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… It seems as if apologies are becoming a regular part of business and politics. Pope John … apologizes for the Irish famine of the 1840s. The Aetna Insurance Company apologizes for selling insurance against the … grand public acts of contrition. The great English writer Leslie Poles Hartley once observed that "the past is a …

… concerns. Whether subduing Iraq and Afghanistan, combating sex trafficking, restricting nuclear weaponry or … supranationalism in its remaining two years in office. Examples of supranationalism abound. Nigeria accedes to a ruling … wants to enter the European Union and accepts intense surveillance and hectoring questions about its internal …

… The Crimea that most people have come to know is a peninsula occupied by Russian forces, … the importance of Crimea to Russia, as the ancient site where, according to medieval Russian documents, Prince … infantry units moved into Crimea on May 18, 1944, surrounding virtually every Tatar village. With one hour to …

… kingdom were convinced that the United States had become a base for terrorists. No one then actually used the … the U.S. government tolerated filibustering, just the opposite was true. It was hardly in the national interest to … than were those of the United States before the Civil War. Surely we’re equally capable of misreading them. Robert E. …

… Department of History, The Ohio State University Deondre Smiles | Ph.D. Geography '20; Assistant Professor of Geography, … for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily … problems that our children are going to be facing in the future unless we take seriously the role of race and racism …

… to the current debates in health policy. He writes to discredit the notion that the government’s hand is only now … perhaps Field’s strongest argument that translates to the future of American health care comes in his final chapter. “Health care cannot function,” …

… the global war on terror is the central event of our time, comparable to the great struggles of the last century … rejects proposals to revive the draft and thereby ensure equitability of sacrifice. It has left untouched the … spending, the administration is sloughing that off onto future generations. Old timers will recall when big wars …

… the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, our boundless fascination with his life and death remains as strong … events of November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Conservative radio commentator Bill O’Reilly’s best-selling nonfiction book … The End of Camelot (authored with Martin Dugard, 2012) comes to life in a docudrama on the National Geographic …

… An estimate compiled by the nation’s intelligence services reaches the … Republic of China in 1949 ( left ). President Nixon visited China in 1972, but the U.S. did not formally recognize … had violated its NPT commitments. The World’s Nuclear Future These legacies remain relevant today, though for how …

… superpower status. Its narrowing, unstable economy has become dependent on the export of a single commodity: energy. … in fact, promised to do everything in its power to ensure that the pipeline does not “threaten Europe.” Just what … is reported to have drifted around 12 km from the accident site. In this animation, diesel oil is visible in the …

… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … him to Korea after Communist North Korean troops launched a surprise attack on South Korea. There he devised a daring … "his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." He visited New York City, where 7.5 million people gathered to …

… to produce genocide. These include the Young Turks' intense commitment to the homogenization of Anatolia (a development … on the role of religion, not simply ethnicity, as a major component in the homogenization policies of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), the Young Turks' …

… world of Reformation England . It doesn’t really envision a future utopian experiment across the Atlantic. Further, … seemed to me, foreshadows what the United States would become more than the Puritan outpost of Boston. After all, … ways distant from us today—but worth reckoning with nonetheless. As part of that project, Miller brought “A Model of …

… between present-day immigration and the flood of newcomers who came in the past. ProjectUSA’s website is emphatic on this point. Making this distinction is … hostile, to the idea of continued immigration. One of the surest signs of Americanization, today and more than a …

… multi-cultural society. Ironically, re-segregation has become prevalent in some school districts while at the … have lowered admissions standards. Both developments are compromising the original intent of Brown. On May 17, 1954, … in the nation’s largest cities and the suburban districts surrounding them. A Harvard University report reveals that …

… to occupy the Suez Canal zone. Nasser, who did not become Egypt’s official head of state until 1956, came to … so a changed relationship with Britain was essential to the survival of the regime. After long negotiations, Nasser was … shots are heard, but Nasser hardly pauses, and his speech becomes ever more impassioned: “O free men, let them kill me …

… into law on April 3, 1948. The Marshall Plan, as it’s more commonly known, was intended to revive the economies of … and generals as they designed more forceful, invasive measures to resuscitate Europe’s ailing economies. Officials … was “not directed against any country,” this statement was less a genuine olive branch to the Soviet Union than a …

… ill-fated revolution that ended with the re-imposition of Communist rule and the flight of some 200,000 Hungarians to … on October 23, 1956 quickly escalated into an armed insurrection in Budapest and across Hungary. Emboldened by … (Source: Embassy of Hungary in the Netherlands) Numerous sites of memory—including a 1956 monument where Stalin’s …

… Memphis, a pall of shock and sadness blanketed the black community. Anguish soon turned to anger. Fearing a riot, the … to social change. They may have felt that his tactics needlessly put people in danger, but they did not doubt his … with the meaning of his life and death. One thing is for sure. Dr. King was a man ahead of his time, and not even our …

… Korean peninsula. Nixon learned this first hand when he visited South Korea in 1953 as vice president. An … the fight. Nixon was in Seoul to convince Rhee it would be futile for South Korea to restart its war with the North. … that I may start some action is a constant check on the Communists,” Rhee told Nixon. Nixon thought so highly of …

… for a second wave, to act rapidly as cases rose, and to ensure patients’ access to lifesaving medical assistance, all compounded by the emergence of a new variant that may be … health services for all people, is the only way to combat future pandemics and prevent the scale of tragedy we are …

… held in the 17th and 18th centuries. Because the propertyless were employed by, in debt to, or in more subtle ways … make them the political appendages of their landlords and creditors. Sir William Blackstone, who greatly influenced … rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s …

… and Eastern socialism—and, more importantly, between peoples of shared nationality—became irrevocably porous. But the events of November 9 did not come from nowhere. The fall of the Berlin Wall—as detailed … ambition were resolved as the first crowd of East Berliners surged into the West. Subsequent attempts by a reactionary …