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… When Idi Amin, commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in Uganda on 25 January 1971, there was hope among many Ugandans that a new beginning beckoned. …

… Recently we witnessed the disturbing spectacle of the heroes of Sept. 11 fighting … to make of this recent display of division at Ground Zero? When the mayor of New York tells firefighters who are … for the hard-working many. Wartime mobilization is a time when we are called to unify in the name of patriotic duty. …

… We're back!  When and where did the War on Drugs really begin? Join us as we explore how a … Red Ribbon Week, even the declaration of war against drugs was the end of the story, not the beginning. Isaac Campos …

… So "Under God" is unconstitutional after all. Last week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a controversial … the God-infused pledge are now forbidden. Unlike last June, when politicians savaged a three-judge panel that struck … only reasonable one. Originally, the Pledge of Allegiance was a testament of patriotism, not religious faith. Written …

… The name Mayflower often evokes images of 'wide-brimmed … complicated politics that came to dominate a world created when the arrival of English dissidents challenged the … tensions were not always successful. The Pequot War of 1637 was a devastating example of the brutal consequences of a …

… “Greed . . . is good,” said Gordon Gekko when addressing a stockholders’ meeting in Oliver Stone’s … buyouts that produced millions for himself while leaving others in ruins. His words resonated strongly in the 1980s, … malpractice. Of course, Gekko’s provocative observation was not entirely mistaken. Greed is “good” when it produces …

… Raise Questions over African Mining Deal .” A story in the German Süddeutsche Zeitung was poetically titled “ The Broken Heart of Africa .” These … mine in the Katanga region. The articles appeared at a time when elections in the Congo were almost a year overdue. …

… The liberation of Iraq, the White House tells us, is well … they did this while claiming to defend the “free world.” When the constitutionally elected government of Guatemala’s … open diplomatic relations with communist countries in 1954, Washington was quick to orchestrate a military coup against …

… While 2018 marked the one-hundredth anniversary of the November Revolution, … in an international context noting that the revolution was “remarkably bloodless,” at least initially, as compared … to put the November Revolution into the context of other socialist revolutions is one of the strongest elements of …

… “History will vindicate me!” It is the rallying cry of politicians worldwide who are unpopular, … situation — one he handled with aplomb — his reputation was unfairly and irrevocably ruined by his pardon of Richard Nixon. When Americans look backward, they’re impressed by bold …

… 1861, Edmund Ruffin proudly fired a shot at Fort Sumter, the Federal military installation in the Charleston, South … Ruffin fired what has been called the last shot of the war when he killed himself, so distressed was he that his beloved Confederacy had lost. History is …

… When W.W. Norton published Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique in February 1963, it printed just … a concept insisting that women’s true fulfillment was to be found through dedication to household labor and …

… This winter, my daughter’s first-grade class celebrated the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. at her elementary … Luther King, Jr. said during his address at the March on Washington in 1963 . “We want an immediate end to police … of Michigan, mayor of Detroit, and U.S. attorney—took when FDR appointed him Attorney General in 1939. “Where …

… would differ so strongly from Americans in regards to the War in Iraq and the question of Islamic terrorism. It is … stands a proudly nationalist worldview, in which statehood was understood in terms of its military. Sheehan sees this … that Americans and Europeans speak very different languages when it comes to the issue of terrorism. When Americans, …

… The events of May 1999 may mark a decisive turning point … in Belgrade on May 7. Ten years ago the same proverb was emblazoned on gates and banners in Hong Kong, with quite … the logic of the new patriotism ran like this: China is socialist, socialism is threatened by a worldwide capitalist …

… On this Presidents Day, it’s worth celebrating the fact that our nation is almost certainly about to make … Almost all were married and had children; only one was a bachelor (Buchanan), only one was divorced (Reagan), … Cleveland gets that designation in some trivia books, but when he was mayor of Buffalo, the city’s population was only …

… Great Britain [is] going to war,” Germany’s chancellor, Theobold von Bethmann-Hollweg complained as the First World War began. The “scrap of paper” was the treaty that Germany disregarded when it invaded Belgium. Because of such dismissal of …

… billion more in federal loans to stay afloat. GM needs another $9.1 billion now, with more requests likely down the …   The precipitous plunge in auto sales over the last year was caused principally by spiking gasoline prices, tight … from 1908 to 1927, may be hazy, but those were the years when automobiles began to change from a toy to the necessity …

… cinematic spectacular : D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation  was the first 12-reel film in movie history and the first movie … the threat of the black mob in the climactic scene. When Dr. Cameron is besieged along with his daughter and …

… Jacob Lee’s Masters of the Middle Waters traces warfare, conquest, trade, and … and ceremony to form economic and political alliances. It was these same practices, Lee argues, that dictated their … and Otoe ) peoples. That is until the seventeenth century, when the Illinois peoples (Lee argues they constitute a …

… of Julia Aquilia Severa, wife of Roman Emperor Severus, was destroyed after the Senate decided to demolish all … of many of the Western canon’s great works of art. When Pope Julius II’s troops overtook the rebellious city of … as “Stalin World,” also exists in Lithuania . Many busts of Lenin, Marx, and Engels are on view in Budapest’s Szoborpark …

… expansion into Eastern Europe goes on, sometimes taking on the aura of melodrama, sometimes of farce, there has been little attempt by to explain to Americans what NATO was and is all about. Perhaps history from the early cold … dollar U.S. defense expenditures in the post war period. When one looks back before 1945, NATO may also be seen as a …

… Brutal violence is not typically the first thing that comes to mind when observing the artwork of the Renaissance’s greatest … is also inextricably linked to the human suffering that was experienced during the period that is now known as the …

… The recent capture in Pakistan of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, … a classic example of primitive political justice. The case was a result of Japanese atrocities in the Philippines … United States in 1942 and tried by a U.S. military court. When the defendants appealed to the Supreme Court for writs …