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… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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, …

… “Nothing equals the voluptuous power of feminine underwear,” could be the … the bustles, the structured brassieres and girdles. When draped over mannequins, these artifacts come to life as … design. As Steele explains it, in the beginning there was only the t-shaped undergarment (which later became the …

… “I don’t think they’re done conquering us yet. It just keeps happening.” … tens of thousands of lives, civilian and warrior alike. It was a war of atrocity, massacre, and systematic violence. By … has to agree that what those people [the Spaniards] did when they came to Mexico was a true crime against …

… The United States continues to live under the fear of … can play a role in preventing nuclear terrorism. It was during the Cold War that Americans first came to grips … During the 1980s, President Reagan used this approach when negotiating with the Soviets. The Stockholm Conference …

… Donald Trump’s untraditional approach to the presidency has led Politico to call him the “ Disruptor … a fundamental fact about water: it rarely stays put. Wastes discharged into bodies of water tend to wind up in … its meaning. At least that was the case until fall 2019, when the Trump administration announced it would repeal the …

… medium-range nuclear missiles.   Despite this treaty, both the United States and Russia still have thousands of nuclear … of nuclear weapons can be diverted to peaceful uses. This was the ambition of President Eisenhower when he made nuclear arms control a priority with his Atoms …

… Every commentator in America is drawing the parallel between the recent terrorist attacks and the … the handful of strategists who warned that Pearl Harbor was vulnerable, a chorus of Cassandras have persistently … be concentrated against American interests in the Far East. When Osama bin Laden has made his threats against the United …

… talking about rebuilding and restoring, wholly ignoring the fact that coasts have always been the most changeable of … homo littoralis — that is, people of the seashore.   There was once a time when the traces of disaster lingered longer in the form of …

… of a republic," Congress must reassert its control of the war power under Article II, Section 8, of the U.S. … to Congress the sole right to declare war.  The occasion was the debate over the American military intervention in … Polk ordered American troops into the disputed territory.  When the inevitable clash occurred, Polk told Congress that …

… February 3, 2020 was supposed to be a busy news night. It was the evening of the Iowa caucuses, the first chance for … a shared culture and identity for the British people. When it comes to news, Americans seem unable to agree on …

… In 1978, Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow, the Senegalese director of UNESCO, called upon the global … in the Global North to share collections. Ironically, it was the shortcomings of a UNESCO convention that brought … much less agreement exists about other cases, such as when objects were purchased or given. Many sculptors, for …

… On the surface, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 seem as dissimilar as two … the start Soviet officials pushed forward the idea that it was a foreign virus. By the end of 1987, there were fifteen … of the official response in casting blame on foreigners. When Soviets did turn their attention to their fellow …

… Blum and John H. Matsui argue that Americans living through the Civil War era and its immediate aftermath made sense of … The first addresses how the biblical story of Satan’s fall was grafted onto the issues of slavery and southern … with the wartime experiences of individual combatants. When confronted with the visceral nature of warfare soldiers …

… after only one year. His signature health care initiative was stalled; his inner circle had begun to show indiscipline … Vladimir Putin to Benjamin Netanyahu were suggesting that the pensive, cautious, thoughtful Obama was just plain weak, … other hand, is playing for keeps, taking his time (except when he senses that the moment is ripe for a win), content …

… candidate Christine O'Donnell's recent comment–wondering whether “separation of church and state” is “in the First … “separation between Church & State” in an 1802 letter was actually a narrowly focused explanation of the … and senators used the broader word "religion," and when discussing the issue of “free exercise” of religion …