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… of the 1941/42 Centrifugal Offensive was the Dutch East Indies and its rich oil fields that could make Japan … the bay, devoid of protective torpedo nets, without combat watches on duty, and lacking accessible ammunition, the American ships were easy prey. The Japanese pilots’ primary targets, the …

… to sustain themselves in deep sea until the vessel actually comes by." Under the pirates' command, the Sirius Star … ordeal, the exception being the captain of the Faina , who died of a stroke soon after his capture. Ancient Traditions, … from well-armed Somali gangs who killed scores of soldiers, most famously those of the U.S. helicopter crew whose …

… President Obama went to Egypt ten days ago to create common ground between America and Islam. In the process he … of American independence in 1778. He also reminded his audience of the U.S.-Tripoli treaty of 1796-97, which denied … North Africans stopped capturing American vessels.   It’s easy to understand why the president didn’t want to provide …

… career began in 1775, when he was elected to the local committee of safety and then to the Virginia Convention, … as well as a term in the U.S. House of Representatives and died while serving in the U.S. Senate. Under a term limits … where he remained until 1821, when he guided the Missouri Compromise bill through Congress. Fortunately, no term limit …

… Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier met in Munich with German and Italian dictators Adolf … really premeditated collusion with the dictators to fight communism elsewhere. Had they carefully examined the … “the two pillars of European peace and buttresses against communism.” At his first meeting with Hitler, he revealed …

… th century—the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism throughout Eastern Europe . The opening of the … The events in Germany were part of a larger wave of anti-communist revolutions throughout Eastern Europe. The year … gap between those who came of age after the collapse of communism and those who remember living in a world split …

… surely will be. But they are inappropriate for this coming Sept. 11, no less than a newspaper printing last … And they have yet to ask all Americans to take part in accomplishing its ends. Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg to honor … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …

… King. Jury selection began November 15. The case hardly comes as a surprise. In recent years, the King family has … a fairly straightforward case like the King assassination become complicated with such stale, predictable theories that it …

… That paper, simply entitled “Declarations Drawn up in Common Agreement,” was signed in a town on the French side … to be domestic disturbances by terrorists. French soldiers patrol the hills above Souk Ahras, Algeria (1958). On … The signing of the Evian Accords assured peace, but an uneasy peace it was. The Algerian delegation exits the Hôtel …

… President Bush likes to tell his usually hand-picked audiences that Iraq will become more democratic and prosperous because of America’s … for his policies in Iraq. Most recently he told an audience in Cleveland that Germany and Japan are democracies …

… for this apparent transformation. Sharon is working toward complete Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip, … predicted Sharon to make it even this far. Two historical comparisons spring to mind when one considers the path that … P.W. Botha. Sharon represented the Israeli settler community better than any politician in recent memory. Yet …

… had literate, talented, industrially and technologically competent populations, a huge help in building a modern … officials today talk of a one- or possibly two-year commitment in Iraq. After World War II the vanquished … prove only one thing — building democracies is not an easy job. There is good reason to believe it will be harder …

… play, adults' efforts to provide protective spaces indoor (community centers, YMCA) and outdoor (playgrounds, sports … and stronger peer associations formed as a consequence of compulsory schooling in the mid-nineteenth century, a gap … in modern American society, Chudacoff argues that a compression of generations has occurred that carries …

… in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … legislation fixed the domestic agricultural market against cheap imported grain and inspired further radical agitation, … (1803-1815) prompted Parliament to divert thousands of soldiers in a heavy-handed crackdown on Luddite rebellion. …

… Road.” In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson , provided what has become the enduring description of the Revolutionary War when … they would lose the support of other colonists and an audience in England. Massachusetts leaders thus collected … were shooting at them—a problem that has also frustrated soldiers across the world in numerous conflicts in the last two …

… and there was always a world that needed redeeming. When he died ten years later, scores of mourners, from New York to … nonconformist left. Historian Leilah Danielson attempts to complete the work that Muste did not. It is most useful to … and activism for Muste. He believed that liberalism, as embodied by the New Deal order, had failed precisely because it …

… theme the denunciation of Democrats as being soft on communism, opened up relations with the People’s Republic of … of state, Dean Acheson, ran a “College of Cowardly Communist Containment,” it was Nixon who radically improved … as either the dream of a “tender-minded” idealist or a Communist dupe. The common thread that connects all these …