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… the global economy. This conversation has raised uncomfortable questions about contemporary businesses and … came face to face with the ethical dilemmas of an Atlantic commercial system dependent on enslaved labor. An … created a government-sanctioned monopoly for the West-Indies and empowered slave-trading states in West Africa.” If …

… licenses to gay couples represents an example of the often complex relationship between government officials and … For example, Charles’s third chapter contains three case studies about prominent gay, or allegedly gay, individuals to … emerged during World War II. One of these case studies centers on Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, a …

… ties were also immensely important, for one often needed community support at the assembly to win a legal case. Thus, … was not the first one to do so, his work found a captive audience: the Victorians loved Vikings.  In previous … myths. Thor also eventually becomes part of Marvel’s superhero team, the Avengers.  More recently, the big-screen …

… public interest. Neither did Whitewater in the 1990s. Commentators can’t decide whether Americans are too complacent, too desensitized or too patriotic right now to … treatment for transgressing the boundaries of legitimate commerce. But by the end of Adams’s life in 1826, …

… helped inspire. Like Nixon in late 1969, the author has become immensely disillusioned with America's leadership class … state of politics in the American Republic. Having become a strong critique of the Bush dynasty in recent years, … According to Phillips, as fundamentalism gained a wider audience it played a more vocal role in shaping the parameters …

… “If our bombs are so ‘smart,’ how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and … but if we listen carefully, their voices convey a sense of compassion, coupled with disappointment. Often stereotyped … point may have contained some logical consistency, I was uncomfortable with the implications of an argument that could …

… an unknown enemy, one whom many Americans believed had committed an act of war. And, like the destruction of the … Americans in 1920, the death toll from the blast seemed incomprehensible. “The horrible slaughter and maiming of men … focused on political radicals, mainly anarchists and communists. The condemnations were heated. “The bomb outrage …

… law” (p. 5). This argument revolutionizes the discussion of comparative racism and our understanding of the influence of … Krieger, a driving force behind the Nuremburg Laws, had studied race law at the University of Arkansas during the 1920s … from the American system. In refuting many who studied the Nazis’ legal implementations prior to this work, …

… day in Dallas in 1963. In an inaugural address that has become a poignant reminder of the idealism of the 1960s, JFK … in a refreshing spirit of voluntarism by urging citizens to commit themselves to solving the problems of poverty and … the assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem in early November 1963 made JFK realize that the United …

… vaccines and by the concerns raised by now-discredited studies that linked vaccines and autism. And as vaccination … was brought to New England by Cotton Mather and Zabdiel Boylston in 1721. Following the development of … child as a man stands outside with a cow (from the Wellcome Trust). The term vaccination comes from variolae …

… the surrender of tens of thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers to the Japanese in the Philippines stunned the … the mercurial personality of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. and Filipino forces. Overconfident that the Filipino soldiers he had trained could stand up to Japanese regulars and …

… the state of Confederate fortifications there. Union Naval commanders acted quickly and successfully on this … the Planter , making him one of the highest paid Black soldiers of the war. His reputation was further burnished … institutions in order to tell his story and help enlist soldiers for the war. The end of the conflict and its immediate …

… Service officer and a lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, covers an enormous span of … its weather, and the origin of the word "Persian," which comes from Fars province in southwestern Iran, home to … This feature will make his survey accessible to a general audience with little or no prior knowledge of Iran. …

… the multireligious provisional government was challenged by competing leadership, most notably the Republic of Central … Italy were unable to control the growing calls for a completely independent Albania. In the summer of 1920, the … Defense Committee, a motley crew of armed villagers, soldiers, and national activists, waged guerilla warfare …

… on "virtue" instead of policy. Written with a broad audience in mind, Critchlow utilizes biographies and … to argue that "principled pragmatism, the ability to compromise while maintaining core principles, is essential … defined them. Chapter One examines Richard Nixon and the complex story of a man remembered for the naked, amoral …

… was a motive in his pursuit of liberty; indebtedness was common among Virginia planters, who traded in a global … have was a product of winning admittance to the bar. He accomplished this ironically but tellingly, managing to … hardly muted the power of his influence. The public and soldiers adored him. Henry's legacy has remained controversial …

… above in 1914) had struck for union recognition; the company's obedience to Colorado's 8-hour day law; the right to live … predecessors in Ludlow. Those miners fought, suffered, and died believing they could build a better world together. …

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of … military and government to fight the technologically superior Poles and Swedes. He imposed compulsory education …

… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … has had a murky, even “schizophrenic,” view of its commitment to the world’s dispossessed. Although the United … of private relief campaigns during WWI, however, was the supervisory role taken on by the U.S. government. By 1944, …

… Conference on West Africa was signed.  The conference has become known for “carving up  the African continent ” for the … army to impose rule. White officers directed African soldiers.  Often “freed” from slavery or “orphaned,” many of … resisted such an onslaught: by fleeing or hiding from soldiers, or by attacking colonial posts, for example by …

… Within fifteen years, Enron executives transformed their company from a middling firm into the seventh-largest … regulatory vacuum. Then they covered their tracks with complicated transactions that lined insiders’ pockets. In … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …

… ecology and disease. Indeed, this earlier experience with combating plague served the Ottomans well as they entered … Iraq and the Gulf,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 51 (2019): 603-620. Edna Bonhomme, “Plague in … Pilgrimage and Potable Water in the Hijaz,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 57 (2015): 942-974. Andrew …

… political ends. After the war, no less than it had with soldiers, guns, and other armaments, Israel pursued nature … the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has conveyed “water, … with the assistance of engineers and financing from the superpowers: Egypt’s Aswan High Dam with Soviet assistance, …