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… some political pundits conclude, negotiations cannot overcome divine principles dictating distinct worldviews that … Sunni minority. Religious and Ethnic groups in Iraq. Many posited that Prime Minister al-Maliki's resignation in … Shi'is continue to decry this Battle of Karbala as an internecine tragedy, insisting the power of the state should have …

… in the 2012 presidential election to “develop explicit rules for the targeted killing of terrorists by unmanned … us from the ravages of modern warfare, or if they will become the appliances of Orwellian control. What is remarkable … to the Nazi death camps, arguing that both were war crimes necessitating Germany’s harsh punishment. The V-1 produced …

… in style, tone, and story, the two films are instructively complementary in reminding us of an uncomfortable truth about our nation’s past: that underpinning … antislavery novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Tarantino focuses less on slave labor than on the buying and selling of …

… speculative thinking with his new biography on Trotsky. Coming after his previous biographies on Lenin and Stalin, … the years 1879-1913 in rich detail. Service expertly chronicles the path of Leiba Bronstein (Trotsky's given name) from … of 1923. Often, Trotsky's suggestions from exile had few connections to reality, such as when he called for a popular …

… that these and other countries were entering into a competitive spiral of devaluations in an effort to export … rules requiring countries to limit their trade surpluses. Effectively such rules would mean that surplus … about free trade nonetheless remains popular. Quite the opposite was the case, however. The currency war of the 1930s …

… on brains. Undead and not quite living, where do zombies come from and why are they here? The story of our … freed African slaves, the Code Noir grew to include 60 articles that defined the rules governing Haitian plantation and … and zombification captured the fear surrounding sorcery, necromancy, and personal violence that defined colonial rule …

… of the native tribes she lived with.    Mifflin is driven less by an argument than she is by a quest, a quest to … Olive remade herself into a proper Victorian lady, complete with a child (the couple adopted) and a beautiful … activist.  Olive's story is fascinating; Mifflin combines an inherently intriguing story with good writing …

… recede. In their place emerged a fierce brand of political combat that regarded private life as a legitimate field of … a shared belief, professed by evangelical Protestants and less-observant Christians alike: that a just and orderly … and Woodrow Wilson  escaped from the sort of humiliation visited on Grover Cleveland. Neither did insiders remark …

… that lingered into the 1980s, the Republicans appeared hopelessly divided. Internecine warfare threatened to tear the party apart. This … They have shown no inclination toward the kind of compromise that characterized President Reagan on issues … Derek Charles Catsam …

… The Italian media mogul, Italy’s richest man, is now the incoming prime minister. How could that not be worrisome for democracy? Politicians and political parties come and go. That’s the democratic way. But Silvio … the center-left seven years after he was ousted bodes less a mere change of administration than a change of …

… TV age, campaigning is expensive business. Today’s bribes come in the form of enormous but legal campaign … are no better. In the 2000 election, high-tech companies poured out $40 million in campaign contributions, mostly to … late-nineteenth-century predecessors, President Bush coddles the big businesses that contributed so much to his …

… Native Americans visited colonial cities from New Orleans to Montreal, Boston, … in between. Historians have traditionally focused on the outcomes of “the chiefs now in this city,” namely, treaties. … of cultural interaction,” or “points of convergence and connection.” The work is arranged thematically around chapters …

… he attempted suicide by throwing himself into the Charleston Harbor but was saved from drowning by two passing … John Marshall’s seat, he was able at long last to overcome the strong objection of the Whigs during his third, and … nominee. He opposed the rulings in  Griswold v. Connecticut   (1965), which acknowledged the familial right to …

… how his actions fit into the Church's traditions and its commitment to social justice. Listen and explore hundreds of … Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone by … Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website origins.osu.edu , on iTunes and on Soundcloud and as …

… To make the case that an election is momentous, you need to compare it with previous critical ones. The most important … Election of 1932 lasted until 1968, when a disastrous, unnecessary war discredited the party.   The 1968 turning point was somewhat …

… Florida and the Middle West. Today's public diplomacy might lessen the value of such an accomplishment as a true surprise. A revived round of …

… — have orbited the earth since 1961. Space travel cannot become cheap until the age of rocketry is replaced by an age … orbiting hotels, bases on Mars, missions to asteroids, telescopes on the moon, and other building blocks of the human … actual payload. Nor are rockets fully reliable. To launch a communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit demands …

… 26 of 32 Irish counties received considerable, albeit not complete, independence. The following day, however, six … vowing to break ties to the British crown by any means necessary. It was not inevitable that these national … Party introduced the possibility of Home Rule as a way of compromising on the so-called Irish question. Home Rule …

… or accept “instructions on public policy” from any “ecclesiastical source,” and that no religious entity should … the public acts of its officials.”   Kennedy affirmed his commitment to an America that is “officially neither … ‘Almighty God’” and proclaimed that “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand …

… noted that work on the largest mosque in the city had been completed just before his arrival, but Timur ordered its … to Hajji Muhammad al-Qazi, a Chagatai courtier who had visited the court of Castile in Toledo several years earlier. … meat; and after that, there came fruit, melons, grapes, and nectarines; and they gave them drink out of silver and …

… successfully cut back many consumer prices. Bush frequently compares the war in Iraq to World War II. Last month, at a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War … of the national oil reserves and to urge people to drive less. Yet he could do more. During the World War II polls …

… protests in Hong Kong that have directly challenged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies and yet have not been … November as the leader of the Politburo’s powerful Standing Committee. But we shouldn’t make too much of Jiang’s passing … Cultural Revolution decade (1966-1976), when the CCP was less dependable, since it was prone to let ideological …

… the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught … and children."  President Dwight Eisenhower, the Allied commander in Europe during World War II, recalled in 1963, … First, the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated …

… is likely to run again. So relevant "experience" is hard to come by.This presidential season, everybody is talking about … then abandoning, the Hungarian revolution against communism in 1956, failing to stop Joe McCarthy's … Lincoln. As a one-term backbench congressman, Lincoln had less relevant experience than Obama or Palin. Lack of …