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… A soldier named Tim McVeigh . . . ―Charlie King, The War is Coming Home , 1996 On April 19, 1995, a date fraught with … former soldier Timothy McVeigh—along with several accomplices—detonated a three-and-a-half ton fertilizer bomb … new book, Bring the War Home , builds upon the folk singer’s insight. Belew positions the Oklahoma City bombing …

… has been listening to some version of this exchange since he first entered academia in 1969. Having written … When Affirmative Action Was White concludes with the recommendation that contemporary American policymakers deal … action. Relying heavily on Johnson's 1965 Howard University Commencement Address, the author posits that the 37th …

… The Founding Fathers balanced the power of the president as commander-in-chief with that of Congress, the people’s representatives — the one to command the nation’s armed forces, the other to decide when … whose constituents would bear the costs of war. Not since 1941, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a joint …

… impresionante, la ciudad de Oaxaca ofrece vistas de la compleja historia de México. En 1521, Hernán Cortés mando a … ultima piedra fue colocada en este impresionante ejemplo de sincretismo arquitectónico, que enseña rasgos borracos e … Desarrollo Humano son Guerrero y Chiapas).  Después de que todos los oponentes de Obrador admitieron ser derrotados, …

… nine failed attempts to enter Hungary, he was growing increasingly hopeless. Jamil is from Swat, Pakistan, where he was pursuing a graduate degree in computer engineering. He left seven months ago because he … of other refugees who remain trapped in Serbia. Hungary completed its first razor-wire border fence in September …

… in Washington established new rules for the conduct of business. Free market fundamentalists often denounced these … reacted by pulling their money from banks and trust companies. The stock market lost nearly half its value. J.P. … His New Deal organized the Securities and Exchange Commission to monitor the stock market. New legislation …

… Le Duan and Le Duc Tho, the police state they and their comrades built in the North to solidify their power and … to Revolutionary War," follows the early careers of the "Comrades Le" and their effort to build a police state in … and Laos rather than order their deputies, Tho and Kissinger, to compromise in Paris" (10). Part Four, "The Making …

… that had looked a permanent fixture on the map of Europe disintegrated, often with little resistance. And the Berlin … Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora … Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , smart conversations about today's …

… Its dominant form, HIV-1, has killed 35 million people since 1981 and it has infected roughly the same number … human immune systems, HIV has also allowed tuberculosis to come thundering back as a global health threat and has … for sexual and gender minorities. Gay populations have become more visible and politically active, winning civil …

… North to share collections. Ironically, it was the shortcomings of a UNESCO convention that brought M’Bow to this … in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, suggested that in the coming five years “conditions be put in place for the … opening up conversations around decolonization in Europe, since allegiances to previous generations involved in the …

… administration has added more than 1,000 individuals and companies to sanctions lists. The president has gloried in … from trade networks and the global financial system has become Washington’s foreign policy tool of choice. Indeed, the … trade on London’s financial markets. Here was a plan for using economic warfare not as a way to avoid violence but as …

… The mobilization of a "Catholic bloc vote" is increasingly viewed as politically necessary as political … shoring up what has been a core constituency for his party since the mid-nineteenth century, has curried favor with … economic recovery. Catholics in 2000 are economically comfortable, and will probably not care about George Bush's …

… its ninth extension of the country’s “state of exception.” Since March 2022, this state of exception has restricted a … average citizens with no connection to crime have become victims of this policy —especially poor and young … gangs in El Salvador.  On Twitter, these images are accompanied by #guerracontrapandilla (#waragainstgangs) and …

… In 2015, the Business Round Table, a lobbying organization promoting the … ongoing capital campaign. Workers survey the damage after a commuter train crashed into a passenger car near Valhalla, … and institutions: the financial sector (banks, insurance companies, mortgage firms, stock exchanges), energy delivery …

… some five hours later. This departure of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. … civilians and American soldiers, and inconclusive in outcome. The 2003 U.S. military invasion of Iraq and the … of U.S. relations with Iraq. During the nine decades since Iraq was established as a separate state in the …

… is the word we have screamed, out loud and in our heads, since last Tuesday. It is the word we heard survivors and … and burned to the very bedrock is Miller’s apocalypse complete. In the paintings of Chesley Bonestell from the … New York in books, on canvas, on movie screens and on computer monitors because it is so unimaginable for us in …

… of managing the country “impossible.” Little has changed since Churchill came to that sobering conclusion. Like those … the Arab officials of Iraq’s British-backed King Feisal “incompetent.” He noted the gross over-expenditure of monies in … Turkish invasion. He insisted that “there is scarcely a single newspaper . . . which is not consistently hostile to …

… testifies to this fascination. William Shakespeare has become more than a brilliant playwright from Stratford-upon-Avon: he has become the stuff of myth. Stanley Wells' Shakespeare For All … by stage audiences, not to be read. Thus, it is not surprising that Shakespeare left many decisions out of the …

… from Akin's, and President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to not make "health care decisions on behalf of … began to argue that abortion was an immoral act of sinful women. These divergent perceptions of abortion and … grown more widely available. As the professionalization and commercialization of medicine began, more abortion options …

… in the first five books of the Old Testament.  It was common throughout ancient India, the Middle East, Africa, … wished to establish the trading ties that went with becoming in-laws but didn't have two sets of marriageable … better than being consumed with passion and giving in to sin, but he argued that staying single and celibate was the …

… leaders from Métis artist Christi Belcourt to Anishinaabe comedian Ryan McMahon have pointed out that the past 150 … nations. Front and back of the Indian Chiefs Medal, commemorating Treaties 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Canada’s inability … to the United States has invited moral comparisons since its very inception: a peaceful confederation as …

… forces highlighting Jewish suffering would have meant combatting anti-Semitism among their own population. … feats made to represent mass heroism had been present since the dawn of the literary doctrine of Socialist realism … which was ironic, given that the Soviet "Motherland" encompassed numerous nationalities, including peoples who …

… Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game. The sport debuted at the Olympics … Este's stadium. Image by churl. But nowhere has baseball become more significant than in the Dominican Republic. In … of political and economic control in the Caribbean basin and around the world. The 1898 Spanish-American War …

… “Christianize” the Holocaust in order to play down Catholic complicity in Nazi atrocities. This controversy comes at a time when relations between Jews and Roman … of conscience” — a thorough consideration of one’s past sins. The time has come for the Catholic Church to examine …