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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Next week, Americans will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. The march’s signature event, Martin Luther King … of the movement. He was near the end of his written speech when he decided to deviate from it and use the echoing …

… 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 …

… In his  2024 State of the Union Address , President Joe Biden championed  a … machines to combat the influx of fentanyl, which he claimed was responsible for the deaths of thousands of children. … overlooked the connections between the two communities. When an  El Paso Times  journalist questioned his rationale, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… In the spring of 1989, giant crowds marched through the streets … most other nations but has long had close ties to China. Whenever Kim behaves outrageously, the United States, … world that lies beyond its borders. Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a professor of history at the University of …

… The furor over comments made by Gen. Stanley McChrystal and … clashes between presidents and wartime commanders, both of them, curiously, of similar prefixes — Generals George … deficiencies in this regard are especially apparent when warriors are given highly calculated and politically …

… This year we celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the 1967 Summer of Love. Be-ins and … 1960s hippies dancing at a festival. San Francisco was the American epicenter for the Summer of Love, and the … and London was another major center of this youth culture. When the UFO Club opened in London in December 1966, …

… “Unimaginable!” That is the word we have screamed, out loud and in our heads, since … word we heard survivors and witnesses say over and over: It was simply unimaginable that the World Trade Center towers … violently attack the homes and stores of the wealthy. Only when Manhattan has burned and burned and burned to the very …

… The concept of Easter, a spring festival of renewal, a … of resurrection, lies anciently and deeply embedded in the human spirit. Hunters and gatherers, who foraged across … Minor, believed that their god Attis, who committed suicide when frustrated in love, returned to life in the spring.  …

… few historical comparisons make more compelling verse than the COVID-19 outbreak and history’s greatest pandemic: the … Asia in the 1330s, spread west along the Silk Road, and was carried by Genoese merchants from the Crimea to Europe … The Black Death's path across Europe between 1346 and 1353. When the outbreak began, international trade radically …

… Zimbabwe , formerly Southern Rhodesia, gained independence from British colonialism … the late 1800s. Rhodes demonstrated his imperial ambitions when he planned to establish a Cape to Cairo railway & … allocated land along racial lines. The most productive land was granted to white settlers, a small minority, while the …

… an ambitious, brilliant advertising campaign featuring the slogan “Think Different,” with images of Buzz Aldrin, … purchase it from English textile mills. His major concern was for village India, for the millions of Indians living in … the sort of technology for which Apple has become famous. When Gandhi became the major figure in the Indian …

… Jimmy Carter was the last president to ask the nation for collective … which have no confidence or purpose.”   Energy independence was the rallying point of Carter’s speech. He charted a plan … unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, …

… Jimmy Carter was the last president to ask the nation for collective … which have no confidence or purpose."   Energy independence was the rallying point of Carter's speech. He charted a plan … unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, …