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… If Sonia Sotomayer, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, joins the court she will turn its … who remained on the court. This dramatic change in the composition of the Supreme Court can be traced to the … protection of equal rights.   The case could go all the way to the Supreme Court, raising questions about the …

… up from the nation's second job.     But Garner's pithy comment no longer describes the vice presidency.     The … F. Kennedy. To be sure, Johnson often made life difficult for his vice president, Hubert Humphrey, yet Humphrey, too, … in which an able public servant can contribute in important ways to addressing national and international problems.  The …

… your hand if you watch the annual Oscar awards primarily for the fashion show, not for the movie prizes. If so, you … Each year the Oscars provide an excuse for an outdoor runway show featuring the world’s favorite actors doing the … of widespread fashion magazines, which allowed styles to be communicated quickly to the masses. For example, Godey’s …

… administrations that deemed the application of force a welcome distraction from domestic problems. At the same time, … newly-founded Palestinian Liberation Organization, helped sway Prime Minister Eshkol to move from a defensive to an … offensive mindset—“Rabin’s Schlieffenplan,” (145) as Laron coins it in pointed allusion. Rabin's "Schlieffenplan:" an …

… career home runs and his 1,119 RBIs place him in the same company as such Hall of Famers as Yogi Berra, Roy … as the beliefs and actions of individuals. Thus, racism is best understood as a system of advantage based on race. … nothing new here, though. Racist white players have always been forgiven by the sportswriters in the Hall of Fame …

… After 40 years, 2nd Lt. William Calley is back in the news. For many years now the young lieutenant convicted in 1971 of … who has been assigned blame for another’s actions. Calley committed murder at My Lai and ordered his men to do the … the dissent. It was an atrocity-producing war, that is the way we fought the war, body counts, every dead Vietnamese is …

… the state of Confederate fortifications there. Union Naval commanders acted quickly and successfully on this … January 1864, he used his compensation from the Planter to buy the Beaufort home of his former enslaver on Prince … be totally reversed, however. When Robert Smalls passed away on February 23, 1915, he died a successful business …

… and a new CIA director. His choices have inspired criticism for being all white men and supposedly in ideological … lockstep with him.   Obama’s choices might also inspire comparisons to Abraham Lincoln. By the beginning of … Pennsylvanian who had hoped for the White House, had given way to unionist Democrat Edwin Stanton, a Lincoln …

… Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. … about many of the war's other legacies, including a transformed federal government, a shift away from an agricultural slave-labor economy towards … Review of The War that Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters , by James …

… April 12, 1861, Edmund Ruffin proudly fired a shot at Fort Sumter, the Federal military installation in the … course, so instead they recast the meaning of the war, transforming it from a war over slavery into a principled defense … Abraham Lincoln may have taken a couple of years before acknowledging that the abolition of slavery lay at the …

… to tell his usually hand-picked audiences that Iraq will become more democratic and prosperous because of America’s … his beleaguered administration nor most Americans any comfort. The president has repeatedly invoked the … commitment in Iraq. The public should realize that it’s buying a lemon. Michael R. Adamson is an independent …

… A Neanderthal cave discovered above the Rhône River, for instance, contained tools covered in scales and bone … Some of the earliest evidence of Homo sapien s fishing comes from Central Africa where catfish were captured using … the globe solved the same basic problem in a multitude of ways. For example, Tahitians used toxic leaves to poison …

… spirit and with a large gesture invite an enemy to become an angel without further preparation or a flying … and other stripes and variations of the type. They were forest-dwelling tribes living in square-built log houses … of Bohemia, known as the Estates, began to plot a way of unseating Ferdinand as Holy Roman Emperor and replace …

… Agency (WADA) Dick Pound presented “The Independent Commission Report #1” to the press corps. The 323-page … rather than at the substances themselves. Doping was not always considered unethical and it took several generations … a sport system that must, by definition, produce the very best athletes and performances in the world while not …

… A week before the historic election of 2008, a small group of … had done as First Lady. This impressive list of projects encompasses domestic causes from historic preservation to … Lady.   However, the essence of “ladyhood” is effacement, always putting others before one’s self, whether that means …

… beyond the myth of the first Thanksgiving, exploring the complicated politics that came to dominate a world created … a mutually beneficial, if somewhat unstable, relationship. For the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag provided lessons in survival … be overcome; however, efforts to avert tensions were not always successful. The Pequot War of 1637 was a devastating …

… A week before the historic election of 2008, a small group of … had done as First Lady. This impressive list of projects encompasses domestic causes from historic preservation to … Lady. However, the essence of “ladyhood” is effacement, always putting others before one’s self, whether that means …

… violence. By the end, a few thousand Spaniards under the command of Hernando Cortés fighting alongside many times … of Mexico’s Lake Texcoco. Interconnected by canals and causeways and adorned with palaces, temples, marketplaces, and … as many as 200,000 people in the early sixteenth century. For a Spanish soldier fighting with Hernando Cortés named …

… “North Berwick Witches” tried with her is exceptionally complex, involving politics, religion, magic, and conspiracy … finally reached Scotland that the queen was stranded in Norway. James decided to travel to Norway to meet his bride. He … is difficult to discern with any precision and I will do my best to reconstruct the story. There are two sources: a …

… There is the same whiff of hysteria about prospects for the future that one finds in current administration … the test of the first Soviet atomic weapon in 1949. The combination of the Soviet Union’s atomic weapons and its … of mass destruction, with many people busy dreaming up ways to turn the stuff of daily life into weapons. We cannot …

… it; “Lady” relegated women to the parlor and pedestal, away from public power. The respect and honor garnered by … of all classes and races know a lady when we see one. She combines a highly attuned sense of others’ needs with an … mother, Lady Bird gently goaded us Americans into being the best we could be and to live out our highest ideals. By …

… Parisians from all walks of life, from those who could afford to purchase tickets and experience the flight up-close … of balloonists’ celebrity or infamy, and the seamless way in which she interweaves numerous images into these … of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime. …

… What happens when the world’s largest Communist country launches its first cosmonaut into orbit … Shenzhou (“Heavenly Vessel”) 5 competitively (as we did before) or cooperatively (which also would not be … At least as important, cooperation in space may pave the way for stronger technical ties and minimize the growing …