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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 …

… 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 …

… in Minnesota, lead poisons the water of Flint, Michigan, and Americans are reminded of the fragile state of our basic infrastructure—the roads, pipes, power lines, and waterways that make modern life possible. On this … History Talk, panelists Steven Conn , Bernadette Hanlon , and Clay Howard discuss the history of public investment in …

… 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 Macedonia, and sleeping in public squares in Serbia and elsewhere. But … 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …