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… involving Hubert H. Humphrey, the incumbent vice president, and Richard Nixon, his Republican opponent. This prospect … the October Surprise. The Nixon team beseeched the South Vietnamese to await a Republican victory and promised an ample reward. Talk of a conclusion to the …

… The movie centers on an M-4 Sherman tank nicknamed “Fury” and its crew of battle-hardened soldiers during the waning … driver; Trini “Gordo” Garcia, the Spanish-speaking gunner; and Grady “Coon-Ass” Travis, a bestial mechanic with a southern drawl. Their fifth crewmember, the assistant …

… remodeled airport in Tashkent, the nation’s capital and a modern city of well over two million people. But to head to the architecturally magnificent and richly historic town of Khiva (formerly known as … from the mountains that surround the Ferghana Valley in the southeastern corner of the country. Horses pasture off in …

… December 11, 2018, marked the one hundredth birthday of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. Born in southern Russia thirteen months after the Bolshevik Revolution , the only son of a mother whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, …

… a large portion of Ukraine's cultivated agricultural land in the south, as well as blockading ports on the Black Sea, a significant amount of grain for export is stranded in Ukraine. Written by Ian M. Sheldon. Narration by …

… the 20 th century borders have been fought over, drawn and redrawn, and today the “integrity” of those borders in the face of … when examining the American West, certain parts of Africa and other places where borders don’t function as a … Review of Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands: Migration, Environment, and Health in the Former …

… as if apologies are becoming a regular part of business and politics. Pope John Paul II apologizes for the Crusades, the Inquisition and the long tradition of Roman Catholic anti-Semitism. … Insurance Company will not be paying reparations to the African-American community. But is it really possible for …

… long essay entitled, “ On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians .” It laid out historical claims to the … reading of history beginning with the medieval period and moving through the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991. … from the Baltic in the north to near the Black Sea in the south. It was centered on the Dnipro River and had its …

… invalidating school desegregation programs in Louisville and Seattle. In their five-to-four decision, the justices … public school where 80 percent of the student body is white and black students going to ones that are 70 percent black, … organizations, led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, argued that current textbooks, clean …

… earlier: as a teenager, he served as a provincial governor and was key participant in his father Selim’s (r.1512-1520) rebellion that secured him — and Süleyman, by extension — the throne. Süleyman’s reign … Under his reign, it expanded to include much of North Africa, Hungary, and Mesopotamia. In the first six years, …

… from a flu microbe was as quaint as wind-up phonographs and rumble seats. In the 1960s the surgeon general's office … acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, has advanced out of southern China to menace Hong Kong, Toronto and, probably, the rest of the world.  Again a disease …

… Pilot whales stranded on Farewell Spit, 2015. On 13 February 2015,  198 pilot whales stranded  in Golden Bay on the northern coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Hundreds of volunteers were mobilized by New …

… States began its war against Iraq with a campaign of "shock and awe." An overwhelming demonstration of American airpower … designed to persuade the Iraqis to throw down their arms and surrender even while rising in revolt against Saddam … victory. His confidence cost Ferguson his life in the South Carolina forests at King's Mountain, where American …

… 1 of Prologued is hosted by Origins historian Sarah Paxton and analyzes the myth of the women's voting bloc. Now, as we wade through the 2020 election cycle and celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting … past. Guests: Dr. Joan Flores-Villalobos, the University of Southern California (formerly of The Ohio State University) …

… the historic election of 2008, a small group of historians and journalists was invited to the White House to chat and lunch with First Lady Laura Bush. Organized by the … the United Nations Literacy Decade, fighting AIDS in Africa, and bringing breast care awareness to the Middle …

… Talk History , host Patrick Potyondy interviews historian and Origins editor Nicholas Breyfogle about the … race for the arctic . He tells us about the complex and perhaps explosive historical dimensions of climate … of "Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus" and is co editor of "Peopling the Russian …

… the historic election of 2008, a small group of historians and journalists was invited to the White House to chat and lunch with First Lady Laura Bush. Organized by the … the United Nations Literacy Decade, fighting AIDS in Africa, and bringing breast care awareness to the Middle …

… Seventh Coalition, led by the British Duke of Wellington and Prussia's Marshall von Blücher. This fateful encounter … doomed Napoleon's brief restoration as Emperor of France and preserved the balance of power that Europe's traditional … bicentennial of the battle, which took place some ten miles south of Brussels. However, these plans were stymied by the …

… by weather, criticism, or the economy. Fifty-eight thousand Americans received termination notices last December (56 … In the months since, AT&T, Chase Manhattan, Raytheon and Boeing alone announced cuts totaling more than 30,000 … Take, for example, the case of William Myers, who joined Southern California Edison in 1971, after his father, also …

… WWI , the Treaty of Lausanne was the only one negotiated and, perhaps more importantly, it is the only treaty of WWI still in force today. Lausanne marked the end of a long and devastating period in the  Middle East . Between 1911 … (1912-13), costing the empire its remaining  territories in Africa and most of Europe.  These provinces, home to nearly …

… Pyle sat above a newly constructed port in Sicily—the island near Italy's toe that Anglo-American forces had invaded … with Allied troops across the Mediterranean from North Africa. Before D-day in Normandy eleven months later, the Sicily campaign—Operation …

… of Joseph I. Lieberman as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. Almost every American president or vice-president … But the real story here is not Lieberman's candidacy. The real story is that his nomination has not … ministers, especially in the religiously conservative South, had denounced Smith from the pulpit, and much the …

… Pine Ridge Reservation, one of six Sioux Reservations in South Dakota, fell to Republican agent Daniel Royer. Fearful … the whites— that was spreading with fervor among the Sioux bands would incite an uprising, Royer called for military … As winter approached troops flooded across the Dakotas and on December 15 Sitting Bull, the famed leader of the …