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… apparently unchanged by El Nino this winter. Massive layoffs from American corporations have continued unaffected by … Raytheon and Boeing alone announced cuts totaling more than 30,000 people. The rash of downsizing throughout the 1990s … his father, also an Edison employee, counseled him that the company would provide a secure life. Myers’ forced …

… as a fashion choice. Peiss asks several key questions in order to understand how youth from many different cultural … of the suit—journalists, ministers, reformers, public officials, and academics who made fashion the subject of … songwriters and animators utilized the suit to make commentary on American life during a time of war. Chapter …

… number of letters that prove he was no dummy. A historian’s complaint, however, is larger than chagrin at the number of … of soils, forests and wildlife habitat. In the late 1930s, Roosevelt gave voice and policy leadership to those who … and instability. Indeed, it was known when he took office, for two national commissions (the 1972 National …

… not discrete organizations, but frequently interacted and competed, sharing players and locations, effectively … Jorge Pasquel to build a successful league of his own.  Offering substantially higher salaries than they were being … player, one who was skilled, yet also patient, and willing to avoid confrontations over race.  Although he …

… Beatles made their arrival in the United States. Stepping off an airplane at JFK, the fab four were met with deafening … would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … increasingly forgotten artists. Johnny and the Moondogs (soon to be the Beatles) was one of these bands. After …

… a very different matter. Unfortunately, bad analogies have come to dominate discussions of China in the American press. … between the imperial and revolutionary eras, and official histories point with pride to the role that Chinese … citizens of China as Hitler was with Germans in the 1930s. The problem is not simply that the use of these …

… I teach courses on Eastern Europe, nationalism, migration, communism, the Cold War, among others.   Dr. Robin Judd   … And Theodora Dragostinova, we'd like you to start us off here.   Dr. Theodora Dragostinova  So it depends how you … breaks out in 1939, right, but rather begins in the early 30s. Some even argue in the late 20s, as there are …

… from their sleep when a bomb exploded, taking the roof off of room #19 and ending the life of Marx Dormoy, former … hardly in question. The mystery was how high the plot went. Commissioner Charles Chenevier and Superintendent Georges … in Vichy redresses this “selective amnesia” about the 1930s and 1940s, and it does so in an eminently readable …

… points in the Russian capital—railway stations, telegraph offices, and government buildings. By the following evening, … Over the next three years, the Bolsheviks (soon renamed Communists) would have to win power in a bloody civil war … in which it arose—a moment of total war. In the 1930s, Soviet state violence became even more pervasive, as …

… violence. By the end, a few thousand Spaniards under the command of Hernando Cortés fighting alongside many times … at fighting. And the men had incredible resolve.” (Myers, 304) By contrast, another respondent defined the mere idea … for 499 A provocative Mexican film-documentary entitled 499 offers an additional and revealing meditation on what 1521 …

… rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman focuses attention on an era, only four decades ago, … including 35 churches and numerous homes in this state. McComb, Miss., came to be known that summer as the bombing … these estimable goals. Perhaps only when violence fails will we return to the tactics of the Mississippi freedom …

… of significant opposition to its approach. Instead, he has offered a re-packaged "Blueprint" for the law's … of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Weingarten complains that the administration's plans "put 100 percent … experiment that provides health clinics, parenting workshops, and other community services aimed at supporting …

… to Mark Twain, “it often rhymes.” Indeed, few historical comparisons make more compelling verse than the COVID-19 … pestis , the plague emerged in central Asia in the 1330s, spread west along the Silk Road, and was carried by … This was caused in no small part by the deaths of many officials at all levels of government. Undoubtedly the Black …

… and Moscow are increasingly frayed, and Russia has become a determined foe of the American Middle East agenda. … program, which lies at the heart of the current standoff between Tehran and Washington, is largely designed and … ideology, while the Russians just want to do business. The good news for Bush is that, since Russian opposition is more …

… everything he owned — including his slaves — had to be sold off.   It’s hard to square such luxury and self-indulgence with the stern defender of the common man we know from history textbooks. As chief … 50 varieties of peas, 44 varieties of beans, and upwards of 30 varieties of cabbages. It was an organic cornucopia to …

… unlike our own naturally puzzles and frustrates us. Set against our highest cultural and political ideal, that of … them, feared democracy — decisions affecting the public good arrived at through the vote of average men. More … whose members can deliberately and calmly assess the outcome of an election and judge its impact upon the public …

… industry representatives, but many environmentalists have come to see nuclear power as key to end world dependence on … power generation.  The Bush era  Energy Policy Act of 2005 offered more than $13 billion to the nuclear industry in … Cost Analysis of Light Water Reactor Power Plants . R-2304-DOE (Santa Monica:  Rand Corporation, June 1978). …

… As the war against Iraq grinds on, recent polls show that large … trade, encouraging the development of the European common market and paying the lion’s share for NATO, the … this trend in global public opinion, if it is not reversed, will be disastrous for both American policy and the American …

… threaten the cultural makeup of Europe due to the alleged incompatibility of the Islamic faith of the majority of new … finally felt at home. European Refugees in the 1930s and 1940s Further predicaments over the status of … waiting to enter Germany, October 2015 ( left ). Pakistani shops and restaurants on Wilmslow Road in Manchester, …

… and Washington, the news media are now brimming with comparisons of alcohol to marijuana prohibition and “lessons … of alcohol and marijuana law that I believe still offers some insight today. In “The Forbidden Fruit and the … as a legal, state-monitored intoxicant. Perhaps the law will again respond to public opinion, as Bonnie and …

… which rises just west of Lake Malawi at a height of 3000 feet. View of Lake Malawi from near Livingstonia in … to drive. During the rainy season, the road's stones become very slippery, making transportation difficult. The … sell food and other groceries, not luxuries, and barbershops do a brisk business in hair cutting. A plate …

… programs to deal with welfare, work, and war in the 1930s and 1940s, they deliberately excluded or treated … economic relief during the New Deal. Although many federal officials understood that black sharecroppers were the … When Affirmative Action Was White concludes with the recommendation that contemporary American policymakers deal …

… U.S. Border Patrol ( pictured above  in 1924 when it was officially created) carried out Operation Wetback to respond … less interest in actual immigrants who might settle and become part of the citizenry. The program thus conditioned … is unlikely in this midterm election year, politicians will want to take a more comprehensive historical view of …