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… my daughter, I wish you were a boy!” Whether he meant the comment as an affront or as a statement on the injustice … husband without losing custody of her children. They also comprised preventing her from receiving a good education and … life, writing books, giving speeches, and campaigning. She died on October 26, 1902, eighteen years before the passage …

… the country at the cost of approximately 155 U.S. soldiers killed. Yet, despite this initial military success, … with a willful misleading of the public, and a war that committed a democratic nation’s armed forces to a … In the coming years, another photograph of a U.S. soldier, Lynndie England, giving a thumbs-up of her own next to …

… John Ashcroft asks for authority to hold non-citizens incommunicado indefinitely if the government regards them as a … a specific phone number is obsolete in an age when people commonly  have multiple telephones and e-mail. He argues … before the right to an attorney and other basic rights come into force. The security of the United States, he says, …

… were right-wing ideologues who cynically utilized fears of communism to crush opposition to their tyrannical regimes. … that men like Botha and Pinochet tried to erase. Both bodies revealed the atrocities that their perpetrators had … Pinochet. One example of the revelatory capacity of these bodies will suffice. In mid-1985 four African men from the …

… Amendment does not prohibit robust gun regulation, it compels it. Today’s gun rights ideology is antithetical to … about an obligation citizens owed to their government and communities to contribute to public defense. They also …

… for the political party whose policies promise the best outcome. But if we had any way to make such calculations—if we … an unknown who ascended to the presidency when Roosevelt died in 1945. He then accidentally presided over the end of … in places like Greece left the country profoundly uneasy. In 1948 Truman was weak and unpopular, and the …

… the Democratic Party may self-destruct during the coming elections because it’s becoming softer on the war. We’ll have to wait until November … favor with their constituents, but simply because they felt compelled to follow their own heartfelt convictions. In his …

… call “the law of unintended consequences.” That phrase has come to be understood as a warning that intervention in a complex system tends to create unexpected and often … undesirable results.   The U.S. Constitution is one such complex system, and making changes to it can sometimes …

… 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 … Day now needs to serve as a symbol for all these different communities. In contrast with many other countries, New …

… the exiles and the U.S. government joined in a powerful common cause to dump Castro, who, in the peak Cold War … pro quo. Slowly, however, the view of the Cuban-American community is changing, partly because Cuban immigration has … from other Latin American countries — economic betterment. Compared with the earlier exiles, whose families would be …

… by killer chemicals unwittingly unleashed by the scientific community. “Future historians may well be amazed by our … New Yorker serialized “Silent Spring,” a California reader complained to the magazine’s editor that “Miss Rachel … of insecticide manufacturers probably reflects her communist sympathies,” adding, “As for insects, isn’t it …

… he proclaimed that “our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world.” This … notwithstanding the fact that Spanish missionaries had accomplished this two centuries before. But not all American …

… Augustine, Brown emphasizes the importance of patronage and community in the famous bishop's career and suggests that … (522-6). Brown characterizes this as the shift toward medieval Christianity. As expected from Peter Brown, this book … and chronological confusion. As a result it can be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. Another problem is …

… of nineteenth-century America, is instructing an audience of women, as well as men, on the meaning of a revival … Tocqueville noted in the 1830s, Americans are renowned for combining “separation of church and state” with intense, … revivalism follows chronological cycles. It often becomes especially strong when shifts in the economy or in a …

… whole cloth. A hundred years later, letters to the editor commenting on the anti-trust suit against Microsoft suggest … first astronauts. The World War II generation honored the Audie Murphys and George Pattons because of their courage and … is a professor of African American history at San Diego State University. His most recent book is "Seeing Red: …

… wanted to emulate. Now that they had been freed from communist oppression, many supposed, it would not be long … many Russians did hope that Russia would magically become like the United States, the euphoric American … that Americanization was the natural and only acceptable outcome of Russian reform contributed to disregard of …

… President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives — created to give religious groups tax … philosophers: Marvin Olasky. Bush has praised Olasky as “compassionate conservatism’s leading thinker,” saying of his … along with them. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. The scale of its destruction alone is still … New historical estimates put the death toll at 750,000 soldiers, or 2.4% of the American population in 1860, which …

… parties, struggle with their sexuality, track “likes” and “comments” on Facebook, experience domestic abuse, and dream … southwestern part of the island around 985 CE.  The medieval  Norse  settlers relied on the ecological niches of … Arctic .  Copenhagen believed the early presence of the medieval Norse Greenlanders made a clear case for Danish …

… remain determined, said Bush; if we waiver, Iraq will become another Vietnam. No one should be surprised that Bush … in the departments of history and interdisciplinary studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., and a …

… on a mix of public and private pensions. Like it or not, company pensions are part of public policy. This struggle … old-age security, but these were mainly posturing. Among companies claiming to offer pensions, 84 percent did not … statements it deemed “prejudicial to the interests of the company.” Fewer than 2 percent of American workers retired …

… in 2003. Mars, the red planet so close to Earth, has become a tantalizing target for humans to visit. Noted space … Elon Musk recently released plans to colonize Mars in the coming decades, using a network of space hardware to get … canyon system slicing much of the planet, later called Valles Marineris. Layered ice deposits showed up at the …