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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Many Americans look no further into their past than the Vietnam War for instructive … on which to draw in the case of Iraq. The Vietnam War was fundamentally different from Operation Iraqi Freedom. It … political action, we must look elsewhere in our history. When American troops left Mexico in 1848, they left it in …

… Escobar: Paradise Lost is the directorial debut of Andrea Di Stefano, who also wrote … the United States via Panama. By the early 1980s, Escobar was a millionaire, the head of the powerful Medellín Cartel, … who had been reading to his children from The Jungle Book when Nick calls, answers that, like the hero Mowgli, one …

… do we—and how should we—remember this war? Tactically, it was one of the most successful military operations in history, but many … took place precisely during the “Surge” campaign in Iraq , when U.S. troop levels were at their highest. — All photos …

… Sixty years ago, in August and September of 1941, the fate of the world appeared to hang in the balance. Adolf … the Soviet Union.  The German invasion of the Soviet Union was probably the most important event of World War II. There … because we see more clearly the kind of world we live in when we understand how that world came to be. Michael …

… In June 2011, the non-governmental organization Global Commission on Drug … of methamphetamines. Yet, this contemporary arrangement was not always the case. The production, trafficking, and … Bolivia. During the colonial period (1532-1825), Spanish bureaucrats and elites largely viewed the consumption of …

… Have you ever met someone who has skinned their own SpaghettiO? On May 12 th , 1965, Donald Goerke … that can fit on your spoon/Uh Oh, SpaghettiOs”) every piece was in place for this circular pasta to become a staple of … fresh over great distances and for long periods of time. When the war ended, companies unloaded new foodstuffs as …

… el poder y eliminar los controles sobre su proyecto socialista:  manipuló la composición de los tribunales a su … a  Origins  de más en América Latina:  Colombia and the FARC ;  Cuba and the U.S. Reengage;   Inflation and Argentina ;  Rethinking …

… In 2018, the Canadian $10 bill had a new face. Viola Irene (Davis) … Black Canadians stood up to racial segregation. Desmond was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on July 6, 1914, into a … in court the next day without legal representation. When Desmond took the stand, she explained to the Magistrate …

… Penfield Jackson has ordered Microsoft broken in two, and the appeal has gone to the Supreme Court. Why is Microsoft … passed 110 years ago this month. That "charter of freedom" was designed to protect the core American value of free … The pace of business takeovers speeded up in the 1990s, but whenever one large corporation sought to acquire another it …

… and respirators. It is a world we are not prepared for. The biomedical, sanitary, and technological advances of the … to open air passages in the throat and lungs. Jeffreys was so deeply committed to climate’s role in disease that he … masks proved effective in stopping the spread of infection when used by doctors. Cloth was used for makeshift masks …

… The three decades or so after World War II witnessed the … the postwar push to control infectious disease was tempered by the reality of the fragile public health … that TB could be wiped off the face of the earth. When people finally accepted that TB “was no longer a social …

… will soon receive his party's $12.6 million, thanks to the Federal Election Commission, which ruled in a recent 5-1 … watched sadly as their candidate, Barry Goldwater, was beaten soundly by what they viewed as a liberal … of George Wallace. Wallace denounced "pointy-headed bureaucrats" and liberalism in general. Buchanan today does …

… For several years, Iran has been at the center of international attention because of its … has endured multiple invasions by either men or ideas, and was thus never a tightly unified or a culturally or … the regime that included different groups such as liberals, socialists, students, and religious scholars. Axworthy also …

… Over the course of the past year international negotiators have … met periodically in Vienna in an attempt to accomplish what was long considered a near-impossible task. Once again they … by comparing it to having “a friend who swallows us whenever he gets hungry.” Indeed, independence, …

… internal warfare and repeated U.S. military interventions, the PRI, the Spanish acronym for the Institutionalized … candidate elected on July 2, Vicente Fox Quesada, was cautious and not so populist as to alarm entrenched … a precedent. If Fox manages to sidestep the dinosaurs of bureaucracy, and if the PRI will abandon its strongholds of …