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… Here's why.   The Great Depression was the result of the combination of the 1929 financial crisis and serious structural … the worst economic collapse in American history.   Today's economy is hurtling downward on a similar path. The …

… had different values.” So why should we impose our standards of morality on university administrators of nearly two … reformers. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” reached the hearts of Americans. Many readers — it was … it difficult to break free from the constraints of their communities, for many churches, political parties and laws …

… Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), celebrates her 150 th birthday this year. While her pinafore and his frockcoat and long … our own purposes as well. Zombie Alice at 2014 New York ComicCon. Cosplaying is one way people have taken ownership … what the painful and even fatal consequences were of disobedience. Carroll, however, was on the side of the child, an …

… Bolivia and Ecuador as well as the leading left-wing candidate in Mexico's most recent presidential election have run … Brazil and Chile, are not populists. Consequently, the most common definition of populism in political science today … (most likely killed by the military that dropped their bodies in the shark infested ocean). Furthermore, declassified …

… consequences and that a retreat from Iraq would be more damaging still. This analogy may be appealing, but it’s a … Vietnam analogy is not so much the difficulty of drawing comparisons between two different situations. The problem is … By the early 1970s, American involvement in Vietnam had become a strategic disaster. The war was sucking U.S. economic …

… the debate over what historians have called the failed, incomplete, and even the forgotten revolution has been revived … political system in which all power was in the hands of soldiers’ and workers’ councils.” Ebert emerged as Chancellor, … 1919, riots produced some of the bloodiest and most somber days of the German Revolution. They led Chancellor Ebert to …

… the Dominican capital, to stop what it believed was a communist insurgency there. The action was heavily … spot and focused all its might there. It then set up checkpoints and searched houses one by one. Weeks after the … for the aftermath than many said were needed. U.S. soldiers soon spread themselves too thin. It took them more …

… a tsarist-era name for southern and southeastern Ukraine dating from the 18 th century. At the same time, the … of Ukraine: Russia cannot be an empire without Ukraine and coming to terms with Ukraine’s separate nationhood is a … Both Russians and Ukrainians look back to the mighty medieval empire of Kyivan Rus′, which accepted Christianity in …

… David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea  is not, strictly … are addressed, this work is not focused on ecological communities or human impact on marine habitats . Rather, … remaining two examine the interconnections among these bodies of water after 1492. This organization keeps the book’s …

… of the bombing and was able to witness how the Japanese commemorate these tragic events. Hiroshima Peace Memorial … Abe’s omission was sharply criticized in Japan, and three days later in Nagasaki he did make such a pledge. Historical … so severely that they had little skin left on their bodies. Several cried out for water, though when she fetched …

… time that the United States hosted an international cricket competition. In fact, the first international cricket game … in New York in 1844, when the U.S. cricket team played Canada. A crowd of at least 5,000 spectators watched Canada … ,  New Zealand , Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies, and  Zimbabwe —are regarded as the powerhouses of the …

… became the top trending hashtag on Twitter after the combination of smoke from Amazon forest fires, a weather front, and pollution caused skies to darken in the middle of the afternoon in Brazil’s metropolis … tribes had been destroyed, and the number of Nambikwara, studied by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, had been …

… French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars New book from Ohio State historian Jennifer … railroads, and the development of the military-industrial complex, Russia's ministers of finance, municipal leaders, … of World War I." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …

… Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence will, once again, command center stage. It will be quoted and read in its … who might be persuaded to aid the American cause. Paine’s audience was less refined. They were the common people who … refused to answer Washington’s call to serve in the army. Today, “Common Sense” may not be as highly regarded as the …

… - mostly through means of fashion photography and short accompanying descriptions - Hill attempts to describe lingerie … that also tap into the larger meaning of how women’s bodies are perceived in general society. The story of lingerie … the author made room for this in her own analysis. This ladies underwear advertisement from 1913 highlights a fairly …

… for a reformation of the world order in his famous Fourteen Points address. Not only did he urge a world governed by … of “a general association of nations,” what would become the League of Nations, to adjudicate international … Cold War — but only recently have we abandoned a broader commitment to a world governed by law instead of force. …

… Sterling a year [the equivalent of half a billion dollars today] for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano … the Arab officials of Iraq’s British-backed King Feisal “incompetent.” He noted the gross over-expenditure of monies in … American troops from that nation now. Shannon Monaghan studies history at Yale University and writes for the History …

… stated, “Open Skies” would have the effect of “lessening danger and relaxing tension” between the two heavily armed … terrorists. The remnants of al-Qaida, and possibly Osama bin Laden himself, are in that area. For the international community to finish off al-Qaida, uninterrupted cooperation …

… of Intelligent Design do not do science as it’s done today: designing experiments, collecting data, and submitting … and natural theology was a debate within the scientific community of the day. Within the modern scientific community, there is no debate; biologists disagree on the …

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in Beijing’s … and heavy artillery. The death toll remains disputed. Today Tiananmen is referred to as an incident ( shijian ) by … But even those who survived would remember that they studied to “save the nation” ( jiuguo ). The students of 1989 …

… Are we returning to the bad old days of spying on peaceful Americans? In February, the most … to keep close tabs on them. Spying on dissidents has become official policy since police departments were advised … I. Other “scares” followed. From 1938 to 1945 Rep. Martin Dies of Texas, no defender of civil liberties, chaired the …

… been so obscured by myth. Every year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans sit down to eat with family and … are uncertain. The only documentary evidence of the event comes from the journal of Plymouth Colony’s governor, Edward … that the historical evidence of Thanksgiving is not as compelling as the myths that cloud our memories. It’s too …