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… the Romans had paved for their own armies to travel. If war comes, Iraq will be using the computers and cell phones and radar it got from the United … dangerous road. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… to the world that people of any religious faith would be welcome. To Penn we owe our freedom of religion. Penn was a … was upheld. Since then, Mormons have managed an uneasy compromise with the rest of the nation. In return for …

… irrevocably porous. But the events of November 9 did not come from nowhere. The fall of the Berlin Wall—as detailed … she instead writes the history of serendipity whose outcome was far from predetermined, even if it seems so in … authority of East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party (SED) was compromised; the leadership’s attempts to rebuild were …

… “If our bombs are so ‘smart,’ how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and … but if we listen carefully, their voices convey a sense of compassion, coupled with disappointment. Often stereotyped … But my students reminded me that such answers are never easy and that we must never rush to judgment. Ron Briley is …

… a way to counter the rescission of $5 billion of U.S. subsidies to exporters that the World Trade Organization had …

… "Introduction to Solid State Chemistry," "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming," "Quantitative Methods in … in part to open up access to higher education. It should come as no surprise that MIT would be a leader in making the …

… phenomenon. This is why Congress should examine the recommendations made in a 2002 British government Green Paper … sector military operators. Mercenaries — professional soldiers who fight for pay rather than out of ideological … of their day. The British hired more than 30,000 German soldiers — the famed Hessians, some of whom were defeated by …

… 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 …

… rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s … scheme would, he hoped, “prevent the labouring class from becoming preponderant in Parliament.” Society has changed even …

… Constitution yet their principles were most fiercely embodied not in our current Constitution, but in the Articles of … that Congress was debating a declaration of independence, a committee was drafting the Articles. Its purpose was to form … Nashville and sparked an explosion of approval from her audience.   Today’s defenders of the Constitution are the …

… 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 …

… executive. History suggests that even a president primarily committed to enacting a domestic agenda can achieve … capital in launching the New Deal, Roosevelt, before he died in 1945, wrenched America from its isolationist … we should not overlook his many foreign policy accomplishments. These successes included negotiating the …

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

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… ties were also immensely important, for one often needed community support at the assembly to win a legal case. Thus, … was not the first one to do so, his work found a captive audience: the Victorians loved Vikings.  In previous … ancestor that embodied freedom and self-reliance. It’s easy to see why the  Sagas of Icelanders in particular …

… 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, …

… of violence and instability until 1922. Multiple communities of former tsarist imperial subjects imagined the … raised the grain quotas for newly collectivized villages. Combined with bad harvests this led to the Holodomor , the … between Poles and Ukrainians was fierce because of their incompatible national projects involving the same land. …

… 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 . …