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… Europe and the Soviet Union, made the future of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uncertain. It was in this period of … history (347). Making use of Chinese-language biographies, official summaries of daily Party meetings, as well as … was a pragmatic realist. Under Deng's tenure, markets, not willpower, were the key to China's modernization. Despite …

… into law on April 3, 1948. The Marshall Plan, as it’s more commonly known, was intended to revive the economies of … by harsh winters and dismal supply of food and fuel.  Officials soon realized that loans from newly-minted … Marshall Plan.” Diplomatic History 12, no. 3 (1988): 277-306. …

… taken the governor captive (the governor and three of his officers would soon be killed and then beheaded by an … by historians, depicted by artists and celebrated by common people. In 1880, the French chose to make the … times of deterritorialized terror, outsourced prisons, bitcoins, and subcontracted state and military arbitrariness, …

… so, it would have created itself identically. Descartes offered an evolutionary theory of the universe, and like … simply because natural selection selects merely what is good enough for survival. Indeed, many Christians find that … and natural theology was a debate within the scientific community of the day. Within the modern scientific …

… in Europe (especially Germany) in the 1920s and 1930s. But the "end" that David Marquand writes of in The End … - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient … who held positions in the European Union were technocratic officials first and foremost and public figures almost …

… to stabilize the pro-Soviet Afghan government and offer support in its fight with rebel forces. After almost a … in February 1989—twenty-five years ago—the Soviet Union completed withdrawal of its combat forces across the … dominated by an eclectic assortment of high rises, new shopping centers, and skyscrapers built by the country’s …

… owners. Yet pundits and political soothsayers have written off this issue because it is perceived to be a loser at the … Amendment does not prohibit robust gun regulation, it compels it. Today’s gun rights ideology is antithetical to … about an obligation citizens owed to their government and communities to contribute to public defense. They also …

… changed the character of the war; now the soldiers he commanded fought not only for union, but for freedom—in some … for their financial losses. Yet in the Proclamation, he offered unqualified and immediate freedom to slaves. Despite … enough. Lincoln explicitly excluded slaves in the four border states not in rebellion, as well as slaves in regions …

… of this lesson is to reflect on the response of government officials and public health officers to previous pandemics such as the Black Plague, the … outbreak, and the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels. …

… on rams from the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station in Idaho set off a firestorm of controversy. In an effort to understand … sexual preference is biologically determined in animals has again raised the question: Is sexual orientation a lifestyle … were torn as to how to gain acceptance from the straight community. Today’s emphases on gay pride and being openly …

… a warning label on album covers of music they deemed to be offensive. A handful of popular musicians at the time testified before congress arguing against what they perceived as censorship and a violation of …

… book prize. Steven Conn recently published  Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century  … Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq  (Rutgers University Press, 2014). Daniel …

… New York City. Unionized firefighters scuffled with police officers. Turning the firefighters away from the ongoing … and go home, the message is clear. Those with power will make the hard decisions about how we will recover from … from new opportunities. But the patriotic fervor that accompanied wartime mobilization meant that unions were …

… bigotry by those convinced the Irish would never make good Americans. As a result, these early St. Patrick's Day … of the St. Patrick's Day parade, more than 40 such events will occur. The largest will take place not on March 17, but … this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we've come. It's in this sense that the St. Patrick's Day parade …

… who details how the disenfranchisement of criminal offenders was common before the Civil War. Following the 13th and 14th … After reading the Origins article for homework, students will begin class by interacting with the main points from …

… about political events in Ukraine ever since. Riot police officers in Kyiv,  December 2013 The year 2014 will no doubt become a caesura, a line dividing Ukraine’s history into …

… Here, David Harmon offers ten “Moments of Insight” that he has had in the parks … the park’s museum, which is located beneath the Arch, was completely redesigned to acknowledge the growing consensus … the extension of slavery, centuries of conflict and ill will with Mexico, environmental degradation and the …

… which brought an end to the institution of the imperial office in the west; and the attacks of Attila the Hun, which … and back again. Along the way we meet emperors, generals, bishops, monks, pagan intellectuals, barbarians, pilgrims, … sphere of influence. In this context Flavius Dionysius, commander of Rome's eastern military forces and a native of …

… killed. Nine others were wounded. With that, the forces of order in the United States had launched a shooting war against their own children. Written by David Steigerwald. …

… crashing down in 2029? Most likely not. There are good reasons to believe that the much discussed “crisis” has … which stand to make hundreds of millions in fees and commissions, and anti-welfare state conservative ideologues, … long-term predictions President Bush’s new commission offers concerning the future of the system. Imagine …

… the recent controversy involving Kim Davis, a public official in Rowan County, Kentucky, who refuses to issue … with secondary sources in a Dueling Documents activity in order to supplement their knowledge of the events and …

… Clinton’s push to expand NATO beyond these nations will probably backfire. His argument to expand NATO is based on an outdated crusade against communism, a crusade launched against the Soviet Union in …