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… this year's distant third-place finisher, will have the most impact on the near future of American politics. It's … or the opening of world markets to facilitate competition across national boundaries. Record campaign … parties had made government unresponsive to popular will aimed to shake up the status quo. By inaugurating a president …

… administration and the North Korean regime and an errant incoming missile alert in Hawaii have focused America’s … means to protect civilians from the effects of attack. Almost 75 years after the first use of an atomic weapon, … Now anyone on earth, even thousands of miles from the site of a blast, could be killed or injured by nuclear …

… of the military later found expression in the Posse Comitatus law of 1878, still in force. Archaic as the title … Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, the military remained in 2005 the most respected institution in the United States. Not so two … that same army. Offense became outrage in 1876 when it seemed that Republican Rutherford B. Hayes won the presidency …

… What would cause an apparently normal young woman to commit such a brutal act? Some commentators believe they … According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports for 1994, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the … and moral changes of the last three decades cannot be blamed for Drexler’s actions. The explanation for why Melissa …

… interest in China's future place in the international community has grown. Odd Arne Westad explores China's … heritage that shape the views and expectations of most Chinese regarding their country's role in global … life, including commercial goods, dress, education, and medicine came under Western influence, Chinese living in the …

… likely have to endure the result regardless of how much we come to regret it. The nation’s constitutional history is … the seemingly simple 12th Amendment adopted in 1804 to remedy flaws in the presidential election system. It … from a position held by the leader of the country’s second most powerful political party to one occupied by a secondary …

… Office shenanigans. Presidents and their underlings have committed numerous immoral, illegal or dodgy acts. They’ve … illegal breach of national security. The least damaging but most sensational presidential scandals have been about — … Unlike members of the Bush administration, Johnson harmed no one except himself. The two scandals that come …

… this new generation of Israeli scholars. This controversy – combined with his scholarship, popular writings, and political protest – soon transformed Morris into one of Israel's most prominent public intellectuals. Morris's latest book, …

… put Canada at the top of his list. Thus far, however, the incoming administration’s message to Canadians has been … Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, he claimed, Ottawa could maximize its international influence. … political crisis. Left-leaning Canadian nationalists, most of whom lived in French-speaking Quebec and had no …

… Kennedy!”   When Republicans singled out Barack Obama’s income-tax proposal and labeled him a socialist during the … the Soviet Union, Stalin, the Cold War, atomic spies, and almost any other evil. In the 2008 presidential contest, the … the tax fell solely on those with higher incomes, not on most working Americans. It wasn’t until years later that …

… Multilingualism in India is as common as daylight. India recognizes 22 official languages … They will make you angry and happy, laugh and cry, and most certainly will not require viewers to leave their … a bullock-cart drive, marauding buffalo and a young woman named Gouri (Suhasini Mulay). In Gouri, Bhuvan Shome finds a …

… made it impossible for them to get married. Many others complained of low pay and underemployment. While the … and the richest people — the Pashas — would pay the most. Then in 1952 a young military officer named Gamal Abd al-Nasser led a bloodless coup. He soon …

… national politics as much as many fear? The answer is more complicated than you might think. Check out a lesson plan … been, Teddy Roosevelt was criticizing patent medicine almost as much as he was politics. And one of the things I … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, …

… congregated in streets and squares and demanded the end of communist rule. These are indelible images deeply impressed … and painful meaning to the phrase "ethnic cleansing"—but most recently in disputes between Slovakia and Hungary over … into the West, especially through Austria. When Gorbachev visited Berlin in the fall, he acted dismissively of the …

… George W. Bush and his most trusted advisers, Richard B. Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, … insisted that there can be no limits to the power of the commander-in-chief in time of war. More recently the …

… the over-budget Constellation program, have received the most congressional and media attention. What’s been neglected has been the core of … the development of new technologies to reduce the cost and complexity of operating in space.   These proposals, …

… The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in 1993, but encompasses a long history of African American and African … diaspora through technoculture and science fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared interest in envisioning …

… the battle occurred, although a recent study places the site of Richard’s death at  Fenn Lane Farm , about 2 miles … death.  It is easy to see Henry and Richard as polar opposites, especially when the literature after the battle …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … fray," in order to provide historical context to today's most pressing issues, examine the roots of present debates, … the section is to show what historians do. The page aims to combat the tendency to use history as "a tool to advance …

… Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. Hasian, M.A. Power, Medical Knowledge, and the Rhetorical Invention of “Typhoid Mary”.  Journal of Medical Humanities  21, 123–139 (2000).  … Oct 12. PMID: 37824810; PMCID: PMC10632844,  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37824810/ “Tuberculosis patient in …

… as hundreds march to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, the most evident colors may very well be red, white and blue, … pluralist implication of the St. Patrick's Day parades becomes more apparent as we look at the events held in cities … this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we have come.   So when this weekend's St. Patrick's Day parades pay …

… because the states, not the federal government, hold most of the power to define marriage.   Obama’s assertion … to individual states, and for decades many had found this a comforting justification for their tolerance of an … to Liberia. Nevertheless, the Proclamation transformed the president’s position. His public support for …

… talk by some American politicians about Mexican immigrants coming to the United States, people around the world are … has it, neighborliness has not been the reason behind most of history’s major wall projects. Here is a look at some of the most famous of these insular architectural projects. Written …

… Useful for a Change: Historians and Modern Tribal Communities" Wednesday, March 26 at The  Ohio State … this was the standard paradigm as late as the 1960s.  Most of American history is Native American history, he reminds us, and Native history has been among the most influential fields in the discipline for a generation. …