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… pervade early American medical literature. In one standard 19th-century text on malformations, one doctors … mortifying and disgusting imperfections.”   Intersex bodies have always aroused suspicion. But many people’s … go either way. All it took was the parents’ unwavering commitment toward raising either a boy or a girl, and this …

… On a sunny day in late April 2003 at a site about 150 km from the North … understand why there is all this noise in the international community. If anyone wants to plant a flag down there, … that the Arctic holds in the Russian heart and spirit. Adieu Polar Bears: Climate Change and the Arctic's …

… see Israel’s response to the capture of three of its soldiers as entirely justified. Why not, they ask, punish those … used to fire rockets into Israel. But just like the bombing of Tyre and Beirut now, the true goal of the Israelis … States would not interfere, Israel continued with its audacious gambit. The mighty Israeli Defense Force rolled into …

… as a kind of violence against children. What is different today is the often fatal outcomes of children's brutality towards one another, owing to … limitations of that perspective, too. Though the march's website invites "mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, …

… of rape. For Buck’s foster family and the doctors who recommended sterilization, a pregnancy out of wedlock was one … these beliefs continue to negatively impact people today. Existing laws continue to steal away reproductive … to disabled people’s right to make decisions about their bodies. It also contains the haunting revelation that Black …

… upon when he won approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Social Security, unemployment insurance, a … Progress Administration that built new roads, bridges, dams, post offices, classrooms and libraries. This year, … flourished. Reagan and his supporters embraced the recommendations of the economist Milton Friedman that relied …

… In March 1865, with the Civil War's final days in view, President Abraham Lincoln said plainly in his … "was somehow the cause of the war." Today, as the nation commemorates the war's sesquicentennial, the war's … the sacrifices and hardships of millions of Confederate soldiers and households, too often those solemn intentions get …

… Places, backyards, and basements filled with televisions, computers, and Playstations. Riney-Kehrberg describes how … of newspapers, periodicals, television programs, films, websites, and published works to tell her story, but she … War Two. Fear is also a significant topic in cultural studies, sociology, and psychology. For the historian of modern …

… the money). This refusal brought him a torrent of negative commentary and helped to define for the future what … children. At the same time, the frantic search for remedies, and the wide media fascination for these cases, has … taken by parents and those who had run away. At various points in the 1980s, Americans were led to believe that as …

… World Health Organization ( WHO ) celebrated its 75th birthday. On this auspicious occasion, Ethiopian Director-General … epidemiological data on infectious diseases, and offer recommendations on sanitation. The OIPH would later become a … for the WHO. There are many possible reasons why: Lee died suddenly in 2006, and his successor, Hong Kong-born …

… American Revolution , and the Early American Republic. This compilation gathers together some of his important essays … is his discussion of “Anglicization.” Rather than becoming less and less British as the 17th and 18th centuries … twenty-five years old, there are occasional pieces of outdated interpretation. In the end, though, as Murrin writes …

… 11 attacks, Congress is now moving to create a bipartisan commission to investigate intelligence gathering policies … forward with both a critical analysis and concrete recommendations. To succeed, the commission will need to evaluate … gathering should be coordinated with policymaking bodies and oriented toward problem solving, rather than …

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … away from.” Quoting Saint Augustine, he encouraged his audience: “Let us live well and the times will be good. We are … Luther to ask: “Why does not the pope, whose wealth is today greater than the riches of the richest, build just this …

… On the first day of 2014, Colorado became the first state to permit … recreational use. Across the state, celebratory stoners welcomed the New Year by lining up at licensed retailers to buy … in the realm of alternative medicine, and few clinical studies have been conducted to confirm specific claims. After …

… overthrew Northern-imposed Reconstruction. In Iraq today, humiliation under the coalition forces sparks a … for Iraqi contempt and retaliation.  The recent tragic bombings of the Jordanian Embassy and the UN headquarters in … hospitality shown to his relatives — with tacit American compliance. Or Osama bin Laden’s operatives could have been …

… Wilson bitterly called “a sullen and selfish isolation,” becoming an observer in the League but never a full member. As … and reformed Isolationist Arthur Vandenberg, the party committed to supporting a postwar cooperative peace … Roosevelt planned to open the conference himself, but he died shortly before it began on April 25, 1945. The 16th …

… and his army of foreign occupiers. I learned that today's Israeli soldiers, like the Maccabees, were fighting for Jewish … Surely they know that nothing brings people together like a common enemy. But in the United States, the "rally round the … Judaism …

… 12, the Supreme Court ruled that Clarence E. Hill, a Florida prisoner facing execution, had a constitutional right to … procedure — is counter-productive. It's impossible to completely humanize an execution. There's always suffering … out to be barbarically anodyne. The only way out of this bind is a future without the death penalty. Daniel Gordon …