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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 … …

… 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 …

… activities, ensure that it doesn’t develop nuclear weapons, and thereby mitigate one of the most pressing international … of historically tense U.S.-Iranian relations was overcome and the nearly impossible realized in the form of the … diplomatic achievement fell victim to the regressive and reactionary foreign policies of the Trump presidency. …

… The end of the Roman empire is punctuated by important and well-known events: Alaric's sack of Rome in 410, which … end to the institution of the imperial office in the west; and the attacks of Attila the Hun, which terrorized the … the book begins its return to the east through Spain, Africa and Egypt. His final stop within the Roman world is …

… Russian police foiled an assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander III.  Three young members of the self-proclaimed … mark the sixth anniversary of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by tossing bombs into the carriage of his … and Kamenev, taught a Party School for Bolsheviks in the south of Paris.  Then, in the summer of 1912, when an …

… fires of a democratic revolution to overturn monarchy and imperial control. Yet many American leaders and citizens … period of anti-colonial revolutions across Central and South America. One element at work here that's important to … fear from North Korea, be more fearful of North Korea than South Koreans? That's an interesting opening question that …

… During this presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain have each spent a great deal of time talking about their dreams for the 21st century. And they have worked to persuade voters that the policies … at play in 1968 but the central one was foreign policy in Southeast Asia, and Richard Nixon was the narrow winner over …

… Caroline B. Shelton of Oregon for a weekend in 1909, and later New Mexico Secretary of State Soledad Chávez de … elected two women governors—Nellie Tayloe Ross in Wyoming and Miriam Amanda Ferguson in Texas. Each state claims …    Jefferson Walker, “Public Servant and Southern Lady: Public and Private Tensions in Lurleen …

… The Caucasus Mountains are one of history’s great transition and contact regions, crossroads of a dizzying array of civilizations, cultures, and belief systems. In the Late Antique and medieval eras, … the seventeenth century by Hindus—presumably merchants from South Asia—as a site for the worship of the god Shiva. …

… United States, the turmoil of ’68 probably compares to 1861 and 1919. There was an A-list of nearly monthly events, from the Tet Offensive for January and February to the triumph of Richard Nixon in November’s … of the establishment order. With the great exception of African American activism, the forces of change in the …

… Equal Rights Amendment. Today, we turn to Phyllis Schlafly and her fellow conservative women who saw what feminists' … sexist discrimination as privileges that they had earned and refused to relinquish.  … Mom and Apple Pie (Prologued, … Tom,” a reference to an Uncle Tom, a derogatory term for an African American seen as subservient to whites. But …

… away from the machine when I heard some Greek expletives and saw a commotion in front of me. The ATM ran out of … several hours scouring the city, but every bank was closed and every ATM was empty. A line at the National Bank of … when Britain and France employed a blockade of grain into southern Greece. When Greece did enter the war on the side …

… When our group of sixteen historians and geographers arrived on the banks of Russia’s Kama River … region, we followed a venerable tradition of Urals travel and exploration. Naturalist Johann Gmelin (1709-55) was so … in the ground as is this copper-rich former hill on its southern slope. Copper crater, seen from atop the High …

… excessive pesticide use ravaged birds, annihilated bees, and sickened the town’s inhabitants. Carson revealed to … suspected carcinogens, indiscriminately killed insects and plants, while also accumulating in water , soil, and the … Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.  …

… was developed, which produced the world's first poetry and prose and led, eventually, to the development of the Greek … cannot be quantified as objects can. Now, especially in the south, looting is well-organized. Gangs of hundreds of men …

… which advances in science, industrialization, urbanization, and novel ideas about human expression took hold. It also … connections, performed on the piano to an admiring public, and published several compositions. Among these were his … Carol A. Hess.  “The Symphony in Latin America.” Part 1 (South America), part 2 (Mexico, Central America, the …