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… current party system? A brief tour of national political history suggests two insights on this question, one obvious, … charismatic and entertaining unforeseen events in American history: Theodore Roosevelt. The split he created in the … majority of significant third-party candidates in American history came from disgruntled portions of the existing party …

… more important to their imperial interests, including the Crimean War (1853-1856), Anglo-Persian War (1856-1857), and … substances in circulation today. Such careless misuse of history is a powerful argument for recalling the events of …

… Change (MDC). Now the country might learn from the history of its northern neighbor, which has tried to balance … collapsed in 1994. This was a watershed moment in the history of South Africa as  the first democratic, … 1999, marking a historic turning point in the political history of Zimbabwe. It was a formidable opposition party …

… and Wildlife Service publications in 1939 and wrote popular books on ocean life. These works illustrated the connections … University Press, 2005.  Davis, Frederick Rowe. Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology. New … of Kansas, 2015.    Nash, Linda. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge. Berkley: …

… On August 19, 14 CE, the most influential man in Roman history died. Augustus began his career by fomenting a civil … fondly for reigning over some of the most famous writers in history, a wealthy and expanding empire , and a time of … Instead, we tend to view him (and so many people of ancient history) as we do characters from epic tales or plays, like …

… have been experiencing perhaps the worst drought of their history, the "Big Dry," as they're calling it. The drop in … nation—has long been considered the worst in Australian history. By 1902, Sydney's water supply was running out, and … Fleet sailed into Sydney harbor in 1788. Through their history, Australians have often been, in the insightful …

… seen, but what is not debatable is the long and complicated history that led Greece on a trajectory to the crisis … would be to misunderstand the country’s complex financial history. Economic troubles began with its creation and were … Crisis ;  1989: The Year That Changed It All ;  The Fate of Crimea ;  Memories of the Great War ; and  Armenians, Turks, …

… weekday, after all—but by briefly examining the regulatory history of our closest modern-day analog to Prohibition: the … Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition,” Richard Bonnie … than whites. Bonnie and Whitebread wrote that the legal history of alcohol prohibition in the United States …

… World properly situated in its Cold War context. It is a history of how the geopolitical atmosphere dominated by the … this collection of essays reexamines Latin American history from a “Third Worldist” perspective, defining the … the fields of Latin American, Third World, and Cold War history points the way toward much future research. With …

… involvement in the hajj and its role in shaping the modern history of this sacred Islamic ritual. Crowds travel to the … And in a new twist last year, after annexing  Crimea  from  Ukraine , Russia offered Crimean Tatars … under European influence and control for the first time in history. From its eighth-century beginnings after the birth …

… our current environmental crisis. Thinking about the history of Earth Day provides perspective on both the … chronicled the ill effects of postwar consumer abundance. Books such as The Quiet Crisis (1963) by Stuart Udall, Ralph … to action catalyzed the largest demonstration in American history to date. On April 22, 1970, over 20 million people …

… to Chicago to San Francisco - The Cycling City presents a history of cyclists and how they shaped a place for …

… of refugees and most violent forced migrations in human history, especially as a result of the First and Second … is perhaps one of the oldest routes of contact in human history, going back to the Iron Age and the great empires of … current refugee crisis is but one moment in the much longer history of refugees, immigrants, and displaced persons in …

… in the National League, was a critical year in the history of Cuban baseball as well. Brioso frames his … of organized baseball, Brioso does little to provide a history of baseball in Latin America or Cuba.  Although he offers tantalizing insights into the history of Cuban baseball, such as José Marti's interest in …

… prevented Congress from enacting federal legislation. The history of gun control predates the nation itself. American … “gun rights” and “gun regulation,” both sides rely on history to make their case. So here is a review of ten crucial moments in the history of gun regulation in the United States. Student …

… highly convincing. Readers with interests in Middle Eastern history, human rights, and peace studies will glean …

… to Nguyen, is that the industry of memory seeks to create a history of humanity that ignores the inhumanities which are …

… the partial unbanning of Galileo’s Dialogu e and Copernican books in general by Pope Benedict XIV (in 1740–1758); the …

… of an era. Its dry, legal language hides a violent history and was the translation of a frenzied fever dream.  … as an anti-slavery crusader exists to this day. The African History of the Berlin Conference? How we mark the Berlin … Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa. Basic Books, New York, 2019. Chérie N. Rivers,  To Be Nsala’s …

… have often argued that prosperity is not a given. They say history has demonstrated that city-states do not have good … be taken for granted. Indeed, throughout its documentable history over the past seven centuries, the small island of … Singapore River. Over much of its 700 years of documentable history, the island has been part of some larger entity, …

… two distinct stories about 1915 have been told: an Armenian history largely for Armenian readers; and a Turkish and Turkophilic history for Turks and their friends. The two literatures … in Perspective (New Brunswick and Oxford: Transaction Books, 1986), pp. 61-84. For a firsthand account, see Henry …

… it seems as if the administration is collapsing the history of American political scandal down to a singularity, … outlandish and perplexing scandal in American political history had been one of the earliest: the treason case … Nixon cruised to one of the biggest landslide victories in history. Nixon’s second term, however, was immediately …