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… with the Iraq war stems from the same causes. While no one is yet predicting civil war, Bush's handling of the war … and concealed the real reasons for going to war. Polk sanctioned war to annex California and the Southwest, believing … history of foreign occupation, Iraqi civilians would welcome U.S. troops as liberators. Most Iraqis, like most …

… capabilities. And after he made a public attack on official air policies, he was court-martialed in 1925 and … to support their own operations, but Army Air Force commanders tried instead to amass all the planes they could … disrupted and demoralized Iraq. Yet, once again, airpower alone failed to force Iraq to give in. It took a major ground …

… violence. By the end, a few thousand Spaniards under the command of Hernando Cortés fighting alongside many times … from places like Tlaxcala and Huexotzinco had destroyed one of the greatest cities of the early modern world, the … Indigenous Communities …

… One hundred years ago, in wartime Petrograd, Russian …

… they mean and what, beyond the usual hand-wringing, can be done about them? First of all, such surveys are not new. They … were ignorant of both current and historical events.  In one past survey, a large number of high school students … of the intergalactic wars of the Star Trek TV series become as important as the Civil War. An example of how …

… reflect on the various intervention plans and select one plan the Colombian government should have taken in the …

… longest in Ottoman history. Over that span, he rose to be one of the most powerful and influential monarchs of …

… The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in 1993, but encompasses a long history of African American and African … diaspora through technoculture and science fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared …

… number of letters that prove he was no dummy. A historian’s complaint, however, is larger than chagrin at the number of … and restore the nation’s self-confidence. This was indeed one of his talents. Most Americans, from his presidency to … He squandered this opportunity and instead led in the opposite direction, toward economic and population expansion …

… the dramatic images of the descamisados , or shirtless ones, marching through the streets and hundreds of thousands … for nothing less than a total redefinition of the social compact. Written by Steven Hyland. Narration by Dr. Nicholas …

… raw materials drastically decreasing. The students will become aware of the possibility that they will experience a … to guide their learning. After two of the stations are completed, the teacher will do a brief check for … used during the activity. Lastly, the students will answer one final question on the last page of the graphic organizer …

… with collaborationist neighborhoods, areas of union and communist strength, and the German headquarters district. As … leaders such as de Gaulle and Philippe Leclerc, the commander of the first French division to land with the … became anxious about the slow pace of the Allied advance. One wrote in his journal, "What will be left of France if …

… the country, his own books, articles, and op-ed pieces accomplished nothing. Yet his declaration denies the real … served in Vietnam, ultimately rising to the rank of colonel before becoming an academic. A conservative, he nevertheless became one of the most thoughtful early critics of the war that …

… drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout … emotional support of Virginia’s ban on cross-burning. The incoming governor of Georgia meanwhile ponders whether to … brought national largesse to Mississippi. In doing so, he compromised his own supposed aversion to the federal …

… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs perspective, not attitudes; context, not … on the planet. And Origins keeps growing. Our monthly Milestones essays feature brief new histories on anniversaries of …

… this story, in various forms, was relayed to me by everyone from a museum docent to a checkout clerk. For nearly 500 … people in harvesting sea life off the banks of what would become Canada’s eastern shore. Cod—so synonymous with fishing … rocks, Birchy Cove (bottom). Bench at World Heritage site, L'Ans aux Meadow (top); Church, Duntara (bottom). …

… all, has a college named after him there. Yale is not alone here. Profits from the harsh slave plantations of the … chair. The family that founded Brown made much of its money on the slave trade. Slaves worked on the Princeton … it difficult to break free from the constraints of their communities, for many churches, political parties and laws …

…  (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) Cannon, Lou.  Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed … Autopsy.”  New Left Review  197 (1993): 3–28. Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, “Report of … by the Special Advisor to the Board of Police Commissioners on the Civil Disorder in Los Angeles.” Los Angeles, …

… war,” Germany’s chancellor, Theobold von Bethmann-Hollweg complained as the First World War began. The “scrap of … act of aggression. The Charter forbids the use of force by one nation against another without the authorization of the … as it began to seem that the United States might “go it alone” in Iraq, 15 European nations declared (Feb. 18) in …

… afford to do so continued their education, while their compatriots with lesser means often found themselves … forces and our democracy. Fairness, or the lack of it, was one of the principal reasons for political failure of the … service is a responsibility that should fall on everyone’s shoulders — rich and poor, black and white. And this …

… policy advice? After all, the bewigged fellow on the one-dollar bill lived a long time ago. His last communication – the "Farewell Address" of 1796 – was really … with al-Qiada. Yet in 2003, the United States abandoned its distinct containment posture and launched an …

… as the Republic. While the topic of immigration reform is one that deserves candid discussion, all serious dialogue … figures such as Henry Adams and Theodore Roosevelt questioned whether the United States, built on its Anglo-Saxon heritage, could accommodate large numbers of Slavs and Italians whose …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … public conversation. This month, our Best in History online comes in the form of a podcast.   In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular radio shows. Each week, around …

… of this lesson is to reflect on the response of government officials and public health officers to previous pandemics … outbreak, and the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels. … during previous epidemics and pandemics to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels? …