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… West, the Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707) stands out as one of South Asia’s most controversial historical figures. … thousands of non-Islamic monuments and temples, and committing genocide.  To some South Asian Muslims, he was an … to the world through various cultural projects, from exquisite miniature paintings to architectural masterpieces, such …

… universities to yield an annual, independent source of income. Endowment size has served as a proxy for academic … become steeply stratified over the past century. Merely one-fifth of the some 3,300 colleges and universities today … in the excise tax are under consideration. Elected officials nationwide are thus scoring political points by …

… Joseph Roisman’s  The Classical Art of Command: Eight Greek Generals Who Shaped the History of … well, mixing popular, well-known generals with more obscure ones. Leonidas, the doomed Spartan king who stood at … navarch Lysander who shattered that empire. Similarly, one expects to see Epaminondas and Pelopidas, who together …

… As national governments and the global scientific community struggle to contain the spread of the coronavirus … ad for the upcoming Plandemic documentary U.S. government officials—including President Donald Trump —for weeks pushed … estimated 50-100 million lives worldwide. In October 1918 alone, Americans witnessed nearly 200,000 of their countrymen …

… emergence with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. On one hand, huge new markets have opened to American companies; on the other, Chinese producers have created … liberation and revival of the African nations.” Chinese official Lu Shaye made the point even more emphatically: …

… holds great cultural significance as an ancient Hawaiian site and offers a fantastic opportunity to explore the … , or Hawaiian ruling class. Children, the elderly, and non-combatants could also find peace and shelter within a … Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau, established around 450 years ago, is one of the best-preserved examples of these sanctuaries and …

… In one of the more interesting and ironic twists in recent … Protestants. Evangelical-Catholic relations have come a long way over the last generation, but for all their … during the earth’s last days. Roger Williams, a Puritan and one of early America’s champions of religious liberty, …

… are only make things worse. America’s goals in Bolivia come down to two things: limiting the production of cocaine … gas to the United States. To many Bolivians, the plan was one more colonial abuse. Bolivia has produced great fortunes … come to feel more ownership of their own government. One possibility for creating this sense of ownership lies in …

… what? And why, most of all, should we bother to learn it? One stock answer is that history teaches "lessons." Trotting … future. Scholars of social reform are especially prone to this perspective. By performing "experiments on dead … implausible. History can promote human improvement, I've come to believe, but not in the didactic or formulaic manner …

… the Russias.” Services in Moscow capped a series of events commemorating the Romanovs’ tercentenary, in what proved to … twentieth century. Mikhail’’s election in 1613 to the throne came at the end of Russia’s so-called “Time of … delegates to travel with the royal delegation and local officials’ requests to meet with the tsar were often …

… a strong hold on the imagination of the American public. To commemorate “Honest Abe,” Origins offers ten of the most important things … , and John F. Kennedy(1963). JFK’s murder was a touchstone for anyone who was alive at that moment. Lincoln’s …

… became a national icon — the civic equivalent of stone tablets that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai. … And when the Declaration was examined in 1820, government officials feared that its ink was fading. In an effort to … was brilliant, but the process nearly destroyed the text. Compounding the damage was the decision in 1841 to put the …

… , where small teams of mobile gunmen attack multiple sites simultaneously. Nesser’s observation would seem … in a “Mumbai-style” attack . This unsettling observation is one of many found in Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History … European cells in Europe and established its own cells commanded directly by leaders in Afghanistan. Despite being …

… The story was much the same in 1876, when Florida was one of three states submitting conflicting electoral … ahead in the electoral vote, with 184 electoral votes, just one short of the majority needed for election. The … to resolve the issue in 1876 through a special Electoral Commission and a resulting complex set of commitments that …

… the initial onset of symptoms. Measles often causes severe complications, including pneumonia and encephalitis … control efforts. By vaccination, we eliminated smallpox, one of the most dangerous infectious diseases that humans … inoculation, but few Boston physicians were willing. Only one of Boston’s 10 physicians, Zabdiel Boylston, was willing …

… reader chuckle. After noting that TR essentially preserved one out of ten acres of U.S. land (including Alaska!), … century) enjoying a splendid, gated summer camp in one of the remaining groves of sequoias not felled to … onto both parties’ national agendas for decades to come and FDR splicing “conservation into the Democratic …

… For the last 60 years, the United Nations has been one continual story of missed opportunities. In that … record, any other organization would be better than the one we have. At the end of the World War I, President Wilson … population, was notorious for its corruption as Hussein and officials within the UN funneled money into their own …