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… in Egypt,” a protestor shook with fury as he shouted at the camera in a message to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the … strongman recently voted President of Egypt. The footage was shot about a year ago, just after al-Sisi and the … initially occurred under Anwar Sadat (Nasser’s successor) when policies of greater tolerance and acceptance paved the …

… February 3, 2018 marked 75 years since the conclusion of the Battle of Stalingrad . After almost … participants in the defense effort ( right ). Stalingrad was hailed in February 3’s Pravda ( Truth ) newspaper as … as Grossman and Koroteev had done in the Soviet period. Whenever the battle is mentioned in popular culture, …

… Travelers to Uzbekistan almost all begin their journey at the large, recently remodeled airport in … the searing heat to Khiva, the “museum in the open” that was, from the sixteenth century, the regional capital. … The Afrighids retained this title until 995 C.E., when power shifted into the hands of the neighboring Amir of …

… We tell ourselves that there is just one ultimate reality out there, a single fixed … allowing the peoples we study to decide for themselves what was true and real in their experience, our picture of the … on which the life and health of the community is staked. When one then surveys the different models of reality that …

… and repressive law that would make it illegal for women of the Shi'i minority (approximately 10 percent of the … As one protester lamented to a New York Times reporter: "Whenever a man wants sex, we cannot refuse. It means a woman … one a woman with light blonde hair, and the country was in the midst of a civil war. Just two months before we …

… Nevada. Humboldt, Iowa. Humboldt County, California. The Humboldt River. All these places, and undoubtedly more … international celebrity. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was surely among the greatest naturalists of his era. His … shifts in political winds meant that he was left ashore when the Great United States Exploring Expedition set sail …

… Is all well with freedom of expression in the United States? It would seem so, given the latitude of … and ideas. Some public libraries in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., like many others elsewhere, are now … Act of 1798. It was passed during the republic's infancy, when foreign threats to the nation abounded and when many …

… William Colby has become a more or less forgotten figure in the turbulent history of the 1960s and 1970s. However, he … but also of the CIA and the Vietnam War. During WWII, Colby was reassigned to the Office of Strategic Services and … barely tolerated “the House of Ngo” and often opposed it. When the Ngo government attempted to repress the unrest, …

… geopolitical disorder and economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the twenty-fifth and forty-fourth presidents both confronted … than Hosni Mubarak. But despite his declared benevolence, when provided an opportunity Libyans revolted en masse . …

… 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 …

… 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 …