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… from new opportunities. But the patriotic fervor that accompanied wartime mobilization meant that unions were … Trade Center struggle to learn the fates of their loved ones, who were a key part of the economy servicing this … mean economic parity and political democracy, not putting money and power into the hands of the few. Rachel Buff is an …

… to keep close tabs on them. Spying on dissidents has become official policy since police departments were advised … I. Other “scares” followed. From 1938 to 1945 Rep. Martin Dies of Texas, no defender of civil liberties, chaired the … Union and the National Lawyers Guild in Albuquerque have done in a civil rights lawsuit charging the city and its …

… woman has held that position.   But Julian Castro did not become mayor on his own. He attributes his rise to the Chicano … activists held their own reunion in El Paso, Texas, to commemorate the 1972 national convention held in that city … student recording what these historic folks had to say. One of the women who spoke at the 1989 gathering was Rosie …

… Baker as co-chair, Carter will lead a national bipartisan commission on election reform. His prestige and experience … a channel to let former presidents perform useful service. One option is to make these men honorary members of the U.S. … band of brothers with a mutual respect that they and they alone can fully appreciate. They want to be useful, alone and …

… city’s residents restored the parade. Jacksonville is not alone. Similar stories about cancellations or threatened …   November 11 was originally known as Armistice Day to commemorate the 11th day at the 11th hour of the 11th month … his third tour in Iraq. Poolaw is a third-generation soldier and grandson of 1st Infantry Division 1st Sgt. Pascal …

… Ask someone to describe the Soviet Union during the Second World War … and they will conjure up images of beleaguered Red Army soldiers at Stalingrad , the mechanized carnage of the tank … order and provide readers bite-sized analyses of complex political, social, and military affairs. For …

… 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 … a step further, denying Henry his kingship, absolving everyone of their oaths to the king, and forbidding anyone to …

… of the Heaven’s Gate suicides now blame everything from comets to cults to cyberspace to the dead themselves — the … riverboat crook who left passengers penniless and disillusioned because he lured them with false hope and specious … to the Almighty to mangle the enemy, and later lampooned the naivete of “mind cure” practitioners from Mary …

… Memphis, a pall of shock and sadness blanketed the black community. Anguish soon turned to anger. Fearing a riot, the … by violence. And so it had to be the fire this time. A soldier standing guard following riots in Washington, D.C. … , inadequate municipal services, failing schools , and nonexistent jobs . The looting that took place during these …

… to get voters registered. He realized that if he were to become the city’s first African American elected mayor he … to win the general election against his Republican opponent. The irony of this was that Chicago’s voters were … for the History News Service. He is writing a book on one of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mentors, Benjamin Elijah …

… Federal Judge John E. Jones III’s December 20th verdict in Kitzmiller v. Dover that … Supporters of Intelligent Design do not do science as it’s done today: designing experiments, collecting data, and … and natural theology was a debate within the scientific community of the day. Within the modern scientific …

… not discrete organizations, but frequently interacted and competed, sharing players and locations, effectively … for the 1946-7 Cuban League season was only three quarters completed. With the end of the Second World War, and the … States, beginning a search for the appropriate player, one who was skilled, yet also patient, and willing to avoid …

… attack was the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Putin’s phone call and promise to support the United States in … and Moscow are increasingly frayed, and Russia has become a determined foe of the American Middle East agenda. … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …

… framework of decolonization struggles. Violence has accompanied decolonization whenever the goal of political … of a late twentieth-century drive of colonial peoples to become sovereign nation-states. Much of the fury behind the … they cannot succeed. An imperial power, if there is one, must make the critical decisions to curb the ambitions …

… course of action in Iraq was a waste – a waste of money, effort, time and political capital. The difficulties … the Arab officials of Iraq’s British-backed King Feisal “incompetent.” He noted the gross over-expenditure of monies in … American troops from that nation now. Shannon Monaghan studies history at Yale University and writes for the History …

… colonialists in their war against Ho’s Vietminh, he had become a bitter U.S. enemy. Over the next decade, Ho … were in Vietnam. By 1973, more than 58,000 of them had died there. Congress later recognized the mistake of the … would behoove Congress to follow faithfully the path envisioned by the Founding Fathers, and not that of their failed …

… By September 1862 the Battle of Antietam provided the bloodiest day in American history, rewriting "the rules for … 24,000 casualties, yet religious leaders only became more committed to their crusades and more strident in their … committed to exploring "ambiguity." He documents the death toll of a war that ceded moral decision making to generals …

… think, was a patriarch, Dixon a predator. Thurmond’s hush money cleared the way for the senator’s notable political … that conferred upon whites a perverse sense of social superiority. The racial line might be crossed when lust came … husband when he was nine) declared that her son “may have committed a sin, but never committed a crime,” she …