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… Every August, the American news media note the anniversary of one of the … support the popular assumption that the use of atomic bombs was absolutely necessary to end the war and save American … added his voice to the list of prominent media dissenters when he remarked on a CBS television program, "Japan was …

… The wars in Vietnam and Iraq differ in major respects, but … Vietnamese wanted a settlement with the Viet Cong instead. Washington had to settle for a military government that was … States in Vietnam, be tempted to seek Maliki’s replacement when he does not change. He is already the administration’s …

… Baseball celebrates the 100th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s birth this year. It’s … But then we refused for a long time to admit that Kennedy was a philanderer who suffered from Addison’s disease — all … six world championships. From June 2, 1925 to May 2, 1939, when he benched himself “for the good of the team,” Gehrig …

… In the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson attacked … so that the mercenaries can always use lethal force whenever they wish and not be subject to any legal sanctions? Jefferson was right to condemn King George for using mercenaries. …

… The holiday season is a time of giving to loved ones. It can … hosted the first such dinner in New York City. A candle was placed at the center of the table signifying the … basis of life that most of us take for granted disappears when the shooting starts.   As in 1920, we can do something …

… towns in between. Historians have traditionally focused on the outcomes of “the chiefs now in this city,” namely, … in the late eighteenth century. In one interesting case, when Shawnees visited a museum in Philadelphia, they ran … of the order Calloway manages to impose on the past (and it was a mammoth task to organize the evidence in thematic …

… With the passage of a Senate bill shoring up private pension … And not a minute too soon. After a decade of underfunding their pension plans, flagship American corporations have now … $50 billion subsidy by the end of the century. In 1979, when the private pension system had reached its peak, …

… In recent weeks the world has seen the passing of two of the most notorious … and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the chair of which was Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In Chile the government of … had remained hidden for more than a decade was revealed when the police responsible for the killings of “The Cradock …

… Over six weekends in the summer of 1969, nearly 300,000 Black people gathered in … Soul featuring Mongo Santamaría and Style in Harlem.   1969 was a complex moment. Even as the festival affirmed the … Festival from the Summer of Soul Soundtrack.   Even when the music did not explicitly discuss the Freedom …

… Fifty years ago, a single mother from the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico migrated … working the agricultural migrant circuit. That young mother was my grandmother, my abuelita.    My abuelita's stories … Union, and the Ventura County "Six Month Strike" of 1941, when my father's family was evicted from the Rancho Sespe …

… of Armenian descent, were given a one-year prison sentence. Their crime: they had used the term "genocide" in reference … in Anatolia had an important religious element. Islam was central to Turkification, so the CUP privileged Muslims … oppression (p. 130)." But with this reform in place, when the Ottomans suffered defeats on the Russian front, the …

… experiment, which makes electricity fully subject to the free market, reverses a century of sound experience. The … its future. Waterpower once used for gold mining was harnessed to turn electric power generators, and Sierra … economy, a goal shared by Americans everywhere. Therefore, when people weighed resources, costs, technologies and …

… The growing immigrant rights movement has brought … In a country where "no taxation without representation" was a rallying cry for revolution, such a proposition was … are eligible to become U.S. citizens, unlike earlier times when nearly every immigrant could naturalize. Advocates of …

… And the spirits that burn in the Baghdad sky Insist there’s a … is that the white supremacist movement after Vietnam was far more interconnected than either the media or the … confrontation took place in Greensboro, NC late in 1979, when Communist Party organizers staged an anti-Klan rally, …

… of college students' knowledge of U.S. history yielded the sad fact that the students know little about the facts … advertising agencies, the less people knew, the easier it was to sell them goods by packaging that appealed to their … mass education and mass media dealing with public affairs when he wrote that "those who in vague rhetoric dwell on …

… At the turn of the 20th century, the concept of “blood” took a … Still, much is at stake in the language of blood. Blood was part a broader strategy of elimination, a tool used to … from this was dubbed the “White Earth Tragedy.” Similarly, when the Dawes Commission dealt with the Five Tribes of …

… H. W. Brand's new book The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, … Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, both from Illinois. Douglas was already a nationally-prominent Democrat who tried to … anti-slavery crusade must grapple with the question of when, or if, it is ever appropriate to engage in violence …

… The death of Deng Xiaoping creates an opportunity by which China can solve one its most vexing problems: the status of Tibet.  Next to Taiwan and Hong Kong, Tibet … the current leadership and immeasurably strengthen its hand when it tackles the far more difficult issue of Taiwan. Now …

… Confronted with the need to win world support for its fight against … news. In everything it did, the Office of War Information was committed to a “strategy of truth.” The agency also … elusive, and it is not clear what will happen if and when he is found. And with American war aims murky amid …

… 2009 Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, wearing the yellow jersey on June 26, 2009. The iconic yellow jersey … of spectators were much larger in 1919 and the armband was not visible enough. Thus on July 19, 1919 in Grenoble, … so arduous. The longest stage in 2019 is a mere 142 miles. When the tour first began in 1903, the idea that France …

… gridlock, that paralysis need not extend to foreign policy. The Constitution confers broad authority on the chief … of modern American foreign policy. Franklin D. Roosevelt was another “domestic president” who made his mark on … Rice possesses the combined experience, influence and bureaucratic savvy to ensure that foreign policy is not …

… “The breath of the tens of thousands of people jammed against … be seen the swaying shadows of the bare March trees. It was a terrible and a fantastic sight” Yevgeny Yevtushenko … figures such as Yevtushenko. Rubenstein candidly admits when sources are troublesome – memoirs that may have been …

… Russians have featured prominently in the American press recently. Whether regarding Ukraine , … conflict, despite British pleas for assistance. The Empress was sympathetic to the colonists and believed that an … the USSR , playing six concerts: three in Moscow, three in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Accompanied by then-wife …