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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… One damp and chilly January night in northern Italy—in what was then Cisalpine Gaul, or today’s … allies, part of the so-called Great Triumvirate. However, when their third ally, Marcus Crassus, died shortly after …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… On October 26, 2014, Brazilians will go to the polls to choose their President in a runoff vote between … colonial period and nineteenth century, Brazil's economy was based on the cultivation of sugar and coffee and … to be $2.5 billion, are projected to reach $20 billion when completed. Petrobras has become a key issue, with …

… 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 …

… In one of the more interesting and ironic twists in recent American … wrote that those who could not see that the pope was the Antichrist had a “marvelous blindness upon them.” When Irish and German Catholics began entering the country …

… The United States seems poised to begin peace talks with the … light on this question. Forty years ago the United States was trying to end the long and unpopular war in Vietnam. … believed they had a firm settlement with North Vietnam, but when Thieu was finally shown the agreement, he felt …

… hundred years ago Mary Shelley, at age nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of … Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus , 1818. She was in a privileged position to craft this rich … ). Mary began the novel one stormy night in the Swiss Alps when her husband Percy and his friend Lord Byron each …

… It was George Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt Europe after World War II, … supplies has to occur before the annual massive snowfalls, when it becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible, to …

… Guantanamo Bay has become one the most infamous places on earth.  In the United States and … the role of Theodore Roosevelt in its ascent.  Roosevelt was fascinated by naval power and pressed for Americans to … to create such a naval presence in the Caribbean came when the United States invaded Cuba – then a Spanish colony …