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… suffering a "bad case of footnote paranoia" (291).  While completing a last minute source review before sending her … having impersonated the son of Sir James Colquhoun and using the prestige this noble title carried to swindle a … and should not be treated, he decided to make himself "Commissioner appointed to receive and transmit to His …

… procedure — is counter-productive. It's impossible to completely humanize an execution. There's always suffering … insufficient doses of the first chemical, the anesthesia. Since the second chemical causes paralysis, attendants at … anesthetized or not. A prisoner could be unable to move and communicate but still be conscious during an agonizing …

… expands our list of enemies and defines any potential competitor as a mortal threat. The national insecurity state … As president, Eisenhower urged the nation to expect the communist enemy to be around for 20, 50 or 60 years. In … This seemed to justify a permanent national security state. Since the enemy would always loom beyond our borders, …

… 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 … but, as Japanese officials observed at the time, it was a combination of both. The Japanese strategy, however, was …

… too frequently heard, “if only you were white,” as a compliment to their skills, but also as a reality check that … him “one of the greatest pitchers of all time.”  The compliments were great, but they might as well have said, … Mark Ribowsky, A Complete History of the Negro Leagues. Kensington Publishing Corp. Larry Tye, Satchel Paige: The Life …

… already been showing up in recent history. Millennials have come of age hearing they are the first generation in … Breadline in San Francisco, California 1933 (right). Adams’ compelling phrase summarized his portrait of America. He … infrastructure, nuclear war, and terrorist strikes to rising sea levels, decimation of fisheries, reduced arable …

… across the United States owned their reservation lands as a community: families could settle, plant their crops, and own … colloquially known as the Dawes Act, upended this system of communal land ownership and, in doing so, struck a historic … the act’s architect, certainly thought so. Addressing a meeting of white progressive reformers at the Mohonk …

… understand how India shaped and was shaped by the war, using military history, diplomacy, economics, and domestic … 1939 to over two million in 1945 (64). This process was accompanied by considerable growing pains. Indian troops … it could be made to produce wartime goods without unduly competing with Britain (89). Early in the war, India’s …

… the global war on terror is the central event of our time, comparable to the great struggles of the last century … generation to confront and defeat global terror. This has become Americas mission to defend the peace through the … Thus, for most Americans, the global war on terror has become a little like global warming; we sense dimly that we …

… Is it Still 1968? Musings on a Frozen History by David Steigerwald Given the … I’ve read about it, 1968 was quite a year. Writers have compared it to the most dramatic moments in modern history— … , 1989 . In the United States, the turmoil of ’68 probably compares to 1861 and 1919. There was an A-list of nearly …

… is, on average, hotter and drier than in earlier decades. Since the mid-1980s these conditions have led to an increase … are offering time, money and supplies. Inter-agency communication is decidedly better. And the city owns a …

… and blue clad figure holding a shield in one hand and using the other to punch Adolf Hitler square in the jaw. This … and artist Jack Kirby in the eponymous Captain America Comics #1 , the patriotic hero became a breakout star for Timely Comics (the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics ). …

… the debate over what historians have called the failed, incomplete, and even the forgotten revolution has been revived … was “remarkably bloodless,” at least initially, as compared to other revolutionary regime changes that occurred … revolution stating “I don’t want it. . . I hate it like sin.” Gerwarth’s ability to put the November Revolution into …

… Yemen’s internationally recognized government is sitting comfortably in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 900 miles away from … or dispel warnings of impending mass starvation. The increasing amounts of humanitarian aid, calculated at more than … northern highlands have been united for centuries by common religious beliefs, tribal alliances, and a history of …

… and legacy. Women, on the other hand, struggled to comes to terms with their infertility in large part because … addressed in the medical literature correlated to ‘mortal sins’ like lust and gluttony. In one illuminating example … activity” would hinder conception. His views were not uncommon, either. Nicholas Culpeper in his 1651 A Directory …

… by any other intelligence agency,” especially as telecommunication technology advances. Perhaps surprisingly, that warning was not issued in the wake of the cache … It was made instead in the 1970s by the Senate’s Church Committee when it held hearings on the activities of the …

… stretched to unprecedented limits, one of the most pressing questions in the presidential campaign will be the … a result, thousands of men openly defied draft laws and welcomed prosecution. And tens of thousands evaded the draft by … in Iraq — sometimes notifying them days before they are to come home that they’ll have to stay another three or six …

… immortality. A better approach than polling is to compare Reagan with past presidents who are now regarded as … desperately — and not entirely successfully — to sustain it since Reagan left office. Great presidents are also effective communicators. Lincoln was the finest speechmaker in …

… Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … in which things turned ugly. So how does this election compare to past elections as far as personal tax and … create, of course, any of these tendencies, but by exposing them and even stirring them up, it's led to a …

… War to defend their position. Then and now they argue, the commander-in-chief during wartime has an obligation to place … his. Indeed, both presidents faced similar situations as commanders-in-chief during wartime. Lincoln, confronted with … were illegal on two counts: (1) “there was no war” since only Congress can declare war and had not done so; and …

… more righteous, their argument goes, we would elect less sinful candidates. Unfortunately for this argument, Bill … American voters in the past have reacted to scandals by choosing subsequent presidents who were perceived as more moral. … This cynicism has been expressed in part in the ever-decreasing voter turnouts of the last few decades. It has also …

… the charge went, this crime against the past was being committed by leftist academics out of touch with their … agency, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, decided late in 1996, by a one-vote margin, to … traveling to distant libraries and historical societies. Since 1934, NHPRC funds have been indispensable to the …