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… deal with criminal, or incapable, heads of state in times gone by? What did they do with monarchs who outraged the … Before 1600 (the period most of the English precedents come from), of course, one has to be careful when using … So regicide — king-killing — became the tried and tested, unofficial English form of impeachment of the head of state. …

… Do the police reify inequality by targeting low-income communities of color or are they the “thin blue line” … report “the last gasp of 1960s liberalism." Chapters One through Six of Separate and Unequal plum the origins of … telling: Mayor of New York City John Lindsay anchored one pole and businessman Charles “Tex” Thornton the other. …

… promise to Germany’s working class that stood out as one of the few tangible victories of Weimar democracy, was … of steering a beleaguered nation through these crises. Just one month later, as “vigilante” assassinations and political … nation, Bavaria appointed Gustav Ritter von Kahr as State Commissioner General ( Generalstaatskommissar ), granting …

… the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a complicated imbroglio marked by the intersection of European … and Israeli troops to withdraw from the Suez Canal Zone. Prime Minister Guy Mollet and Foreign Minister … ultimatums and launched air strikes against Egypt. U.S. officials failed to anticipate the collusion scheme before …

… for religious practices, including human sacrifices. If anyone is up for the challenge, you are welcome to climb up the steps. However, you should consider the … the outside of the Zocalo. Besides being a great tourist site, the Zocalo is also used to hold protests against …

… of the production of new maps and the conservation of old ones. In "Mapping the Past," the author describes how … Johann Georg Kohl, cartographer and geographer, to come to the United States where he worked for the Coast … which privileges the roles of intellectuals and government officials, suits her objective of writing intellectual …

… landscape and lexicon. This trend has left ever more complex financial markets and multinationals to operate in … regulated risky gray areas. The latest near collapse of one of Wall Street’s biggest firms recalls the market … of specific mergers and acquisitions. The next shift was one of both degree and kind: the New Deal. With the country …

… candidate Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio won the election with one more electoral vote than Tilden after Republicans … With charges of fraud flying, Congress set up an electoral commission to settle the issue of who would be the next president. The commissioners were supposed to be like the original Electors: …

… powers had de facto sovereignty over Chinese territory, was one of the most degrading aspects of Western imperialism in … northern China. Amid this misery, a mysterious group that combined traditional Chinese folk culture, including martial … and politically with the Boxers on June 21, with an official declaration of war on all foreign powers in China. …

… Poon Hui-wing, while the two Hong Kong residents vacationed in Taiwan . Chan eventually returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … “Where is your conscience?” Lin Zexu, a Qing dynasty official during the First Opium War, 1839-1842. Shortly …

… crowned King Henry VII (r. 1485-1509).   This battle was one of the last major battles of the Wars of the Roses, a … and the House of Lancaster over claims to the English throne.  A century later, this battle was memorialized by the … the battle occurred, although a recent study places the site of Richard’s death at  Fenn Lane Farm , about 2 miles …

… Brutal violence is not typically the first thing that comes to mind when observing the artwork of the … this period had emerged, alongside the Low Countries, as one of the wealthiest regions in Europe. Increasing … to subjugate the Romagna. Portrait of Cesare Borgia, the one-time terror of the Romagna and employer of Leonardo da …

… lockstep with him.   Obama’s choices might also inspire comparisons to Abraham Lincoln. By the beginning of … term most of the rivalry and the rivals themselves were gone.   Lincoln’s initial cabinet members either had sought … war, the Union Party. Some simply disliked or distrusted one another. In those cases, personal differences outweighed …

… threat to public health: the specter of a pandemic, and the complacent American response. The so-called "Spanish" flu … 20 to 29. And its speed! A person would feel perfectly fine one day, have a little cough the next. Two days later the … flu was eventually isolated — in 1933, the pandemic long gone. In 1918, doctors could only recommend what they …

… The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will vote early in March on the Bush … the enforcement of federal civil rights laws. This fact alone makes him clearly unfit to join the appellate court.   … government." The commission was essentially the state's official arm in a campaign of "massive resistance" to the …

… Johann Gmelin (1709-55) was so captivated by the industrial sites of “Catharinenburg” that he visited twice—on his path … to and from Siberia in 1734 and again in September 1742, commenting from Nev’iansk: “I had little interaction with … Economics. The Perm Museum of Contemporary Art logo. Kungur One of the unexpected gems of our voyage was the picturesque …