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… is dead on arrival. Most Americans had wished it success. They had hoped that commission members’ resolve and wisdom … discussions remained polite and politically correct; candor was not its most notable characteristic. No one should be … that race isn’t a handicap in our seemingly robust economy when even fast-food places are begging for workers. Much of …

… For the last several years, the United States has depicted the … the first things the Nazis did upon seizing power in 1933 was to outlaw abortion. Family planning centers were closed, … repressive ones restrict them. Which side are we on when this administration votes with countries like Iran and …

… The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, that state’s … the Massachusetts supreme court ruled that slavery was unconstitutional in the Bay State. Although it would be … and its long aftermath also indicate that, regardless of when or if agreement between majority opinion and …

… In a landmark vote, Scotland will take to the polls on September 18 to determine whether it remains a … the UK Parliament, which meets at Westminster in London, was the only legislature for all four nations. While … Riots erupted in the streets throughout Scottish towns when a draft of the treaty was made public. Yet, despite …

… The United States is a young country, and it would seem to … how Swiss banks handled gold seized from Jews by the Nazis was beginning to die down. Pope John Paul II recently asked … And there are more subtle forms of anti-Semitism, such as when political or religious leaders refer to the United …

… between three million and eleven million people are in the United States illegally. During the visit of Mexican … as to seem empty. In English eyes, nomadic Indians wasted land better used for good English farms and homes. … perceive the change as an attack on old familiar ways. When the immigrant population hit upward of 20 percent in …

… The assertion that President Clinton may have had an affair … who seems to be the source of some of the allegations, was a spy for the Nixon campaign in 1972. From a historian’s … do a disservice to the public’s understanding of history when they link events of vastly different magnitudes. …

… Illinois politicians’ sordid reputation for selling seats in the U.S. Senate to the highest bidder is, sadly, at least a … to accept the results of advisory popular elections when filling Senate seats. In the midst of the Lorimer … May 1911. In less than two years the Seventeenth Amendment was approved by Congress and ratified.   By its bad example, …

… The recent terrorist attacks on New York and Washington … a large standing military for much of its existence. When the United States went to war, it quickly demobilized …

… Just a week after the terrorist attack on the United States, National Security … just as the history of United States – Japanese relations was too often forgotten. According to the myth, America was … prophecy: “There’s not going to be an end date when we’re going to say, `There, it’s all over with’.” …

… It’s Hanukkah time again. The annual rite allows Christians to pay lip service to … embrace of a festival that, despite its secular trappings, was fundamentally Christian. But parents couldn’t deprive … fruit salad,’ a composition of cream cheese and fruit that, when molded, resembled a menorah.” By the late ’50s, …

… There’s an undercurrent of despair and even hopelessness in … and industrial opposition — were the buffalo saved? There was no silver bullet, but rather a confluence of critical … poacher’s grisly handiwork — six slaughtered buffalo. When Forest and Stream published the photos, the resulting …

… Hurricane Elena was responsible for the best meal I had as a college freshman. The 1985 … scientific understanding of hurricanes started around 1700 when people began precisely measuring and formulating …

… During the last four weeks, the Election Assistance Commission, the … Day. In 2000, roughly one-third of the electorate in Washington state cast ballots by mail. A substantial number … reasons. The commission should set clear criteria for when and how an election should be postponed. It also should …

… “I Want to Hold Your Hand” by the Beatles was released in the United States on December … reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 a week earlier. When it was displaced from that position in mid-March, by …

… Unlike many of their predecessors, this year’s vice-presidential candidates won’t be chosen primarily because they’re from a large state or to balance the ticket’s … choice can be critical — as Jimmy Carter learned in 1976 when Mondale’s vice-presidential campaign helped the …

… One hundred years ago this month, the Greco-Turkish war erupted. The war resulted in the … Empire signed the Armistice of Mudros. The Ottoman Empire was to be partitioned among the Allies, with all powers … Greek troops to the coast. The Great Offensive concluded when the revolutionary forces entered Smyrna and the city …

… George W. Bush is talking about the most radical change in U.S. military strategy since … his eight years in office. The problem, Ike said, was that scientists kept inventing new “nukes” and new ways … allies continue splitting apart into separate power blocs. When they insist on missile defense, space-based weapons, …

… alors que Dorbane est mort lorsqu’une bombe placée près des bureaux de son journal (situé à la Maison de la presse à …

… In the warm early autumn months of 2019, I visited Northern … a village with 500 registered female residents. While I was there, I met Raji Ahmed, a tour operator catering to … biology, English, math, physics, and Islamic studies. When I walked into their classrooms, they were shy to answer …

… Midnight’s Children features a memorable adventure through the jungles of the Sundarbans, in whose labyrinths of … and later Bangladesh stem directly from Partition, which was hasty, chaotic, and left many problems unresolved. After … versions of history and have turned violent, as when protestors demolished the sixteenth-century Babri …