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… in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … (1803-1815) prompted Parliament to divert thousands of soldiers in a heavy-handed crackdown on Luddite rebellion. … always worthwhile, and often necessary. History provides no easy answers to the challenges of automation , but we might …

… have been levelling their ire with deadly consequences at comedians whose work they have deemed to be blasphemous or … was kidnapped and murdered in September 1995, while Dorbane died when a bomb that militants had placed near the offices … printed, journalists including Dilem and Mekbel deserved to die for producing cartoons and writings they believed not …

… Food supplies were devastated, and recovery would not come easily. The American Relief Administration, led by … Guest dinners.   Hoover and Gen. John J. Pershing, who commanded American forces during the war, hosted the first …

… Now Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., who chairs the Senate committee looking into Clinton’s fund-raising, has joined … a contrast with Clinton, Thompson praised Roosevelt for coming to the Senate in person to testify on the funding of … Roosevelt’s scandal hit when a New York State legislative committee looking into the finances of the state’s insurance …

… the Arab officials of Iraq’s British-backed King Feisal “incompetent.” He noted the gross over-expenditure of monies in … American troops from that nation now. Shannon Monaghan studies history at Yale University and writes for the History …

… to Byzantium , Herrin relates a story of two builders coming to her office after passing it daily to ask her what … Empire. Byzantium fulfills some of our ideas about the Medieval period, with political and religious influence … (Foundations of Byzantium, The Transition from Ancient to Medieval, Byzantium Becomes a Medieval State, and Varieties of …

… the majority could not do.   One can imagine Calhoun today coming to the defense of Sen. Mitch McConnell and the …

… to describe the legacy of loss. Although the Holocaust has come to be widely commemorated in the United States, and … the tale of her father's mysterious birth mother, who died tragically when he was very young. Levitt had not known … she sees these individuals for how they lived, not how they died. Suddenly, she catches herself. She remembers her …

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of … to the West for the technologies and ideologies needed to compete in European international politics. In the usual …

… the effect of child hunger in war-torn Europe, started a committee to bolster the existing national school lunch … these efforts the journey to end child hunger is far from complete. There are still huge gaps in participation in the … school breakfast and summer feeding; and when summer comes and schools close the drop in participation is …

… the history of science, Jacob offers a series of case studies looking at Avignon, Alchemy, early stock markets, … Republicans. This allows her to easily skim over the often complicated inter-relations between politics, science, and … of the same paths without much reference to the previous studies that have mapped out the connection between religion, …

… for going to war and his facile assumptions about an easy U.S. victory contributed to a massive public … history of foreign occupation, Iraqi civilians would welcome U.S. troops as liberators. Most Iraqis, like most … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …

… The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will vote early in March on the Bush … to the 5th Circuit of Appeals, based in New Orleans. The committee should stop this nomination in its tracks.   Why … organizations. Months later, the decomposed and mutilated bodies of three civil rights martyrs — James Cheney, Andrew …

… administration and the North Korean regime and an errant incoming missile alert in Hawaii have focused America’s … fallout shelter signs and the wail of emergency sirens more commonly used for tornadoes than incoming nuclear attack. 1. 1949 – Stalin and the Bomb …

… . The surge of U.S. forces to Iraq in 2007-2008 and the accompanying counterinsurgency strategy along with a Sunni … ungoverned spaces that ISIS has used to regenerate its combat power with an infusion of new recruits, financing, … the umma (the Islamic people) should be ruled by the most competent person, while the Shi’a believe that the ruler of …

… and sent to Vologda. It was there he decided to become a writer, sending his first short story to Maxim Gorky. … escaped and joined the Socialist Revolutionary (SR) Combat Organization. He was now a political terrorist and a … and then sought to kill Boris Chicherin, the first Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, in Genoa in 1922. Alexandrov …

… criticized Social Security but later backed away from his comments after his Republican opponents and the press jumped … President Lyndon Johnson—Perry may not be able to overcome his past attacks on Social Security no matter how hard … the history of the Goldwater campaign suggests, it won’t be easy.  With polls indicating that Perry’s position on Social …