Search Results

… This years Veterans Day comes in the wake of fierce political campaigning over which policies … for their country overseas. The divisive war in Iraq was what drove this fall’s march of troops through dueling … wordless rituals began four score and seven years ago, when President Wilson asked Americans to observe two minutes …

… Paul Ryan? A recent CNN poll indicated that more than half the country doesn’t know enough about him to form an … the job before accepting Mitt Romney’s invitation.   Adams was not alone in his views of the vice presidency. Many of … keeper Martin J. Dooley, perhaps captured the office best when he said that the vice presidency was “not a crime …

… Explanations of the Heaven’s Gate suicides now blame everything from comets … among us, as commentator David Gelernter put it. Perhaps when we have finished scapegoating we might look more … gullibility in the novel “The Confidence-Man” (1857). It was the story of a Mississippi riverboat crook who left …

… On June 12, the Supreme Court ruled that Clarence E. Hill, a Florida … right to challenge the lethal injection procedure the state was planning to use on him. The Court's decision was … for the victim and a crisis of conscience for society when the government kills a human being. By trying to invent …

… On a summer day in August 1920, in the middle of war , a group of Ukrainians performed Macbeth . They had been in Kyiv, but the city was destroyed, dangerous, and barely supported life, let … most books on Soviet culture focus only on Moscow (or Leningrad), assuming that everything else is secondary. It …

… A 1945 poster quoting the opening line of the preamble of the United Nations … a new set of international institutions. U.S. participation was vital to this project because no international … to fill the position it ignored a generation earlier when politicians had rejected participation in the League of …

… Since April 2016, members of the Great Sioux Nation have been protesting, through … line) and the original pipeline route (dashed line) that was changed due to concerns over drinking water in Bismarck. … U.S. Supreme Court affirmed this position as early as 1832, when in Worcester vs. Georgia it grounded the Cherokees’ …

… about it. He is front and center in Ron Suskind’s book, “The Price of Loyalty,” an insider account of the Bush … has become an extension of the presidency itself. Adams was not alone in his views of the vice presidency. Many of … keeper Martin J. Dooley, perhaps captured the office best when he said that the vice presidency was “not a crime …

… On Sunday [May 5], France goes to the polls for one of the most critical elections in decades. … right’s agenda became state policy in the late 1930s when the conservative republican government decreed the … power in 1940 following France’s defeat by the Germans, it was not led by fringe political figures, but by men who …

… and fair political elections after colonization squashed by the ascension of dictators and the onset of one-party rule … and attempts to nationalize major industries along socialist lines. The eminent political scientist argues here … portions of The Postcolonial State in Africa arrives when Young grapples with the question of why African states, …

… We face a paradox in Iraq: the longer we stay, the stronger our enemies become. We … the Iraqis we came to save. A corrupt Iraqi government wastes the billions we have allocated for rebuilding, while … believed Iraqis would greet the British as liberators. But when he tried to build a unified Iraq, experts warned …

… The chair of the House Government Reform Committee, Tom … represents a moral McCarthyism that seems to be sweeping Washington. One polling firm, the Rasmussen Reports, found … players. Stengel frustrated and amused hearing participants when he used his famous double talk to baffle legislators. …

… In March 1941, the United States remained neutral while World War II raged in Europe and Asia , but the country was inching toward war. Newspapers announced policies to … defeat the Nazis, only to become the program’s sole success when German agents murdered the scientist leading the …

… a stunned General Charles Cornwallis announces toward the end of "The Patriot," the Revolutionary War epic … to play an English folk tune "The World Turned Upside Down" when he surrendered to Washington at Yorktown in 1781. Like the United States in …

… Few would argue that when the United States joined the fight against Nazi Germany it … of many countries with racist legislation, and that there was, therefore, no direct connection between the Nazi laws …

… Four young men have accused the leader of one of the largest churches in the country of … the sexual assault of a black man does become news. In 1997 when Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant living in Brooklyn, was sodomized with a broken broom handle by police officers, …

… It was a sunny market day in late April 1937, around 4:30 in the afternoon, when the incendiary bombs started falling. By the time the …

… December 6, 1922, Ireland’s struggle for independence from the United Kingdom reached a turning point. With the … in Ireland since the late 1100s, this political division was the consequence of a cultural differentiation that began … against England, which had only just been suppressed when King James I ascended the throne in 1603.  James then …

… June 4, 2015 at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author) Last year, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the … dressed in black, and the street leading to Victoria Park was as usual a gauntlet of political parties and interest … of Social Democrats was jumping up and down and shouting. When I left three hours later it was the same refrain, …

… When our group of sixteen historians and geographers arrived on the banks of Russia’s Kama River on 11 July 2016 for an … travel and exploration. Naturalist Johann Gmelin (1709-55) was so captivated by the industrial sites of …

… school, 1946 Common Core is a set of voluntary standards in the United States for the public education system (K-12) … influence of big business. And debates are all to the good—when there isn’t any more debate, we’ll know we’re in … a federal mandate, Common Core is completely voluntary. It was this voluntary nature of the program, perhaps more than …

… In late 1969 the Nixon administration envisioned itself at a crossroads … group of advisers that the "real problem in [the] country" was not the burgeoning youth movement, but "rather [the] … the cultural forefront of U.S. society at the very moment when the country is facing a series of entrenched energy, …

… American historians, urging members of Congress to assume their constitutional responsibility to determine whether or … the okay to invade Iraq, but none has announced that it was time to stop amending the constitution by selective … United States, and of the Military of the several States when called into the actual service of the United States.” …

… operate social welfare programs — opened on Feb. 20. Behind the administration’s stated pious hopes for this project … welfare programs back to the 19th century. He argues that when private charities, mostly religious ones, gave help … and lust and idleness.” For most of the 20th century, this was called “blaming the victim.” Now the White House calls …