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… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … trustee critical of Brand's action invoked a pointed comparison: "President Truman fired General MacArthur.  … Brand fired General Knight." Defending Knight, the trustee compared Knight's firing to the earlier dismissal of a …

… 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, …

… material. 2. Increase student empathy and awareness of the complexities of a pandemic (past or present). 3. Introduce … (again, past or present). Visit the  Pandemic Pedagogies  website at  https://pandemicpedagogiesproject.wordpress.com/ …

… details of domestic issues, the most eye-opening comments on foreign policy have stemmed from Gov. George W. … to the United States "as a kind of model for what their future could be," Bush argued that the U.S. must be "humble … The stark differences between the two candidates' comments tend to obscure the fact that Republicans, as well …

… Guiteau, a disgruntled political hopeful. Garfield later died from an infection which ravaged his body for two and …

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

… formally by a court or informally by a non-judicial “truth commission”? Or should he be applauded as a patriot?   Look … would attack, power would be seized and Catiline would become dictator.   Cicero, however, foiled the plot. By adroit … corners. It was a sign that traditional Roman politics was coming to an end when, a few years after the execution of …

… the United States owned their reservation lands as a community: families could settle, plant their crops, and own … but the land itself belonged to the entire nation for future generations’ use. The 1887 passage of the Dawes Act upended this system of communal land ownership and, in doing so, struck a historic …

… failed each other.  Infamous photograph of German soldiers rounding up Jews for deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, … the ways in which civilians viewed the average German soldier. Fritzsche is particularly interested in comparing the French and Polish accounts about sharing space …

… Students will gather information using the Origins website to help facilitate a Socratic-style discussion that … The lesson can be done in the classroom or adapted and completed online. …

… fully expanded to other countries, and India and Pakistan come quickly to mind.   Pakistan recently conducted nuclear … to the fight against global hunger.   This sounds like common sense, but it did not pass Congress.   The United …

… that there was considerable mechanical innovation in the medieval period. These medieval machines included mechanical … knights and archers, bronze heads that revealed the future, and automated gardens complete with metallic singing birds. In this book, E.R. … Review of Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art , by E.R. …

… world, the more necessary a knowledge of foreign nations becomes. Yet Congress is trying to handicap that endeavor by … to bring one group of experts, those in international studies, under stricter government control. This legislation … of federal funding for international or “area studies” programs. These interdisciplinary programs are devoted …

… in American history. Burr fatally wounded Hamilton, who died the next day. Hamilton’s premature death transformed …

… victory over rebels in the duchy, appointed a new archbishop in Milan, and named two additional bishops in Italy in … Gregory VII chastised Henry IV’s association with excommunicated advisers and his appointment of three Italian prelates. He demanded obedience to the papacy and threatened excommunication …

… and Moscow are increasingly frayed, and Russia has become a determined foe of the American Middle East agenda. … the United Nations over the Iranian nuclear program should come as no surprise. The further the American quest to … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … respond to some of the questions being raised. Why do we so commonly talk about the golden age of piracy the way that we …

… 11 attacks, Congress is now moving to create a bipartisan commission to investigate intelligence gathering policies … gathering should be coordinated with policymaking bodies and oriented toward problem solving, rather than … sources of his group’s funding, must also be carefully studied. Additionally, a careful reconstruction needs to be …

… 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 …

… to the rules of the Constitution, all will … unite in common efforts for the common good," he proclaimed. Two centuries later, another … Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for strategic studies at The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the …

… I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer … Department of Sociology and interdisciplinary Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego and is currently a lecturer in science and technology …