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… is not quite as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. It is also the second-most densely populated … against the DPP "with tears in their eyes" because of irrefutable evidence that the DPP has succumbed to the same … and a Leninist party structure in 1924 (the year before Sun died), the KMT under Chiang Kai-shek's leadership ran a …

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … away from.” Quoting Saint Augustine, he encouraged his audience: “Let us live well and the times will be good. We are … the papacy of Leo XIV may herald the end of an era,  recent commentary celebrates several notable firsts.  Besides being …

… for new nuclear weaponry. The U.S. refusal to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to eliminate nuclear test … and the United States aren’t on the same page when it comes to dealing with Iran. Great danger also exists in … is an essential first step. Failure to do so leaves future generations exposed to the threat of nuclear …

… until seven years later, are usually credited with this accomplishment, having banished slavery in their remaining … move in novel areas. To be sure, these path-breaking acts compromised with the grim reality of slave owners’ property … The Emancipation Proclamation became the icon for the future. Reconstructing the rebellious states and preparing …

… were right-wing ideologues who cynically utilized fears of communism to crush opposition to their tyrannical regimes. … that men like Botha and Pinochet tried to erase. Both bodies revealed the atrocities that their perpetrators had … they called for truth. Freedom is not just about the future. It is also about recovering the past. Governments …

… With the horrific assault of Sept. 11, “terrorism” has become the new American watchword and scourge. Yet as George … nor anyone else has defined what terrorism is or where it comes from. Doing so may help us to face a frightening … these groups realized that if you live by the car bomb, you die by the car bomb; terrorism could alienate the very …

… "was somehow the cause of the war." Today, as the nation commemorates the war's sesquicentennial, the war's … the sacrifices and hardships of millions of Confederate soldiers and households, too often those solemn intentions get … in the coming of the Civil War, may they be guided in the future by what Lincoln called the better angels of our …

… of the sort espoused by Richard Rorty. The maneuver is a common one from the perspective of positivism. In The … monstrous infamy that is antisemitism. But it is useless, completely useless.” However, Lipstadt stops short of … option for a sitting President interested in defending the future functioning of the government. In the real world, …

… our more prominent pundits have actually repeated, and thus compounded, the movie star’s error. The bogus quotation … he hears one — and Beatty must have understood that his audience would respond better with an appeal to Lincoln’s … along to infect yet another generation. Admittedly, nobody dies from a bad quotation, but without question the …

… “If our bombs are so ‘smart,’ how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and … but if we listen carefully, their voices convey a sense of compassion, coupled with disappointment. Often stereotyped … point may have contained some logical consistency, I was uncomfortable with the implications of an argument that could …

… of foreign occupiers. I learned that today's Israeli soldiers, like the Maccabees, were fighting for Jewish … Surely they know that nothing brings people together like a common enemy. But in the United States, the "rally round the … habit of stifling doubts and supporting Israeli policies dies hard. We have been told, practically from birth, that …

… states, by thirty other countries, and by private companies. Some visitors recorded that they left simply … She went on to describe it as what we might today call an immersive historical experience: “the flesh and blood of … But the “flesh and blood of those past events” had been tidied up, even sanitized, on the High Street of 1926. The …

… or the shrinking of the Aral Sea? These, too, rank as tragedies of the highest order. The Arctic, defined as the lowest … patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, … of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. Although ultimately futile, opposition in the 1970s to Norway’s Alta-Kautokeino …

… related to Persian. In the largely mountainous region that comprises their homeland, over the centuries Kurds practiced … Kurdish leaders were largely exempt from taxation. A medieval castle in northeast Syria once known as Hisn al-Akrād … Kurds in his efforts, offering an inclusive vision of the future state. A multicultural state had been the goal of …

… corruption scandals, doping controversies and rampant commercialism have done so little to dent the popularity of … Olympic teams. Even before the First World War, sport had become, as one French official put it, "a matter of state." … competitors but against all humanity — past, present and future. This universalism, not the myth of apoliticism, is …

… Hitler created the opposite of what he intended to accomplish by invading the Soviet Union. Instead of destroying … again. Although the idea of containing Germany has never completely disappeared, the EU has taken on a robust life of … of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union will eventually die out. But in terms of historical cause and effect, 60 …

… Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … seen whether George W. will allow his administration to be completely captured by his fossil fuel buddies. Eisenhower, in fact, ended up vetoing the deregulation …

… protection for gays?  Perhaps the same impulse — the same combination of religious fervor and fear of social collapse … similar may happen to anti-gay attitudes in the near future. As homosexuality gradually becomes more accepted, … today. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a …

… initiated." That evening, in a foreshadowing of events to come, fireworks lit the sky above Fort Sumter. Who could … slavery, or that slavery was not the root cause of the bloodiest conflict in our history.   And Masoff has company in … hanging on the wall of his office.   As the nation readies itself for anniversary ceremonies marking the war …

… discovered since the mid-1960s (four of which just cause a common cold in humans). A microscopic image of SARS-CoV It … 2002- July 2003. While these numbers are miniscule in comparison to the COVID-19 pandemic, the mysterious nature … of Hanoi and who first identified the disease for the WHO, died of the disease on March 29. Though his death was …

… translated into action. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower committed the U.S. government to a first-strike nuclear … preventive nuclear attack are launched, the words can cause future damage that far outweighs anything gained by a policy … “shock and awe.” Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… The Italian media mogul, Italy’s richest man, is now the incoming prime minister. How could that not be worrisome for democracy? Politicians and political parties come and go. That’s the democratic way. But Silvio … could compete. And none will be able to in the foreseeable future. How will this vast power be wielded now that …

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone. I'm … I'm a professor of history and women's gender sexuality studies at Ohio State. And I teach on modern South Asia.   … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website …