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… the Second World War. Glassheim notes that with the end of combat in Europe in 1945, the borderlands of Czechoslovakia … Czechs and Slovaks after the war, the Sudetenland became something of a tabula rasa whereupon their aspirations for … recounts the long history of German and Czechoslovakian competition to define the Sudetenland each in its own in …

… hardly in question. The mystery was how high the plot went. Commissioner Charles Chenevier and Superintendent Georges … papers related to the history of the Cagoule—an anti-communist terror organization founded by Eugène Deloncle to … and his murder, Brunelle and Finley-Croswhite provide something for scholars and casual consumers of history …

… legacies that acts of violence leave on individuals and communities, and the importance of remembering and … War II as a federation of six republics, Yugoslavia was composed of a diverse mix of religious and ethnic groups. … villages nearby and forced to turn over their belongings. Some were killed individually, but most were then …

… the mercurial personality of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. and Filipino forces. Overconfident … later they were on quarter rations. (Troops in intensive combat require 3,500 calories per day. U.S. and Filipino … escaped to Australia. The U.S. government in time released some of their testimonials, and a Life magazine story in …

… its efforts to build atomic bombs after a series of shortcomings and failures convinced its government to focus on a … though he was predominantly focused on American lives. His commanders predicted upwards of half a million American … the Hiroshima bomb nearly 2,000 feet above the city, which somewhat limited the damage caused by radiation. In fact, in …

… seemed to me, foreshadows what the United States would become more than the Puritan outpost of Boston. After all, … on a hill” and “A Model of Christian Charity” have been extraordinarily simplified. Beyond the now-remote theology … weight they have been asked to bear. Here’s hoping that some of those exceptionalists will read this book and let …

… a decidedly social purpose. In Part Two Brown discusses some well-known figures of the day as a way of showing the … Augustine, Brown emphasizes the importance of patronage and community in the famous bishop's career and suggests that … of wealth as the first step towards an ideal, heavenly community (180). Paulinus was the first Roman senator to …

… their own nation. Pinsker’s followers agreed there was something abnormal about Jewish life. Two millennia of … as a permanent fact of life. The Zionists aimed to overcome that psychological infirmity by making the Jews a … broke out again. For Israel, the only alternative to real compromise was to show more power. The tanks and missiles we …

… President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives — created to give religious groups tax … philosophers: Marvin Olasky. Bush has praised Olasky as “compassionate conservatism’s leading thinker,” saying of his … and needy people because “man is sinful and likely to want something for nothing.” Most of the needy got that way …

… this new generation of Israeli scholars. This controversy – combined with his scholarship, popular writings, and … scholarly account of the conflict, Morris's final chapter, "Some Conclusions," stands alone. In it, the author offers a … preceding pages. In addition to the arguments regarding the comparative military advantages of the Jewish population …

… “Socialism!” That’s the alarm many conservative commentators and legislators are sounding about the latest … to socialism. Unless the government’s investment in banks comes with effective government oversight, the real problem … stock and probably make a profit for taxpayers.   Despite some concern about the United States becoming socialist, …

… story, the myth relegates that city’s more interesting, complicated history to the margins. Ian Worthington’s latest … and social and religious life, respectively. They are somewhat awkward waystations, though, and their contents … between Athens and Rome poignantly illustrate Athens’ complicated relationship with the rest of the Mediterranean …

…   Puritan New England founded its colonial enterprise with some official divisions between state and church — not … religiously intolerant regimes in the world today.   The outcome of the recent referendum in California shows us that …

… fireworks light the sky and effigies burn. The celebration commemorates an event from 1605, when authorities discovered … of Parliament, killing King James I, the Lords, and the Commons in one stroke. The conspirators hoped the chaos … in January 1606—hanged, drawn, and quartered in a gruesome public spectacle. Parliament quickly established …

… to return to it.” This agreement continued the work begun some 30 years earlier by the office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR) of the League of Nations . Created on June 27, 1921, the position of High Commissioner was subsequently offered to the Norwegian …

… inaccurate, always misapplied metaphor that unnecessarily complicates our thinking surrounding religion and politics.  … "prayers for the protection and blessing of the Common Father and Creator of man." Most other Founders … sense that the First Amendment, even if understood as somehow constructing a "wall" between church and state, …

… There’s a common perception that Vice President Joe Biden lost the … confessed in 1960 that he would need a week to recall some major idea that Richard M. Nixon had contributed to his … for any particular department.   But Mondale’s recommendation also reflected a deeper concern regarding …

… the cable news networks waited to report the outcome … and waited and waited and waited. Much to the … was not yet a news-gathering organization. These editors compiled bulletins from information sent by the British news … priority on being the first to break a story, which can sometimes lead to dubious editorial decisions. The “if it …

… as a “city of peace and human rights,” emphasizing the community’s legacy of peaceful organization and solidarity, … the event continues to resist any singular description. Its complexity is reflected in the many names used to describe … violence—arrest, torture, forced disappearance, and extrajudicial killing—to tighten their grip on power.  In …

… call “the law of unintended consequences.” That phrase has come to be understood as a warning that intervention in a complex system tends to create unexpected and often … is one such complex system, and making changes to it can sometimes produce those kinds of outcomes. The change at …

… Sweden, larger than the three Baltic republics (PDF File) combined, and larger than Austria. It would be the 11 th … Belarusian nationhood followed this path, the imagined community of Belarus, more than any other European country, … and most assimilated within Russia . This situation has led some Belarusian academics, including the philosopher …

… law, for instance, usury is now accepted as a standard accompaniment to the modern market economy. Indeed, one of … States has attempted to eliminate or severely regulate compound interest and usury, citizens and consumers … of one of history’s lesser-understood institutions. Some readers may find that while his secondary sources are …

… of the text.  In examining roughly two hundred years of comic, filmic, propagandic, and literary portrayals of the … of weapons of mass destruction and man's inability to communicate result in the end of the city?  Invasion, U.S.A. … their Biblical overtones) are enduring modes, but they have some different concerns shaping their usage and different …