Search Results

… six European powers and Japan arrived to crush the uprising. When the Protocol was drafted, it placed all of the … of more than $30 million (then an astronomical amount) as compensation to foreign powers for the damage caused by the … have been censured, not paid, in 1901.  Foreign soldiers committed war crimes, critics of the Protocol argue, and …

… expanded legal jurisdiction of the United Nations. “Enemy combatants” captured in the “war on terrorism” are to be … War II. Japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japan’s supreme commander in the Philippines, was tried for failing to … had been conspicuously silent on the question of war crimes since its 1942 decision in the Quirin case, another favored …

… irrevocably porous. But the events of November 9 did not come from nowhere. The fall of the Berlin Wall—as detailed … she instead writes the history of serendipity whose outcome was far from predetermined, even if it seems so in … Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, November 1989 Since 1949, the government of the German Democratic Republic …

… going to receive international approval for its quest to become an independent nation. While many inside Kosovo and out … of nearly 90 percent, has been under UN administration since the end of fighting between the Belgrade government … Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army in 1999. A special UN commission is supposed to release a report on the province’s …

… For the first time since Project Apollo nearly four decades ago, NASA has a … millions of dollars, or approximately $10,000 a pound. By comparison, sending a 180-pound history professor across the … a few chosen astronauts. The Bush administration ought to commit itself to spending money now to develop new launch …

… to face a fanatical, determined foe. Speaking in Wisconsin just hours after the plotters' arrest, Bush declared … a "totalitarian ideology" menacing people everywhere. This comparison between Islamic radicalism and fascism, which some commentators on the Right have trumpeted ever since 9/11, is …

… Canada’s first prime minister, who had been on the note since 1971. How Desmond became the first woman in Canadian … that day, Desmond became the target of a racist incident, a common event for Blacks in Canada. Her decision to challenge … programs, Desmond earned a teacher’s certificate by completing a provincial test. She was required to teach in a …

… According to official accounts from the Chinese Communist Party, “The ‘cultural revolution,’ which lasted … losses suffered by the Party, the state and the people since the founding of the People's Republic.” While the … (1958—1962) and his fear that enemies in the Chinese Communist Party planned to place China back on the …

… deserve much of the blame for their increase. Ever since the advent of the Bush administration, it has charged … The Republican-dominated U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a landmark measure negotiated … disarmament and other pledges made in the NPT. Ignoring the commitments made by his Democratic and Republican …

… in polls. But his campaign has been in a tailspin ever since. John Kerry trounced the maverick front-runner in Iowa … Barry Goldwater of 1964. Dean should have taken the comparison seriously. Glaring parallels exist between the … election, few believed that Goldwater could successfully compete for, much less win, the Republican nomination, but …

… The decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland ought to be a … of the political spectrum are now locked in dialogue and committed to principles of nonviolence. All but one of the … that occurred in 1798 and the present IRA’s campaign since 1969 was unveiled. Many republicans — including most …

… of the horrific conclusion of the worst prison uprising in American history. And we’ve learned little from it. … the world, trailing only Russia. The prison industry has become big business: billions of dollars are being spent on … reprisals and crackdowns on inmate reading material became common. Television replaced reading as the preferred source …

… Pearl Harbor is the historical analogy heard most often  since the attack on the World Trade Center, but a comparison of the Black Tuesdays of 1929 and 2001 is equally … to respond, “What else is there?” Even though we have become far more materialistic in recent decades, it is …

… heads that revealed the future, and automated gardens complete with metallic singing birds. In this book, E.R. Truitt skillfully sheds … in creating its own automata but viewed foreign automata as coming from lands “rich in flamboyant excesses of nature, …

… disc jockey Alan Freed crowing “That’s Bill Haley and the Comets rockin’ and rollin’ you with ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll.’” Yet a much deeper history exists and a more complex set of origins. Sister Rosetta Tharpe On March 20, … six she was touring with her mother throughout the South, singing and playing guitar, not just as an entertainer but …

… of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution ended an increasingly unpopular federal constraint on the production and … and Washington, the news media are now brimming with comparisons of alcohol to marijuana prohibition and “lessons … drinking habit. In 1970, two legal scholars wrote a comparison of alcohol and marijuana law that I believe still …

… children with one of those slaves. Rather, Jefferson’s sin in the eyes of those Texans was to have authored the … French scholar Jean Bauberot. Bauberot sees three essential components to a secular society: 1) the separation of … tumult of French politics in the 19th century, the French commitment to what they call laïcité remained. By the Third …

… the Palestinian people of the Israeli-occupied territories. Since the 1940s, the United States has striven to contain, … In this webinar, Professor  Peter L. Hahn  analyzes the complicated situation in Gaza in its historical and contemporary contexts, focusing on the American role and aiming to bring clarity and …

… Ever since Watergate, campaign finance reformers have come to … For 25 years, parties, candidates, and other political committees have had to report their campaign contributions … Economics/Business/Trade …

… As national governments and the global scientific community struggle to contain the spread of the coronavirus, … last few months confronting a different type of outbreak. Misinformation about the current public health crisis—which … for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily …

… massacre. As the largest case of mass violence in Europe since World War II, Srebrenica serves as a poignant reminder … legacies that acts of violence leave on individuals and communities, and the importance of remembering and … War II as a federation of six republics, Yugoslavia was composed of a diverse mix of religious and ethnic groups. …

… Bush claimed that “state law reigns supreme when it comes to Indians, whether it be gambling or any other … confronted with the significant challenges posed by increasingly assertive Native American tribes.  In so doing, … Indigenous Communities …