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… China and Japan. When Bush gets to Beijing, however, one thing his hosts will have on their minds is the Boxer … of more than $30 million (then an astronomical amount) as compensation to foreign powers for the damage caused by the … Rebellion by impinging on China’s national sovereignty. One reason all this matters now is that a new issue of …

… of Kukulkan at Chichén Itzá. Walking through Chichén Itzá, one of the central and sacred sites of the empire, visitors can both see and hear … triangular segments of Kukulkan’s body, leading to the stone snake’s head where the temple meets the earth. From the …

… Pirates seem to have suddenly become popular in early modern history. Recently,  titles such … by others, which cast them as criminals, sometimes romantic ones, but outside the established legal system. That being … endorsement of such behavior. The Knights of St. John are one of the great anachronisms of history, a crusading order …

… Yugoslavia and the White Russian military, and only functioned for three years before Zog dissolved the government and … Republic became yet another failed attempt at creating one of Europe’s first stable majority-Muslim democracies.  … the multireligious provisional government was challenged by competing leadership, most notably the Republic of Central …

… disc jockey Alan Freed crowing “That’s Bill Haley and the Comets rockin’ and rollin’ you with ‘Shake, Rattle and … set of origins. Sister Rosetta Tharpe On March 20, 1915, one of the most influential, if largely forgotten, creators … was playing the Cotton Club alongside Cab Calloway. She was one of the stars of a 1938 Carnegie Hall concert of black …

… and electrified those listening back home on Earth: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” … Taskforce on February 1, 2016. That achievement has since become a benchmark in American culture. The expression “if we … the Moon provides a stepping-stone to Mars—a nearby test site before making the 36 million mile trip to the red …

… meltdown could create a Great Depression like the one that wrecked national economies in the 1930s. They … and the Nineties, and does history offer “lessons” from a comparison? Some of the similarities are certainly … same as the past. History cannot simply “repeat itself.” One important distinction is that the United States, the …

… South Asia’s geopolitical landscape, it also bears a more complex and lesser-known set of legacies for how we think … . At that time, the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned into two countries: India (including lands with a Hindu … of astounding magnitude. Monument to the teachers and officials of Dhaka University who were killed during the …

… of many of the ghosts of history that haunt older nations. One such ghost is anti-Semitism, and with increasing … Americans to reexamine their past as well. Austria has become something of a pariah state because its governing … States was producing its own anti-Semitic demagogues. One of the most popular of these was Father Charles …

… of actors, including African patients themselves, families, communities, traditional healers, healthcare workers, and … The first section is organized chronologically. In chapter one, Lee takes the reader back to Africa’s precolonial past … lung disease is hidden from the medical history of Africa.” One strength of this fascinating medical history of Africa …

… with the Nixon Foundation. John Taylor, a Nixon Foundation official, is negotiating the transfer of the records. As a … staff, I am alarmed by this news. As their administrations come to a close, presidents establish foundations to raise money for libraries to house their records. The National …

… Office in February 2025 to “assist faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship in their … invoked religion to argue that their party was better positioned than the other to protect the nation’s morality. In the … in the Republican party platform than in the Democratic one, Christians in the Democratic Party insisted that …

… Underlying the 2022 war in Ukraine is another conflict, this one over the past. In 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin … is popular when it is turned into shows such as “Game of Thrones” and “Vikings,” but that of eastern Europe rarely … not acknowledge. Rusian pilgrims travelled to Santiago de Compostela in northern Iberia, as we see from the …

… same whiff of hysteria about prospects for the future that one finds in current administration pronouncements about the … the test of the first Soviet atomic weapon in 1949. The combination of the Soviet Union’s atomic weapons and its … bringing about regime change in Panama thirteen years ago. One major problem, however, is the vast difference between …

… (ecclesiastical censure) in England and to his own excommunication, the troubling loss of his French possessions, … plunged further into civil war. Yet today it is considered one of the most important documents in Anglo-American legal … the 1215 version of the Magna Carta survive, including this one in the British Library (Cotton MS Augustus ii.106) …

… DDT were among the most important. But without the will and commitment on the part of governments, health care … spirit and determination should be applauded—and even, one can hope, emulated in our time as we watch the … the “largest mass action the world has ever known against one single disease.” In 1953, the doctor who carried out the …

… Le Duan and Le Duc Tho, the police state they and their comrades built in the North to solidify their power and … divided into four parts, with two chapters per part. Part One, "The Path to Revolutionary War," follows the early … of Foreign Affairs, and others. Nguyen interviewed numerous officials from both North and South Vietnam. She also relies …

… Swat, Pakistan, where he was pursuing a graduate degree in computer engineering. He left seven months ago because he … a thousand new border hunters deployed solely to remove anyone who enters Hungary illegally. The “Balkan Route” in late … new arrivals in Belgrade . Eighty percent of refugees are officially registered and staying in open reception centers, …

… in the fight and where to use federal government powers. A common myth about wartime is that everyone bands together in a common cause. Yet in the past, U.S. … war profiteers. Popular support for a war has been just one facet of domestic debate. Two themes in particular from …

… the U.S. and Russia have never engaged in a hot war with one another, American pundits and politicians almost always … many friendly moments as well. These constructive episodes complicate a history that is often painted as invariably … Christie Brinkley and his daughter Alexa, the piano man visited Soviet Georgia and the grave of Soviet bard Vladimir …

… have affected all types of environmental protections, one of the most significant reversed the 2015 Waters of the … Betsy Ann and Tom Green. From an ecological perspective—the one taken by most scientists and environmental activists—the … more and more reliant on toxic substances, the shortcomings of this approach became increasingly apparent. The …

… especially in times of political crisis like this one. But efforts to abolish the Electoral College have … passed Congress but failed to be ratified by the requisite three-fourths of the states. Why is that? The American … whose members can deliberately and calmly assess the outcome of an election and judge its impact upon the public …

… Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … found Zimmerman not guilty. The jury of five whites and one Latina reached the same conclusion on the lesser charge … with a crime for killing the unarmed black youth, police officials insisted that Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, …