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… on “the near absence among the men I worked with… of any comprehension of what Nazism meant.” Commentator Dwight Macdonald called the war simply “the … about creature comforts, secure routines, even affluence.” One marine, answering Hersey’s inquiry as to why he was …

… weapon. Any potential United States-Iran dialogue would complement European efforts to persuade the Iranians to … were not without frustration and disappointment. A memo by one U.S. official attending these negotiations was prefaced … in such talks. But the United States must leave no stone unturned in the search for peace. Failure to extend the …

… Americans and white working-class Americans are likely to come out in large numbers in support of an independent … of opportunities, the unlikely duo may just have created one of the most promising opportunities for a new populism … have increased by 55 percent in the last two years alone — from 14.8 percent in 1998 to 23 percent in 1999. The …

… South Asia’s geopolitical landscape, it also bears a more complex and lesser-known set of legacies for how we think … . At that time, the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned into two countries: India (including lands with a Hindu … as an internecine conflict soon became an international one. A Bangladesh independence militia called the Mukti …

… insisted that there can be no limits to the power of the commander-in-chief in time of war. More recently the … has produced a devilish conundrum. President Bush has given Commander-in-Chief Bush unlimited wartime authority. But the … Madison defined tyranny as the concentration of powers in one branch of the government. "The great security against a …

… staff, I am alarmed by this news. As their administrations come to a close, presidents establish foundations to raise money for libraries to house their records. The National … files. Archivists are trained historians. They serve as honest brokers, roles presidential associates cannot fill. As …

… about immigrants for the past thirty years. Of course they come from a long line of immigrant restrictionists. FAIR … were immigrants, too. In the middle of the 19th century, one reaction was nativism. To oversimplify, nativism is a … letter to the editor, but the restrictionists focus more commonly on the costs to the environment, social services …

… trade, encouraging the development of the European common market and paying the lion’s share for NATO, the … supporting right-wing dictatorships in the name of halting communism, but also saw the United States as a defender of … formed an alliance that halted German expansion. While no one would compare President Bush literally to Kaiser …

… ill-fated revolution that ended with the re-imposition of Communist rule and the flight of some 200,000 Hungarians to … the withdrawal of the Soviet military, which had been stationed in Hungary since 1944. Since his Hungarian Communist … “Where heroes are not forgotten there shall always be new ones,” Orbán praised Hungarians’ courage both then and now, …

… begins to fade, there’s a race among critics to find a compelling Rasputin or a group of gray eminences pulling the … and ideas.   Is she possibly the real power behind the throne?   First ladies have had tremendous influence over the … or disfavor of a strong-willed first lady — especially one well trusted by the president — can be critical in this …

… UN weapons inspectors be given months or even a year to complete further investigations in that country, President … overall approval rating had dropped 10 points in just one month, and 44% disapproved of his overall management of … Street investors overcame their jitters and sent the Dow Jones surging 159 points for the day.  These developments are …

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary … brought together Sunnis and Shi'is , elites and commoners, city dwellers and tribespeople. It caught the British … British warplanes carried out a bombing campaign against one of the region's most influential clans in late May 1920. …

… memorandum provides a very rare glimpse of what someone in the administration is actually thinking. He wants a … or at least contain the Viet Cong but could not rally non-Communist South Vietnamese behind it, prompting the United … his current Shiite political base and build him a whole new one. The United States might “use our own political capital …

… from new opportunities. But the patriotic fervor that accompanied wartime mobilization meant that unions were … Trade Center struggle to learn the fates of their loved ones, who were a key part of the economy servicing this … mean economic parity and political democracy, not putting money and power into the hands of the few. Rachel Buff is an …

… craft carried not people but supplies; 20 carried water alone. In subsequent days, other supplies would follow: food, … parts, medicine, maps, cigarettes, tents, radios and telephones, and much, much more—everything that a modern army … in continents far removed from the conflict because of the compelling demand that war creates for forest and …

… Baker as co-chair, Carter will lead a national bipartisan commission on election reform. His prestige and experience … a channel to let former presidents perform useful service. One option is to make these men honorary members of the U.S. … band of brothers with a mutual respect that they and they alone can fully appreciate. They want to be useful, alone and …

… woman has held that position.   But Julian Castro did not become mayor on his own. He attributes his rise to the Chicano … activists held their own reunion in El Paso, Texas, to commemorate the 1972 national convention held in that city … student recording what these historic folks had to say. One of the women who spoke at the 1989 gathering was Rosie …

… Temple, the fortified medieval monastery where he was imprisoned, to the Place de la Révolution, where the scaffold for … and Navarre, c. 1779. He traveled in the mayor's coach accompanied by his confessor, Henry Essex Edgeworth de … Commune, the revolutionary municipal government, had stationed guards four deep along the coach's path, and the …

… Gregory VII chastised Henry IV’s association with excommunicated advisers and his appointment of three Italian … a step further, denying Henry his kingship, absolving everyone of their oaths to the king, and forbidding anyone to serve Henry as king.  The ramifications of Gregory’s …

… of the Heaven’s Gate suicides now blame everything from comets to cults to cyberspace to the dead themselves — the … riverboat crook who left passengers penniless and disillusioned because he lured them with false hope and specious … to the Almighty to mangle the enemy, and later lampooned the naivete of “mind cure” practitioners from Mary …

… midst of the winter holidays, when you could bet that everyone’s mind was elsewhere, the U. S. Department of Justice … example of politically motivated historical revisionism completes the task begun by John Ashcroft in 2001 in his … turns history into a science fiction fantasy, in which one might as well argue that the Patriots lost the American …

… to get voters registered. He realized that if he were to become the city’s first African American elected mayor he … to win the general election against his Republican opponent. The irony of this was that Chicago’s voters were … for the History News Service. He is writing a book on one of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mentors, Benjamin Elijah …

… was destroyed, dangerous, and barely supported life, let alone theater. They traveled through a war zone to a small town called Bila Tserkva, and arrived at the … cavorted with dancing girls. Finally, the figure of comic writer Ostap Vyshnia was depicted hunting a line of …