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… natives of the New World.   Las Casas ( above ) rose to become one of the most influential thinkers of his day. He elaborated his … would continue until his death in 1566 as he cajoled, shamed, and begged the Spanish crown to end its practices of … Indigenous Communities …

… funded by the United States, to contain/encircle Soviet and Communist power in Eastern Europe, prevent powerful … when the Soviet Union and its allies are no more, and the most anti-Communist government among the old Warsaw Treaty … “death of Communism” as proof that the future belongs to media-savvy versions of Herbert Spencer and Adam Smith, has …

… are excited about the idea of exploring space. The Web sites for Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars rovers, have … millions of dollars, or approximately $10,000 a pound. By comparison, sending a 180-pound history professor across the … its first victim, the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most successful explorers ever. To pay for the president’s …

… been a minor Jewish festival. Yet this holiday — which commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second … in urban enclaves such as New York’s Lower East Side. Most rapidly adopted American traditions, including the newly secularized Christmas. “Santa Claus visited the East Side last night,” the New York Tribune noted …

… contains fascinating parallels with our present situation. Most striking is the apocalyptic picture of a powerful … disaster in just a few short years if it does not take immediate steps to extend its military capabilities. There is … the test of the first Soviet atomic weapon in 1949. The combination of the Soviet Union’s atomic weapons and its …

… creates an opportunity by which China can solve one its most vexing problems: the status of Tibet.  Next to Taiwan … Both sides have long known that the solution lay in compromise and talks have endured intermittently, and … broke off in 1989. The Dalai Lama has repeatedly proclaimed his willingness to talk, but Beijing has dragged its …

… in a stalemate with Axis troops north of Rome. With a commanding view of the narrow approach to the Po River … excited females.”  An American photographer at the event seemed to confirm the validity of this warning, observing how … forged during the Italian campaign of World War II is almost entirely forgotten today.  Popular histories of the …

… Pearl Harbor. But rather than backing off the United States committed itself to war. In the case of North Korea, though, … relief aid that would have been unthinkable in 1941. The most consistent North Korean demand is that the United … Korea refuses to dismantle its nuclear weapons program immediately and unilaterally. But without atomic weapons, the …

… should we—remember this war? Tactically, it was one of the most successful military operations in history, but many … with a willful misleading of the public, and a war that committed a democratic nation’s armed forces to a strategically disastrous regime-changing …

… Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny already … of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a … Armies of foreign Mercenaries.” These guards are heavily armed and appear to have no external authority over them. …

… 58-year-long war between Israel and its Arab neighbors that commenced in 1948 when the state of Israel was proclaimed. Fighting was renewed in 1956 over Suez, in 1967 in the … in the 330s and 320s B.C. when Alexander the Great, in the most brilliant campaign in military history, conquered the …

… in the moment. Some, however, really do represent something completely new in American political history, and not always … reference. Despite the contentious process, Jefferson assumed the Presidency without violence from the losing side. 2. … popular military hero of the Battle of New Orleans, won the most popular votes but fell short of a majority in the …

… the course of Christianity and western civilization. Commemorative Playmobil figure of Martin Luther. But to stop at the tote bags is to lose sight of the complex web of factors that created the opportunity for … Luther's wife, Katarina von Bora (left), and Luther-themed room decor at the Ringhotel Schwarzer Baer in Wittenberg …

… in democracy, Americans had yet to experience their most excruciating moment of freedom’s birth, the Civil War. … strife between Sunnis and Shiites within your great community of Islam weakened the entire civic and social … is no escape from freedom except going back into the hell most of you found intolerable. So, People of Iraq, get on …

… crimes." 1 Partially as a result, the name Krupp has become synonymous with war profiteering, armaments and the … he took over his father's business at the age of 14, he immediately began dispatching letters to the Prussian state … the business, and left the company in the hands of others, most notably her husband, Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach. …

… whole cloth. A hundred years later, letters to the editor commenting on the anti-trust suit against Microsoft suggest … or entertainment celebrities manufactured for them by the media – stars who are admired for instant wealth or instant … become our age's Casey Jones? Politicians are out; even the most upright emerge with their dignity barely intact. Sports …

… protection for gays?  Perhaps the same impulse — the same combination of religious fervor and fear of social collapse … and the corruption of youth — for all of which they blamed drunkenness.  Opponents of homosexuality frequently … and if they are fired they have no legal recourse in most states. And as the Shepard case reveals, some people …

… however, has more than its share of ghosts. It is the site of the deadliest labor war in American history. Since … above in 1914) had struck for union recognition; the company's obedience to Colorado's 8-hour day law; the right … the Congress of Industrial Organizations (the CIO), the most successful and dynamic labor organization the nation …

… under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — spanning almost 12 years — has exacerbated the divisions among Americans. Gerald Ford did the opposite when he became president after the Watergate scandal. … he appeared before a joint session of Congress and pledged “communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation” …

… the height of the sexual revolution and during one of the most progressive periods in the Court's history.  Stein … truly effect a sexual revolution, as so often has been assumed.  Instead, despite the important liberalizing decisions, … Instead, the holding is evidence of a much more tenuous commitment to a liberal sexually revolutionizing agenda.  …