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… in 1947, Pakistan’s political elites have faced regional, communal, and religious obstacles to building a stable, … Beginning: Independence and Partition Salmon Rushdie has famously described Pakistan as “a place … … underrepresented in army officer ranks as well as the civil service. And the national capital had been placed in West …

… in American history. Burr fatally wounded Hamilton, who died the next day. Hamilton’s premature death transformed … of Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton , he has also become a pop culture icon. Meanwhile, as the character of … from the sting of defeat and the public dishonor that accompanied it, Burr wanted to dishonor Hamilton in return. …

… Revolution--and learn that women in America have never been completely united.  … Trump. Think pieces blossomed overnight, denouncing the complicity and betrayal of white women to the feminist … Take, for instance, Abigail Adams’s famous “Remember the Ladies” letter, in which she implored her husband, John Adams, …

… and religious images get out of hand: ‘he must be for all companies, and all men’s money.’” To the lay and scholastics alike, the first thoughts that come to mind when discussing the Reformation is almost never … In Part One, Marshall gives a broad overview of the Medieval Church . Marshall grounds the reader in important …

… a narrative worthy of the hype. Even if she had not committed and been tried for murder, Laura Fair would have … years of age, Laura found herself the widow of a man who died under unexplained circumstances in the midst of divorce … in the first place. Was insanity simply the inability to comprehend right and wrong? Or could a person be insane even …

… slave trade. While the anniversary passed without too much comment in the United States, it was commemorated widely in … Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, is also a founding member of the Black & Asian Studies … slavery continued under other names as indentured service or forced labor. As late as 1948, colonial officials …

… struck with the force of 21,000 pounds of TNT. 240 U.S. servicemen and one Lebanese custodian were killed in the … to achieve stability in the Middle East in the face of complex, multi-faceted challenges. With atrocities now … as its main base after being expelled from Jordan. Welcomed by Lebanon’s Muslims, the Maronites objected to their …

… by the U.S. Socialist Party, it brought together an audience of 1,500 women who demanded economic and political … break with socialist tradition. Though ideologically committed to human equality, socialists had long argued that … On March 18, 1911, the fortieth anniversary of the Paris Commune, International Women’s Day was marked for the first …

… a man running for his life, I immediately knew the answer. "COME IN!" someone was yelling. I need not have been told; … already made my way back through the gate of the archive complex. A security guard gave me a glass of water and asked … fire, the Zika virus devastating thousands of families. It comes as no surprise that some Brazilians are questioning …

… came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … in Europe for centuries, apparently in wild rodent communities in the high passes of the Alps. The remains of … rural and urban: the daughter of King Edward III of England died of the plague in the summer of 1348. But quickly—at …

… miles in a straight line).  Plans for the women’s flight commenced three months earlier in August 1938. Valeriy … back to the Rodina crew, which had been located by rescue services days earlier. The navigator had somehow survived … 15. Shevchenko, Nikolay, “How Three Soviet Women Nearly Died Chasing their Aviation Dream, Gateway to Russia , …

… process. What’s unusual is that conservatives are complaining about the Court at the same time they’re … the presidents who appointed them are gone, the Court’s composition frequently lags behind the country’s political … at Indiana University and a writer for the History News Service. …

… the charge went, this crime against the past was being committed by leftist academics out of touch with their … agency, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, decided late in 1996, by a one-vote margin, to … in Washington, D.C., was co-founder of the History News Service. He is most recently the editor of A Century of …

… Ever since Watergate, campaign finance reformers have come to expect great legislative victories in the wake of … For 25 years, parties, candidates, and other political committees have had to report their campaign contributions … historian in Washington, D.C., writes for the History News Service. …

… Greco-Turkish war erupted. The war resulted in the largest compulsory population exchange in history up to that time (2 … Reports soon circulated that these untrained volunteers committed acts of violence against their Muslim neighbors. … warfare slowed the Greek Army’s progression, and Greek soldiers’ acts of violence against Muslim villagers created …

… Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. … New historical estimates put the death toll at 750,000 soldiers, or 2.4% of the American population in 1860, which … the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War, has compiled a dozen of his essays into this short and engaging …

… one requiring an almost obsessive attention to detail, a commitment to exacting measurements, and above all a patient … to measure accurately a degree of latitude at the equator. Comparing it with another measurement of latitude made in … of adventurers, officers, and scientists were assembled to complete a task intended to take only three years. Instead, …

… Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children features a memorable … of waterways serves as a metaphor for the subcontinent’s complicated post-colonial coming of age. Favoring academic history over Rushdie’s …

… early in the nineteenth century, but whose adventures and accomplishments were so much admired they made him an … name. By one estimate, 20% of the world's fish catch comes from the extraordinary ecosystem called The Humboldt … an explorer into a conservationist. Alexander von Humboldt dies on p. 105 of this book, roughly a third of the way …

… That paper, simply entitled “Declarations Drawn up in Common Agreement,” was signed in a town on the French side … anticolonial war for Algerian independence that has since become immortalized in popular imagination by such cinematic … to be domestic disturbances by terrorists. French soldiers patrol the hills above Souk Ahras, Algeria (1958). On …

… States. For the first century of U.S. history, the consular service was a haven for corruption, in which diplomats were … he spent the majority of his time working as a de facto commercial agent for the wealthy New England merchant … skills, U.S. foreign agents' lack of language fluency could complicate matters. On the other side of the Atlantic, the …