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… of “violence.” Pekka Hämäläinen made an argument that the Comanche past constituted an “empire.” Benjamin Madley, … one overarching Apache ‘tribe’ or nation.” Despite this complexity, the author sticks to this Euro-American … clear the specific band names of groups wherever possible, using the Apache language terms most familiar to contemporary …

… one thing, it was a misbegotten war. Lacking today’s fast communications, Washington didn’t learn until after the … in early 1815, might also have been avoided with faster communications. The battle took place two weeks after … What the British call “the America War” was part of the closing phase of the global conflict that had raged across …

… that Eisenhower did the responsible thing when he quickly completed the truce negotiations that ended the fighting in … border of the People’s Republic of China at the Yalu River, communist China entered the war and almost drove the UN … been condemned to the isolation it has experienced ever since.Ê In the end, the war lasted for another three years. …

… Sarewitz contended that in contrast to most other pressing issues on which science had a primary voice—climate … or environmental poisoning, for instance—COVID-19 was compelling “people everywhere . . . to put their immediate … opportunism . . . are being brought to heel by the pincer combination of shared values and facts on the ground” ( …

… to remain an unsettled and unsettling question. In years to come, hundreds of articles and books will flow from the pens … of that state's election such as instructions and e-mail communications between the Florida secretary of state's … weighed if these significant records are to be preserved:  Since the ballots presently are the property of local …

… seats in the House. The 1986 election marked the first time since World War II that the Senate had changed hands after a … hand, would be wise not to take the recent election outcome as a clear mandate that Americans support an aggressive … of history at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin and a writer for the History News Service. He is the …

… with the assumption that the Nixon scandal was about a single event, a “third-rate burglary” and the subsequent … at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An abbreviated list of what came to be … of course, crimes, but if Clinton were ever shown to have committed these offenses, these would be his only crimes. In …

… of Black sovereignty and nationalism that led to the disintegration of the British empire in the Caribbean. Jamaica … Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and African Communities League in Kingston in 1914. Though Garvey was … on the location of its capital, political leadership, and competing views on individual nationalism. The Federation …

… spirit and with a large gesture invite an enemy to become an angel without further preparation or a flying … made this assertion in response to a Serbian political assassination in 1903 supposed the “reason must be sought in the … in vodka, brandy and other fire waters with the concomitant excitement of thrusting an opponent through the …

… the polls were moved to schools and churches and community centers. There was some change in how candidates … associated with women and the home. Churches, schools, community centers, and this continues through to this day. … was unclear. Establishing a coalition of women focused on a single issue during the interwar period was difficult. …

… United States is characterized by three great waves of newcomers. The first wave came primarily from Ireland, Germany, … century. The second wave arrived between 1882 and 1924, coming largely from eastern and southern Europe. This was … though many individuals and groups became increasingly wary of the tides of new migrants arriving from …

… cyclists might wear the yellow jersey during the three-week competition, only one will ultimately win it. Cover of the … leadingsports paper’s support of Dreyfus as well as the rising price of advertising space, pulled their ads and … this hue. Ultimately, the Tour was born out of blistering competition and vigorous debate over who could be considered …

… visions of Malthus, Ehrlich, and other doomsayers have not come to pass.  Drawing on a rich variety of government … number of deaths due to any particular famine because of incomplete records and because death tolls are often … though this has often been driven by fear of uprising from below or fear of infectious diseases.  Governments …

… proved to be fertile breeding ground for torturers. Since late 2001, because the attacks against al-Qaida and … These French units exploited the unclear lines of their own command authority to act somewhat independently of the rest of the military. This ambiguous command authority also allowed them to set up a vast network …

… history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and comparatively modern city of about 150,000 people. Exiting … Turkic nomadic tribesmen from the early centuries of the Common Era, Khorezm became an important commercial and … which the Earth revolved around the sun; the physician Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, whose Canon of Medicine …

… Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple … the DNA of the pathogen that causes it—the bacterium Yersinia pestis —in the remains of late Neolithic-era humans … the plague’s social and economic impact on the infected community. Our best historical source is Procopius of …

… away from the actual events of the war, movies have become the dominant means for us to envision them. But can you … the most striking scenes from The Burmese Harp , Mizushima comes upon a beach, stops, and stares in shock at an … Collection). When Polish participants in the 1944 Uprising climb into the sewers in Andrzej Wajda’s Kanal , we …

… sides their full due, we will be honoring only a bloodless, comforting reflection of the whole troubling man.  Most … He taught that each of us is tied to all other people in “a single garment of destiny.” Only by loving that whole … greatest triumph, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the black community of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in riots. More …

… reader finds a series of chapters organized around either a single president or several. Less a narrative, the book … Yosemite as home for several lit-up resort hotels and casinos with their sprawling parking lots . . . the Mormon … onto both parties’ national agendas for decades to come and FDR splicing “conservation into the Democratic …

… victory because his predecessor Herbert Hoover had been singularly unsuccessful in dealing with the ravages of the … everyone thought Roosevelt was up to the task. Political commentator Walter Lippmann called him “a kind of amiable … 'Construction of a Dam' (1939). The federal government commissioned this mural, along with many others, to fund …