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… could be met and destroyed in a series of climatic battles in which the Japanese would prevail. After a few serious … the bay, devoid of protective torpedo nets, without combat watches on duty, and lacking accessible ammunition, … targets, the American aircraft carriers, were not present, necessitating a shift to their secondary target, the …

… A soldier named Tim McVeigh . . . ―Charlie King, The War is Coming Home , 1996 On April 19, 1995, a date fraught with … soil. Charlie King’s antiwar anthem highlighted the connections between American military actions abroad, … Louis Beam and William Pierce were important in these circles. Most significantly, written materials, especially the …

… and Eastern socialism—and, more importantly, between peoples of shared nationality—became irrevocably porous. But the events of November 9 did not come from nowhere. The fall of the Berlin Wall—as detailed … magnifying glass, Sarotte argues, party leader Erich Honecker’s hardline policies grew evermore untenable. The …

… was the result of a decades-long global program involving complex geopolitical cooperation, human ingenuity, and … States and the Soviet Union worked together towards a common purpose: combating smallpox in 43 countries with a … illness on October 16, 1975. They traced her contacts and poured vaccines and vaccinators into the region to block any …

… Arthur Schlesinger wrote The Imperial Presidency in 1973 in a climate … could operate off the books. Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, … that could have implicated Reagan, there followed the Tower Commission, a congressional inquiry, and the Office of the …

… in February 1989—twenty-five years ago—the Soviet Union completed withdrawal of its combat forces across the Friendship Bridge from the Afghan … buildings in Kabul, a South African urban planner, Jolyon Leslie, recently said, “ looking at these awful buildings . …

… potential disaster awaiting military forces put in a hopeless strategic situation than the fall of the Philippines in … the mercurial personality of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. and Filipino forces. Overconfident … later they were on quarter rations. (Troops in intensive combat require 3,500 calories per day. U.S. and Filipino …

… the holiday or diminished it by linking it to Confederate commemorations.  Federal recognition had finally arrived, but acceptance had not, a disconnect that reflected a deep and long-standing resistance to … had narrowed Reagan’s options. Signing the holiday bill was less an endorsement of King’s life and legacy than a …

… fire have long been questioned and debated, the academic community generally blames poor circumstances for Rome’s … pristine stone walls of the wealthy and awe-inspiring temples glowed burnt orange. Tacitus, a Roman historian alive … imagination.  Tacitus, ever the skeptic in comparison, posited a different conclusion. In the absence of evidence to …

… with words like “sex,” “murder,” and “insanity” in their titles promise a level of excitement and intrigue which their … a narrative worthy of the hype. Even if she had not committed and been tried for murder, Laura Fair would have … in the first place. Was insanity simply the inability to comprehend right and wrong? Or could a person be insane even …

… Brazil and Chile, are not populists. Consequently, the most common definition of populism in political science today … for Anti-Americanism Anti-Americanism has its roots not necessarily in populism, but rather the United States' … from the economy and adopt market economic principles. State-run companies were sold, tariff barriers dropped, …

… of order. Even the most trivial aspects of the event connected to larger developments. The most iconic image of the … antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone … authorities who overreacted in an effort to impose rules for their own sake. Because of the national uproar over …

… the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a complicated imbroglio marked by the intersection of European … Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles frequently discussed U.S. policy during the Suez Crisis. … pledging to distribute economic and military aid and, if necessary, use military force to contain communism in the …

… put the entire  global economy in disarray and for years to come. Estimates of possible losses differ, but they are in … Corporation (TSMC) manufactures over 90 percent of the smallest and most advanced semiconductor chips are manufactured. … the geopolitics in the Taiwan Strait for decades. It reconnected the United States and the KMT/ROC against the …

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in Beijing’s … from 1989 is that of the “Tankman” (below right), a nameless Beijing citizen who was caught on camera in a face-off … cemetery in Chongqing is chained and locked, and gravesites are carefully watched. One recalls from the Maoist era …

… In June 2011, the non-governmental organization Global Commission on Drug Policy published a report detailing the … returned to a leading role since 1984 (as a result of connections made with Colombian traffickers in Panama), and … more easily moved from Atlantic to Pacific, where it transited Nicaragua and entered Mexican ports. Although the …

… national attention. They did so because they were well connected politically, well-off economically, and because … the money). This refusal brought him a torrent of negative commentary and helped to define for the future what … parent held one arm of the child and was pulling her in opposite directions. This was the most public display of a …

… Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund and others had already commenced litigation. As summarized by the United States in … an alien's unauthorized attempt to solicit work, and the commercial transportation of unlawfully present aliens. And … disavowing the claim, that illegal immigration has left headless corpses scattered along the Arizona side of the …

… of Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton , he has also become a pop culture icon. Meanwhile, as the character of … to relish his role in Hamilton’s death, but the duel discredited him with the public —a fate that contributed to his … of the shield are two men engaged in a duel (1862). Nevertheless, partisanship in American politics grew stronger in the …

… the Qianlong emperor (r. 1735-1796), who declared, “Our celestial empire possesses all things in abundance and lacks … 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. …

… in the South, but it also decoupled the burgeoning connections between civil rights agitation and demands for … When Affirmative Action Was White concludes with the recommendation that contemporary American policymakers deal … author longs for a time when liberalism informed the principles of the federal government. It seems ironic, against this …

… which we live. Current events, however dire or exciting or complicated they may be, have been made by history. They … of color. That’s it. ( laughter ) ( music) Sarah Paxton ( credits) This season of  Prologued  was brought to you by  … Oranjudio. Song and Band information can be found on our website and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …

… sphere of influence. In this context Flavius Dionysius, commander of Rome's eastern military forces and a native of … wife) and Pulcheria (his sister) had important roles in the administration. Theodosius II has been claimed as … in these provinces who often had to pay the steep taxes necessary to finance the army and the many campaigns that …