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… In a critique of John Kerry’s presidential candidacy, Vice President Dick Cheney invoked historical … of America’s wartime leadership: Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Generals U.S. Grant, Dwight D. … issued for the protection of civilian property in the South, but Lincoln, always “sensitive” to the knowledge that …

… U.S. relations with key states of the Middle East, and resulted in territorial and political changes that remain consequential on this … Israel, in collusion with Britain and France, to secure its southeastern border by invading Egypt and causing the …

… has caused a stir in California, Minnesota, North Carolina and South Carolina by unveiling plans to put up anti-immigrant … immigration in the name of reform goes back centuries and relies upon two time-tested formulas, both of which are …

… 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 …

… from the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico migrated to southern California with four young daughters. The family caravanned up and down the state working the agricultural migrant circuit. That young mother was my grandmother, my abuelita.    My abuelita's stories about those …

… 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 …

… is today lauded as an early food safety regulation. And, as beer-making elsewhere has taken off in all sorts of … shape new tastes and different interpretations of beer. In Africa, major beer brands like SABMiller and their … Zambia, and Zimbabwe . In countries such as Mozambique and Southern Sudan , adopting cassava in the brewing process …

… On Memorial Day, Americans pause during picnics, parades, and softball games to remember those who died fighting our … jeopardized our security, diminished our international standing, thrown Iraq into chaos, and, not incidentally, … at the Italian seaside town of Nettuno, which lies just south of the Anzio beachhead. Anzio was a poorly planned and …

… arrived to Greece as refugees , fleeing war, destruction, and persecution in their homelands. As the already beleaguered Greek state, bolstered by … that more than a million refugees had traversed through southern and Eastern Europe towards wealthier and presumably …

… Its route crosses the Missouri River directly adjacent to and upstream of the Standing Rock Reservation, one of … late 1820s, the Potawatomis and Ho-Chunks (Winnebagos) of southern Michigan and Wisconsin awarded dozens of land … obliged them in their peace treaties to emancipate their African-American slaves and grant the freedpeople …

… memory. But with these changes have come many questions and tensions. Is the focus on the politics of marriage … Levi’s jeans commercials changed the public’s perceptions, and has it always been for the better? How has the study and teaching of gay and lesbian history changed? What is the …

… We take off our shoes and coats and send them through the X-ray machine with our … a bright and sunny day while flying over the desert of the Southwest. Neither aircraft’s crew were in contact with air … Security measures at Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina in the early 1970s. King Hussain of Jordan, …

… On the night of March 5, 1770, a man and a British sentry exchanged heated words in Boston, … While little about him is known, he was probably of mixed African-Native descent. Far from unusual, Attucks’s … in the French and Indian War. Crispus Attucks, of mixed African and Native descent, was one of the five victims of …

… of seduction. Given the vast number of people , both men and women, who watch the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show … same time the Shelly Easy Rider Bra and panty designed in South Africa was described as “practically nothing to wear under …

… English Channel resulted in the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England by William, the French Duke of Normandy. It is a reminder that the complicated, ambivalent, and … later, William, Duke of Normandy, landed his fleet in the south of England at Pevensey, which forced Harold to rush …

… York.  Smith traveled to the hill in question the next day and uncovered gold plates on which he claimed were written … scripture by over 17 million worldwide members of the faith and has been translated into more than 100 languages. Even … skewered in popular culture, e.g., the television show South Park . But 200 years later, the story of how the Book …

… security. In the long list of presidential misdeeds and scandals, this one stands out. It’s the first time a president … whether Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium from that African country. Revealing her identity was a clumsy attempt … Andrew M. Schocket … A Dirty–and Deadly–Trick …

… Adrian Tinniswood begins The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science by describing … in for concentrated scrutiny. For example, Sir Robert Southwell brought his unicorn horn to a meeting in 1661. An … scathing ridicule from clergymen-scientists, such as Robert South, and even from contemporary authors, like Jonathan …