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… The atomic age began between heartbeats at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945 when the Japanese city of Hiroshima was leveled by an atomic bomb. Three days later, the United … East Asia & Southeast Asia …

… With the horrific assault of Sept. 11, “terrorism” has become the … from the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror” (1793-94), when Robespierre’s Jacobins executed, often for flimsy … — called terrorism by some — to win attention. But it was Algeria’s Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN), seeking …

… BETHLEHEM, West Bank — When the Roman Catholic Patriarch of the Holy Land, Fouad Tual, … and the West. The fullest expression of this cooperation was Abbas’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin … Threads of Hope Glimmer in the Middle East …

… The State Department is probably very pleased with the … well have missed it; in most American news media the story was eclipsed by accounts of a dead imaginary girlfriend and … why American officials may be happy. History shows that when hostage crises drag on and the public comes to make a …

… When we reflect on the history of government response to natural disasters such … volcanic eruptions, and now Covid-19, we discover that the expectation that central governments should play a role … in recovering from such disasters can be traced back to the actions of three Roman emperors of the 1st century: …

… This lesson plan focuses on the genocide in Rwanda that occurred in 1994 when the Hutu government targeted the Tutsi population and Hutu … The Extermination of a Nation: The Genocide in Rwanda …

… At the very moment when the British people are struggling to … King invaded northern England in September 1066, but was defeated and ultimately killed by Harold in the Battle … depicting Norman cavalry attacking Anglo-Saxon soldiers. Was William’s claim to the English throne legitimate? In the …

… Not since James Garfield resided in the White House in 1881 has a President failed to exercise his veto power. Since Garfield’s residency was shortened to mere months by an assassin’s bullet, we have to go back to 1825, when John Quincy Adams served out his full term without …

… When we think about Martian explorers today, we mostly hear about two rovers that trawl small zones of the planet: the Opportunity rover that exceeded a marathon's distance in … The Mariner 9 exploration of Mars was a good demonstration of how science and technology …

… Senator Obama, I surely wish Harold Washington were alive to give you wise counsel, now that your candidacy for the Democratic Party’s nomination is official. Washington’s … sense. The first is the importance of getting out the vote. When Washington was asked to run for mayor he challenged …

… Slobodan Milosevic is one of the demon princes of the modern American imagination. Like … rationally. They rarely want to provoke the United States. When they do it is incidental to their main purpose. What … best known exponent of this kind of egomaniacal monarchy was Louis XIV of France. For five decades in the late 17th …

… When the Electoral College picks a president who lost the popular … doubt on the legitimacy of the winner and the way that he was chosen. The last time the Electoral College's action … main economic change of their time. In the late 1800s, it was the shift in power from small entrepreneurs to large …

… The United States has sent special forces, along with … situation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Afghanistan met with success and the United States met … isolate Afghanistan and cut off its supplies. Afghanistan was not isolated in its earlier wars. Nor could the United …

… years ago, in wartime Petrograd, Russian radicals known as the Bolsheviks carried out “the Great October Socialist Revolution.”  Written by David L. Hoffmann. … Bolshevik Red Guards took control of the Russian capital from the provisional government October 1917. …

… When Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping in May 1967 and … “Egypt’s Vietnam.” Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol, who was pushed from all sides to implement a preventative strike … regimes in an uneasy coalition against Israel in 1967 was the general realization of Israel’s military superiority …

… recognized as a center of civil resistance since May 1980, when a brutal military crackdown targeted citizens … suppression ultimately came to be known as May 18, or the Gwangju Uprising.  During South Korea’s democratic … in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Gwangju was officially designated as the nation’s “sacred space of …

… Despite what media coverage is leading the American public to believe, returning control of civil … if we fail to do it now, we’ll pay far more in the future. When the United States occupied Iraq last year, it disbanded … the Iraqi army. But U.S. officials soon recognized this was a mistake and now believe that some sort of Iraqi …

… When Republicans met at a governors’ conference recently to consider their party’s future, many of them complained that … disaster are claiming that the Republicans’ mistake was not to remain conservative enough in recent years. They … Republicans Should Look Back to the Future …

… tradition. It calls us back to those legendary days of the Old West, when cowboys defended their honor and their horses by way of … were fed up with gun violence. Gun control, they contended, was absolutely essential, and the remedy advocated usually … Gun Control and the Old West …

… is at hand." Americans longed to hear this 35 years ago, when National Security Adviser Henry A. Kissinger announced … long to hear it again about Iraq. If we do hear it before the next election, we shouldn't believe it. "Peace is at hand." Kissinger, we now know, realized Vietnam was not getting peace, but merely "a decent interval" — a …

… A group of intense Christian believers gathers, heads bent in earnest prayer. At their head is a man … convert the sinner. 1997? No — nor is this on the Mall in Washington D.C., nor are we watching a Promise Keepers … chronological cycles. It often becomes especially strong when shifts in the economy or in a society’s reigning values …