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… The period in Germany from the end of World War I to the … is known as the Weimar era, after the Weimar Republic that was set up to govern the country after the revolution at the … The relationship between culture and politics is explicit when Weitz examines political posters. Weitz's inclusion of …

… The recent publicity surrounding the U.S. Marine offensive … confinement, mostly from improper hygiene and medical care. When faced with an uprising in Kenya in the early 1950s, … establish the strategic hamlet program, the goal of which was to separate the Vietnamese people from the Communist …

… When Al Gore allegedly claimed he invented the Internet, comedians, political  pundits and Republicans … Like jet aircraft and interchangeable parts, the Internet was financed and promoted by the federal government. …

… In 1497, Venetian explorer John Cabot declared that the waters off the coast Newfoundland were so rich with cod … I know this because this story, in various forms, was relayed to me by everyone from a museum docent to a … and communal agriculture. A final blow came in July of 1992 when the Canadian government imposed a moratorium on the …

… freedom can be a blessed event, but it’s painful. In 1831, when Gustave de Beaumont and I left France to visit the United States to examine first hand this interesting … working democracy. One of the chief reasons Saddam Hussein was able to maintain his political and military tyranny over …

… of power for 13 years, 7 months, and 21 days, Nawaz Sharif was reelected prime minister of Pakistan on June 5, 2013. … for Pakistan’s future and marked several firsts. It was the first time in Pakistan’s turbulent political history … while others advocated a separate sovereign state. When it came time for independence, the British, Muslim …

… The Opium Wars (1839-42; 1856-60) are generally seen as … by the First World War (1914-18), the idea that a nation was justified to go to war to protect trade in drugs had been discredited. When the League of Nations came into being in 1920, nations …

… religious freedom made him “throw up” would rank as one of the most unsettling remarks of the 2012 campaign. Contrary … foundations of our country.   In September 1960, when some Protestants suggested that Kennedy’s Catholicism …   Less than three weeks later, Kennedy argued that America was founded on two interdependent propositions: “a strong …

… remain dismissive of Middle Eastern culture, in which the powerful and ancient code of honor determines behavior … the enmity of our opponents throughout the Arab world. Yet Washington policy-makers seem oblivious to Arab motivations … to loosen all the loops and rings.” Honor was avenged when thousands of irate Muslims protested when a helicopter …

… African-Americans until only recently. His plan to win them back: Trot out some speakers of color, bandy about the … power in the South and ushered in legalized segregation. When Bush touts his party's history, he does not seem to know that Republican advocacy of black equality was already waning by the early 20th century. Not even on …

… In 2015, the Business Round Table, a lobbying organization promoting … Industrial Revolution in the 18 th and 19 th centuries was supported by rivers, roads, canals, the postal system, … States by county ( right ). What is clear, though, is that when the government invests in infrastructure, there are …

… In the wake of the recent election fiasco in Florida, many … bothers people in more populous states now, just as it did when the Electoral College was created in 1787. Wouldn’t it be more democratic, they …

… Inflation has long been the great scourge of Argentina and its people. From 1944 to … -7 percent in February 1954 Officially, the inflation rate was recorded at 14.80 percent in July of 2015 (according to … of “cooking the books” and reported that “since 2007, when Guillermo Moreno, the secretary of internal trade, was …

… In the face of disasters we have come to expect that our … of Roman Emperor Tiberius. None of these responses are new. When we reflect on the history of government response to … burden.” The real model for government response, however, was the emperor Nero. It always surprises people to hear …

… Perhaps the most moving and iconic moment in American military … this victory to complete destruction of Confederate forces was perhaps equally significant. On July 1, 1863, advanced … as were some of Meade’s own cross-party subordinates. When one officer gave Meade a back-slapping roar of approval …

… Whenever a president begins a second term, changes among his … might also inspire comparisons to Abraham Lincoln. By the beginning of Lincoln’s second term in 1865, all but two … The only other original cabinet member still there in 1865, was Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, who had been a Connecticut …

… of humanitarian corridors that Russian troops wasted no time in bombing, the siege or occupation of cities … Cabanes : But what kind of history are we talking about? When a conflict breaks out, the historian’s expertise is … siege of the city of Mariupol by Russian troops to that of Leningrad (September 1941-January 1944), which caused more …

… Three graduate students at Yale University have rained on the parade of that university’s 300th anniversary by … on the slave trade. Slaves worked on the Princeton campus when slavery was legal in northern states. The recent discussion of …

… “We all had the same reaction. We tried not to see it. We were shocked, … era. The French case provides eerie parallels to today, when we are faced every day with new allegations about the … use of torture in Algeria didn’t happen overnight. It was a reaction to a deepening crisis in which the French …

… midnight, Georgian forces launched an attack on Tskhinvali, the provincial capital of South Ossetia, or what Georgians call Samachablo. Georgia claimed it was responding to a Russian invasion. Russia, whose troops … Saakashvili to use military force to regain Georgian lands when the Russian army was standing in readiness across the …

… domestic debates about how to achieve moral consistency in the fight and where to use federal government powers. A … Southern segregation. How can we fight for democracy, it was asked, when we treat so many Americans as second-class citizens? …

… a concise, insightful study of presidential candidates and their styles of political decision making . These styles … destructive to fulfilling their ambition" and that it was Reagan's temperament which helped him "gain his party's … showed ideological firmness, yet made political compromises when necessary . This pragmatism, combined with Reagan's …