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… married more years than either likes to remember. They just get on each other’s nerves. And they always have. Two centuries ago, the Americans and French … French Louisianians like myself no longer have much in common with our cousins in Paris. But in 1803, following the …

… Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan has provoked comparisons with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Like … creation through infrastructure spending. But, like FDR before him, it looks as if Obama is on his way to neglecting women. An injustice then, it would be even …

… federal border patrol’s access. The seizure was Abbott’s way of taking control of border crossings, which he framed … under specific provisions. These cards enable Mexican visitors to stay in the United States up to 72 hours for … of our fight against illegal immigration has been a get-tough policy at our borders,” he told reporters. “As we …

… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … M. Sands reminds us that talking about religion has always been a vehicle for talking about politics in the United … a close read and reflection will readers be able to piece together the narrative’s many moving parts. …

… of scientific knowledge, and of political power. For the Mayan Empire, centered in modern Southeast Mexico, … Itzá, one of the central and sacred sites of the empire, visitors can both see and hear representations of two … at Chichén Itzá. TThe Mayans built 4,000 miles of roadways to connect the city with the disparate regional tribes …

… or blogs and you will see a barrage of infographics and informational maps used to prop up tendentious headlines. Now, … readers to begin their consideration about how maps, or the ways of thinking that brought them about, came to be … Johann Georg Kohl, cartographer and geographer, to come to the United States where he worked for the Coast …

… year, Russia’s legacy as an imperial power has suddenly become the stuff of current affairs. As Russian leaders assert … by restoring the empires of Russia, China, and Mongolia, together with their religious traditions and social … parts fit together in an awkward but ultimately coherent way. Sunderland traces Ungern’s life from his childhood to …

… expands our list of enemies and defines any potential competitor as a mortal threat. The national insecurity state … permanent national security state. Since the enemy would always loom beyond our borders, however, there was no way to … permanent insecurity as a way to control the military budget. On the contrary, they call for major increases, the …

… in state and local races across the land.  Many pundits are comparing this election to the election of 1994, when anger … Republicans could do in 1996 was to run the aging Bob Dole for president.  Clinton barely broke a sweat during that … the election of 1896.   But a funny thing happened on the way to that election.  The Democratic Party, seeing some of …

… for words. Indeed, for historians of Native America, the way words are used to frame the Native past is critical. Ned … of “violence.” Pekka Hämäläinen made an argument that the Comanche past constituted an “empire.” Benjamin Madley, … in extended families whose ties of kinship linked together larger collectives. There was not historically (nor …

… by teachers’ unions, Common Core is an attempt to take away workplace autonomy while imposing more high-stakes … adopted only the language curriculum) . Click this link to visit the Common Core standards official webpage for an … pattern follows other major American school reform efforts: get legislatures and local boards of education on a …

… the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences … containing various harmonic surprises. It ushers in an energetic  Allegro con brio dominated by a triad-based theme, … this tendency toward motivic sparseness in unprecedented ways.  Critics reacted cordially to the new work. But since …

… Ocean Terminal, you watch the city of Edinburgh fade away as its port neighborhood of Leith replaces it. The … your right, you will encounter the upscale whiskey house, complete with nineteenth-century stone walls that feature … maritime, industrial, and working-class culture, when you visit the neighborhood today, the only reminders of that …

… U.S. soldiers just as they were returning from overseas combat ( left ). The opening session of the League of … in its humanitarian efforts. It brought scientists together to work on prevention of diseases including malaria … Council. The creation of the Security Council was one way to assuage these concerns. Fifteen nations sit on the …

… the moment in which they live. Graham preaching in Oslo, Norway in 1955 ( left ), in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1950s ( … influenced preaching in the decades since. Three important components of Graham’s outreach in particular were … parts to operate in harmony, she also insists that life gets better as you get older. After all, she says, at a …

… procedure — is counter-productive. It's impossible to completely humanize an execution. There's always suffering for the victim and a crisis of conscience for … given to the Court suggests that prisoners sometimes get insufficient doses of the first chemical, the …

… really behave that badly? Are elections for new  popes  always so politically fraught? And most pressingly, where do … The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … died somewhere far from Rome, probably never having even visited.   Nevertheless, Christians in Rome from the third …

… research took me to a number of prominent cities in the former Yugoslavia: to Belgrade, Serbia, as well as Tuzla and … park can enjoy and reflect these legacies too, while even becoming a part of it themselves. The Djerdap National Park is … infrastructure and a variety of outdoor activities for visitors, such as hiking, biking, fishing, and boating. The …

… Mediterranean, from east to west and back again. Along the way we meet emperors, generals, bishops, monks, pagan … sphere of influence. In this context Flavius Dionysius, commander of Rome's eastern military forces and a native of … of Constantinople, as a means to tie more closely together the eastern and Aegean elements of his empire. From …

… consequences to explain how individual ambition served the common good. It’s not from the benevolence of the butcher, … the transfer of color TV technology to Japan. In the merry way of unintended consequences RCA’s reactions to the decree … Valley’s growth and prosperity.   Unintended consequences get overlooked in economic analysis. They appear, if at all, …

… demands to inspect the cargo they carried, and Israeli navy commandos boarded the vessels before the boats pulled into … a humanitarian crisis. And some activists, banded together in a "Free Gaza" movement, have organized ships in an … redemption from the ruins of the Holocaust remains the way almost all Israelis see the war today. For Palestinians, …

… my daughter, I wish you were a boy!” Whether he meant the comment as an affront or as a statement on the injustice … “The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments” outlined the ways in which men had held women in “absolute tyranny.” … office, own property, earn wages, acquire good educations, get divorced, and be safe from domestic violence. At the …

… You may not like getting your flu shot, but you should. On January 28, 2017 … first used the term in English, but “influenza” was not a commonly used term in England until the 1782 pandemic. 2. … Flu.” However, the first cases of influenza occurred far away from neutral Spain at the military base, Fort Riley, in …

… and chiseled images on stone, petitioning their spirits for fertility and abundance. Togies, followed by two decades … depression, old products and industries have fallen by the wayside as businesses explore new ideas, inventions, and … appliances, and new opportunities in electronics, telecommunications, and aerospace. In the United States the …