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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… “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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… This year marks the 500-year anniversary of the pricking of one man's … Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, which was published during his lifetime (c. 1484–1566). Through … European empires paid little attention to this moral idea when so much wealth and power was at stake. This …

… 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) …

… According to the opponents of gay marriage, the Nov. 18 Massachusetts … the state kept out of the nuptial bed. On those occasions when couples decided to seek recognition for their union, it was from the clergy, not the government’s fee collector. In …