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… During the Hundred Years War, England's King Henry V also laid … countryside beginning at Harfleur and ending at Calais. When the French army gathered at Agincourt, the vastly … repeats a primary source account of how the young Henry was treated for a battle wound through the face that left an …

… Whenever an event grips the nation’s attention, the media inevitably turn to … Tuesday’s terrorist strikes, the attack on Pearl Harbor was an act of war carried out by a clearly identifiable … Few Americans in 2001 can expect a similar outcome. When considering sheer carnage, some might be tempted to …

… The detention of a private citizen in a Third World country … would not ordinarily get much attention elsewhere. But when Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi was imprisoned on two weeks ago, world attention turned to … East Asia & Southeast Asia …

… The 2000 presidential election is unique in the annals of … and electoral votes been close in the same election. When John F. Kennedy squeaked out a victory over Richard … votes the same as 75 percent can thwart the popular will when one candidate garners the requisite number of electoral …

… On December 18, 1898, the Jeantaud electric vehicle set the world’s first … and Laura Seeger.  Learn more: Massimo Guarinieri, “When Cars Went Electric, Part 1” IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine (March 2011), 62. Massimo Guarinieri, “When Cars Went Electric, pt2” IEEE Industrial Electronics …

… On his recent trip to Europe, President Bush pushed the Continent's top leaders to adopt tougher economic … policy of economic sanctions is bound to be unproductive when a consensus among allies is not reached. The policy … John F. Kennedy failed to gain the co-operation of allies when implementing economic sanctions toward Cuba. In 1962 …

… The case of John Phillip Walker Lindh, the young American … for treason date from the trial of Aaron Burr in 1807 when Chief Justice John Marshall adhered to the letter of … last year to study Arabic. He moved to Afghanistan when it was just one of many countries the United States regarded as …

… This lesson is designed to introduce students to the process of forming foreign policy in the branches of … podcast about the value of an historian’s perspective when making foreign policy decisions.  Through class … question; What is the value of an historian’s perspective when making foreign policy decisions?     Files for …

… must squelch talk that he or she is really targeting the second spot.   But when he invoked fellow Texan John Nance Garner's famous … the term of Walter F. Mondale in 1977, the vice presidency was converted from a position to provide for presidential …

… We're back!  When and where did the War on Drugs really begin? Join us as we explore how a century of drug wars fought around the world informs today's conversations about marijuana use, … The Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Trailer) … reevaluates what we think we know about the War on Drugs. When and where did it really begin? Why has it persisted? …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… “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 … The Feminine Mystique …

… 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 …