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… there have been surprisingly few recriminations directed against the CIA and other American intelligence agencies in … 11 attacks, Congress is now moving to create a bipartisan commission to investigate intelligence gathering policies … is used by government. We should hope that the commission will, like the post-World War II commissions that …

… lives and change the face of the planet for generations to come. Gavrilo Princip Legend tells that shortly before his … a warning on the walls of his cell: “Our shadows will walk through Vienna, wander the court, frighten the … prism through which more recent events were being debated, official planners expressed their commitment to combat yet …

… Over six weekends in the summer of 1969, nearly 300,000 Black people gathered in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park … the Oscar-winning 2021 documentary  Summer of Soul .  The official trailer for Summer of Soul (2021).   As that film … Mongo Santamaría and Style in Harlem.   1969 was a complex moment. Even as the festival affirmed the victories …

… a narrative worthy of the hype. Even if she had not committed and been tried for murder, Laura Fair would have … short-lived financial security and success in marriage to William D. Fair, with whom she had a daughter. But he soon … sphere,” a “seductive blonde who used her beauty to destroy good men,” a “prostitute who was crushed under America’s …

… of the central fault-lines of democratic government — and will be decided many years from now by courts rather than by … before all slaves in Massachusetts would be set free, the Commonwealth v. Jennison case of 1783 ensured that slaves … Recent polls indicate that more than half of the public is against same-sex marriage and only about a third in favor. …

… in France on transatlantic relations early this month. It will be the first statement of U.S. policy toward NATO heard … France is rejoining military NATO, the United States is becoming more distant. This may be the best way the United … for NATO if France is not prepared to supply French officers to the NATO command structure. He is trying to move …

… Obama or John McCain finds himself taking the oath of office on January 20, he won’t be the first man to be handed … our mess won’t solve our own. The causes of any panic are complex. Who we choose to blame determines the solutions we … for the mess he inherits, but this short-term catharsis will not help us find long-term cures to our difficulties. …

… th century—the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism throughout Eastern Europe . The opening of the … The events in Germany were part of a larger wave of anti-communist revolutions throughout Eastern Europe. The year … transformation. As depicted in the excellent film, Goodbye Lenin! (2003) , hallmarks of Western capitalism such …

… North to share collections. Ironically, it was the shortcomings of a UNESCO convention that brought M’Bow to this … neutral transactions might not have been so. From the 1930s on, conservation and protection of African indigenous … these conversations led nowhere.  Numerous conferences, workshops, and dialogues, often with either ICOM or UNESCO …

… away from the actual events of the war, movies have become the dominant means for us to envision them. But can you … I have focused on films that “do” history well; that is, offer meaningful interpretations about the past or otherwise … squishy, mucky sounds. Some go mad. Others despair they will ever survive, a feeling further enhanced when some …

… In 2009, according to the International Maritime Commission, the waters off the northeastern coast of Somalia had more acts of … claim to be a fisherman. He also advises Mare that the 30,000 U.S. dollars in the ship safe is a decent reward. …

… Solzhenitsyn served in the Red Army as an artillery officer during World War II and was decorated for bravery, … Soviet counter-intelligence agency, for writing derogatory comments about Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a private … fiction. Throughout the horrors of Stalin’s purges in the 1930s, during World War II, and in the aftermath of the war, …

… the same thing in Iraq: setting up a government that will serve American interests. The bitter American … force will be counterproductive in Iraq. Negotiation and compromise will help us sort out Iraqi patriots from … McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, McKinley's successor in office after his assassination, did not have in the …

… the same thing in Iraq: setting up a government that will serve American interests. The bitter American … force will be counterproductive in Iraq. Negotiation and compromise will help us sort out Iraqi patriots from … McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, McKinley's successor in office after his assassination, did not have in the …

… have again fought heroically. Generous citizens are offering time, money and supplies. Inter-agency communication is decidedly better. And the city owns a … of brush clearance officers to two, in a city that covers 330 square miles. On Oct. 22, all of San Diego’s fire engines …

… truck stop teen prostitute, is really Laura Albert, a well-off forty-year old woman. The exposure of these works as fakes should make readers ask why these cliches are so compelling in the first place. Autobiographies, with their … eager to learn about life on the margins. As early as the 1830s, slave narratives (some of which were actually written …

… Film Institute ranks the film as the third best American comedy ever made and the 39th best film overall. It would be … a Soviet military base. They succeed, and in doing so set off a chain of events that leads to the activation of a doomsday device that will end all life on the planet. The movie is a product of …

… law into the 21st century by lifting the ban. Behind the official ban on open gay military service lies a policy that … because of stereotypes of effeminacy. Military men caught committing sodomy faced courts-martial. During World War II, … a new rationale for the ban. The creation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice in 1951 explicitly forbade …

… by the idea that the present seems pretty terrible in comparison with the past, even if that past is mythic or not … Washington, it was partisanship. Even as he invented the office of the presidency he fretted repeatedly that the new … government could only survive if citizens put the common good above their own self-interest. As he surveyed his …

… law, for instance, usury is now accepted as a standard accompaniment to the modern market economy. Indeed, one of … encounter high mortgage payments, pay-day loans, and pawnshops. Geisst’s first three chapters deal almost exclusively … companies not only established policies that made paying off debt a long and more costly endeavor, but also lobbied …

… and the Equal Rights Amendment being well on its way to becoming the newest tenant of the US Constitution. But it was … city possible. The post war economy rebounded from the 1930s Great Depression and big families could live on dad's … The Catholic Church was the organization that really kicked off the anti-abortion conservative movement following the  …