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… of Ukraine has been described as a “a crime against peace” and “Europe’s Darkest Hour” since World War II. It is an … strike. We were talking about the East of Ukraine or southeast of Ukraine. Last Thursday, multiple locations in … gained its independence, Protestantism, especially in southern and eastern Ukraine, has really thrived. And just …

… In March 2022, the EU and the U.S. unilaterally condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and voiced strong support of Ukrainian independence in the … the Whites, and Nestor Makhno’s anarchists in the east and south. The ZUNR fought a Polish invasion in the west until …

… authority offers a president considerable running room, and the 535 members of Congress find it exceedingly … policy, sending military expeditions to Mexico in 1916 and Russia in 1918, and leading a reluctant United States … midst of the Civil Rights Movement and an expanding war in southeast Asia. Johnson also had an extremely ambitious …

… States remained neutral while World War II raged in Europe and Asia , but the country was inching toward war. … Captain America born out of experiments on hundreds of African Americans. Promotional image from Marvel.com (left) … black Captain America by experimenting on hundreds of African Americans. Even as the subject matter of Captain …

… 1972. That’s when antiwar forces took control of the party and nominated Sen. George McGovern. Richard Nixon won re-election in a landslide. If the Democrats hope to win in 2008, they have to … candidate in 1972. But in fact such large numbers of white Southerners, labor union members and moderate Democrats …

… where we’ve been in our past can direct us in our present and future. … The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, … marijuana with the influx of Mexican immigrants into the southwest and California. And so prejudice against Mexican …

… tape, released last week through Al-Jazeera, blew both hot and cold. He threatened the United States and its allies yet hinted at conciliation. Which part of his … thousands were injured, the overwhelming majority of them Africans. Then there were the never-to-be forgotten attacks …

… founded the First Albanian Republic on January 31, 1925, and elected Ahmet Zog to the position of President to govern over parliament and uphold the newly crafted constitution.  It was a … throughout the duration of WWI. Italy occupied the south, France the east, and Austria the north.  Once WWI …

… representative government. Democracy will replace tyranny, and freedom will rise from the ashes of brutality. That … this country,” he declared, “which are infinitely precious and especially American — a love of freedom, a feeling for … suppressed democracy. Choosing to back dictators such as South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem, Nicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza, …

… Catholic nun is abducted, stripped, threatened with rape, and forced to drink her captors’ urine. This is the latest … that included the brutal murder of an Australian missionary and his two sons in January. Although the possibility that … “most hate crimes in America today are not directed toward African-Americans, or Jewish people, or lesbians. They are …

… ended their accounts with the creationists vanquished and the debate buried. But in retrospect it appears that the … Then, twenty years ago, with the rise of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority, the hostility against teaching … include the creationist stories of the American Indians, African cultures, or Mexicans?) Even Al Gore, according to …

… the ones who want to make up for decades of prejudice and discrimination. But because of the Catholic Church’s active opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage, and capital punishment, it raises serious questions about … Lyndon Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American justice and President Ronald Reagan, the …

… Clinton may have had an affair with a White House intern and persuaded her to lie about it had not been public for an … assert that the only connections between Watergate and the current matter are that the intern, Monica Lewinsky, … to implicate President Kennedy in the 1963 assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem; exchanging government …

… 29, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier met in Munich with German and Italian dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini to … have a free hand on the European continent in central and South-East Europe.” Obsessed with communism, Chamberlain was …

… influential? How did the anti-evolution movement originate and how has it developed into the "intelligent design" … traces the growth of fundamentalism in the United States and the almost simultaneous rise of a coherent … movement to other social movements, such as the southern civil rights movement and American women's …

… of 2003 I collapsed at a college debating tournament dinner and soon found myself in quarantine in Guelph, Ontario. Collapsing with a cough and fever is worrisome at any time. It was particularly … influenza A—H1N1—began appearing in Mexico and the American southwest. By June, the World Health Organization announced …

… presciently called it the last chance to avert a prolonged and bloody civil war—opponents of the Ba'thi order remained … of the internal friction grew out of deep-seated mistrust and animosity between Islamists (groups whose political … 'Alawi and Isma'ili communities of the western and southern provinces. Policies adopted by the Ba'thi …

… Americans "have to have a sense of mission in the world" and that people everywhere look to the United States "as a … that are figuring out how to chart their own course" and asserted "the only people who are going to reform Russia … dreamed of taking Mikhail Gorbachev up in a helicopter over southern California to show the Soviet leader the homes, …

… month’s podcast, three Ohio State historians travelled far and wide to bring us first-hand stories of how the Great War is being commemorated … from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to unify with other south Slavs and independent state. And, of course, there's …

… The notorious Munich conference of 1938, where Britain and France abandoned Czechoslovakia to Nazi aggression, taught the … order. Iraqi Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south could take advantage of Saddam Hussein’s fall to …

… intractable one. The current struggle between Israel and Hezbollah is the sixth episode in a 58-year-long war between Israel and its Arab neighbors that commenced in 1948 when the state … and the Middle East continued on many battlefields: North Africa, Spain, France, Palestine, the Balkans, Asia Minor. …

… when he identified “that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people’s hopes and struggles, as an … implicitly elsewhere, violated the constitutional rights of African Americans. Warren concluded that when a political …