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… string of American casualties on foreign soil. No doubt, the president will argue that we must risk American lives in … impressions. A top Air Corps official explained that there was “very little idealism, not much willingness to discuss … they’ll find Americans who were willing to sacrifice only when they felt personally endangered. The New York Times …

… For over forty years, John Murrin has been among the most influential historians of colonial America, the … as equal to their fellow Englishmen and believed Parliament was not treating them as such. “The great financier, or … support they desired, but this strategy later backfired when the lower classes used the same ideology to challenge …

… "Rosa sat down, Martin stood up, and the white kids came down and saved the day." -Julian Bond … in Montgomery, Alabama, started an entire movement when she spontaneously refused to give up her seat on a bus … and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Jim Crow segregation was abolished, and African Americans had achieved their …

… from the domination of Nazi Germany and its allies. Yet it was the Soviet Union who emerged in the early days of the … cast aside the vital partnership then rekindled it when Nazi Germany set its sights on Eastern Europe. The most … came to prominence during this period. Familiar faces like Lenin, Stalin, Molotov, Hindenburg, Hitler, and Ribbentrop …

…   In geologic years, the Galapagos Islands are infants. Located on the … are thought to be no more than 700,000 thousand years old. When the tops of the volcanos first broke through the … As dramatic as what these Europeans took from the islands was what they left behind. The pirates brought goats to the …

… drilling for oil and natural gas. His party is pushing, in the name of freedom and economic opportunity, to roll back a … and death even to their own kind?”   “Silent Spring” was denounced in the popular press. In a scathing review, … Time magazine dismissed it as “hysterically overemphatic.” When the New Yorker serialized “Silent Spring,” a California …

… NBC Nightly News aired a story called "Sticker Shock at the Supermarket." Reporter Erin Burnett ominously described … of the reason for the program's sustained popularity. When school lunches first appeared during the early … women reformers' influence decreased, since the USDA was largely staffed by men interested more in business than …

… The degeneration of the Iraq conflict into a low level but … communities. Sunnis believe that Muhammad (570-632 CE) was the last divinely inspired individual and that the … , which means tradition. Originally Muslims used the term when they referred to the hadith , reports of the sayings or …

… in many ways, has become a better fan experience than being there live. You get a perfect view of the action at all … on demand . But the early relationship between the two was more ambivalent.   The technological limitations of … genuine sporting event in real time came in the UK in 1931, when John Logie Baird sought to  televise the Derby Stakes …

… party's third successful election campaign in 2011, the populist premier gave the Turkish public a few hints … best, years away. Nonetheless, the party's electoral slogan was boundlessly optimistic. "Target 2023," simultaneously … the largest church in the world. By the fifteenth century, when the Byzantine Empire was just a shadow of its former …

… to have watched more than a modest portion of cable news in the past two years might be forgiven for believing that we … Levi's path to greatness through the Wasilla mayor's office and the pages of Playgirl.  The … and intimacy to human narrative at just the moment when mass modernity made everything in city life seem so …

… Reading the headlines over the past weeks and months, it seems like … The most dramatic shift came at the end of the Cold War, when the alliance found it needed to justify its existence … the global political balance. The Roots of NATO NATO was founded in the early years of the Cold War, as relations …

… On August 25, 1944, Paris was liberated after more than four years of Nazi occupation. … a week of guerilla combat between Resistance fighters and the occupying German troops, General Philippe Leclerc’s … on the crowd. Later that day, he displayed similar bravado when shots rang out in the middle of Notre-Dame Cathedral, …

… of Writers Talk History , historian Anna M. Peterson joins the show all the way from Oslo, Norway. Host Patrick … of prevents them from thinking about the fact that well, it wasn't always illegal. So I wanted to take us back, you know, a few hundred years and look at the time when abortion was commonplace, was legally practiced in both …

… While Florida calls itself the Sunshine State, from a geological and economic … denuded of vegetation and pocked with vividly colored waste disposal ponds that one writer described as “beautiful … toward solving the mystery of brown stain occurred in 1931, when nervous chemists at the Aluminum Company of America …

… Whether by tidal wave, space men, mutated contagions, machinery … and weeks immediately following September 11, 2001.  He was struck by the Janissary nature of the reaction that the … in which he himself flew a plane into those very towers when he was a kid.  These cultural depictions of New York's …

… Doping scandals have been shaking the world of sport for almost a half century. However, the … By most accounts, the Independent Commission’s report was a game changer in international sport . No report before … occurred at the Pan American Games in Caracas in 1983, when advanced testing procedures produced 19 positive tests …

… President James A. Garfield entered a railroad station in Washington, D.C. After a hectic first four months in office, he looked forward to taking the train to the New Jersey seashore. There he would join … James G. Blaine or John Sherman to receive the nomination. When convention delegates deadlocked on ballot after ballot, …

… architect and historian Ievgeniia Gubkina, 2022 What is the role of architecture (and architects) during war? During … creatures and large animals. Its highly ornamented facade was the President’s way of proving to the world that he … the world and was the largest single structure in the world when it was completed in 1928. To complete the project in a …

… glanced at Daniel Walker Howe's "What Hath God Wrought?": The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 and announced dismissively that it wasn't as big as Harry Potter V. I'll take his word for … seen as a bumptious and buoyant period in American history, when "democracy" expanded well beyond the limited franchise …

… When a Simi Valley jury announced the “not guilty” verdicts in the case of four police … In contrast to the urban uprisings of the 1960s, this was a multiracial rebellion. Studies found that 50.6 percent …

… his support for gay marriage, President Obama now faces the wrath of people who quote the Bible in opposition.   … or to argue that seizing land from the Native Americans was ordained by God. Such beliefs, once taken seriously, now … unambiguously, of the ownership of human beings.   “When we turn to the New Testament,” Dew continued, “we find …

… a stake in it, especially because our policy is failing there. It’s failing because Bolivians are trapped in a … demonstrations, in which soldiers shot some 70 protesters, was a government plan to export natural gas to the United … protests to the most famous rebellion in their history, when an Indian army laid siege to the Spanish capital, La …

… The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Between Black … team of researchers to Brazil. The purpose of the study was to document what was then thought to be a "racial … long history in Brazil, dating back to the colonial period when an unfa- 24 · ORIGINS· NOVE:'vIBER 1993 vorably high …