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… begins to fade, there’s a race among critics to find a compelling Rasputin or a group of gray eminences pulling the … in search of scapegoats in the past often looked to first ladies as the causes of their husband’s difficulties. However … very well be hers. Kenneth Weisbrode is a historian at the European University Institute and the author of The Atlantic …

… 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 … War Two. Fear is also a significant topic in cultural studies, sociology, and psychology. For the historian of modern …

… the money). This refusal brought him a torrent of negative commentary and helped to define for the future what … children. At the same time, the frantic search for remedies, and the wide media fascination for these cases, has … taken by parents and those who had run away. At various points in the 1980s, Americans were led to believe that as …

… stoking its fires long after they should have burned out. Some of the prime minister’s detractors have labeled him a … peace. At his inaugural ceremony in 2018, he counseled a complete break with the past forms of governance that were … a report in April 2021 maintaining that Eritrean soldiers fighting with Ethiopia had killed hundreds of Tigrayan …

… ones, to improve relations. That means, end the embargo. So what is this embargo, and why do we have it? It has a … the Cold War was at its peak, and the Soviet Union had become Cuba’s patron, pouring billions annually into its … the Soviet Union has disappeared, and Russia stopped subsidies to Cuba in 1991. Communism still exists in the world, …

… American Revolution , and the Early American Republic. This compilation gathers together some of his important essays published or delivered between … is his discussion of “Anglicization.” Rather than becoming less and less British as the 17th and 18th centuries …

… the first stage of the air war against the Taliban regime completed, the United States now enters a more difficult and dangerous phase of combat. Repeatedly, President Bush has warned that the fight … will not resemble the previous conflicts with Iraq and in Kosovo. But he has left unsaid, in what is no doubt a …

… rights activist, was born. Stanton is most closely associated with advocating the right to vote for women and … my daughter, I wish you were a boy!” Whether he meant the comment as an affront or as a statement on the injustice … life, writing books, giving speeches, and campaigning. She died on October 26, 1902, eighteen years before the passage …

… army of foreign occupiers. I learned that today's Israeli soldiers, like the Maccabees, were fighting for Jewish … Surely they know that nothing brings people together like a common enemy. But in the United States, the "rally round the …

… in the polls among GOP voters precisely because he is so comfortable mixing politics and religion. He presents a … the kind of bigotry American Catholics have tried to overcome. What may be less familiar is that Santorum’s brand of …

… The upcoming millennium is not just about computers; it’s also … of all Americans and Jews in particular. Falwell told an audience in Kingsport, Tenn., that the Antichrist was probably … ought to take note — and to worry. Andrew Gow teaches European history at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, …

… or not. Usually they move in different directions, but sometimes they converge to produce disasters like the one … consequences to explain how individual ambition served the common good. It’s not from the benevolence of the butcher, … unintended consequence of their self interest, mediated by competition, was better and cheaper meat, beer and bread. …

… Young: Pioneer Prophet , John G. Turner, religious studies professor at George Mason University, seeks to lay bare … of Young's evolution as a leader brings the full complexity of his character into focus.  Upon his ascension … of Mormonism's history: racism and colonialism.  As Turner points out, the vast majority of Mormon converts in the …

… Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring shocked the American public when it was … plants, while also accumulating in water , soil, and the bodies of fish, birds, and people.  Rachel Carson devoted her … on chemical over-use. While the public, USDA, chemical companies , and farmers embraced pesticides with a fervor …

… For political junkies and arm-chair pundits, this is the sort of book that you toss down in the middle of a table with friends and fight over.  I mean that as a high compliment, since there are far too many books out there, … clung to notions of family, tradition, and institutional obedience that were alternately nostalgic and retrograde. …

… So much emphasis about the global summit at Copenhagen has … of solving a problem facing the entire world, the summit’s composition best resembles a hodgepodge of national-or what … just don’t change. Kenneth Weisbrode is a historian at the European University Institute and the author of The Atlantic …

… the hope of providing fresh insight on six days of civil disobedience that brought Los Angeles, California to a standstill … distraught business owners next to coverage of families and communities reeling from extrajudicial violence runs …

… last spring, dismissed conservation as “a sign of personal virtue, but not a sufficient basis for a sound comprehensive energy policy,” he turned his back on a major … D. Keith Naylor is an associate professor of religious studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles and a writer for …

… Council in 1950, declared the importance of pushing the Soviet Union back from those territories conquered in the … the test of the first Soviet atomic weapon in 1949. The combination of the Soviet Union’s atomic weapons and its … force to reorder the world. Michael Richards teaches modern European and world history at Sweet Briar College in …

… the idea of a color-blind America. Media pundits and social commentators nationwide claimed that Obama's election … success. History, however, might prove otherwise.  As we come to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first …

… Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. … New historical estimates put the death toll at 750,000 soldiers, or 2.4% of the American population in 1860, which … McPherson gives much credit to their agency, he also points out that the primary mechanism of liberation for most …

… of Samarkand, and those passengers eager to explore the medieval monuments gather their bags and exit the train. Back … history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and comparatively modern city of about 150,000 people. Exiting … revolved around the sun; the physician Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, whose Canon of Medicine represented the …

… His role in ending the Cold War was less important than the Soviet Union’s collapse from internal strains. He was a … number of letters that prove he was no dummy. A historian’s complaint, however, is larger than chagrin at the number of … nation to alter its perceptions, values and policies. The comfortable old ways will no longer do. Reagan had an …