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… G. Castagnola depicting the disposal of cholera victims' bodies in Palermo, Italy. In a succession of pandemics that … began in 1817 and continue to this day, cholera ravaged communities and strained political and economic orders … interventions. However, the response of most states was a combination of both methods. They tended to be pluralistic, …

… around 1,500 people in Guatemala—including prisoners, soldiers, prostitutes, psychiatric patients, and children—were enrolled without consent in unethical studies related to the testing and treatment of sexually … and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (which would later become the Pan American Health Organization) financed and …

… antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone … The ONG units arrived in Kent late Saturday night as fire gutted the campus ROTC building. There is little doubt that … back at the Guard. Some chucked rocks; others jeered the soldiers. Many students described the atmosphere as almost …

… programs. These recent developments no doubt bring comfort to some. But we can't rest easy. The dangers of nuclear weaponry still exist in the … With the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967, that goal was accomplished. Latin America is now a nuclear weapon free zone. …

… a protester in his 30s told a correspondent that he had studied geology, but after graduating the only job that he … made it impossible for them to get married. Many others complained of low pay and underemployment. While the … A classic monopolistic economy emerged in which the large companies, protected by tariff walls, enjoyed a captive …

… Brazil and Chile, are not populists. Consequently, the most common definition of populism in political science today … (most likely killed by the military that dropped their bodies in the shark infested ocean). Furthermore, declassified … issues (most importantly free trade and agriculture subsidies), the two nations have found issues to cooperate on …

… Heschel's work, the Prophets was written not for a Jewish audience but for people of faith in general. Writing during … Nazi anti Semitism and racial ideology required one to overcome a number of intellectual hurdles. How could one accept … weight to the propaganda of the Institute; propaganda coming from the pulpit calls forth far deeper resonance than …

… who remained on the court. This dramatic change in the composition of the Supreme Court can be traced to the … justices to judge these issues. Perhaps the time has come to ask them to recuse themselves when cases come before their court on which their church has taken …

… a strong hold on the imagination of the American public. To commemorate “Honest Abe,” Origins offers ten of the most … since the murderer proclaimed his identity to a stunned audience in Ford’s Theatre. Non-academic writers have … case within the system. 10. The Renaissance in Lincoln Studies Abraham Lincoln, 1864 Over the last twenty years, we …

… of the military later found expression in the Posse Comitatus law of 1878, still in force. Archaic as the title … framers of the U.S. Constitution remembered how British soldiers served as police in 1770. Untrained in police work, the soldiers lost their discipline and fired into a crowd in an …

… his father, also an Edison employee, counseled him that the company would provide a secure life. Myers’ forced retirement during company retrenchment in 1996 broke that contract, and he has … in big businesses with disdain. The idea of working in a complex hierarchy for a firm they would never own conflicted …

… of 1989 in eastern and central Europe and the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union in 1991 brought an end to the … know about, there are several other nations which hope to become nuclear powers in the near future. Add to this those … miniature atomic bombs hints that atomic bombs might well come in a small packages. Finally, even though we have …

… Congress to honor the passing of Paul Ecke, Jr., who helped commercialize the plant in the United States in the middle … to  Mexican-U.S. relations . The date itself was chosen to commemorate the 1851 death of Joel Roberts Poinsett, the … to meddle in the negotiations between a Mexican and Spanish commander.  While he did nothing to change the outcome of …

… the party. In July, when the 186 members of the platform committee meet, they’ll have to write a plank on the war in … a strong antiwar position — “bring ‘em all home now” — is compelling. But it could well be politically fatal. The … the White House. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… undermined European integration. Marquand reminds his audience of the important successes that Europe has witnessed … - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient … or so Europe has witnessed a rising tide of regional, neo-medieval provincialism. In and of itself this may not be a …

… As any viewer of television news knows, those who comment on the Arab-Israeli crisis offer many different … group continues to indulge in these fantasies, significant compromise will be difficult to achieve.   The principal … over highways connecting their communities, and soldiers in the Israeli army guard the routes and stop …

… onto both parties’ national agendas for decades to come and FDR splicing “conservation into the Democratic …

… the intellect with emotion and place. You can follow our common fight for independence and creating and keeping a … The family moved to the United States in 1923, and Eero studied architecture at Yale. In February 1948 Saarinen’s … returned it to ecological health and attractiveness. It is easy to be captivated by the impressive setting of the main …

… storm which these swells...told us in unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather … swells was as much as five minutes, which made him uneasy, as did the rising tides. But Bureau officials in … surge, and thirty-three of those sheltering in the house died. The best estimates of the death toll are at least …

… outside of Haifa, then Palestine , working on a kibbutz (a communal farm). When Halprin returned to the U.S. he trained … drugs at one end of the fountain, walk to the other end and die. This was not the “interactivity” Halprin had in mind. … it was her “favorite spot on the National Mall.” Before he died in 2009, Halprin explained that he “made [the memorial] …

… Henry V and the battle that made England is a mistitled but easy to read overview of the character of Henry V and his … successful, effort to draw the reader in to the late medieval mindset prevalent among the nobility at the time, … unalloyed sense of justification: She announces that the outcome of the battle of Agincourt showed "God had chosen to …