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… these middle class professionals were tacitly responsible for the crises that reverberated through the United States … helped inspire. Like Nixon in late 1969, the author has become immensely disillusioned with America's leadership class … state of politics in the American Republic. Having become a strong critique of the Bush dynasty in recent years, …

… American immigration policy has always toggled back and forth between seeking immigrant labor and restricting entry … they simply never made enough to do so. “Many Chinamen have come; few have returned. Why is this?” representatives of … U.S. immigration document. Upon his return from a temporary visit to China in 1895, Wong was denied re-entry to San …

… The war between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary militia Rapid Support … because SAF leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti, … settlers and southern tribes. Armed with the latest weapons, the Arab militias carried out destructive …

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary of the 1920 revolution. For many months in 1920, people all across Iraq rose up to … along sectarian lines. The legacy of the 1920 revolution points toward an Iraq that transcends external constraints …

… credit Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers, the man responsible for security at the House of Commons, with taking down the gunman. Commentators not … appears that those who want concealed carry (which is the latest frontier for gun rights in the U.S.) are more …

… he lived in France and traveled widely through Europe. But for all his wanderlust, his most vivid memory stemmed not … total solar eclipse . Dating to 1223 BCE in Syria, it was accompanied by the appearance of  Mars in the sky and … also took credit for this apparent miracle. Whatever the latest eclipse portends, 2024 is a pivotal if ominous year …

… will see, the development of the US drug war was deeply informed by experiences abroad...and to understand why the War … we could, you know, leave the house and not really have to come back until it was time for dinner. We could ride our … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… were killed. Nine others were wounded. With that, the forces of order in the United States had launched a shooting … antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone … Guard moved on campus and pushed students from the central Commons back toward the dorms. Having done so, the Guard’s …

… has been characterized by friction, contradictions, and competing visions of the goals of union. The most recent … of the same recurrent dream that for ten centuries has revisited the peoples of Europe: creating between them an … representatives to the European Parliament. Each state appoints ministers to the Council of Ministers, the …

… the new generation of bullet trains are all emptier than before, for they are the dreaded paths that the coronavirus … future when “some evil spell” had settled on our communities, when “mysterious maladies swept the flocks of … But that cannot be the real story, for COVID-19 is only the latest in a long series of world-shaking epidemics , and at …

… he was asked last year if democracy is the most effective form of government,  Donald Trump said, “I do.” (He then … in the 18th century included the selflessness to put the common good above special interests. Only a few (men) could … as Americans reacted to the  French Revolution . Radical newspaper editors adopted the term in support of France’s …

… fireworks light the sky and effigies burn. The celebration commemorates an event from 1605, when authorities discovered … James I ascended to the throne, hope spread among Catholics for religious toleration, in no small part because the new … English Heritage . N.D. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-me/real-story-of-bonfire-night/ Sharpe, J. A. …

… legacies that acts of violence leave on individuals and communities, and the importance of remembering and … of the multiethnic nation of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Formed after the end World War II as a federation of six republics, Yugoslavia was composed of a diverse mix of religious and ethnic groups. …

… The perfect companion to nearly any summer activity is a good book. And, … your interests, there is certainly no shortage of options for those who love history. Here are ten books to put on … of socialism and post-socialism in Eastern Europe. In her latest work, Second World, Second Sex, Ghodsee turns her …

… the British military. Yet, they also inherited the English common law tradition of regulating arms. English statutes … gun use and the Bill of Rights specified that arms were for defense “as allowed by law.” Colonial leaders carefully … clear that the Amendment should not be understood as an unlimited right and certain types of weapons ought to be …

… in his decision that “There are no Athenian virtues in this form of athletics. The NFL has substituted the morality of … In fact, as surprising as it may be to sports watchers and commentators, how Americans talk about sports today is a … major injuries.” Here Robertson identifies the most common points of similarity between gladiators and …

… early spring of 2013. Thanks to the explosion of electronic forms of communication, even since the election of Benedict in 2005, … an ornate cathedral became popular viewing on YouTube and news sites on the web. For Copts, however, it was God who …

… 2000 and Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 2007, has come to the end of his legal term limit and must step down. … in Russia—a political structure that allots almost unlimited power to the President—was consolidated early on … are free to speak from and for a variety of political viewpoints (monarchy or republic, tsarist or Soviet nostalgia, …

… some five hours later. This departure of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. … government took very little interest in Mesopotamia (Greek for "land between the rivers," in reference to the basin … peaceful, and progressive foundation. While this latest effort to remake Iraq achieved certain markers of …

… Yet the results of the 1945 election demonstrated, not for the first time, that Attlee’s opponents had greatly … – the Labour Party emerged from the 1945 election with a commanding majority in the House of Commons – Attlee achieved what no other Labour leader had …

… Change, conference representatives will endeavor—not for the first time—to find ways to "stabilize greenhouse gas … Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , produced by Origins: Current Events … the department as well at Ohio State. I have been teaching for about 20 years in global environmental history and the …

… role of women in the Arab Spring, intervention, and the way forward. For more on Syria, see Origins’ two articles, “ Syria's … Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk produced by Origins , a project of the … harder to solve. Leticia Wiggins  You bring up these great points of how you know the actuality and kind of what we see …

… thinking, allowing the peoples we study to decide for themselves what was true and real in their experience, … and the future. Different Truths to Live By Every human community tells its own stories about the ultimate order of … Together, such stories end up producing something like a common-sense knowledge of the foundations of reality, a …