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… a past that suggests ways to deal with the current mess.   One hundred years ago the corrupt marketing of an Illinois … the honor. By the 19th century’s end, the U.S. Senate had become widely known, as it still is today, as a “millionaires … In the worst case, Delaware went for three terms with only one senator and from 1901 to 1908 without any at all.   An …

… history of a city that has long sat at the crossroads of competing powers, and it still looms large in the … the Spaniards continually improved upon their stone fortifications. The enclosed area, aptly named … Island surrendered in May, and the Japanese paraded the prisoners along Dewey Boulevard.  Captain Manny Lawton  of the …

… in the footsteps of Apollo 11 before the flights halted. No one has been back since. The success of Apollo and … and the United States. Difficult as it is for anyone under 30 to believe, the early 1960s saw the United … economic system. Apollo was also a stunning technological accomplishment. NASA moved in eight years from launching a man …

… breath of the tens of thousands of people jammed against one another rose up in a white cloud so thick that it could … realized.   After his death many of the accused were pardoned and released—but this wasn’t where reforms stopped. A … pardoned or remitted the sentences of prisoners whom had committed minor offenses. As they worked to dismantle …

… people. But are the Olympic Games good for the World? Proponents say the Games help create mutual understanding and … peace. Our willingness to accept this lofty idealism is one reason why recent corruption scandals, doping controversies and rampant commercialism have done so little to dent the popularity of …

… that Congress was debating a declaration of independence, a committee was drafting the Articles. Its purpose was to form … determined to protect states rights, created another one eighty years later.)   The first confederacy failed. Unable to tax, it struggled to raise money from the states to finance the Continental Army; after …

… As national governments and the global scientific community struggle to contain the spread of the coronavirus … estimated 50-100 million lives worldwide. In October 1918 alone, Americans witnessed nearly 200,000 of their countrymen … needles might be spreading the disease for the enemy. One of the most frequent accusations was that it originated …

… population had fallen to around 3 million, which was around one-tenth of its original population. Before the nineteenth … killed annually an estimated 400,000 people in Europe alone in the eighteenth century). Variolation involved … child as a man stands outside with a cow (from the Wellcome Trust). The term vaccination comes from variolae …

… For anyone who follows the American media’s treatment of Asia, … with authoritarian characteristics was so similar to the one they took to Beijing’s moves in the same direction when … American press corps will find a better way of handling the complex cultural dimensions of Vietnam’s re-engagement with …

… remember that Adams’s defense of the Amistad slaves was but one moment in a larger and even more instructive story of … behavior. Did President Clinton do what Paula Corbin Jones alleges and he denies? For Adams, however, character … all, to effect mental, moral, and national improvement. Commitment to improvement of self and nation motivated …

… is why fewer than 600 people — the number of passengers on one Airbus 380 — have orbited the earth since 1961. Space travel cannot become cheap until the age of rocketry is replaced by an age … an insurance premium of 10 percent or more for a single one-way trip! Contrast that to the premium for your car …

… “If our bombs are so ‘smart,’ how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and … my initial enthusiasm for the air war. “So,” asserted one young woman who sports a counterculture image, … the American record during the Holocaust. “We should have done something earlier and not refused to accept boatloads of …

… India the most populous country on earth. The numbers alone cannot tell us the full story, however. The debates … the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing swath of territory across … the superiority of British governance. In the words of one company publicist in 1815, "It is pleasing to view the …

… Office in February 2025 to “assist faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship in their … invoked religion to argue that their party was better positioned than the other to protect the nation’s morality. In the … in the Republican party platform than in the Democratic one, Christians in the Democratic Party insisted that …

… the Supreme Court and amidst growing public criticism. To compound the confusion, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, sitting … upon the declaration of independence, absorbed almost one million new Jewish immigrants during its first decade of … concepts such as nationalism and socialism, championed by the European-born leaders of the dominant Labor …

… 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 … the production of historical maps that explained the first one-hundred years of national history. Schulten shows in …

… that the Arab-Israeli conflict is a singularly intractable one. The current struggle between Israel and Hezbollah is … 58-year-long war between Israel and its Arab neighbors that commenced in 1948 when the state of Israel was proclaimed. … lines earthquakes are likely to occur, and nothing can be done to prevent them. For 2,500 years the world’s greatest …

… iconographer, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., that he hopes someone is busy getting it all down. The hint was vintage … to employ Schlesinger, the historian who had already done wonders for Jackson and FDR.   Of all the recent … himself. Which won’t be so bad. Obama’s already an accomplished memoirist. He evidently prefers to be his own …

… the idea of white purity by defining blacks as having one-sixteenth or more ‘negro blood’ and indigenous peoples … Epileptics and Feebleminded , where her foster family abandoned her when she became pregnant as a result of rape. For Buck’s foster family and the doctors who recommended sterilization, a pregnancy out of wedlock was one …