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… picnics, parades, and softball games to remember those who died fighting our country’s wars. It’s rarely a day for … to those soldiers can’t undo the damage that’s been done. Saying “I’m sorry” is a small price to pay for so many … ago, on May 30, 1945, by Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., commander of the Allied Fifth Army in Italy. Truscott was …

… How do cold wars begin? The question is becoming more than academic as the Bush administration gropes … No single dispute was big enough, in itself, to cast the die for or against prolonged cold war. But each one required Truman to choose between a more and a less …

… in the early twentieth century by a Belgian architect, the one-time luxury hotel had been remade as Mubarak's home and … European, and Persian architectural styles, the complex embodied purposefully Egypt's place at the crossroads of the … was known of the man beyond the fact that he had visited a website associated with radical Islam—but his name was …

… According to official accounts from the Chinese Communist Party, “The ‘cultural revolution,’ which lasted … By the start of the Cultural Revolution, Feng County was one of China's poorest. With less than three percent of the … is a short book, but it makes a sizable contribution to studies of the Cultural Revolution. Paradoxically, however, the …

… it won.” While Savinkov has already been the subject of one previous English-language biography by Richard Spence, … and sent to Vologda. It was there he decided to become a writer, sending his first short story to Maxim Gorky. … the tears and sufferings of the entire Russian people.” One of Alexandrov’s strengths is in stitching together a …

… guilty of treason against her own husband. Henry VIII had come to the throne in 1509 not as the larger-than-life figure of historical … fertility problems often gave way to more misogynistic and superstitious ones. Henry increasingly believed the couple’s … Milestones …

… Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … found Zimmerman not guilty. The jury of five whites and one Latina reached the same conclusion on the lesser charge … their noses cut off, the flesh cut from their jaws, their bodies scraped and their privates cut out. The blood flowed in …

… Belgrade on May 7. Ten years ago the same proverb was emblazoned on gates and banners in Hong Kong, with quite a … Then, as now, the demonstrations were massive, impassioned and brimming with patriotic anger. In Hong Kong in June … a lengthy analysis in July 1989 explaining how the “anti-communist forces” of the capitalist world, led by the U.S. …

… came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … rural and urban: the daughter of King Edward III of England died of the plague in the summer of 1348. But quickly—at … the founding of new universities and new colleges at older ones. The proliferation of new centers of learning and …

… speculative thinking with his new biography on Trotsky. Coming after his previous biographies on Lenin and Stalin, … the "first full-length biography of Trotsky written by someone outside Russia who is not a Trotskyist" (xxi). 1 What … arguments used to justify these policies. The result is a superficial retelling of the Russian Revolution. Thankfully, …

… which we live. Current events, however dire or exciting or complicated they may be, have been made by history. They … that the phrase “what is past is prologue” is a vital component of our jobs. We recognize that, in order to understand … Oranjudio. Song and Band information can be found on our website and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …

… in open defiance of Qing laws prohibiting the drug. After one Chinese trade commissioner captured and publicly destroyed British opium stocks, … Milestones …

… showing where preservation dollars are going, whether the money is being used wisely and what is being overlooked that …   The National Trust for Historic Preservation is one organization that attempts to do some of this. Its goal … the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City to Acoma Sky City in New Mexico. NTHP activists are gathering in …

… Now the question again surfaces: will the international community be able to avoid the slide toward war? It remains … for example), pose no threat to the international system is one. The faith that scientific and economic progress will … Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for strategic studies at The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the …

… art of guerrilla warfare in rural and mountainous terrain, one strand of the movement also developed a sophisticated … to everyday and intimate forms of violence. Their foot soldiers have asserted the right to assault men and women whom … apparatus was a crucial step. They published a website in the late 1990s but soon abandoned it, preferring …

… devoid of animal or plant life. This initial isolation, combined with its location at the confluence of three … that make them best suited for their environment are the ones most likely to survive and produce offspring, a process … sexual arousal and copulation to rearing, socializing, and diet. For example, since tortoises’ sex is …

… One of my professors recently told me she was beginning to … my professor is onto something. Patterson shares with other commentators the feeling that 1965 was a “pivot” or a … options: looking soft on communism or sending Americans to die. Patterson emphasizes the feasibility of Johnson’s …

… Political administrations have changed and negotiators have come and gone but the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians seems … over “facts”—the usual approach of pitting the “fact” of one side against the “fact” of the other—such an approach …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … onto the program as well. The show is designed for “anyone interested in New York’s fascinating history, from … Boys Podcast also maintains a blog at boweryboyshistory.com , which serves as an additional resource for listeners, …

… a man running for his life, I immediately knew the answer. "COME IN!" someone was yelling. I need not have been told; the gunshots … the entire continental United States, a mere replication of superficial stereotypes in the vein of “soccer, samba, and …

… The conservative philosopher George Santayana made one of the world’s best known comments about history when he said that those who learn … triumvirate of 1920s conservative Republican presidents, died in 1923 amid bribery and corruption scandals that were …