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… Department of History share how environmental history informs our shared future in a world confronted by pandemics, … of a fraction of that dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on … that we can do as historians is really work hard by filing Freedom of Information Act requests, for example, to get …

… War (2020). The “fruit of a multinational, multilingual effort by fifteen scholars,” this collection of essays … and development. Latin America is a vast region comprising 33 individual countries in the southern half of … political alignment. Thus, while each exercised diplomatic freedom, they undertook actions with a constant eye to the …

… actor recently capped a bizarre speech to Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) with a dramatic quotation from … our more prominent pundits have actually repeated, and thus compounded, the movie star’s error. The bogus quotation … the development of industrial capitalism and the northern free market. Although he expressed sympathy for the working …

… erupted. By the time it was over, the people of Paris had freed the prisoners held in the Bastille and taken the … by historians, depicted by artists and celebrated by common people. In 1880, the French chose to make the … times of deterritorialized terror, outsourced prisons, bitcoins, and subcontracted state and military arbitrariness, …

… recently to consider their party’s future, many of them complained that conservatives had lost their way. They … to Ronald Reagan’s victories in the 1980s as the best model for rebuilding the GOP after its 2008 defeat. Reagan proved … approach of ideologues on the right. He spoke often of “freedom” and wanted to reduce the intrusions of government …

… and sexual violence seem to have suddenly burst into the news cycle. Nearly every day, new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the … Jessica Vinas-Nelson   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a …

… An institution created generations before any of us were born in a  nation entirely unlike our … whose members can deliberately and calmly assess the outcome of an election and judge its impact upon the public … in Washington, D.C., was co-founder of the History News Service. He is most recently the editor of A Century of …

… 1965 to official independence in 1980.   Political factors complicated matters. Since the early 1960s, the British … movements such as African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), and Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), the … used currency following Prime Minister Tsvangirai’s visit to the U.S. in 2009, and it has remained so to date. …

… Protestants. Evangelical-Catholic relations have come a long way over the last generation, but for all their papal cheer leading, conservative evangelicals … that the Catholic Church was the “greatest enemy of freedom and liberty that the world has to face today.” …

… era created a state of national insecurity that has lasted for half a century. The Bush administration constantly … expands our list of enemies and defines any potential competitor as a mortal threat. The national insecurity state … threatened by any nation that might resist the spread of free trade or seek military strength equal to our own. The …

… 1936. Dick Allen, eligible since 1982, is still waiting for baseball immortality. Allen, who starred for the … career home runs and his 1,119 RBIs place him in the same company as such Hall of Famers as Yogi Berra, Roy … by the Phillies, Allen, who played in the days before free agency, tried to force a deal by resorting to unexcused …

… the Dominican capital, to stop what it believed was a communist insurgency there. The action was heavily … hundreds of U.S. paratroopers landed quickly to protect foreigners. A few days later, tens of thousands more joined … worried that any instability anywhere was a threat to free peoples everywhere. The CIA and the embassy also gave …

… China and the United States, with perilous implications for the twenty-first century. “A blood debt must be repaid … a lengthy analysis in July 1989 explaining how the “anti-communist forces” of the capitalist world, led by the U.S. … itself. The eagerness of leaders in the self-styled “Free World” to claim credit for the “victory” of course lent …

… from any newspaper today: “Multinational peacekeeping force planned for Macedonia.” “International tribunal to … Now the question again surfaces: will the international community be able to avoid the slide toward war? It remains … it stand as the advocate of international human rights and freedoms? Or should it concentrate on consolidating its …

… The state of California is beginning its fourth year of a serious drought, … are also experiencing moderate to severe drought, and this comes on the heels of a very dry decade. This long drought … population and an ever-changing climate, will we ever be free from the threat of long dry periods, with their …

… going to take their seats the next day and that they were completely resolute in overturning the election and bringing … Thiong'o and his wife were beaten by thugs during a brief visit to Kenya more recently. Banditry and other forms of … to achieve independence, calling themselves the Land and Freedom army, but called (and vilified) by the British as …

… man who Europeans called Tamurlane. If possible, he was to forge a peace treaty with the world-conqueror, whose sack of … noted that work on the largest mosque in the city had been completed just before his arrival, but Timur ordered its … here to Hajji Muhammad al-Qazi, a Chagatai courtier who had visited the court of Castile in Toledo several years …

… has been characterized by friction, contradictions, and competing visions of the goals of union. The most recent … of the same recurrent dream that for ten centuries has revisited the peoples of Europe: creating between them an … with rapidly reorienting centralized economies toward free-market capitalism and creating transparent and …

… hallowed. Those claiming to defend traditional marriage forget what those traditions were. One revered form of … so that all Jews could go back to biblical ways. The Ten Commandments are mute about gay marriage. Males in a … separating the slave from his wife as a condition for his freedom and, in general, the elaborate support the Bible …

… Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk spoke about his company's plans for interplanetary travel and his belief in humanity's … Aldrin in 2016 at a preview of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex exhibit on Mars ( bottom ). Mars as Empire …

… Clinton will soon be traveling south of the Rio Grande for a summit with his Mexican counterpart Ernesto Zedillo. … bilateral trade, illegal immigration, and joint efforts to combat drug trafficking. Political reform in Mexico should … harsh realities of Mexican politics during his upcoming visit.  To champion President Zedillo as an agent of change, …

… and what it can tell us about  changing conceptions of the common good. In addition, host Patrick Potyondy interviews … Mark Sokolsky  Welcome to History Talk , where we bring together a panel of … kicking the can down the road. The dream of certain kind of free market economists is that the private sector will …