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… The atomic age began between heartbeats at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945 when the Japanese city of Hiroshima was leveled by an atomic bomb. Three days later, the United …

… The crisis began on July 26, when Egyptian Premier Gamal … B. Breyfogle.    … In July 1956, the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a complicated imbroglio …

… This lesson plan deals with the evolution of the treatment of mental illness and … disorders. The Origins article that I chose to use was an article the discussed the mental health system in the … sources to formulate an argument to answer the question “When treating mental illness, is it better to focus on …

… With the horrific assault of Sept. 11, “terrorism” has become the … from the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror” (1793-94), when Robespierre’s Jacobins executed, often for flimsy … — called terrorism by some — to win attention. But it was Algeria’s Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN), seeking …

… When we reflect on the history of government response to natural disasters such … volcanic eruptions, and now Covid-19, we discover that the expectation that central governments should play a role … in recovering from such disasters can be traced back to the actions of three Roman emperors of the 1st century: …

… Not since James Garfield resided in the White House in 1881 has a President failed to exercise his veto power. Since Garfield’s residency was shortened to mere months by an assassin’s bullet, we have to go back to 1825, when John Quincy Adams served out his full term without …

… BETHLEHEM, West Bank — When the Roman Catholic Patriarch of the Holy Land, Fouad Tual, … and the West. The fullest expression of this cooperation was Abbas’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …

… The State Department is probably very pleased with the … well have missed it; in most American news media the story was eclipsed by accounts of a dead imaginary girlfriend and … why American officials may be happy. History shows that when hostage crises drag on and the public comes to make a …

… Senator Obama, I surely wish Harold Washington were alive to give you wise counsel, now that your candidacy for the Democratic Party’s nomination is official. Washington’s … sense. The first is the importance of getting out the vote. When Washington was asked to run for mayor he challenged …

… This lesson plan focuses on the genocide in Rwanda that occurred in 1994 when the Hutu government targeted the Tutsi population and Hutu …

… Slobodan Milosevic is one of the demon princes of the modern American imagination. Like … rationally. They rarely want to provoke the United States. When they do it is incidental to their main purpose. What … best known exponent of this kind of egomaniacal monarchy was Louis XIV of France. For five decades in the late 17th …

… The United States has sent special forces, along with … situation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Afghanistan met with success and the United States met … isolate Afghanistan and cut off its supplies. Afghanistan was not isolated in its earlier wars. Nor could the United …

… Here we go again.  Florida is at the center of yet another presidential electoral … issues, the attention of the nation turned south. The story was much the same in 1876, when Florida was one of three states submitting conflicting …

… When the Electoral College picks a president who lost the popular … doubt on the legitimacy of the winner and the way that he was chosen. The last time the Electoral College's action … main economic change of their time. In the late 1800s, it was the shift in power from small entrepreneurs to large …

… When we think about Martian explorers today, we mostly hear about two rovers that trawl small zones of the planet: the Opportunity rover that exceeded a marathon's … and Laura Seeger.  … The Mariner 9 exploration of Mars was a good demonstration of how science and technology …

… years ago, in wartime Petrograd, Russian radicals known as the Bolsheviks carried out “the Great October Socialist Revolution.”  Written by David L. Hoffmann. …

… When Republicans met at a governors’ conference recently to consider their party’s future, many of them complained that … disaster are claiming that the Republicans’ mistake was not to remain conservative enough in recent years. They …

… recognized as a center of civil resistance since May 1980, when a brutal military crackdown targeted citizens … suppression ultimately came to be known as May 18, or the Gwangju Uprising.  During South Korea’s democratic … in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Gwangju was officially designated as the nation’s “sacred space of …

… tradition. It calls us back to those legendary days of the Old West, when cowboys defended their honor and their horses by way of … were fed up with gun violence. Gun control, they contended, was absolutely essential, and the remedy advocated usually …

… Despite what media coverage is leading the American public to believe, returning control of civil … if we fail to do it now, we’ll pay far more in the future. When the United States occupied Iraq last year, it disbanded … the Iraqi army. But U.S. officials soon recognized this was a mistake and now believe that some sort of Iraqi …

… is at hand." Americans longed to hear this 35 years ago, when National Security Adviser Henry A. Kissinger announced … long to hear it again about Iraq. If we do hear it before the next election, we shouldn't believe it. "Peace is at hand." Kissinger, we now know, realized Vietnam was not getting peace, but merely "a decent interval" — a …

… Appreciation for vintage fashion seems to have hit the military too. On November 11, 2018 ― Veterans Day ― the … proudly proclaim : “The Army wore the iconic Greens uniform when America was in the throes of World War II. We are still that Army, …