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… survive in a changing world. The movie revolves around a visit by King George V and Queen Mary to Downton Abbey. George V’s reign marked a tumultuous time for Britain that witnessed not only the calamity of the … its effects: “My maid was rather curt with me, but she is a Communist at heart.” Mounted police clear demonstrators from …

… is, and used this argument to weaken the campaign finance reforms passed after Watergate. One of the justices even … rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s … political spending with political speech is but the latest version of a very old argument. The money-speech …

… outside deck to get my first look at Cuba, a country that for so long seemed almost fictional. The United States’ … of Florida, yet American citizens have been restricted from visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the … the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: …

… horizons of empathy,” quickly became the dominant priority for people under German occupation. His conclusion, finally, … phases of the war affected daily life. Gossip about the latest news of the war mattered to people trapped in the … German soldier. Fritzsche is particularly interested in comparing the French and Polish accounts about sharing space …

… nation. Strained budgets have been the most cited reason for past cancelations of Memorial Day events. But the truth … in Arlington National Cemetery were not even permitted to visit the grave sites of their relatives after the Civil … the national holiday from its pedestal. Memorial Day commemorates the men and women killed on the battlefield or …

… became a target of Scottish missionaries, who paved the way for the launch of official colonization in Malawi in 1890s. … Livingstonia in honor of his mentor. The Gordon Road People visiting Livingstonia travel on the Gordon Road, named after … to drive. During the rainy season, the road's stones become very slippery, making transportation difficult. The …

… Zoos are some of the world’s most visited attractions. Yet they often make headlines for controversial reasons such as in 2016 when the … or in 2017 when poachers killed a rhinoceros at a Paris Zoo for its horns. While schoolchildren and adults alike may … little difference between the stuffed gorilla that you can buy at the gift shop and the gorilla in an enclosure that …

… Published just before the November 2016 U.S. presidential election, Stephen … U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … circumstances, wishing to return home. Eleanor Roosevelt visits Hungarian Freedom Fighters in Salzburg, Austria, …

… According to news accounts, Jason Kessler, a former journalist and current member of the … the violence had already begun. But the worst was yet to come. Saturday’s rally was scheduled to start at noon, but … in Georgia. A view of the carvings on Stone Mountain, the visitor center, and the surrounding park ( left ). A …

… from a television studio where Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Alexandr Vondra triumphantly hailed the … west became (if ambivalently for some) the second former communist-bloc state to assume the rotating presidency of … with U.S. politicians and businessmen during his time as a visiting professor in Chicago, helped win U.S. support for …

… how to remember the past. More than a simple residence for millions of Germans, it also contains a tumultuous … dot the landscape and stand beside opera houses and statues commemorating prominent figures of German cultural heritage. … gradually become taller and more imposing the deeper the visitor wanders into the center. Berliners respect what the …

… of HIV/AIDS  as a phenomenon that began in the 1980s, when news first broke of a mysterious and highly deadly disease. … to the globalization and economic neoliberalism that transformed the global economy in the late twentieth century. On … of HIV/AIDS in both the United States and around the world. For more Origins coverage of HIV/AIDS and other related …

… present in the Alexander legends. The Egyptian tradition, for example, credited Nectanebo, the last historical pharaoh … birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … Persia. The Jewish and Arabic traditions relate Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and his founding of cities. In the Jewish …

… of scientific knowledge, and of political power. For the Mayan Empire, centered in modern Southeast Mexico, … Itzá, one of the central and sacred sites of the empire, visitors can both see and hear representations of two … Site. It stands as a vast historical source that enables visitors to glimpse the spiritual world, the scientific …

… walking amidst downed branches and scattered leaves, the newspaper headlines screamed that Lehman Brothers had … Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … money" of the gold standard, created the conditions for a worldwide boom in investment and production.  The …

… perpetually moving Nazca tectonic plate, the islands were formed through repeated volcanic activity. Layer by layer, … devoid of animal or plant life. This initial isolation, combined with its location at the confluence of three … that strikes me with wonder.” Even before Darwin’s visit, however, human beings had begun to shape the …

… discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations based on a person’s sexual orientation or … Administration (VA) made it easier for more Americans to buy homes , and they encouraged banks to lend more by … way.” Best-selling author and urban planner Richard Florida visits an art and design studio in Dayton, OH in 2008. Photo …

… very heart of the case. In amicus curiae briefs submitted for U.S. v. Windsor , children were a central focus in both … of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere—organizations that had come out of gay-father activism of the 1980s—wrote a brief … from their ex-spouses in order to keep their children or visitation rights. There were still dangers involved in …

… storm which these swells...told us in unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather Service (NWS) is trusted to provide timely warnings for hurricanes to the residents of the United States. But … , while railroads brought the Texas cotton crop and summer visitors alike. But the city was built on a barrier island …

… exposed the name of a CIA agent to columnist Robert Novak. For more than two months, the president did nothing to … Office shenanigans. Presidents and their underlings have committed numerous immoral, illegal or dodgy acts. They’ve … last fall to learn whether Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium from that African country. Revealing her …

… party rule") similar to the sort that had preceded the DPP for decades. The presidential election, held as always on a … is not quite as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. It is also the second-most densely populated … Taiwan (where Ma grew up and went to college), Ma has never visited the Chinese mainland. After graduating at the top of …

… (Madras) in India. Madras was born in 1636, when East India Company official Francis Day signed a treaty with the Nayaka … overlooking the Bay of Bengal. Madras was an odd choice for a city because it had no existing port for trade, and … he chose to settle the EIC where he could be near her and visit her frequently. Nearly four centuries later, the EIC …

… as an idealized system of unfettered exchanges between buyers and sellers. There’s no room for the government in … up to this point: to pay for everything from hospital visits to prescriptions, one needs health insurance. Of the … that translates to the future of American health care comes in his final chapter. “Health care cannot function,” …