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… Howard Dean’s current bid to chair the Democratic National Committee is a test case of his political viability. It’s … of media amplification than of the offending event itself. Extra points are given if there’s a widespread sense that … by his spirited speech. Should the Democratic National Committee chairmen elect him as its new head Feb. 12, it …

… to occupy the Suez Canal zone. Nasser, who did not become Egypt’s official head of state until 1956, came to … regime. After long negotiations, Nasser was only able to extract a promise of phased troop withdrawal according to a … shots are heard, but Nasser hardly pauses, and his speech becomes ever more impassioned: “O free men, let them kill me …

… the defenders, the event, and the setting are still, to some extent, shrouded in obscurity. What we can say with … post-1868 empire, including Korea and Taiwan . The Chinese Communist Party would be reborn and re-legitimized through … year, the ROC capital of Nanjing fell in what one military commentator called “the worst holocaust of brutality since …

… nation, Bavaria appointed Gustav Ritter von Kahr as State Commissioner General ( Generalstaatskommissar ), granting … During the night, Hitler left the beer hall to take care of some business, leaving Ludendorff in charge. This moment is … Lossow renounce the Hitler putsch. Expressions of support extracted at gunpoint are invalid.” He followed this …

… economic system. Apollo was also a stunning technological accomplishment. NASA moved in eight years from launching a man … failed to lay the foundation for a sustained space program. Extraordinarily costly — a $100 billion price tag in today’s … last year, six American rockets, three military and three commercial, have failed, with a loss of more than $3 …

… Brutal violence is not typically the first thing that comes to mind when observing the artwork of the … Renaissance’s greatest masters. For many, this art has become synonymous with the beginning of a new era and the … to conquer the Kingdom of Naples. Initially invited by some of the Italian Princes, this invasion marked the …

… millions of dollars, or approximately $10,000 a pound. By comparison, sending a 180-pound history professor across the … a few chosen astronauts. The Bush administration ought to commit itself to spending money now to develop new launch … the rockets that enabled us to enter space, so now, as some engineers are urging, NASA should develop new …

… different parties have gained the 20 seats necessary to become a “negotiation group”—a parliamentary caucus that holds … towards the president or the party leader, are the most common cause of this cycle of division and integration.  … in 1987, six have founded their own political parties at some point during their careers. Except for current …

… violence. By the end, a few thousand Spaniards under the command of Hernando Cortés fighting alongside many times … of the Aztec Empire. Of the devastation, one Nahuatl poem composed several years after gave the following lamentation: … He wrote that upon looking down into the Valley of Mexico, “some of our soldiers asked whether it was not all a dream…It …

… was his only advice, citing a famous and beloved Russian comedy about excessive drinking, Eldar Ryazanov’s 1975 film … The Irony of Fate . Mark Schrad’s book puts that all-too-common Russian experience in a long historical context. And … a cultural cliché, as he admits, but one that deserves a fulsome treatment – in honor of his former professor at …

… President Clinton’s commission on race relations is dead on arrival. Most Americans had wished it success. They had hoped that commission members’ resolve and wisdom would move attention … Report was useful in legitimizing what all blacks and some whites already knew — that the plague of racism had …

… early twentieth century to the present, highlighting the complex interaction of politics, economics, nutrition, and … strings together, Levine reveal what turns out to be the complexity of the school lunch program, and she weaves these … strands together in a clear, smoothly flowing—albeit, sometimes repetitive—narrative. Discussions of welfare …

… in order to secure my doctorate. Only those who are truly committed to their religious faith can understand the pain … the life of as he understands it is not debatable. Some may argue that Gibson, an ultraconservative Catholic, … the life of Jesus. Perhaps, in the process, we can become closer to a common God. William C. Kashatus's is a …

… civil rights workers intentionally created national discomfort in cities, north as well as south, throughout the 1960s. Holding true to his principles is what compelled him to take a deeply reflective antiwar stance in … his life to continuous political struggle. His dream sometimes became a nightmare and was met with frustrated …

… . Young Hamilton survived this encounter and went on to become the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United … (Images of death and suffering may be disturbing to some viewers). Schwartz attempts to integrate the experience … punishment upon sinful humanity. Now, we are again bearing some responsibility for hurricanes through our pollution of …

… that Congress was debating a declaration of independence, a committee was drafting the Articles. Its purpose was to form … which it called the United States of America. The states completed ratification of the Articles in 1781. Eight years … to many that the confederation needed to be replaced by something stronger, a federation.   The second constitution, …

… in the beginning of 2025, still working in the name of the commitment that President John F. Kennedy had made in 1961 … address, “for whatever period is required—not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, … John Kenneth Galbraith wrote that many nations “including some heavily aided ones,” have made no “appreciable advance” …

… financial titans who amassed riches while pushing their companies and the American economy over the cliff. But will … outrage over the abuses of fat-cats is often short-lived. Complaints appear frequently during hard times but are less … executive pay climbed to more than 300 times the average. Some Americans objected to this inequality before, but the …

… (ecclesiastical censure) in England and to his own excommunication, the troubling loss of his French possessions, … agreed on June 15 to a set of provisions that would become known as the Magna Carta , or Great Charter, of … that threatened baronial power. What is clear is that some clauses had a lasting effect on the development of …

… your right, you will encounter the upscale whiskey house, complete with nineteenth-century stone walls that feature … hundreds of years. The first evidence of maritime industry comes from the 12th century but it gained notoriety … distance and occasional memorials for workers or seafarers. Sometimes you can spot a wrought-iron ship, Leith’s symbol, …

… continues to our day. Do these Church actions prove the incompatibility between science and religion? What lessons can … but provided new evidence in its favor and refutations of some old objections. Galileo became more explicit in his … into trouble. A geocentric model of the solar system (top) compared to the heliocentric model (bottom) Galileo …

… was the reinterpretation of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Comparing President Kennedy’s action and President Bush’s … administration lacks the kind of documentary evidence that compelled Kennedy to act. Kennedy resisted the use of force … war had been misguided, realized that they could learn something important from the people who had defeated them. …