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… Following the recent arrest of al-Qaeda-linked conspirators planning … fascism, at least in its most familiar German incarnation, was a genocidal, totalitarian movement, Bush's comparison … the current situation. Fascism in Europe was destroyed when the states it ruled were occupied and their governments …

… with Russia make one wonder if this is just a pause in the fighting. Will the U.S. continues its propaganda war … Each side made concessions. Until the crisis, Kennedy was a militant cold warrior, promoting military buildups and … authorized the president’s use of “armed force” in Vietnam. When Johnson introduced hundreds of thousands of U.S. ground …

… from American corporations have continued unaffected by weather, criticism, or the economy. Fifty-eight thousand … Give your life to IBM and it will take care of you, was the understanding. Job security first became a central … were barely half those in other occupational sectors. When Myers’s father urged him to accept a white-collar …

… Yeongju, a city in South Korea, is famous as the historic home of the Seonbi, Confucian scholars who … active today. With more than 1,000 years of history, it was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 and … as alleviating hunger. Ganghakdang in Sosu Seowon. When entering Sosu Seowon, the first building that visitors …

… To describe the life of Brigham Young requires a mastery of subtlety and … painted nineteenth-century Mormonism as culturally deviant, when situated amongst the diverse milieu of utopian, … and thus encouraged civilizing missions as long as it was convenient.  However, when conflicts arose between …

… The decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland ought to … occurred in 1798 and the present IRA’s campaign since 1969 was unveiled. Many republicans — including most of those who … without precedent in Ireland. But are precedents relevant when lives are at stake? Moreover, politicians should be …

… Dallas DeForest reviewed Richard Stoneman's book on the reception from ancient to modern times of the legends … or in intellectual history generally.  Wyke is at her best when she discusses the uses to which Caesar's legend is put … Wyke shows that, depending on context and purpose, Caesar was viewed by the Franks in the Middle Ages either as cruel …

… “Undoubtedly there is something in the Slavic nature which predisposes … of some kind, and a chimney or smokehole…. The only exit was the smokehole, or in the finer habitations, a window. … Thirty Years War stands as a testimony to what can happen when political acrimony, religious intolerance, and …

… Blom's explicit aim in writing this book is to rehabilitate the historical reputation of the overlooked radical … argues that Holbach's most important contribution, however, was hosting the most radical of salons in his Paris home.  … them of betrayals and conspiracies to humiliate him.  When Holbach sends him a gift of his favorite wine, Rousseau …

… Which Martin Luther King Jr., will we honor this year?  The Southerner who … the Jim Crow system of racial segregation. That work was only the first part of his career, however. As terribly … the world. This is a vital part of his legacy to us. Even when the United States was engaged in war, he refused to …

… With 2002 drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players … ghosts of a mythic southern past became the glorious, whitewashed heroes. By the end of the nineteenth century, these … the weakness of this attempt during his Pascagoula apology, when he turned from his earlier admiration for …

… On March 12, 2011, an explosion rocked the towns of Futaba and Okuma in Fukushima, Japan, but few … fields, and tore chasms through the asphalt streets. But it was a human-made disaster at the nearby nuclear power plants … materials for peaceful purposes would grow to the point when both sides would dismantle weapons to provide fuel for …

… “Bollywood” is the name that the Anglophone press in India gave to … to their children but to land and the country. Mother India was released ten years after India’s independence from the … time. The production budget for a single song, “Why Fear When You Are in Love,” was almost as much as the budgets for …

… The April 18 centennial of San Francisco's catastrophic … to deal with the cataclysm's magnitude. In 1906 there was no sign that an earthquake was imminent, but San … 1906 quake and Katrina are a given. The only question is when. The probability is high that sometime in the next …

… Koistinen in his new book State of War can be summed up in the following data point: twenty years after the end of the … the armed services themselves. He then moves outward from Washington. Chapter 4 considers the growth of the defense … has spent roughly $7.5 trillion on nuclear weapons, but when he takes us to visit warehouses full of mothballed …

… On October 23, Hungarians marked the 60 th anniversary of the ill-fated revolution that ended … denunciation of Stalin to the Suez Crisis, 1956 was a year of momentous changes and crises in the Cold War … hopes of steering the movement towards a peaceful outcome. When crowds of unarmed civilians were gunned down on that …

… Adrian Tinniswood begins The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science by … despite their age. Deviation from these entrenched models was professionally dangerous and often censored, as Galileo … to Arundel House in 1710, where it remained until 1780 when it moved to the larger Somerset House. After again …

… First, look at the nation’s history: The Bush administration, Ben Bernanke … and made Morgan a small fortune in the process. But this was part of a larger battle over regulation. In contrast … central philosophy of 1912: tough preventative oversight, when risk-takers are making outsized profits. Christopher …

… ago, on January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti. The following day, as tens of … Haiti and its people are cursed. The curse, he claimed, was the result of a "pact" that the Haitian people made with … the Revolution in Haiti began. Political conflict emerged when the gens de couleur , the free Black population, began …

… The 5,280-pound monument of the Ten Commandments installed … Revolution. On the very day that American independence was declared, a committee consisting of Benjamin Franklin, … relief of Moses is in the House of Representatives.   When Judge Moore and his Alabama supporters use the Bible to …

… Today, Ludlow, Colorado is a ghost town. Like so many other small mining towns that sprung up during the mining … world's largest industrial economy. Eventually, the coal was used up, and the town simply became no more. Ludlow, … a thug for J.H. Blair [Harlan County Sheriff].” In a time when the cost of rights in the workplace could be measured …

… Map of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. This year marks … the tragedies of partition, whereby British-ruled India was divided into two separate, independent states. The … which they argue was unable to overcome these divisions when imagining an independent India. Still others focus on …

… For eighty years a heated argument has been raging within the U.S. military. The war in Yugoslavia may finally have … in the 1920s. He argued that most of the U.S. military was obsolete. The United States needed only a powerful air … uses these resources. But civilians use them much more. And when bombs go astray (as they are bound to do sometimes) …