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… cataclysm often numbs. It renders the trembling disoriented and inert, unable to imagine how to act. Sometimes the … human hopes to overcome nature’s forces than the sudden and unpredicted strike of a giant asteroid. Dark objects … like twigs, and their tops hurled many meters away to the south. This belt of growth surrounds the burnt area…and …

… Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, more than 5,000 women—young and old, rich and poor, educated and non-educated, (though mostly … suffragists in the march. Publicly, they said they feared Southern delegations would pull out of an integrated parade; …

… the life of Brigham Young requires a mastery of subtlety and paradox.  Over the course of his life, Brigham Young's personality and beliefs drastically shifted as he evolved from a … passages, the Latter-Day Saints identified peoples of African descent as cursed by God, though a number of black …

… in Minnesota, lead poisons the water of Flint, Michigan, and Americans are reminded of the fragile state of our basic … here. And when the stockyards of Chicago were still right south of the loop, all of that stuff was just dumped into … of the tax base left, either to wider Genesee County or the South.   Dr. Steven Conn  Mexico.   Dr. Clay Howard  Yeah, …

… to reach Europe by embarking on flimsy boats in Turkey and Greece, crossing barbed wire fences in Bulgaria and Hungary, catching rides in overcrowded trains in … Bahrain. At the same time, you had large numbers of North African Arabs that were moving into Europe, part of labor …

… Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo reached the Silk Road city of Samarkand. He had travelled over five thousand miles by foot, sail, horse and camel; passed through … that could threaten the settled, urbanized states of China, south Asia, the Arab world and Europe. By contrast, the …

… the allegations of wrongdoing leveled against her husband. The charge continually crops up in the defenses of the … funded the suit, they explain, while right-wing newspapers and periodicals publicized it. At least so say Mrs. Clinton … them. Dr. Kevin Smant teaches history at Indiana University South Bend and is a writer for the History News Service. … …

… with an ecumenical greeting of “happy holidays” and Jews to emulate Christians by stampeding to the shopping … in the second century B.C. against their Syrian oppressors and their refusal to assimilate into the prevailing … created in 1966, has returned many black Americans to their African heritage, so Hanukkah has helped tether Jews to …

… in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad between the Nazi and Soviet armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More … After two years of decisive victories over France, Poland and others, Hitler and the German High Command ( … 1.2 million men, or about a third of its strength, to the southern front. As the fighting reached its fevered peak in …

… Chinese general who authored the earliest known text on war and espionage, Ping-fa (The Art of War) observed that, “A … ounces of silver spent for information may save ten thousand spent on war.” Astute then, Sun-tzu’s words still … strait, or the black ocean, that separates Kyushu, Japan’s southernmost island, from Korea . The society strove to …

… decolonization , the Arab-Israeli conflict , the Cold War, and the growth of U.S. power. The emergency culminated in … nationalized the Suez Canal Company after the United States and Britain refused to provide his country economic aid. … states and hastened the pace of European decolonization in Africa and Asia. It also led to the resignation of Prime …

… during the fall of 1621, noble Pilgrims invited friendly and helpful Indians to a feast to celebrate a rich autumn … They ate stuffed turkeys, baked ham, cranberry sauce and baked yams, then finished the whole thing off with a big … and photographer based in Las Cruces, N.M., specializing in southwestern history and archaeology, is a writer for the …

… Obama soon will have new secretaries of state, treasury, and defense, and a new CIA director. His choices have … successor, Andrew Johnson, who pursued more racist, pro-southern policies than Lincoln would have pursued. Dennison, … S. Green is a professor of history at the College of Southern Nevada and the author of “Lincoln and the Election …

… the nation’s mental health system, its perceived failings, and it's potential to stem the tide of mass violence. … capita on mental health than other states did. Whereas the south, the American West, they tended to spend a lot less. … the United States.   Dr. Susan Lawrence   Certainly in the south, and in certain other sort of large cities people of …

… region—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—are not usually headline news. There is the … but also in the Uzbek part of the Fergana valley, in the south of Kyrgyzstan, and throughout practically all of … is undermined by the shadow economy, while in the country's south Islamists publicly preach to the Uzbek and Kyrgyz …

… contemporary heroes are reconstructed out of appealing bits and pieces, but not the whole cloth. A hundred years later, … represent collective values. In the case of both Gates and Jones, that trait is daring individualism. The Brave … MTV rules! Theodore Kornweibel is a professor of African American history at San Diego State University. His …

… The 5,280-pound monument of the Ten Commandments installed by the Alabama Supreme Court Chief … not go away. Unless an un-breachable wall between religion and public life is properly and fully erected, the problems … Nathan Abrams teaches U.S. History at the University of Southampton (Great Britain) and is a writer or the History …

… Wars are remembered primarily as European affairs, and for good reasons. The wars and the politics around them led to sweeping transformations … a three-way Franco-Russo-British struggle for influence in southern Asia. Another key theme in Mikaberidze’s work is …

… Grace Wisher, a free-born Black girl from Baltimore, Maryland, helped stitch the Star-Spangled Banner during the … “A Lasting Legacy: Baltimore’s African American History, accessed June 4, 2022, … orebaltimore.org/city-history/a-brief-overview-of-baltimores-african-american-history/   “National Symbols, Stories, and …

… This month, John Mueller, Andrew Bacevich , and Peter Mansoor discuss the War on … Ukraine. You can see that in China, building islands in the South China Sea and chipping away at American alliances in … when we discuss extremism and instability in Sub Saharan Africa.   … Patrick R. Potyondy … Global/Transnational … …

… is slowly unfurled on a silver screen in hues of red, white and blue (the national colors). The two contenders in the … took place on May 6, 2012 were the Socialist François Hollande, and the center-right incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, … to parliament and regional office in the Corrèze area of southwestern France—a political stronghold he shared with …

… decision that Buchanan, the former aide to Presidents Nixon and Reagan, is the Reform Party nominee. Buchanan is basing … he is running as a fighting populist who believes rich and influential elites have too much sway over government … not. Dr. Kevin Smant teaches history at Indiana University South Bend and is a writer for the History News Service. … …

… broken by, to hear him tell it, two of the most fickle and shallow women in all of Britain. His friends admired him for his intelligence, honesty, and commitment to virtue, but thought that maybe a little … physically comfortable existence to the plight of the African slaves whom Day sought to liberate, and yet Moore …

… Act (DOMA) in June 2013, in fact, the question of children and their parents was at the very heart of the case. In … v. Windsor , children were a central focus in both pro- and anti-DOMA arguments. The Family Research Council, a … role as husbands and fathers.” Likewise, Vera Martin, an African American lesbian mother who raised her children in …