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… or environmental poisoning, for instance—COVID-19 was compelling “people everywhere . . . to put their immediate … opportunism . . . are being brought to heel by the pincer combination of shared values and facts on the ground” ( … The anti-science crowd ridiculed mask-wearers as sheep mindlessly following the herd. Armed crowds gathered at the …

… translated into action. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower committed the U.S. government to a first-strike nuclear … also used nuclear threats as psychological weapons. When Communist China shelled Taiwan’s outposts on the islands of … no choice, he said. His policy of preventive attack was useless if he could not see what his enemy was doing. Everyone …

… history is the Battle of Gettysburg. While many will commemorate the battle itself, the decision not to press … southwestward, using South Mountain as a shield to avoid unnecessary entanglement. The humid downpours continued until … attack, and if he succeeded, the general could take all the credit himself. Hamlin arrived, but his efforts only annoyed …

… play, adults' efforts to provide protective spaces indoor (community centers, YMCA) and outdoor (playgrounds, sports … and proliferation of mass media have offered children countless fantasy characters to stimulate their imagination, but … and stronger peer associations formed as a consequence of compulsory schooling in the mid-nineteenth century, a gap …

… publishing the first Folios. Cervantes, in turn, died penniless. He had given away the rights of his novel to a printer. He was buried in a common grave. Most profoundly, our modern sensibility is … colleague John Fletcher. This, needless to say, doesn’t necessarily mean he liked the novel. No matter. It is simply …

… sex, drugs, and financial and electoral manipulation have become mainstays in political reportage. From Watergate to … scandal, his evaluation of both the past and present becomes all the more scathing and amps up the wattage on an … us that the scandals of empires past offer us important lessons about the nature colonial expansion and the uses of …

… were right-wing ideologues who cynically utilized fears of communism to crush opposition to their tyrannical regimes. … a new government established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the chair of which was Archbishop Desmond … have been carried to their graves by the men who had ruthlessly and coldly carried out the murders. Many of those men …

… to keep close tabs on them. Spying on dissidents has become official policy since police departments were advised … attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer, conducted warrantless raids and deported “Red” aliens after World War I. … civil liberties, chaired the House Un-American Activities Committee and pursued domestic “enemies.” With the onset of …

… free consent of over 500 rangatira (chiefs) and the tribal communities they represented. A 1939 reconstruction of the … from a British colony to an independent nation-state, becoming increasingly diverse, with over a quarter of its … abolished in 1876, the holidays themselves live on. Charles Heaphy’s rather romantic depiction of 1842 Wellington. …

… funded by the United States, to contain/encircle Soviet and Communist power in Eastern Europe, prevent powerful Communist parties in France and Italy from winning out and … World nations, there would be little need for NATO, much less NATO expansion. Norman Markowitz is a member of the …

… Brutal violence is not typically the first thing that comes to mind when observing the artwork of the … patronage of art and literature. French troops under Charles VIII entering Florence, 1494. This era came to an end in … to follow a specific theme, and is supported with specific anecdotes or examples in order to show just how intertwined …

… German soldier. Fritzsche is particularly interested in comparing the French and Polish accounts about sharing space … and the pursuit of one’s self-interest. German woman overcome with emotion as she walks past victims of the German … focus on Poland and France at the expense of other less scrutinized areas of German influence. For example, …

… Zoos are some of the world’s most visited attractions. Yet they often make headlines for … Jessica Blissit   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … to arcs so quickly? Has the zoo industry ever had the opposite effect?   Dr. Daniel Vandersomers   Well, it's a good …

… declared, the group trains “farmers, women, and indigenous communities in the use of improved technologies in current … and increase overall prosperity, rendering land reform unnecessary.  While the Cornell anthropologists were sincere, … [all-powerful landowners] and gave us technical support and credit. But that lasted only a short time. With the …

… to loosen his creativity and imagination. As we have come to know Fitzgerald the person, the chances are good … were under the influence of alcohol for their art. The connection is odd, because the use of alcohol for art is … with the prohibition era and its literature. To her credit, I find myself compelled to read many of the books …

… Jung.  Jung suggested that alcoholism might only be overcome through a profound spiritual experience. Following … recovered from alcoholism by embracing the group’s principles.  After finding sobriety, Hazard contacted others … struggled with alcoholism. Wilson and Smith formed a connection that Smith attributed to their shared understanding …

… of well-publicized workplace raids to terrorize immigrant communities. Although immigrants bear the brunt of these … we can expect a record of more than 7,000 arrests at worksites by the end of 2007. The history of immigrant … and not unionized. Giuliani is right: there is a connection between immigration and terrorism, but it is the …

… administration and the North Korean regime and an errant incoming missile alert in Hawaii have focused America’s … 15 million tons of TNT and produced a mushroom cloud 62 miles in diameter. Radioactive fallout resembling snow and … Now anyone on earth, even thousands of miles from the site of a blast, could be killed or injured by nuclear …

… strong support of Ukrainian independence in the Versailles Declaration .  By contrast, in the Versailles Treaty of June 1919 that brought an end to World War I , … were war-weary, and saw no Entente troops or aid forthcoming.  Ukraine’s signing the Treaty was something the …

… advocated by Secretary of State Colin Powell? Or will war come in the form of numerous military strikes that engage … as some of the president’s trigger-eager advisers recommend? We should hope for the former, because a massive … not foreseen by those who planned the initial actions. Examples of unintended consequences can be seen in the record of …

… to the long list of assaults enacted on the Native American community, put alongside boarding schools, forbidden … construct Native American groups. Stage 2 introduced a “competency” policy wherein those who were deemed “competent” … problem.  If fewer Native Americans were “on the books,” less money and administrative time could be spent on the …

… influenced by Enlightenment thought, creating a clear connection to his actions while forming the Turkish Republic. … years of the Turkish Republic, incorporating detailed tables explaining how Ataturk's religious discourse diminished as religion became less relevant in the creation of the nation-state (110-115). …

… to occupy the Suez Canal zone. Nasser, who did not become Egypt’s official head of state until 1956, came to … shots are heard, but Nasser hardly pauses, and his speech becomes ever more impassioned: “O free men, let them kill me … even though it was not officially legalized. Candidates connected to the group won 20% of the vote in 2005, despite …

… Places, backyards, and basements filled with televisions, computers, and Playstations. Riney-Kehrberg describes how … of newspapers, periodicals, television programs, films, websites, and published works to tell her story, but she also … when Riney-Kehrberg allows children to speak. The book is less good when focusing on the adult fears that kept …