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… to loosen his creativity and imagination. As we have come to know Fitzgerald the person, the chances are good … prohibition became the fulcrum of moral and civil disobedience by those who formerly considered themselves … in the nuts and bolts operations of prohibition and its opponents, including bootleggers and moonshiners, as well as …

… 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 …

… As the president made his way to the train, chatting companionably with Secretary of State James G. Blaine, a man … while angry bystanders apprehend Guiteau in the background. One bullet wounded him only slightly in the arm, but the … body for two and half months. Surrounded by his family, he died on September 19, 1881, plunging the entire nation into …

… 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 … part of the book examines a set of four disease case studies: HIV/AIDS, mental illness, tropical diseases and …

… No disaster scenario more challenges human hopes to overcome nature’s forces than the sudden and unpredicted strike … but there is also little confidence that we would see one coming. In April 2018 , for instance, an undetected … had visited. Yet their commitment to empirical research superseded their enthusiasm for aliens. A view of the …

… talker" of World War II. In September Allen Dale June, one of the original Navajo "code talkers," also passed away. … U.S. general killed in World War II, are not names that come to mind for most people.   That's because this is not … Indian history, arts and crafts, and the national tragedies of the 19th century. This is important material, but …

… peace. At his inaugural ceremony in 2018, he counseled a complete break with the past forms of governance that were … and steeped in ethnic politics. He released political prisoners, ended restrictions on the press, and invited banned … a report in April 2021 maintaining that Eritrean soldiers fighting with Ethiopia had killed hundreds of Tigrayan …

… kingdom were convinced that the United States had become a base for terrorists. No one then actually used the term “terrorism” for unauthorized … officials prosecute filibusters and seize their ships. One general confiscated a filibuster ship in San Francisco …

… it did last year, the threat of massive power outages. Everyone who’s suffered through them knows the disruptions they … still done today. Westinghouse’s new system seemed clearly superior and quickly began to take business away from … stubbornly. When it appeared he could no longer win by competing fairly, he tried playing up the dangerous aspects …

… a proposed constitutional amendment on term limits. One of the main arguments in favor of term limitations has … career began in 1775, when he was elected to the local committee of safety and then to the Virginia Convention, … as well as a term in the U.S. House of Representatives and died while serving in the U.S. Senate. Under a term limits …

… Underlying the 2022 war in Ukraine is another conflict, this one over the past. In 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin … through a specious reading of history beginning with the medieval period and moving through the Soviet Union’s … not acknowledge. Rusian pilgrims travelled to Santiago de Compostela in northern Iberia, as we see from the …

… year marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, the medieval English historic legal document that is seen as the … (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 …

… mineral used in many electronic devices like mobile phones. They gave new insight into the convergence of an … for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … his troops (a significant percentage of whom were child soldiers), reached the capital of Kinshasa in a mere seven …

… world lacked the internet and, for that matter, cell phones and cameras, yet its inhabitants appreciated the value … spy. Since then, as this list shows, espionage became more complex and increasingly valuable. The times change, but … of British Intelligence, real and fictional, including one Agent 007. He acted in the capacity of Her Majesty’s …

… discovered since the mid-1960s (four of which just cause a common cold in humans). A microscopic image of SARS-CoV It … 3. Such a high R0 gave SARS the potential to grow exponentially. However, its slow incubation period and lagging … of Hanoi and who first identified the disease for the WHO, died of the disease on March 29. Though his death was …

… 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 …

… four years of Nazi occupation. Following a week of guerilla combat between Resistance fighters and the occupying German … Fourth Infantry Division. The following morning, General Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor and … would indicate the 2nd Armored division which, with only one fourth native personnel, is the only French division …

… Marina Silva (who recently endorsed Neves) 21.32%. As one of the largest and economically most important countries in the world, the outcome of these elections is significant not just for … direct involvement in politics ended in 1985. (Right) Soldiers guarding Guanabara Palace in Rio de Janeiro, March 31, …

… of World War I, there was little public notice, let alone public discussion, of the new weapons systems. Only … their plan. They shout it out in glossy brochures and slick websites, hoping to get a bigger piece of the budgetary pie. … may be too late. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… especially in times of political crisis like this one. But efforts to abolish the Electoral College have … whose members can deliberately and calmly assess the outcome of an election and judge its impact upon the public … made up its mind. Were elections decided by popular vote alone, candidates would be  inclined to concentrate their …

… and the June 4th Massacre that horrified television audiences around the world. It’s natural to use 1989 as a … as in the past, the soundbites typically stressed just one sort of continuity with the days of Tiananmen: Beijing’s … a way to use history when trying to make sense of China’s complicated present. Another kind of continuity between 1989 …

… impact outside Europe than in it, he nevertheless makes a compelling case for viewing these wars as events of truly … rest of the world in a breathtakingly wide span of case studies ranging from Chile to Japan . These case studies … to help Napoleon against their erstwhile ally Britain. One of the key themes that emerges from Mikaberidze’s work …