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… On April 14, 2015, we observed the 150 th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s death. … addresses nation on civil rights. June 11, 1963. Lincoln was the first American President to be killed in office. His … wage war against a determined foe who would not yield even when Lincoln offered the Confederacy gradual, compensated …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 … Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 … Embracing the Pope–Selectively …

… 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 … Giving Up on the Dream? …

… 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 …