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… system and beyond.  Satellites make possible the modern communications, navigation, weather, and other space-based … environment of space.   Sending people into space has always been an inherently political decision.  Spending the … because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills."  Stirring challenges sound …

… atomic bombing of two Japanese cities. Most reporters and commentators who write about Hiroshima and Nagasaki … of mass violence wasn't disturbing enough, its fondness for name-calling and half-baked historical theorizing … out to the public on Hiroshima anniversaries. Only in this way will Americans be able to honestly and critically …

… in this appealing book. Page explains he conceived the idea for this project in the days and weeks immediately following … of the text.  In examining roughly two hundred years of comic, filmic, propagandic, and literary portrayals of the … the city itself has carried over into a fascination in the ways people have imagined destroying it.  It is clear that …

… Watch out for George W. and his gas and oil pals. They’ve got an … Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … and his gas and oil pals already seem to have persuaded the news media that supply is the problem. We don’t have enough …

… The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education has come and gone. But in celebrating its achievements we have … real needs for good schools is an issue that will not go away. The prominent African-American psychologist Kenneth … children to inferior and unequal education. Adina Back, visiting fellow at the New York University Institute for …

… years ago that Kremlin guards hauled down the Soviet flag for the last time and Mikhail Gorbachev calmly resigned as … wanted to emulate. Now that they had been freed from communist oppression, many supposed, it would not be long … crusade” have not recognized that there are different ways to be missionaries. While some Christian evangelists …

… which any high school can take pride.” Does this statement come from: (a) A 1987 National Assessment, after which … history failed miserably when confronted by items about Fort Ticonderoga, the Olive Branch Petition, or the Quebec … “Forrest Gump.”  Rather than pretending that we can do away with popular culture, let’s try a radically different …

… involved in the world, the more necessary a knowledge of foreign nations becomes. Yet Congress is trying to handicap that endeavor by … and a great deal of animosity toward the United States. Buying scholars never works. The nation’s security … History News Service …

… is a revolution. An “alarming” decision would leave time for the pro-choice side to react, but Carhart has already … right. However, even this discussion of pregnancy did not come close to the corporeal character of Kennedy’s language … methods are often gruesome, Ginsburg yields to Kennedy’s way of portraying abortion. From now on, there will be no …

… in Nicaragua. However, Congress was not easily swayed to provide aid for the counter-revolutionary Contras. … could operate off the books. Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, … confirmed. After North and other actors did their best to destroy documentary evidence that could have …

… influence in the choice even after power began to shift away from them around 1940. Selection criteria emphasized … 1976 most presidential nominations have been evident before the convention. This early resolution has provided … and the technology of the information age meant that comments made anywhere are now instantly transmitted …

… tossing bombs into the carriage of his successor.  Luckily for the Tsar, the inexperience and suspicious behavior of … and which the young Lenin read five times (14).  Lenin's commitment to activism strengthened in college, first at … managed to stay one step ahead of the Okhrana.  Along the way, Lenin's political ideas began to crystallize.  …

… we eat, this case effectively created the legal context for sugar to become ubiquitous. Look at any U.S. food label today and you … treatment from other governmental branches along the way. The  E.C. Knight  case not only unleashed the sugar …

… disavowed the goal of “nation-building” by U.S. military forces. Since then, he’s reversed himself. But instead of … years after World War II, not a single U.S. soldier died in combat either in Germany or in Japan — in sharp contrast to … why we’ve got to be humble and yet project strength in a way that promotes freedom.” Since America’s national …

… debt. A desire to demonstrate to the world the prowess of formerly colonized people thwarted by disease and civil … State , the preceding volume to this work, Young adopts a comparative approach. As he outlines in his introduction, a … armed insurgency, the author does not address more subtle ways citizens circumvent state authority on a day-to-day …

… Anderson famously defined nationalism as an “imagined community” binding together a widespread group of people … Romanian principalities: Wallachia and Moldavia (although always referred to in Romanian as Moldova , I opt to use this … was both the first foreign leader to congratulate Sandu and visit her in Chișinău.  The two presidents have held at …

… year of anticipating “Y2K” has served to remind us that the computers we call “personal” actually answer to specialized … lever that permits drivers to roll up windows by hand.) Visit the hospital, and you will confront a forbidding array … and flashlights. Yet life in the United States has always proven precarious. What has changed is the character of …

… For hundreds of years, would-be prophets have warned of that … visions of Malthus, Ehrlich, and other doomsayers have not come to pass.  Drawing on a rich variety of government … in the twentieth century, the United States led the way in providing state aid to other countries for famine …

… ahead of any other national team. In view of the tremendous competition associated with the world’s favorite sport, … Children in every Brazilian neighborhood learn to perform extraordinary athletic feats on sandlots, grassy fields … and other countries if it draws the people’s attention away from important issues related to economic growth and …

… such surveys are not new. They have long furnished grist for the mills of both critics of U.S. education and … of the intergalactic wars of the Star Trek TV series become as important as the Civil War. An example of how … of public policy. Such communication and dialogue offer the best hope to revive education for citizenship and make the …

… Although he died more than 50 years ago, his life and work command more attention now than ever before. Many of his concerns, in some instances over a hundred … Souls of Black Folk (1903) , the work for which he might be best known throughout the world, is almost a rhapsody about …

… Tallahassee hours earlier. Waiting for the verdict had become unbearable. On the charge of second-degree murder, the … I am broken hearted my faith is unshattered, I WILL ALWAYS LOVE MY BABY TRAY.” He added: “God blessed Me and … in the sleepy town a few days when he and several buddies visited a convenience store to purchase candy and cold …

… Opium War (officially 1856-1860), a conflict that not only forced that narcotic drug deep into China ’s politics, … of Qing laws prohibiting the drug. After one Chinese trade commissioner captured and publicly destroyed British opium … ship seized by China on suspicion of piracy—reducing its complex causes to only its precipitating event. …

… the debate over what historians have called the failed, incomplete, and even the forgotten revolution has been revived in recent years. … transform Germany into a modern, democratic state. In this way, Gerwarth’s book is a wonderful addition to the history … 1918: The German Revolution , by Robert Gerwarth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) …