… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs perspective, not … the foundations of today’s events, and explore the often complicated nature of a particular current event. Our …
… for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … soldiers in 2001 during U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf’s visit ( left ). Former child soldiers in Congo in the early … between the regime and the opposition. Recently, after a visit by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki …
… It is possible that in choosing to volunteer in the Black community, Francis was aware of its marginalization. Being … parents. The club members volunteered its members as visiting nurses and nurses’ aides. The CWCM also maintained … workers’ residences mirrored their employment. Had Francis visited any of the men’s homes, he would have noticed how …
… Brenna Miller Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together a … immigration changes existing culture for the worse is a common view among white nationalists in the US, and … Vassar College’s recording studio, we have Curtis Dozier, visiting professor at Vassar and the Director of Pharos: …
… economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the … played in McKinley's decision for war. The senator's visit and interventionist bent hardly made him distinct. … rendered his pronouncement a political bombshell. After visiting the island, Proctor refused all interview requests. …
… Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello, and welcome to Early Encounters with Penguins brought to you by the … in Teaching, and I'll be your host and moderator today. Welcome to everyone and thank you for joining us. Now, let me … neither fish nor flesh.” He estimated that on a single visit to the island the men killed and dried 20,000 birds …
… which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying … to the final frontiers — space and the virtual realm of computer technology. They have a passionate booster in Donald Rumsfeld. The Air Force’s Space Command boasts that it can develop computerized satellites …
… the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, delivering sharp comic material about his recently released long-form birth … and Samar Islands in November 2013, then-Mayor Duterte visited within days and coordinated his own aid effort, … survivors of super typhoon Haiyan in 2013 ( left ) and visiting Filipinos living in Vietnam in 2016 ( right ). …
… The consensus among many academics, journalists, and commentators is that Boko Haram is an Islamist organization … from Mali, North Africa, Egypt, and the Saharan oases visited the region of West and Central Africa known as … over other rulers. Borno became a great intellectual center visited by scholars from Sudanic Africa and other parts of …
… The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … died somewhere far from Rome, probably never having even visited. Nevertheless, Christians in Rome from the third … and failed to find a cure until the saints Peter and Paul visited him in a dream. They told him to meet Silvester, who …
… discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations based on a person’s sexual orientation or … way.” Best-selling author and urban planner Richard Florida visits an art and design studio in Dayton, OH in 2008. Photo … The Cincinnati City Hall as it appears today. When Florida visited Cincinnati in 2002, he mocked the city for the fact …
… NATO “officially” ended its combat operations in Afghanistan in late December 2014, but … Crews , Scott Levi , and Alam Payind about Afghanistan’s complex history to ask what the past of these peoples and … in the early modern history of Central Asia. I've visited Afghanistan and lived for extended periods in …
… governmental upheavals after 1911. Mao Zedong and the Communist Party’s Rise to Victory During the 1920s and … in China, particularly in urban centers. Although the Communists (CCP) had to retreat to rural areas, the party … Nations. In 1979, seven years after President Richard Nixon visited China, China officially established diplomatic …
… Dr. Lucy Murphy Hello, welcome to "Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College … Dependent and Neglected Children in Denver, Colorado when I visited on March 25, in 2018. This picture is on the grounds … where my father was raised. It was a place that I had visited once before when I was about 12, or 13. We didn't …
… ubicada en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, prosperó como una ciudad hace casi dos mil años. El ascenso y la … Aparte de ser un lugar estupendo que turistas pueden visitar, el Zócalo también es usado para protestar contra … del gobierno que el público desfavorece. Durante mi visita, fui testigo de un grupo de manifestadores hablando …
… view of wartime Washington. On most mornings, Lincoln commuted into the city, but during hot summer months his … president shut the doors of his cottage to uninvited visitors. Lincoln met with antiwar politicians while at the Soldiers’ Home and talked with disgruntled soldiers. He visited the wounded. Yet those sometimes painful …
… stand at the bow of the ferry as the water of the White Sea comes in wave after wave through the hole in the gunwale for … and other factors on the growth patterns of this flora. Visitors stroll in the Botanical Gardens, Solovki. The monks … teaching and reading about the Gulag, I had never actually visited the site of one. I’d seen prisons but never a camp. …
… with a column praising the strategic savvy and tactical competence of abdicated Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Broder … her hand.) "Her invocation of 'conservative principles and common-sense solutions' was perfectly conventional," Broder … Pseudo-Conservative Revolt" (1954), "Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited" (1964), and "The Paranoid Style in American …
Review of A Day in a Medieval City, by Chiara Frugoni (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007)
… The result is a descriptive account that, like a new visitor to a city, meanders as it explores one interesting … had written two short articles on urban life. Frugoni combined the two articles, included her own notes, and has … almost entirely on its inhabitants. To do so, she deftly combines textual and visual sources. Using primarily the …
Review of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Serhy Yekelchyk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
… Saint (~ 988) to the present, and it would require dozen visits to Ukraine to understand the land and its people. … the reader. The reviewer’s photos during the peaceful component of the pro-democracy EuroMaidan protests. … and a populace can simply start history at a time most compatible with their own mythological narrative. The only …
Review of Russia: The Story of War, by Gregory Carleton (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2017)
… and colossal defeats has long baffled western observers. Visitors to Russia’s capital, the epicenter of Russia’s cult … Further away from the city center, a sprawling memorial complex known as Victory Park pays homage to Russia’s wars … his book follows a loose chronology, Carleton fruitfully revisits earlier periods to trace the evolution of Russian …