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… They're the greatest show on earth, exciting the passions of … be transformed — tamed and pacified, at least in part — when expressed on the Olympic stage. For defenders of the … not as representatives of their nations. Coubertin was a fervent patriot who saw international sport as a way …

… Although Americans today may take the tactical and operational brilliance of their military … filled them with a burning desire for revenge. The result was what historian John Dower dubbed a “war without mercy” … march and Japanese mistreatment of U.S. prisoners of war. When U.S. troops returned to the Philippines, Gen. MacArthur …

… Summer’s heat brings with it, as it did last year, the threat of massive power outages. Everyone who’s suffered … distribution system, fought Westinghouse stubbornly. When it appeared he could no longer win by competing fairly, … Nth Power, a venture capital company in San Francisco, it wasn’t so much that Edison was wrong as that he was ahead of …

… more than a decade after 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. … passengers on United Flight 93. The goal of the hijackings was to reprogram the guidance systems of the airliners so … with relatively long periods of cessation. In 2001, when the peace process collapsed entirely, a massive …

… make in a presidential primary campaign! Seven days before the Iowa caucuses, Howard Dean led the Democratic pack by at … of his rivals. This development caused pundits from the Washington Post, CNN, CNBC and the National Review to ask … considered a presidential run after the 1960 election, when John F. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard M. Nixon. …

… On April 14, 2015, we observed the 150 th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s death. … addresses nation on civil rights. June 11, 1963. Lincoln was the first American President to be killed in office. His … wage war against a determined foe who would not yield even when Lincoln offered the Confederacy gradual, compensated …

… or derailed at every step. (Kasyanov's name, for example, was taken off the presidential ballot in late January 2008 … This new patriotism is not as rigid an ideology as Marxism-Leninism was in the Soviet days and it is partly empty of … continues to show deference to Putin, it remains unclear when and whether he will attempt to wrest the reins of power …

… that President Obama had called a group of historians to the White House a few months ago to educate him on the …   Experts will argue forever about whether the Vietnam War was a lost cause. But there was little doubt at the time … — or rationale — that he could sell to the American people. When he told the undersecretary of state, George Ball — the …

… According to George W. Bush, the global war on terror is the central event of our time, … that off onto future generations. Old timers will recall when big wars meant rationing and higher taxes. Thus, for … war Franklin D. Roosevelt mobilized the nation. The result was decisive victory. But with victory came other, largely …

… On July 24, 1923, negotiating parties at the Swiss resort town of Lausanne signed the final treaty of … all the treaties signed after  WWI , the Treaty of Lausanne was the only one negotiated and, perhaps more importantly, … Armenians was unmatched in its extent and lethality. When the war finally ended, the Ottoman Empire plunged into …

… infectious diseases such as influenza could be controlled. The availability of modern antibiotics persuaded many of us that any real threat from a flu microbe was as quaint as wind-up phonographs and rumble seats. In … From World War I troops it spread throughout the world. When it appeared in the spring of 1918, U. S. public health …

… For scholars of the Reformation , the question of legacy is integral. … spiritual, and academic biography. Lyndal Roper’s Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy grapples … mimicked “the swagger of male single combat in an age when noblemen had to prove their honour with their bodies.” …

… In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center … terrorists. American nuclear strategy during the Cold War was designed to deter the Soviet Union from attacking the … fired the opening shot of World War I on June 28, 1914, when one of its members assassinated the Austrian Archduke …

… It is the time honored way to deal with plagues and pandemics : … city. The President's House in Philadelphia. George Washington left the fever-ridden city for Mount Vernon on … up at entrances. Similarly, there will be a schedule for when one can leave the stadium after the event. The …

… February 23, 2018 marks the 150 th anniversary of the birth of W. E. B. Du Bois. … remain vital issues today. W.E.B. Du Bois c. 1911. Du Bois was in the vanguard of the scholarly movement into the … in rural Tennessee with whom he lived during the summer when he taught school there (the only three months a year …

… Why has the balanced budget amendment been before Congress for … followed. In 1936 the first budget-restraining amendment was offered as an anti-New Deal measure. At a time when national obligations in domestic and international …

… In March 1865, with the Civil War's final days in view, President Abraham … his Second Inaugural Address that "all knew" that slavery "was somehow the cause of the war." Today, as the nation … "thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery." When Confederate leaders wrote their national constitution …

… On June 7, 1962, members of the  Secret Army Organization (Organisation de l’Armée … of Algiers. By 12:30pm, the main building of the university was engulfed in flames, lighting up the skyline of downtown … France . French  colonialism  in Algeria began in 1830, when France invaded Algeria and defeated the Ottoman ruler. …

… For fifty years the Soviet Union stood in the eyes of the West as a … bent on imperial and ideological expansion. According to Washington, it was a threatening state that needed to be … date back to Bolshevik upheaval of 1917, represent the Leninist aspiration to spread world revolution. Zubok uses …

… we call “Early” American history—a past often animated by the meeting between Africans, Native Americans, and … on one’s face, on one’s head, on one’s breast, etc. there was indeed perishing, many indeed died of it.” Aztec victims … European counterparts? Alfred Crosby answered in the 1970s, when he coined the phrase “virgin soil epidemics,” or …

… Since the summer of 1997, economies around the world have been … the last year before Wall Street’s crash in October 1929 was phenomenal. Prices soared, much as they did in the … making investors vulnerable to huge losses and bankruptcies when values began to fall sharply. The recent crisis over …

… First Symphony premiered on April 2, 1800, at Vienna’s Burgtheater Theater. It was the dawn of a new century, one in which advances in … it “slender,” remarking that it “can seem almost to wilt when commentators examine it for clues to future symphonic …