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… in meeting recruiting goals. Old and New Uniforms in Comparison: Modern-day reenactors (left and center) wearing … roots, but the uniform soon became unpopular among many soldiers. The Army leadership was forced to find a replacement … just three years after it was finally distributed to all soldiers in 2015. U.S. Army Soldiers wearing the Blue Army …

… inaccurate, always misapplied metaphor that unnecessarily complicates our thinking surrounding religion and politics.  … "prayers for the protection and blessing of the Common Father and Creator of man." Most other Founders … state, should not be construed as keeping the two realms completely separate. The evidence is plentiful. The same …

… of violence and instability until 1922. Multiple communities of former tsarist imperial subjects imagined the … raised the grain quotas for newly collectivized villages. Combined with bad harvests this led to the Holodomor , the … between Poles and Ukrainians was fierce because of their incompatible national projects involving the same land. …

… the French Duke of Normandy. It is a reminder that the complicated, ambivalent, and sometimes hostile relationship … In January 1066, Edward the Confessor, King of England, died without an heir, which motivated several claimants to … Tapestry depicting Norman cavalry attacking Anglo-Saxon soldiers. Was William’s claim to the English throne legitimate? …

… historical monuments and churches.  Sadly, it has become the center of a major feud between Armenians and … citizen even boasted of the low unemployment in Karabakh compared to neighboring Armenia. Nagorno-Karabakh is home to … historical Armenian name, Artsakh. The Roots of Conflict: A Complicated Past The historic lands of Syunik and Artsakh. A …

… and sent to Vologda. It was there he decided to become a writer, sending his first short story to Maxim Gorky. … escaped and joined the Socialist Revolutionary (SR) Combat Organization. He was now a political terrorist and a … and then sought to kill Boris Chicherin, the first Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, in Genoa in 1922. Alexandrov …

… and Washington, the news media are now brimming with comparisons of alcohol to marijuana prohibition and “lessons … drinking habit. In 1970, two legal scholars wrote a comparison of alcohol and marijuana law that I believe still … The courts generally came to see the state legislatures as competent to decide whether drinking was a public evil and …

… space used traditionally by children for unstructured, unsupervised play, adults' efforts to provide protective spaces indoor (community centers, YMCA) and outdoor (playgrounds, sports … and stronger peer associations formed as a consequence of compulsory schooling in the mid-nineteenth century, a gap …

… American Revolution , and the Early American Republic. This compilation gathers together some of his important essays … is his discussion of “Anglicization.” Rather than becoming less and less British as the 17th and 18th centuries … believes American colonists became more and more like the compatriots they left behind. Although diverse groups …

… It seems as if apologies are becoming a regular part of business and politics. Pope John … for the Irish famine of the 1840s. The Aetna Insurance Company apologizes for selling insurance against the escape … They also cost nothing. The Vatican will not be paying compensation to the Christian dissidents butchered by the …

… in style, tone, and story, the two films are instructively complementary in reminding us of an uncomfortable truth … gave masters ownership and control over the labor and bodies of the men, women, and children who by law were their … most chilling scene, the tyrannical slaveholder Calvin Candie (a creepy Leonardo DiCaprio) without hyperbole thunders, …

… Memphis, a pall of shock and sadness blanketed the black community. Anguish soon turned to anger. Fearing a riot, the … by violence. And so it had to be the fire this time. A soldier standing guard following riots in Washington, D.C. … while he was alive declared the movement over when he died. A pin for the Poor People's Campaign showing Dr. …

… was brilliant, but the process nearly destroyed the text. Compounding the damage was the decision in 1841 to put the … to monitor the condition of the document using a $3 million computerized camera system designed by the Jet Propulsion …

… The thick walls of a medieval city offered protection to its inhabitants. While … had written two short articles on urban life. Frugoni combined the two articles, included her own notes, and has … Frugoni's analysis and critique of the multiple images is superb and it is here that she is most successful in this …

… still done today. Westinghouse’s new system seemed clearly superior and quickly began to take business away from … stubbornly. When it appeared he could no longer win by competing fairly, he tried playing up the dangerous aspects … expert Maurice Gunderson of Nth Power, a venture capital company in San Francisco, it wasn’t so much that Edison was …

… a very different matter. Unfortunately, bad analogies have come to dominate discussions of China in the American press. A disturbing number of commentators have been implying or stating outright that … China would do now that its second Communist “Emperor” had died. As the debate over the so-called “China threat” to …

… With the horrific assault of Sept. 11, “terrorism” has become the new American watchword and scourge. Yet as George … nor anyone else has defined what terrorism is or where it comes from. Doing so may help us to face a frightening … these groups realized that if you live by the car bomb, you die by the car bomb; terrorism could alienate the very …

… August 22, 1485, King Richard III of England (r. 1483-1485) died fighting in the Battle of Bosworth Field. The victor, … son of York and was also Edward’s brother.  But when Edward died in April of 1483, he left two young sons (both under …

… political culture: a strong suspicion of government, an accompanying spirit of liberal capitalism, a sweeping ideology …

… a dramatic reconciliation in the European Coal and Steel Community.Ê Founded with four other countries in 1951, it … to sign up for a unified army in the 1952 European Defense Community. Five of them ratified it. The French parliament … problems – especially expensive agricultural subsidies and institutional inefficiencies and cronyism. Though …

… King. Jury selection began November 15. The case hardly comes as a surprise. In recent years, the King family has … a fairly straightforward case like the King assassination become complicated with such stale, predictable theories that it …

… the Soviet Union, the United States was not a preemptive combatant. It was Joseph Stalins Soviet Union that blockaded …