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… When Ukrainian troops liberated the town of Borodyanka from Russian occupation in early … shells. The symbolism of the Russian attack on the monument was obvious. Taras Shevchenko is not just the founder of the …

… The Meiji Restoration happened when a coalition of powerful … pro-reform forces led a palace coup d’état that ousted the Tokugawa military government that had ruled Japan since … of the Tokugawa and handover to the new Meiji regime was swift and largely peaceful, resulting in the …

… you now that we need you? Hurricane Katrina has underscored the importance of unified command and control in response to … considered below average among our presidents. Before he was president, however, Hoover had a reputation as a master … that Hoover’s leadership made a big difference in 1927 when the Mississippi River jumped its banks and flooded an …

… Some Americans recall the event with shame and express their fervent hope that … of Japan. More challenging to consider is whether it was an unjustifiable act in a fully justified war. August 6 … or "revisionists." These epithets merely delay the day when Americans will consider the import of having used …

… The holiday season is upon us.  It’s a time to give thanks … to Black Friday, to shop. But it could also be a season when Americans take the reins of their country’s foreign … in the new year.   Can ordinary people, not someone in Washington, be in charge of American diplomacy abroad? It …

… The administration has made a big deal of pointing out that … funny movie, but “The Mouse That Roared.” That 1959 comedy was based on the premise that by the late 1950s both sides … ruling duchess (both parts played by Peter Sellers) that when the duchy loses, it will be eligible for significant …

… This lesson plan deals with the concept of federalism, specifically looking at Ohio’s American Government Standard Six. The  Origins  article deals with the nature of Federalism when it comes to controlling police in the United States and …

… On October 26, 1954, a young Muslim Brother by the name of Mahmoud Abdel-Latif attempted to … members had been elected president, Mohamed Morsi. Morsi was overthrown in July of last year by the military amidst protests and calls for Morsi to step down. When an assassin fired at him in 1954, Nasser was speaking …

… As campaign 2000 moves past the conventions, Ralph Nader, candidate of the Green Party, … spoiler can be assessed by looking at the election of 1924, when Wisconsin Sen. "Fighting Bob" La Follette ran as an … and a previous bid for the presidency he, like Nader, was viewed as a political outsider. And, like Nader, La …

… Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian army has proven itself mighty and tenacious to … by Pavlo Chybynsky in 1862, amidst growing nationalism when Ukraine was under the control of the Russian Empire , says: “Soul …

… The Black Death was the second pandemic of bubonic plague … and the most devastating pandemic in world history. It was a descendant of the ancient plague that had afflicted … Death had aftershocks still felt into the early 1700s. When it was over, the European population was cut by a third …

… Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr., was Time’s “Man of the Year.” Oddly enough, … Year” played off the perspective of forty years earlier. When King was born, said Time, someone like the 1920s sage, …

… Seventy years ago this October 29, a giant exclamation point was placed after the words “The End” on a popular, long-running American … referred to the years of the Great Depression as a time when the American middle class, whose “eyes had failed them, …

… Teenage wizard Harry Potter, the hero of a popular children’s book series, routinely … a fictional character who assumes the sky is falling when an acorn hits him, the anti-Potter parents are forming … elites thought “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was too crude for refined readers. Twenty years later, …

… comparing it with 19th century European imperialism through the use of documents and political cartoons. To help students understand the historical aspects of imperialism, a connection to globalization, a term they have heard before, is made. When put into a modern context, this seemingly difficult …

… North Korea has nuclear weapons technology. As a result, the United States and China are trying to force North Korea … economic sanctions and threatening military force, either of which North Korea has said it would view as an act … United States would avoid war by relaxing its sanctions. When the sanctions stayed in force, Japan attacked Pearl …

… The Texas State Board of Education, God's gift to op-ed …  the history of religious public relations.  In the past, when unpopular religious denominations set up interest … scholarship to bear on current public debates.  The HNS was founded in 1996 by Joyce Appleby and James Banner as a …

… way to bankruptcy, crashing down in 2029? Most likely not. There are good reasons to believe that the much discussed … the future of the system. Imagine economists in 1940, when the federal budget was around $10 billion, making a serious prediction about …

… are certainly familiar with national borders. Across the 20 th century borders have been fought over, drawn and … is an analytic concept historians have used, especially when examining the American West, certain parts of Africa … that with the onset of the Cold War the borderland was more powerfully divided and less easily traversed. …

… The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 … - understood that a new type of transnational organization was needed to face problems that respected no national … individuals, organizations, and nations in crisis, how and when the right to human dignity first became inalienable." …

… This lesson plan looks at the United States today and the current issue of unemployment. Our lesson plan follows … board.  This answer will be the standpoint that they take when writing a letter in the following class period(s) to …

… What is the internet? Is it a technological godsend? Is the internet … to bear on people’s lives in new and remarkable ways. When the Union Pacific met up with the Central Pacific at … very few. What the technology titans did with their wealth was not at all clear or foreordained. Like the internet, the …

… The biggest story in this year's otherwise uneventful … non-Protestant president — let alone a non-Christian one — was enough to cause panic among many Americans. When John F. Kennedy ran for office in 1960, he had to …

… In the heyday of the Robber Barons in the 1870s Cornelius … more of the kind of radical changes the New Deal instituted when it established the Securities and Exchange Commission … and stimulate economic growth, since private enterprise was inherently good and the public sector was inherently …