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… religious aura of rivers enhanced the status of riverine communities” (31). Rivers were ascribed human qualities and … the “cleansing force of running water” and this was “combined with [the] recognition of aquatic healing power … lamented for their destruction. The study of Roman rivers comes with difficulties, however. There are only so many …

… policy debate on Oct. 22, nuclear weapons are sure to come up, especially Iran’s ambitions for the bomb. But the … to end testing first. As Reagan wrote at the time, “I am committed to the ultimate attainment of a total ban on … first requirement on the road to a nuclear test ban was complete.   Reagan’s second requirement for ending nuclear …

… seemed to me, foreshadows what the United States would become more than the Puritan outpost of Boston. After all, … Winthrop Fleet, which was funded by the  Massachusetts  Bay Company, came ashore in 1630. Ditto across the 19th century, … Mind , Miller took Puritanism seriously as a set of ideas—complicated, complex, and in many ways distant from us …

… they should be careful what they wish for. In order to become president of the United States, the Constitution … Hamilton never became president; his clause essentially died with him when he was shot in a duel in 1803. But the … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …

… Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny already … not be “defecting” to the enemy, because they are not soldiers. The dangers of using a private army are clear. … the Iraq adventure such that we don’t want marines and soldiers in this kind of “harm’s way.” Do we want mercenaries …

… future political ambitions, work behind the scenes, and become an extension of his president. Ryan’s power will be …

… the Second World War. Glassheim notes that with the end of combat in Europe in 1945, the borderlands of Czechoslovakia … recounts the long history of German and Czechoslovakian competition to define the Sudetenland each in its own in … “always a foreign ulcer in our body.” That "ulcer" was remedied in Most by way of a forced “cleansing” or “liquidation” …

… failed each other.  Infamous photograph of German soldiers rounding up Jews for deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, … the ways in which civilians viewed the average German soldier. Fritzsche is particularly interested in comparing the French and Polish accounts about sharing space …

… believed, the U.S. military services had to become flexible and mobile enough to meet smaller and more … has been slow to see how pervasive that intrusion has become. Although his belated recognition has impaired his … centuries. It is believed in Army circles that only a soldier on the ground can take and hold land. High technology …

… standard-bearer for South Carolina. Among his many accomplishments, Thurmond holds the record for conducting the … one is hard pressed to think of another politician who combines self-indulgence with sanctimoniousness in such … took a particular kind of moral and political courage.   By comparison, Joe Wilson’s outburst seems pretty timid. …

… his reader back to a Middle America before Europeans, as commercial and military power shifted between Mississippian … to place, Lee demonstrates that it is, in fact, a universal commonality shared by Indigenous peoples, Francophones, and … America and ultimately controlled by Native nations and communities. Lee demonstrates a mastery of the sources, …

… this Thanksgiving break, I took advantage of my captive audience to rehearse the impressions I was forming of the book … as a jingoistic celebration of the flag. Perhaps the most compelling stories Eller tells come in the political and holiday tradition sections of the …

… public interest. Neither did Whitewater in the 1990s. Commentators can’t decide whether Americans are too complacent, too desensitized or too patriotic right now to … treatment for transgressing the boundaries of legitimate commerce. But by the end of Adams’s life in 1826, …

… Over the last year, we have come to know a good deal about Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. … production, whether on the assembly line or in the office, gutted whatever was left of the worker's control over the … even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, . …

… successfully cut back many consumer prices. Bush frequently compares the war in Iraq to World War II. Last month, at a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War … the Gulf Coast, the price of gasoline skyrocketed. The oil companies Citgo, Mobil and Marathon all increased their …

… French scholar Jean Bauberot. Bauberot sees three essential components to a secular society: 1) the separation of … tumult of French politics in the 19th century, the French commitment to what they call laïcité remained. By the Third Republic (1870-1940) it had become “a defining ideology of the state.” It has become …

… In preparation for hosting an upcoming summit of Arab heads of state, Saudi Arabian Crown … it has never been taken off the table. The proposal is commendable for its novelty. For the first time, the Saudis … to the pre-1967 borders, the Saudis’ territorial “remedies” exceed the nearly universally accepted parameters of …