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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… God is on our side, President Bush assures us. Speaking at the National Cathedral on September 14, 2001, he declared that America’s “responsibility to history” was to “rid the world of evil.” The service ended with the … he was a man of strong moral convictions. He knew evil when he saw it. “If slavery is not wrong,” he wrote in 1864, …

… Officially opening a long-awaited second front against the Axis, operation Torch constituted the biggest and most … in world history.  The path to Northwest Africa, however, was never a foregone conclusion. America’s commitment to the … leaders, but with it came the lingering questions of when, where, and how their combined forces would engage …

… for small farmers who have suffered for generations under the Peruvian systems of exploitative land distribution. In … however, the commission concluded that land redistribution was not the answer. Rather, as its final report stated, the … grow, while the pot remains the same. The moment comes when the [growing] roots no longer fit in the pot; they …

… book, Daphna Oren-Magidor presents a broad overview of the experience of infertility in England between 1540 and … “regardless of how men were affected by infertility, it was not as central to their identity and the fulfillment of … until the final few sentences in which she claims that when couples failed to produce children they also upset the …

… a City on a Hill.” Depending on your temperament you find the phrase inspirational or empty. Either way you know it … he finds is not very much. “A Model of Christian Charity” was written as part of the political and religious debates … Constitution. Whatever else they thought they were creating when the Founders shaped a constitutional republic, it was …

… Remember the month of November in kindergarten or first grade? You … the whole thing off with a big slice of pumpkin pie. That was our very first Thanksgiving. Right? Wrong. Virginia … Among others, the Indians who greeted the Pilgrims when they stepped onto Plymouth Rock had long conducted …

… The Normandy Invasion (PDF File) (June 6, 1944) was the … attack despite the fact the plan was in its advanced stages when he assumed command. During the invasion, the commander …

… Giuliani’s administration prepares its lawsuit against the giant utility Consolidated Edison for the 19-hour … and rarely caused major damage. In 1950, residents in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Montana were affected when a series of power plants in the Pacific Northwest …

… On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world. A Bosnian-Serb youth Gavrilo Princip, aged only … motorcade passed by on the streets of Sarajevo. Princip was promptly arrested and imprisoned, where he would die of … masses from Austro-Hungarian oppression and exploitation. Socialist-era Sarajevo memorial site where Gavrilo Princip …

… As India assumes the role of one of the global powers, there has been a … his book as a way to better understand how India shaped and was shaped by the war, using military history, diplomacy, … Indian troops needed vast amounts of equipment at a time when Britain was hard-pressed to outfit its own troops (70). …