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… strife between Sunnis and Shiites within your great community of Islam weakened the entire civic and social … and Methodists and nonbelievers in their midst, from becoming part of the federal Constitution. They firmly … Navy PACE program and a writer for the History News Service. …

… to act decisively, during World War I President Wilson took command of telegraph and telephone systems, issued executive … Patriotic citizens assembled armed patrols to guard their communities. What is proposed now is a shadow of those … of California, Davis, and is a writer for the History News Service.  …

… of nuclear weapons. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., retired brigadier general and former businessman, died on Nov. 1. He'll … the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught … nation's past. Uday Mohan, a writer for the History News Service, is a graduate student at American University who is …

… many friendly moments as well. These constructive episodes complicate a history that is often painted as invariably antagonistic. Keeping this complexity in mind, here are ten of the better moments in … alliance was the historic meeting of Soviet and American soldiers on the Elbe River in Germany on April 25, 1945. The …

… season brings a new round of presidential analogies and comparisons. Two years into his presidency, Barack Obama has already seen his share. Supporters have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry … academic retirement at Yale Law School, returning to public service in 1921 as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, …

… in 2003. Mars, the red planet so close to Earth, has become a tantalizing target for humans to visit. Noted space … Elon Musk recently released plans to colonize Mars in the coming decades, using a network of space hardware to get … of Mars' surface craters ( right ). NASA, however, wanted a complete picture of the planet. It set aloft Mariners 8 and …

… enemies of peace."   Democrats and Republicans could surely come together to realize that children overseas dying or … hunger a foreign policy priority.  They can and should come together over food.   This has to happen if we are to … for many things in government, but not for global hunger.  Competition for foreign policy dollars is fierce, and global …

… afford to do so continued their education, while their compatriots with lesser means often found themselves … belief was fed by the inequities of the draft. Military service is a responsibility that should fall on everyone’s … service rates by African Americans, from the Buffalo Soldiers of the nineteenth century through World War II, …

… administration and the North Korean regime and an errant incoming missile alert in Hawaii have focused America’s … fallout shelter signs and the wail of emergency sirens more commonly used for tornadoes than incoming nuclear attack. 1. 1949 – Stalin and the Bomb …

… of the Heaven’s Gate suicides now blame everything from comets to cults to cyberspace to the dead themselves — the “weak” among us, as commentator David Gelernter put it. Perhaps when we have … least the glitz, of Donald Trump. Even the Internal Revenue Service has been gulled into dispensing a tax exemption to …

… of 1918, then nuanced chapters examining the major combatants in technology, logistics, and intelligence, … class, and gender. Scholars and students of the war will welcome the statistical data about war production, finance, and … on a major offensive originated from the military High Command under the control of Field Marshal Paul Hindenburg …

… lockstep with him.   Obama’s choices might also inspire comparisons to Abraham Lincoln. By the beginning of … to what’s happening today in Obama’s.   Underscoring this comparison is Hollywood’s recent attention to Lincoln’s … the movie. Goodwin main theme is how Lincoln appointed his competitors for the 1860 presidential nomination to his …

… – the Labour Party emerged from the 1945 election with a commanding majority in the House of Commons – Attlee achieved what no other Labour leader had … including the creation of the National Health Service and the granting of independence to India and …

… on the one-dollar bill lived a long time ago. His last communication – the "Farewell Address" of 1796 – was really … Farewell Address (if we think of it at all) as an obsolete command for Americans to isolate themselves from the rest of … Nations," 2d edition, and a writer for the History News Service. Ralph E. Shaffer is a professor emeritus of history …

… opportunity to delve into a subject dear to my heart but completely outside of my own research. Much to my delight, … Gripping as these chapters were, the ones I found most compelling were those that grappled with Holland's … groups. Kuper ponders to what extent Nazi symbols have become exciting taboos in Holland (222). He does a marvelous …

… legacy and identity, verifying truth, and even forging community. Recipes were not only for the creation of tasty … of artistry that provided women with a way to engage in comedy and performance at the table. The production of a … trial and error to find cures for a variety of maladies (215-6). Authors of these texts wrote down their …

… elsewhere indicate that the slavery lawsuit could become an invaluable tool for bridging the racial divide in … system, and perhaps even reaches the stage of exploring remedies, public discussion is likely to provide momentum for a … Injustices" (2000) and a writer for the History News Service. …

… Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and African Communities League in Kingston in 1914. Though Garvey was … Depression increased labor unrest across the British West Indies in the 1930s. Workplace strikes and riots took place in … on the location of its capital, political leadership, and competing views on individual nationalism. The Federation …

… to produce genocide. These include the Young Turks' intense commitment to the homogenization of Anatolia (a development … on the role of religion, not simply ethnicity, as a major component in the homogenization policies of the Committee of … Some of the Armenians were relocated successfully, but many died in the process mostly from thirst, exhaustion, hunger, …

… Both sides have long known that the solution lay in compromise and talks have endured intermittently, and … the far more difficult issue of Taiwan. Now that Deng has died, both sides now appear determined to find a solution. … (2nd edition, 1996), and a writer for the History News Service. …