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… 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 … Review of Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina , by Stuart …

… 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 …

… How do cold wars begin? The question is becoming more than academic as the Bush … the like called for difficult decisions. No single dispute was big enough, in itself, to cast the die for or against … for getting into a cold war no longer hold up, especially when weighed against the consequences. We know from past …

… 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 …

… The policy of President Bush and his administration appears … many informed observers doubt that the Iranian government was responsible for the recent arms shipment to Palestine. When faced with a dubious and partisan “endless enemies” …

… 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 …

… Noelle Gallagher writes that fear of venereal infection was “lurking around every corner” in the Britain of the long 18th century (1660-1800). Unspoken … and not a medical history. The four chapters, especially when read as comprising two thematic arguments about the …

… On December 1, 1783, an immense crowd gathered on the grounds of the Tuileries Palace in Paris to … to different people across the social spectrum, the balloon was a concrete example of abstract values which came to … however, for readers to follow her train of thought when she does not sequentially explain her reasoning. A …

… According to official accounts from the Chinese Communist Party, “The ‘cultural revolution,’ which lasted from May 1966 to October 1976, was responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest … that shaped the conflict in Feng County. For example, when the first study classes in Beijing ended in May 1970, …

… Almost six decades after the fact, the 1945 unleashing of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima … of one mind in believing that the use of the atomic bomb was unquestionably the right decision at the time.  Relayed … to the question of what soldiers in the Pacific believed, when the relevant historical question is what decisionmakers …

… Appropriately marking the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, two … slavery at the local, state, and national levels was the law, including the highest law of the land, the U.S. … of those wrongs made “especially heinous, black, and cruel when it masquerades in the robes of law and justice and …

… On the night of March 5, 1770, a man and a British sentry … This event, popularly referred to as the “Boston Massacre,” was a turning-point in relations between American colonists … of Bostonians the threat of British military occupation. When tensions began to rise again in 1773 and 1774 with the …

… and women be revered and seen as a conduit to God, or are they polytheistic distractions that turn Christians away … discusses actual literature about the saints. Hagiography was written both to celebrate the saints and to provide … miracles. The closest he comes to this is in chapter nine when he writes, “Either these miracles really took place or …

… I was lucky enough to grow up on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. To the … the American Environment arrives at a perfect moment, one when conservatives have launched a state-by-state effort to … Review of Presidents and the American Environment , by Otis L. Graham, Jr. (Lawrence, …

… over what is fast becoming a foreign policy disaster. The war in Iraq is a quagmire. The Iraqi constitution faces … the United States’ role in the world, President-elect Bush was that man. Like Wilson before him, Bush cannot be blamed … policy will save us from having to toss a policy together when events intervene. The failures of Woodrow Wilson and …