Mendeleev's Periodic Table … orbiting a nucleus explained some of the anomalies that had plagued the periodic system from the start. The periodic …
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century" Review of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century Review of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
Calling Al-Qaeda Fascist Doesn’t Make It So … sharply, and these differences render Bushs comparison meaningless in the realm of strategy. For example, Al-Qaeda …
The Old Informing the New Review of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic, by John M. Murrin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
The Long-Term Legacies of Brown v. Board … The danger is that the same racial stereotypes that once plagued our society will become re-ingrained in the …
New Protests in China Won’t Be the Last … of the long dead Communist leader Zhou Enlai. And a key meaning of those images then, as of portraits of Mao this …
How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure … maintenance and expansion is a weakness that has plagued the American political economy since the 1980s. …
Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking Review of A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 , by Susan Pinkard (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009)