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… More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad between the Nazi and … than Americans in the entire war. But by February 2, 1943, when the Germans trapped in the city surrendered, it was clear that the momentum on the Eastern Front had …

… The early modern period in Britain conjures up images of … decline of magic. Belief in magic and magical occurrences was commonplace before the Reformation and persisted long … explain the relationship between God and the natural world. When the Reformation changed this structured societal order, …

… This lesson plan deals with the evolution of the treatment of mental illness and … disorders. The Origins article that I chose to use was an article the discussed the mental health system in the … sources to formulate an argument to answer the question “When treating mental illness, is it better to focus on …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Here we go again.  Florida is at the center of yet another presidential electoral … issues, the attention of the nation turned south. The story was much the same in 1876, when Florida was one of three states submitting conflicting … Matthew Redinger …

… 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 …