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… to resolve the issue in 1876 through a special Electoral Commission and a resulting complex set of commitments that came to be called the … University-Billings, and a writer for the History News Service. … History News Service …

… and, due to a series of blunders by his subordinate commanders, his force was overwhelmed. Aside from numerous … also captured 1,900 Italians and 1,500 Askari (African soldiers serving in the Italian armed forces). The scope and … the battle. His narrative navigates seamlessly between commanders and commoners and sheds new light the conflict. …

… France is rejoining military NATO, the United States is becoming more distant. This may be the best way the United … France would no longer participate in NATO’s integrated command and that NATO military headquarters and U.S. … Carolyne V. Davidson is a writer for the History News Service and a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale University. …

… wished that things could just be like they used to be. A common sentiment, it is actually responsible for distorting … ends and actual history begins. In Chivalry in Medieval England , Nigel Saul aspires to these aims as he … minor faults, Saul delivers on his promise to separate the common impression of chivalry as a fantastical code of …

… to stir the nation after four decades. Yet the black community still struggles to decide whether to follow King’s … He had already been jailed for his non-violent civil disobedience in pursuit of those goals. Today’s black leaders have … William C. Kashatus's is a writer for the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money Pitcher: The Tragedy …

… Every commentator in America is drawing the parallel between the … pointed to America’s growing vulnerabilities. The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st century, a task force … Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for strategic studies at The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the History News Service. …

… patients’ access to lifesaving medical assistance, all compounded by the emergence of a new variant that may be … to challenge the underlying health inequities that have become so glaringly apparent in India’s second coronavirus … historic neglect of health and called for health services to be made available to all Indians. Looking to …

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary … uprising brought together Sunnis and Shi'is , elites and commoners, city dwellers and tribespeople. It caught the … several strategically situated southern towns. Captured soldiers were treated leniently, even as retreating British …

… dimples, chads and absentee ballots has raised the ire of diehard partisans who will try to weaken the president by … otherwise, is a dynamic process that revolves around three complex elements — the leader, the followers and the … of the New Era" (2004) and a writer for the History News Service. …

… Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I [Jesus] have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19 NIV). This Great Commission found at the end of the first gospel of the New … Evangelical Left , explores the development of the understudied—and by many accounts, unacknowledged—Latin American …

… industrial power in the Railroad Age. Like so many complex cases decided under that statute, this one will take … modern conditions. But the procedures of the act, which commit antitrust decisions to the judiciary and the … University of Michigan and a writer for the History News Service. …

… history is the Battle of Gettysburg. While many will commemorate the battle itself, the decision not to press this victory to complete destruction of Confederate forces was perhaps … and gravel roads in makeshift wagons, begged to be left to die. Cavalry guarded Lee’s precious supplies as the army, in …

… from the priesthood in February 2019.  All of these tragedies are tinged with a sense of déjà vu. Similar patterns of … changing sexual mores since the 1960s. Occasionally, commentators have referred to an insular institutional … Yet today’s crisis of the Catholic Church, which commentators have called the gravest since the Reformation , …

… that Eisenhower did the responsible thing when he quickly completed the truce negotiations that ended the fighting in … that almost half the 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam died during Nixon’s presidency. The real mistake during what … Did Ronald Reagan “cut and run” in 1983 after 241 American servicemen died in Beirut in the suicide bombing of the …

… returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … PRC. Undeterred, Hong Kong transitioned successfully into a service-based economy and is now one of the most important … its window to the outside world. Cover of Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial magazine in 1970, during the Great …

… Delaware Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell's recent comment–wondering whether “separation of church and state” … O'Donnell even more. It's true, of course, as many commentators have pointed out, that the words "separation," …

… a dramatic reconciliation in the European Coal and Steel Community.Ê Founded with four other countries in 1951, it … problems – especially expensive agricultural subsidies and institutional inefficiencies and cronyism. Though … online education, and a writer for the History News Service. …

… Constitution yet their principles were most fiercely embodied not in our current Constitution, but in the Articles of … that Congress was debating a declaration of independence, a committee was drafting the Articles. Its purpose was to form … Louise W. Knight, who writes for the History News Service, is the author of "Jane Addams, Citizen: Jane Addams …

… over the last four years.  The reasons for that are many, complex, and subject to change in the near and far future.  … the height of the Great Recession in 2008, and through a combination of possible trader manipulation , political … Let’s remove one false idea right now:  Public subsidies support both carbon-based and alternative energy …

… a Kiwanis Club gathering in Columbus, Ga. Calley told his audience that “not a day that goes by that I do not feel … who has been assigned blame for another’s actions. Calley committed murder at My Lai and ordered his men to do the … of the Vietnam war and a writer for the History News Service. His "War Stories: Swift Boaters, Winter Soldiers, …

… Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny already … not be “defecting” to the enemy, because they are not soldiers. The dangers of using a private army are clear. … at Albany Law School and a writer for the History News Service. …

… outside of Haifa, then Palestine , working on a kibbutz (a communal farm). When Halprin returned to the U.S. he trained … Parks. Born in the same year that the National Park Service was created, Halprin worked primarily in urban … drugs at one end of the fountain, walk to the other end and die. This was not the “interactivity” Halprin had in mind. …