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… has been ruled by the military and dictators. It was also the first time a Pakistani prime minister won a third … in 1947, Pakistan’s political elites have faced regional, communal, and religious obstacles to building a stable, … Beginning: Independence and Partition Salmon Rushdie has famously described Pakistan as “a place … …

… books about conservatism: the first being conservative philosophical classics; the second, as listed above, being … movements; and the third being "crib-sheet books, the compilations, quote books, 'dictionaries' and … the Daughters of the American Revolution, Critchlow also points out that Phyllis Schlafly, who held high office in …

… Somewhere in the Davis Mountains of the vast Texas … cougars, and rattlesnakes. If he hasn’t been rescued by his compatriots, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the … in 1846 — under unusual circumstances, to be sure. To overcome abolitionist objections, President John Tyler resorted …

… meanwhile avoiding the kind of mistakes the Soviet Union committed — or it will risk a similar defeat. In 1979, … Afghanistan in 1989, its pride bruised, its reputation bloodied and its spirit broken. The successor Russian army … Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe" (2006), he is also a writer for the History News …

… Since the economic crisis we’re now in is being compared to the Great Depression, the solutions being … (R-Ohio) is so angry at the New Deal that he told an audience recently that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal actually … the details, but there was a broad consensus around these points.   The result of that consensus was the greatest …

… among hot button topics in American public life there is something perverse about the dynamics of the debate over … 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 …

… in state and local races across the land.  Many pundits are comparing this election to the election of 1994, when anger … 19th century began in farm country, in the west and in the south, in the 1870s and '80s.  Farmers saw their livelihoods … bees:  They sting one of the two major parties.  Then they die.   This is where the Tea Partiers find themselves now. …

… State University experts Melissa Beard Jacob, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Daniel Rivers discuss Indigenous Peoples' Day and the … Dr. Dr. Daniel Rivers: Thank you so much and welcome to our webinar for Indigenous Peoples' Day. It's … Daniel Rivers. I'm faculty lead for the American Indian Studies Program here and I teach Native American History, …

… boiled over during the last several election cycles . For some of those angry Americans, the federal government has … merely create a postal system, the most important means of communication at the turn of the 19 th century. It … rail against the New Deal it isn’t the mortgage subsidies or the SEC they have in mind, it’s the social welfare …

… Multilingualism in India is as common as daylight. India recognizes 22 official languages … recorded residents speaking over 1600 native tongues. It is common to find people who can fluently function in more than … thinking brain at home when they go to the movies, as some Bollywood movies do. So here goes… [This Top Ten is the …

… woman has held that position.   But Julian Castro did not become mayor on his own. He attributes his rise to the Chicano … Raza Unida activists held their own reunion in El Paso, Texas, to commemorate the 1972 national convention held in that city …

… It’s hard to recall a recent president entering office with so heavy a historical burden. No fewer than half a dozen … himself. Which won’t be so bad. Obama’s already an accomplished memoirist. He evidently prefers to be his own … challenge of all. Kenneth Weisbrode is a historian at the European University Institute and the author of The Atlantic …

… The furor over comments made by Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his aides to a … — are limited.   Yet many Americans still expect our soldiers not only to hunt down the enemies of the United States … military component. Kenneth Weisbrode is a historian at the European University Institute and the author of The Atlantic …

… Fidel Castro is not exactly welcoming the new president of the United States with open … Cuba, improve U.S. relations with Mexico, Canada and the European Union, and deprive Castro of one of the weapons in … Cuba? Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a …

… programs. These recent developments no doubt bring comfort to some. But we can't rest easy. The dangers of nuclear … With the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967, that goal was accomplished. Latin America is now a nuclear weapon free zone. … Soviet Union … South & Central America …

… the inspectors were too few and too weakly supported to overcome Iraqi resistance. But even if the inspections had … of Iraq is our aim, we say. And surely even if there’s some slippage between our public statements and true … United States was then uninterested in the problems of “old Europe,” problems that had cost so much to fix in World War …

… history.  Stein brings a fresh perspective to the studied and landmark decisions Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), … Instead, the holding is evidence of a much more tenuous commitment to a liberal sexually revolutionizing agenda.  … and Nationality Act is decidedly less clear.  Stein points to evidence that the Court interpreted the act …

… Nuclear power was touted as the solution to  peak oil and promoted as “energy too cheap to … industry representatives, but many environmentalists have come to see nuclear power as key to end world dependence on … advantage in world markets. ADVANCE will provide huge subsidies in the effort to rejuvenate the U.S. industry. That …

… After touring British colonies in Africa, Macmillan had become increasingly convinced that “national consciousness” … which colonial powers continued to wreak havoc in Africa. European countries continued to try to sabotage, exploit, … of Lumumba’s anti-Western sentiments and as a result of soldiers’ mutinies and secessionist movements in the southern …

… Not only do Cuban-Americans remember him vividly, but also, during the last 20 years, in the face of overall … the exiles and the U.S. government joined in a powerful common cause to dump Castro, who, in the peak Cold War … pro quo. Slowly, however, the view of the Cuban-American community is changing, partly because Cuban immigration has …

… to step outside of their homes. In response, a group of some 300 Afghan women gathered to protest this law and … had very recently joined forces with the celebrated Tajik commander Ahmad Shah Massoud to establish the "Northern … nothing demonstrates the essentially "backward" or "medieval" nature of Afghan society more than its treatment of …

… ostensible issue in the Supreme Court ruling U.S. v. Windsor that overturned the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) … of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere—organizations that had come out of gay-father activism of the 1980s—wrote a brief … gay fathers almost always hinged on one or more of several points:  that lesbians and gay men were likely to sexually …

… of Israeli, American, British, German, Russian, and East-European archives, The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the … administrations that deemed the application of force a welcome distraction from domestic problems. At the same time, … but also offer rewarding reading experiences to public audiences with much patience and stamina. …

… one likes Chávez's loopy Cold-War language, but he's onto something with his nutty words: the way the Bush administration has compromised American foreign policy and jeopardized world … out differently. With tensions in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe already on the upswing, the world cannot afford …