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… President Bush is presiding over what is fast becoming a foreign policy disaster. The war in Iraq is a … plan before it acted. The failure is not unprecedented. Not since the end of the Cold War has an American president … standing in an increasingly dangerous world. Pundits have compared Bush to Woodrow Wilson because of his championing …

… staff, I am alarmed by this news. As their administrations come to a close, presidents establish foundations to raise … records. Nixon’s lawyers argued against a statute that singled out his records, but they lost in court. The law … on the National Archives' Nixon tapes and documents processing staff, is a writer for the History News Service. …

… Many things have changed concerning homosexuality since that decade; others remain stubbornly the same. Some … were torn as to how to gain acceptance from the straight community. Today’s emphases on gay pride and being openly … were nonexistent. Activists emphasized instead the commonalities between themselves and heterosexuals, …

… The World Series has been played annually since 1903 (with two exceptions in 1904 and 1994). Here, … that are landmark moments in baseball’s evolution as a commercial enterprise and its adaptation to the significant … that are landmark moments in baseball’s evolution as a commercial enterprise and its adaptation to the significant …

… the Tokugawa military government that had ruled Japan since 1600. The collapse of the Tokugawa and handover to the … Assistance.  “As the first non-Western nation to become a developed country, Japan built itself into a country … more broadly, for better and for worse.  Yet, studying commemorations like the Meiji sesquicentennial reveals how …

… terrorism, disarmament never looked so desirable. Ever since the end of the Cold War, there have been calls for … for new nuclear weaponry. The U.S. refusal to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to eliminate nuclear test … and the United States aren’t on the same page when it comes to dealing with Iran. Great danger also exists in …

… policy debate on Oct. 22, nuclear weapons are sure to come up, especially Iran’s ambitions for the bomb. But the … to end testing first. As Reagan wrote at the time, “I am committed to the ultimate attainment of a total ban on … a goal that has been endorsed by every U.S. president since President Eisenhower.”   But Reagan had some …

… Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, … one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of …

… health. We have seen nearly a century of medical progress since the last great flu epidemic. That was in 1918. It was … threat to public health: the specter of a pandemic, and the complacent American response. The so-called "Spanish" flu … of knowledge unknown to doctors then. But they haven't come up with an antidote to SARS. A vaccine may yet be …

… six European powers and Japan arrived to crush the uprising. When the Protocol was drafted, it placed all of the … of more than $30 million (then an astronomical amount) as compensation to foreign powers for the damage caused by the … have been censured, not paid, in 1901.  Foreign soldiers committed war crimes, critics of the Protocol argue, and …

… expanded legal jurisdiction of the United Nations. “Enemy combatants” captured in the “war on terrorism” are to be … War II. Japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japan’s supreme commander in the Philippines, was tried for failing to … had been conspicuously silent on the question of war crimes since its 1942 decision in the Quirin case, another favored …

… irrevocably porous. But the events of November 9 did not come from nowhere. The fall of the Berlin Wall—as detailed … she instead writes the history of serendipity whose outcome was far from predetermined, even if it seems so in … Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, November 1989 Since 1949, the government of the German Democratic Republic …

… going to receive international approval for its quest to become an independent nation. While many inside Kosovo and out … of nearly 90 percent, has been under UN administration since the end of fighting between the Belgrade government … Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army in 1999. A special UN commission is supposed to release a report on the province’s …

… For the first time since Project Apollo nearly four decades ago, NASA has a … millions of dollars, or approximately $10,000 a pound. By comparison, sending a 180-pound history professor across the … a few chosen astronauts. The Bush administration ought to commit itself to spending money now to develop new launch …

… Canada’s first prime minister, who had been on the note since 1971. How Desmond became the first woman in Canadian … that day, Desmond became the target of a racist incident, a common event for Blacks in Canada. Her decision to challenge … programs, Desmond earned a teacher’s certificate by completing a provincial test. She was required to teach in a …

… to face a fanatical, determined foe. Speaking in Wisconsin just hours after the plotters' arrest, Bush declared … a "totalitarian ideology" menacing people everywhere. This comparison between Islamic radicalism and fascism, which some commentators on the Right have trumpeted ever since 9/11, is …

… According to official accounts from the Chinese Communist Party, “The ‘cultural revolution,’ which lasted … losses suffered by the Party, the state and the people since the founding of the People's Republic.” While the … (1958—1962) and his fear that enemies in the Chinese Communist Party planned to place China back on the …

… deserve much of the blame for their increase. Ever since the advent of the Bush administration, it has charged … The Republican-dominated U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a landmark measure negotiated … disarmament and other pledges made in the NPT. Ignoring the commitments made by his Democratic and Republican …

… in polls. But his campaign has been in a tailspin ever since. John Kerry trounced the maverick front-runner in Iowa … Barry Goldwater of 1964. Dean should have taken the comparison seriously. Glaring parallels exist between the … election, few believed that Goldwater could successfully compete for, much less win, the Republican nomination, but …

… the Tokugawa military government that had ruled Japan since 1600. The collapse of the Tokugawa and handover to the … Indigenous Communities …

… The decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland ought to be a … of the political spectrum are now locked in dialogue and committed to principles of nonviolence. All but one of the … that occurred in 1798 and the present IRA’s campaign since 1969 was unveiled. Many republicans — including most …

… of the horrific conclusion of the worst prison uprising in American history. And we’ve learned little from it. … the world, trailing only Russia. The prison industry has become big business: billions of dollars are being spent on … reprisals and crackdowns on inmate reading material became common. Television replaced reading as the preferred source …

… Pearl Harbor is the historical analogy heard most often  since the attack on the World Trade Center, but a comparison of the Black Tuesdays of 1929 and 2001 is equally … to respond, “What else is there?” Even though we have become far more materialistic in recent decades, it is …