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… threaten the cultural makeup of Europe due to the alleged incompatibility of the Islamic faith of the majority of new … linguistic, and religious differences? No conclusive studies compare Eastern and Western European attitudes toward … that when the world does not act, enormous human tragedies can occur. Arrival of Czech refugees in Prague, October …

… below portrays the craft as a “king-machine” that embodies the monarchy’s obligation to watch over its subjects … of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime. …

… United States. Sometimes, in fact, we try to hide our hand completely. For example, the administration frankly says it … U.S. money, supplies and advisers plus South Vietnamese soldiers was not a winning combination. Then Washington sent … Nixon promise. Two years later, with North Vietnamese soldiers overrunning South Vietnam and storming the U.S. …

… in meeting recruiting goals. Old and New Uniforms in Comparison: Modern-day reenactors (left and center) wearing … roots, but the uniform soon became unpopular among many soldiers. The Army leadership was forced to find a replacement … just three years after it was finally distributed to all soldiers in 2015. U.S. Army Soldiers wearing the Blue Army …

… work begun some 30 years earlier by the office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR) of the League of Nations . Created on June 27, 1921, the position of High Commissioner was subsequently offered to the Norwegian … to the Status of Refugees did non-European refugees come to be defined in the same way. In both cases, the …

… A tweet from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library after comparisons were made between Nixon and President Trump when the latter fired the Director of the FBI, James Comey. The High Bar The ubiquitous, unfathomable ur-scandal … so narrowly as to separate intent or conspiracy to commit treasonous acts from the actual commission of such …

… Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … seen whether George W. will allow his administration to be completely captured by his fossil fuel buddies. Eisenhower, in fact, ended up vetoing the deregulation …

… unrest that followed. To explain this food crisis to an audience in St. Louis in May 2008, then-President George W. … top of that came the failure of the rains and the peasants died en masse , so that entire villages were left … the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing swath of territory across …

… post-1868 empire, including Korea and Taiwan . The Chinese Communist Party would be reborn and re-legitimized through … year, the ROC capital of Nanjing fell in what one military commentator called “the worst holocaust of brutality since … to British Malaya, Singapore , and Burma; the Dutch East Indies; and Australia-administered New Guinea. They even …

… hallways. Teachers gave lessons to help young students comprehend an American past with racial segregation, and how … movement —how it extends beyond the brief period she studied in elementary school, into both the past and the … our government. The permissible limits of law enforcement bodies have always been set by state and local governments, …

… I’ve read about it, 1968 was quite a year. Writers have compared it to the most dramatic moments in modern history— … against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. ( left ). A soldier standing guard in Washington, D.C. after riots … growth and development in a matter of a decade—had made it easy for citizens to gloss over their memories of the Nazi …

… to produce genocide. These include the Young Turks' intense commitment to the homogenization of Anatolia (a development … suffered defeats on the Russian front, the Armenians became easy scapegoats onto whom to channel national frustration. … Some of the Armenians were relocated successfully, but many died in the process mostly from thirst, exhaustion, hunger, …

… the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught … and children."  President Dwight Eisenhower, the Allied commander in Europe during World War II, recalled in 1963, … about a White House decision to the question of what soldiers in the Pacific believed, when the relevant historical …

… safety, and how much states should subsidize the ritual—is complicated. In many countries, demand for hajj visas … Muslim immigration to Western Europe and the fall of communism in the east have caused Europe’s Muslim … Ukraine , Russia offered Crimean Tatars generous hajj subsidies ($1000 per person, about a third of the cost of an …

… fire have long been questioned and debated, the academic community generally blames poor circumstances for Rome’s … morbid irony, “the same layout and materials that made it easy for the fire to spread made it difficult for [Rome’s] … from his imagination.  Tacitus, ever the skeptic in comparison, posited a different conclusion. In the absence …

… he appeared before a joint session of Congress and pledged “communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation” with legislators, adding, “I do … we can appreciate Ford’s refusal to let the presidency become an instrument of partisan knife-sharpening. He welcomed …

… and cultural challenges. The crisis that would become the Nigerian Civil War began on January 15, 1966 when a … in July 1966. This countercoup turned out to be bloodier, and this time, Igbos were the victims. Many … which varied in accordance with political and economic expedience. On the eve of the First World War in 1914, the …

… and Saint-Denis were among the most organizationally complex and bureaucratically advanced entities operating below the level of the state in medieval Europe. As a consequence they have left historians … subjects could Jordan make the construction of such an easy-to-read narrative seem so effortless. Newcomers to …

… to contested elections. When elections were questioned, common sense, rather than adherence to technicality, … and wrong initials of first names and last names were commonplace. Rather than throw out the ballots, as electoral … to electoral law. Thousands of other ballots with incomplete punches have not been counted because the …

… that of Nero’s by Vitellius. Damnatio memoriae was most common after regime change. Note however, that the names of … Iconoclasm was outlawed. The restoration of icons is commemorated today as the “Feast of Orthodoxy.” 3. A Papal … troops overtook the rebellious city of Bologna, il papa commissioned Michelangelo to carve his likeness. The bronze …

… South Vietnam’s governments also had serious problems. The Diem regime (1954-63) wanted to defeat or at least contain the Viet Cong but could not rally non-Communist South Vietnamese behind it, prompting the United … to happen. (Similarly, some Americans in 1963 thought that Diem could continue in office if he fired his brother Nhu – …

… children. What is different today is the often fatal outcomes of children's brutality towards one another, owing to … when one looks at gun deaths in the United States compared with other industrialized nations, that has … limitations of that perspective, too. Though the march's website invites "mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, …

… crowd relentlessly screamed at the sight of them.  Still to come were the increasingly more abstract and innovative compositions, the abrupt withdrawal from touring, the … smaller labels with lesser promotional capacity claimed the commercial rights to their earlier recordings. Then, in the …

… and presidential candidate George W. Bush won kudos for his gutsy appeals to black voters. Alluding to a proud past, he … to give black men full citizenship. For that much, Bush and company can claim a worthy lineage. But as early as 1876 — … a vigorous civil rights bill, but the legislation almost died because of a Senate filibuster by Southern Democrats. …