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… pluralist implication of the St. Patrick's Day parades becomes more apparent as we look at the events held in cities … ever more disparate groups into their national fabric. Surely we have a long way to go in pursuing this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we have come.   So when this weekend's St. Patrick's Day parades pay …

… standards too high. Still, regardless of political pressure and changing definitions in popular media, the … whether there is an inadvertent subjective bias amongst commanders that has contributed to the low numbers of awards … only about the present or the past; it is also about the future and how succeeding generations will look back upon …

… about immigrants for the past thirty years. Of course they come from a long line of immigrant restrictionists. FAIR … Irish, Germans, Quakers and Shakers. Nativism still surfaces in an occasional letter to the editor, but the restrictionists focus more commonly on the costs to the environment, social services …

… the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing swath of territory across … raised the death rate. Preventive checks included such measures as postponement of marriage, celibacy, or … to develop a critique of colonial rule that rejected the premises of British thought about the Indian political …

… of the world Jewish population. This figure is but one measure of the devastation inflicted. It only begins to describe the legacy of loss. Although the Holocaust has come to be widely commemorated in the United States, and around the world, its …

… a chronic condition that can have serious, life-threatening complications if left untreated. Diabetes is caused when the … and directs the body to store glucose in fat, muscles, and the liver. Without it, glucose levels in the … It also raised lasting bioethical questions over how to ensure the widescale accessibility of life-saving drugs while …

… Three years into Grace’s apprenticeship, Pickersgill was commissioned to create the Star-Spangled Banner in … was the one that would instill love and loyalty among countless American citizens for their homeland. Before the … income, so Black mothers had to make difficult decisions to survive.  Only ten at the time of the apprenticeship, Grace …

… into the White House primarily because they were effective communicators. In recent weeks the public has heard a good … Clinton joked that Obama's audiences expect to hear "celestial choirs" promising that "the world will be perfect." …

… America Pageant. As early as the 1880s, business owners and community leaders began organizing beauty pageants in … At 5’1 and 108 pounds, Gorman remains the youngest and smallest Miss America on record. Observers from around the … budget for 1922 and invited women from across the county to compete in what was now a truly national event. The modern …

… the way forward. For more on Syria, see Origins’ two articles, “ Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising ” … of Syria," which can be found on the origins osu.edu website. Thanks for joining us, Ayse. Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer … And that difference will be even more important in the future, since we are talking about international involvement …

… Food supplies were devastated, and recovery would not come easily. The American Relief Administration, led by … Guest dinners.   Hoover and Gen. John J. Pershing, who commanded American forces during the war, hosted the first … of hunger and cold this winter. They will need food aid to survive. War goes far beyond the Middle East; long standing …

… the Dominican capital, to stop what it believed was a communist insurgency there. The action was heavily criticized because … that any instability anywhere was a threat to free peoples everywhere. The CIA and the embassy also gave him faulty …

… to end the arms race and proceed toward “general and complete disarmament.” Nuclear weapons states pledged not to … weapons states. The lack of progress toward “general and complete disarmament,” they argue, betrays those states’ … Yet neither is it false. The US and others do need to comply more fully with the NPT. But the problem runs deeper. …

… recently exposed by the Boston Globe as a spinner of tall tales about his past. A former army officer, he fabricated a … as much troubled by dishonesty and other human shortcomings as other occupations. When scholars make mistakes, … a wide audience. And that is one reason why his recent exposure, like exposures of President Clinton's ethical faults, …

… repression and restrictions on Tibetan culture. Regardless of policy, unrest never abated and Tibetan-Chinese … Both sides have long known that the solution lay in compromise and talks have endured intermittently, and … the credibility of the current leadership and immeasurably strengthen its hand when it tackles the far more …

… Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … seen whether George W. will allow his administration to be completely captured by his fossil fuel buddies. Eisenhower, … It’s payback time. Does it matter that Californians use less electricity per capita than residents of any other …

… determined to never again have to sit back and look on helplessly as a candidate outside the control of the established … and make their own choices free from the influence of the common people. Instead, nearly all states allowed the … the voter and the official a political machine with a complicated system of caucuses and conventions, by the easy …

… The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … died somewhere far from Rome, probably never having even visited.   Nevertheless, Christians in Rome from the third … and several modern interpretations, including, one may surmise, the plotline of  Conclave . …

… the French Duke of Normandy. It is a reminder that the complicated, ambivalent, and sometimes hostile relationship … Harald could make a convincing claim based on those principles. Instead, a crown was regarded as belonging to an … oath from his subjects and conducted a comprehensive land survey, which was recorded in the Domesday Book. This, in …

… to fight on until the enemy is utterly vanquished has become our shared myth. But its appeal is as dangerous as it is irresistible. Clinging to it now promises only an endless cycle of conflict. Myth appeals to us because it lifts … side’s motives. So neither side is likely to consider measures that might ease the conflict. The attackers of Sept. …

… has proven itself mighty and tenacious to an international community that may have previously thought them quiet and … and fight to maintain sovereignty. The term Cossack comes from a Turkish word meaning “free man.” Their origins … whose decisions changed the course of the Cossacks’ future.  Khmelnytsky led an uprising against the …

… security. By the 1840s, anti-immigration sentiment resurfaced as Irish immigrants flooded into New York and … United States, built on its Anglo-Saxon heritage, could accommodate large numbers of Slavs and Italians whose … be too much of a stretch to say that were it not for the discredited precedent of that internment, a similar fate might …

… Americans to reexamine their past as well. Austria has become something of a pariah state because its governing … Part of Austria's Nazi past will also be unearthed in the coming weeks in the trial of Heinrich Gross — a doctor … demagogues. One of the most popular of these was Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest whose radio programs …