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The Trials of Laura Fair by Carole Haber Book Cover.

A Woman Scorned?

Review of The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West, by Carole Haber (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013)
Pledging his support, President George W. Bush talks via telephone to New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists

… War has an American president thought through what the international role of the United States should be. A continuance … States … World War I / WWI … Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists …
President Ronald Reagan sitting in the Oval Office Study in 1985.

Misremembering Reagan

… produced huge federal budget deficits and increased the national debt from $700 billion to $3 trillion. The current …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… According to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , people in late antiquity … medical understanding. The 1990 ACT-UP protest at the National Institutes of Health sought to bring awareness to … … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Global/Transnational … Europe … Pandemics: Today and Yesterday …
Monica Lewinsky's official government ID photo from 1997.

Another Watergate?

… went far beyond the break-in and bugging at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An …
Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE.

The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response

… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … Steven L. Tuck … …

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

… from the Garden of Eden. The 14th century C.E. myth of national origins connected Ethiopia’s rulers to the Old … He then began plans for the Grand Renaissance Dam. International water law has not resolved differences about … Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. A proposal for “equitable shares” was …

Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence

… women who belonged to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), one of the largest women’s reform … In the ten years after these two lawsuits were filed, the National Coalition against Domestic Violence recorded at … were dismissed. Domestic violence advocacy groups, like the National Coalition against Domestic Violence, have been …
First Lady Michelle Obama reading a Dr. Seuss book to children at the White House.

Celebrating the “Seussentennial”

… values. During World War II, well before Dr. Seuss became a national icon, Geisel was producing editorial cartoons for … while “The Cat in the Hat,” the book that won Geisel international fame, challenges the conformist tendencies of …
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

… Under British rule Hong Kong becomes a link in an international trade. It's an entrepôt. It becomes a manufacturing … especially after the war. It becomes the center of international banking. And all of these economic systems require … to earlier, was 2003, in which people came out to protest national security legislation. In 2012, there was a protest …

当前委内瑞拉危机的历史根源

… SA )的监管都有所减少。如今腐败已经 达到前所未有的水平 。 透明国际(Transparency International)发布的 1995 年至 2015 年委内瑞拉腐败感知指数(Corruption Perceptions … SA )的监管都有所减少。如今腐败已经 达到前所未有的水平 。 透明国际(Transparency International)发布的 1995 年至 2015 年委内瑞拉腐败感知指数(Corruption Perceptions … SA )的监管都有所减少。如今腐败已经 达到前所未有的水平 。 透明国际(Transparency International)发布的 1995 年至 2015 年委内瑞拉腐败感知指数(Corruption Perceptions …
The Algerian flag.

Torture in Iraq: Lessons from Algeria

… The main opposition to French rule, the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), seized the initiative. But … Shawn McHale is an associate professor of history and international affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, and a writer …
Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Mother of Rock and Roll

… played amplified electric guitar in the Washington Nationals’ stadium, to a crowd of twenty thousand, complete …
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.

After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807

Review of After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807, by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
… … Racism & Racial Ideas … United States … Global/Transnational … After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade …
American flag fluttering in the breeze.

War Without End Brings Endless Dangers

… efforts and foreign aid needed to solve complex international problems. During the Cold War, “mutually assured … acts by the United States. In Bush’s Jan. 29 State of the Union speech and since, several groups have been targeted … Rights … Military/War/Peace … Terrorism … Diplomacy/International Relations … War Without End Brings Endless Dangers …