relationship and the rest …

… of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere—organizations that had come out of gay-father activism of the 1980s—wrote a brief … hid their sexuality in a postwar era of shame and secrecy—one in which the assumption that a true and good family had … the country. In November 1967, in a custody case before the Superior Court of California that marks the beginning of …

… three instigators, along with two planners, were hanged.  One of those executed was Aleksandr Ulyanov.  Conspirator:  … and which the young Lenin read five times (14).  Lenin's commitment to activism strengthened in college, first at … of St. Petersburg, where he, like many of his peers, studied Marx, finding the theory to be a "sound and scientific" …

… that are landmark moments in baseball’s evolution as a commercial enterprise and its adaptation to the significant … 1903: Boston Americans beat Pittsburg Pirates, 5 games to 3 One game in the 1903 World Series. The National League began … major league owners created the position of commissioner to oversee the game’s operation, with Judge Kenesaw …

… Richard Stoneman is the world's leading expert on the legends written … birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … mystery, gold, and enchantment. Later ancient and medieval romantic depictions of the East would be based on …