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… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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). …

… Does President Bush have the constitutional authority, as he claims, to order the … wartime. Lincoln, confronted with a destructive Civil War, was constitutionally obligated to protect and preserve the … a nation) has a legitimate duty to defend itself when attacked by armed forces either from within or outside …

… Who are the Taliban? The question has confounded international … victims. This self-image of righteous victimhood was forged during a pivotal moment of Afghan history, the … power by overthrowing then-President Mohammed Daoud Khan. When PDPA revolutionaries appeared to falter, the Soviet …

… Sometime in the next several months, Kosovo is going to receive … exceptions. In Europe, the prohibition on secession was codified in the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, which has been … What’s needed is an agreed set of principles to determine when, and under what conditions, secession should be …

… ahead for daylight-saving time note that you're holding the tool Western Europeans used to conquer the world. A … the time to start or stop trading, or go to church. This was a sharp contrast with days marked only by dawn and … and command me to divide my day into bits and pieces, but when I rise, especially with one less hour of sleep, I …

… The COVID-19 pandemic has brought widespread changes to the … The American Dream in American History The phrase itself was coined in 1931 by historian James Truslow Adams . Adams … Environmentalists call recent times the Anthropocene Era , when the human species has wrought enormous impacts on …

… The victory of moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani in Iran’s June … after being sworn in as president, Rouhani declared that he was open to direct talks with the United States, while a … in 1953, respectively. Iranians brandished his portrait when they demonstrated against the shah in 1978-79, and they …

… after independence from British colonial rule, Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, collapsed into a civil … constructed from the inherited colonial boundaries, was fragile, even untenable. Indeed, most historians would … become the Nigerian Civil War began on January 15, 1966 when a group of military officers, mostly of the Igbo ethnic …

… “We are not flowers to be sacrificed on the altar of profit - we are flames, committed to conquering … to as “ Hiroshima of the chemical industry,” and one was an activist working with the survivors for over two … by combining alpha naphthol with methyl isocyanate. When the Bhopal factory started its operation, MIC was being …

… The organization created to end war, the League of Nations, … U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (right). The meeting was marked by a most conspicuous absence. One seat at the … 1920, the Senate reopened consideration of the Treaty. But when a second resolution of ratification was put to a vote …

… India is now suffering a massive second wave of COVID-19 and the crisis is spilling into neighboring countries. As Indian … there is also a longer history that helps explain why India was so vulnerable to COVID-19 and to the tragic collapse of … of Indian public health begins in the nineteenth century, when the British imperial government ruled over a sprawling …