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… 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 … who rallied around the war effort and instead embrace Communist parties and organizations.  Yet, if International …

… The Crimea that most people have come to know is a peninsula occupied by Russian forces, … the importance of Crimea to Russia, as the ancient site where, according to medieval Russian documents, Prince … Tsars Alexander II, Alexander III, and Nicholas II visited Crimea’s Black Sea coast annually for decades after …

… use history to justify their views. The problem is a common propensity to mangle the past to suit current needs, … their best to tell stories that reflect the past in all its complexity. But this is hard to do. Consider the current … established a Christian nation. Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy, recently deceased evangelical leaders who led …

… a U.S. audience on the British welfare state, was asked to comment on the American “welfare state.” Explaining that the … citizens, not just those whose lack of employment or low incomes made them eligible. In these countries health care was …

… the Dominican capital, to stop what it believed was a communist insurgency there. The action was heavily … because Johnson exaggerated the threat of outside communists in what was a civil conflict. Yet the President … At the very least, it should take heart that the successful supervision of elections in Iraq was also attempted in the …

… at the fringes of European and Asian societies, Ho's complex experiences have been canonized at home and abroad, with records from former communist territories off-limits, and formal writings from … moved in and out of the great political struggles of his times, influencing the trajectory of twentieth century world …

… to give black men full citizenship. For that much, Bush and company can claim a worthy lineage. But as early as 1876 — … the Democrats' political machines eagerly absorbed the newcomers. Republican machines, by contrast, reacted coolly …

… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … officials accept affidavits of financial sponsorship from accredited NGOs that could assure private assistance to … of private relief campaigns during WWI, however, was the supervisory role taken on by the U.S. government. By 1944, …

… their belief that God is perfect with the evidence of this messy, imperfect world. Intelligent Design responds to … and natural theology was a debate within the scientific community of the day. Within the modern scientific community, there is no debate; biologists disagree on the …

… prevent, the next pandemic. The viruses that affect humans come in many types, and their impact on human communities … vital to influenza control efforts even if it has sometimes led to false-positives, such as in 1976 and the recent … lacked the ability to produce the vaccine in the requisite quantities, and what it did produce appeared to cause …

… Revolution--and learn that women in America have never been completely united.  … and, whereas in the colonial Era the home was also the site of labor, that ceases to be the case in complicated … story next time, on  Prologued . ( music ) Sarah Paxton ( Credits) This season of Prologued was brought to you by  …

… War to defend their position. Then and now they argue, the commander-in-chief during wartime has an obligation to place … more difficulty than Lincoln in defending his domestic surveillance program. Democratic lawmakers and … power, and it’s up to Congress to safeguard them. To their credit, legislators on Capitol Hill have recently taken a …

… King. Jury selection began November 15. The case hardly comes as a surprise. In recent years, the King family has … a fairly straightforward case like the King assassination become complicated with such stale, predictable theories that …

… to take action against Iraq should that nation fail to comply with UN arms inspectors, one arresting question … fight for freedom. By 1824 American citizens had become involved. The American “Hellenes” began to hold public … they could take to make us safer at home. The sober message of conservatives in 1824 was that the country’s …

… appliances, and new opportunities in electronics, telecommunications, and aerospace. In the United States the … work until the 1950s and 1960s brought three-car families, superregional malls, drive-by eating and drive-up banking. … often clueless about dealing with crisis (Herbert Hoover comes to mind). The same has been true of leaders who develop …

… sprawling suburbs on the Colorado plains, and multi-ethnic communities in Los Angeles, perhaps ending up with a latte … can power up our Windows-driven laptop to bang out an email message to an old acquaintance still living among the …

… who make up the Religious Right, faith is important when it comes to moral issues such as abortion and homosexual marriage … called such behavior “virtue.” Personal sacrifice for the common good would provide a necessary check to the …

… a result, thousands of men openly defied draft laws and welcomed prosecution. And tens of thousands evaded the draft by … the tours of Guard and reserve units in Iraq — sometimes notifying them days before they are to come home that … presidential candidates. All over the Internet — at the web sites for Bring Them Home Now, Military Families Speak Out, …

… Daniel Walker Howe wrought? The answer is a sweeping and commanding synthesis of the political and economic history … employees and replacing them with patronage hacks; he blames the economic depression of 1837 on Jackson's successful … supremacy, resolute and explicit, constituted an essential component of what contemporaries called 'the Democracy' – …

… in the quality of American presidential leadership than comparison of John F. Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban … suddenly felt newly vulnerable. They feared loss of their homes, their workplaces and their lives. In 1962, Soviet … reinforced the image of the United States as an arrogant superpower, stimulated anger in the Arab world, and …

… forming a military junta, then violently eliminating any competition before fighting the other members of the junta. His triumph in this power struggle ended the competitive politics of Republican Rome and ushered in the … was made in 251 AD, long after Augustus died, but shows the messy side of Roman battles. Today, we often conceive of …

… were Bollywood films. In recent decades, Bollywood has become popular across the world with sizeable audiences in … productions range widely. They can be artistic or cheaply commercial. They can have low production values or high … the victory of good over evil contains a layered and sometimes complex message. Although Sholay was released in 1975, …

… States had a rate of incarceration between five and ten times as high as in Western Europe and other democracies. And … lives or the devastation it has brought on families and communities across the nation. The historical origins of … or what some have called “The New Jim Crow” are complex. But an important episode in the gradual development …

… millions of individuals, and stigmatized inner city communities--all without appearing to have produced a … Patrick Potyondy    Welcome to History Talk , where we explore the deep background … Siff      With the increasing availability of legal growth sites in the United States, one might imagine that there is …