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… North to share collections. Ironically, it was the shortcomings of a UNESCO convention that brought M’Bow to this … of African cultural heritage. He subsequently commissioned Senegalese academic Felwine Sarr and French art … renewed interest in restitution of colonial collections? One reason is that, despite decades of demands, the issue …

… 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 … Warfare, starvation, and disease carried off as much as one-third of the Russian population. The smuta marked the …

… One of the most beautiful parts of the former Soviet … historical monuments and churches.  Sadly, it has become the center of a major feud between Armenians and … be doing quite well in this small, self-styled republic.  One local citizen even boasted of the low unemployment in …

… states and empires in human history, and also witnessed pioneering developments in mathematics, astronomy and law. In … some ten thousand years ago to the seventh century of the common era. They tell the stories of successive … in the third millennium after the decline of Uruk. In one of the most rewarding chapters of the book, the Fosters …

… The Italian media mogul, Italy’s richest man, is now the incoming prime minister. How could that not be worrisome for … with a talent for self-promotion. Today he is a seasoned strongman delighting in the cult of personality. Seven … empires. There was an array of serious charges, including money laundering, tax evasion, complicity in murder and the …

… foreign challenges, President Donald Trump has preferred one response above all others: economic sanctions. Trump has … administration has added more than 1,000 individuals and companies to sanctions lists. The president has gloried in … destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!)” in October 2019, responding to Turkish threats …

… other successful 20th-century technologies such as telephones and television, the growth of registered automobiles … starting to remake Maxwell Motors into his future Big Three company. In 1922, there was one registered passenger car or truck for every nine …

… been interwoven with human history. Although the data are incomplete, over 170 volcanic eruptions have been recorded in … (jökull means glacier in Icelandic). Note the alluvial cones formed by volcanic ash and sediment. Luckily, no recent … globally for weeks. Skógafoss, near Eyjafjallajökull, is one of many waterfalls seen from the Ring Road; Iceland's …

… 4, 1970. The May 4 incident at Kent State University was one of those rare events that seem to crystallize an entire … age of tumult: the young squaring off against the old; opponents of American policy in Vietnam against the Cold War … antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone …

… a very different matter. Unfortunately, bad analogies have come to dominate discussions of China in the American press. … or Nazis? It depends on the goal of the writer.  If one’s purpose is to discredit Beijing’s current leaders, … mention a century) ago. These changes could lead it in any one of several new directions, some of which would be …

… 2018, President Donald Trump made a set of disparaging comments about Puerto Rico. They underscored just how little … ) to the United States, and made Uncle Sam the unquestioned authority in the Caribbean, with tight control over … allowed Puerto Rico limited local government) or the 1917 Jones Act (that granted U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans). …

… Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … found Zimmerman not guilty. The jury of five whites and one Latina reached the same conclusion on the lesser charge … equal justice under the law. The federal government sanctioned the process of turning back the clock. After Homer …

… Trump held up Carrier, an air conditioning and heating company, as a symbol of the plight of American … near party-line support, and the next election ushered in one of the greatest partisan shifts in American history. … By shifting this power to the presidency, tariffs became one part of the nation’s foreign policy. The result was a …

… a black president at the nation’s helm, even the most glib commentators can justify focusing on black history. But … personnel — generals, soldiers, kings and candidates.   No one tells us more about all the ways that power works than … which seemingly rose above politics and welcomed everyone. This was crucial in an era of heated politics, which …

… assertiveness by opening a new Cold War or renewing the old one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … ways. Presently, anti-Westernism is unfocused, as no one on the Russian left or right has yet made use of the …

… century the dead bodies themselves became precious commodities because the dissection of human cadavers for … a thriving black market. The fear of having your loved ones dragged from their fresh grave was powerful enough that … dissection.   Burke and Hare took the resurrection business one step further than others. They skipped the nasty, and …

… Barry Goldwater of 1964. Dean should have taken the comparison seriously. Glaring parallels exist between the … Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard M. Nixon. Many disillusioned Republicans suspected Democratic vote fraud, but more … within his own party, but a maverick with a vision, one that galvanized a national constituency and led to his …

… What is the afterlife of an old communist statue? Just what to do with all the Soviet-era … when citizens gathered in public squares to demand reforms, one of the main targets of popular wrath was the Communist … in the center of Sofia. It was a monumental building done in the socialist realist style that had been erected in …

… Nadler of New York warned that "if we don't want to become an empire instead of a republic," Congress must … Congressional authorization under the War Powers Act, let alone under the Constitution.  Congressman Nadler disagrees. … only to declare the fact, which it did in May 1846.   One of Polk's non-Democrat critics was a young Whig …

… make him important to the Union war effort and, afterwards, one of the most influential Black political leaders of the … name. Others certainly realized the gravity of what he had done. Confederate papers bemoaned the loss of the Planter , … the state of Confederate fortifications there. Union Naval commanders acted quickly and successfully on this …

… The success of the HBO show Game of Thrones, based on George R. R. Martin’s series of novels by the … based the political tangle at the heart of Game of Thrones on the bloody struggle in the mid-fifteenth century … behind-the-scenes may have been as important to the outcome of events as the men’s on the battlefield. In Blood …

… William Colby has become a more or less forgotten figure in the turbulent … motion. In the aftermath, a full-blown war was not a foregone conclusion, but that was the way it worked out in 1964. … Colby was appointed. Colby’s tenure as Director was one of crisis management. Many of the Watergate plumbers …