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… to today in an interview for NPR affiliate WKNO . From the website: Host Jonathan Judaken and author Alice Conklin …

… he was dead. The implication was clear—although Stalin had died, his influence would be keenly felt in the Soviet … pardoned or remitted the sentences of prisoners whom had committed minor offenses. As they worked to dismantle … narrow” for the United States and the Soviet Union to come out on the other side with a better relationship, …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that–much like Origins –seek to bring history into …

… public diplomacy might lessen the value of such an accomplishment as a true surprise. A revived round of … with a belligerent Iraq would be risky. American soldiers might be killed, and Bush and Cheney could say that …

… had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body. Theywere … became inalienable." [Book description from the publisher's website .]  …

… the park’s museum, which is located beneath the Arch, was completely redesigned to acknowledge the growing consensus … video essay presented here, I ask viewers to keep this more complex and troubling context in mind as well.) Written by …

… dimples, chads and absentee ballots has raised the ire of diehard partisans who will try to weaken the president by … otherwise, is a dynamic process that revolves around three complex elements — the leader, the followers and the … they do appear to be fixated on the second major component of the leadership process: the followers. …

… Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, … "A case study of one of America's many multi-ethnic border communities, Great Lakes Creoles builds upon recent research … Great Lakes region." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …

… people all riled up, maybe more by dragging the flag in the gutter than by the burning. Or maybe there are so few of … advertising–presumably this would apply to businesses now competing the have the biggest flag in the neighborhood. One … systematize them and bring them up to date, not as commandments but as guidance for people who prefer to salute …

… the recent attacks on New York City and Washington were committed by a transnational organization. But it is hard to … from the Middle East or the Korean peninsula. The common characteristic of the states on the current State … too weak to attack us in a more conventional manner. The common bond of these states is found in their weakness and …

… ever before." [Book description taken from the  publisher's website ] …

… Useful for a Change: Historians and Modern Tribal Communities" Wednesday, March 26 at The  Ohio State … can academic historians engage with modern Native American communities in the United States?  He is a storyteller, and … Rather, for academics-turned-consultants, the target audience is lawyers and judges.  The real question is how can …

… Weitz helps the reader understand how and why the fragile, complex, and tense culture of Weimar Germany motivated these … do. The discussion of the sexual revolution in Germany comes closer to touching on the wide variety of general … across the spectrum is an outstanding touch, because they communicate not just the intellectual but also the artistic …

… seeks both to understand these myths and to uncover the complicated and often contradictory realities that underpin … and information." [Book description from publisher's website ]. …

… until seven years later, are usually credited with this accomplishment, having banished slavery in their remaining … move in novel areas. To be sure, these path-breaking acts compromised with the grim reality of slave owners’ property … tested the law-enforcement skills of Northern states compelled to check the felonious dispatch of slaves to the …

… the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City to Acoma Sky City in New Mexico. NTHP activists are gathering in … items on July 20, 1969, to return to the orbiting command module, they didn’t know they were creating … to override this decision, the president’s financial gutting of historical preservation will have far-reaching …

… in the city that a lynching was imminent. The proud black community, which was reading "radical" literature such as … were required to work cleaning up the burned area for no compensation other than meals and housing. By noon, more … to the ground and thousands were left homeless. Now, a commission funded by the Oklahoma legislature is …

… jeopardize the process of integration. He was, by nature, a combative individual, so he had to struggle to restrain … "Then I could walk away from baseball and never become a star. But my son could tell his son what his daddy … An outspoken advocate of self-help, he urged blacks to become producers, manufacturers, creators of businesses and …

… Once part of the Russian Empire of the tsars and then the Communist Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has been independent … meal. We spent the night in our sleeping bags in a large communal dormitory. Path inside the Konyr-Aulie cave. Some … between seasonal pastures. Brutal Soviet policies that compelled the nomads to settle in one place, followed by a …

… my professor is onto something. Patterson shares with other commentators the feeling that 1965 was a “pivot” or a … the fact no one knew how much it would cost; and struck a compromise on the issue of federal funding to parochial … options: looking soft on communism or sending Americans to die. Patterson emphasizes the feasibility of Johnson’s …

… noted that work on the largest mosque in the city had been completed just before his arrival, but Timur ordered its … of Clavijo and the party of other ambassadors who he accompanied to the cosmopolitan city provoked mild interest, … on account of their strange clothes and quaint customs. Medieval Castilians, it seems, were regarded as rather …

… The Founding Fathers balanced the power of the president as commander-in-chief with that of Congress, the people’s representatives — the one to command the nation’s armed forces, the other to decide when …