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… September 1959 Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party and Premier of the Soviet Union , arrived in … The opportunity to share in this journey, to imagine the complications and sheer exhaustion of meals, receptions, … and frustrations, clashes of expectations and uncomfortable situations for participants on both sides. They …

… As China completes its takeover of Hong Kong, it should be remembered … spiritual leader, to take actions that made him a little uncomfortable (just as they have already directed Hong Kong’s … after the “early spring, 1952, there followed a period of uneasy truce with the Chinese authorities.” Gradually, though, …

… of Chinese defeat in the face of British imperial power and commercial interests. China wanted to stem the flow of opium … to prioritize anti-drug trafficking laws as an important component of their activities. In his aptly named Opium’s … It was only in response to transnational pressure from bodies such as SSOT that the British government set up a Royal …

… details of domestic issues, the most eye-opening comments on foreign policy have stemmed from Gov. George W. … The stark differences between the two candidates' comments tend to obscure the fact that Republicans, as well … at heart." A notion so deeply entrenched will not be easy to change, but in the new century, a sound and …

… the cable news networks waited to report the outcome … and waited and waited and waited. Much to the … was not yet a news-gathering organization. These editors compiled bulletins from information sent by the British news … content presented in such a way as to attract the largest audience. In such a context, it is not surprising that the BBC …

… spread to the Spanish conflict. Robles went to his death a committed Stalinist, but to shroud the reality of the … as a fascist spy. Dos Passos was politically astute and a committed leftist though not a declared Stalinist. … a lethal wound. Dos Passos lived until 1970, but his art died in 1937. Koch's book is light on the history of the …

… process. What’s unusual is that conservatives are complaining about the Court at the same time they’re … the presidents who appointed them are gone, the Court’s composition frequently lags behind the country’s political … Justices who were popular when they took office often become jarringly out of touch before they leave. They’re like …

… the department to upgrade other decorations that soldiers have received in action to the Medal of Honor. They … whether there is an inadvertent subjective bias amongst commanders that has contributed to the low numbers of awards … them, including 864 awarded during the Civil War to the soldiers of the 27th Maine, who received the medal simply for …

… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … lives, such as equality, freedom, limited government, community, dignity, and the distribution of resources. … as Sands sees it, religion-talk does not provide a common language with which to agree on visions, solutions, …

… passed a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Édouard Daladier’s government. But based on advice from army and police officials and political advisors, Daladier stepped down to avoid increased violence. For the first … French cities. In fact, the riots of February 6 th have become shorthand to describe the protests and violence that …

… appliances, and new opportunities in electronics, telecommunications, and aerospace. In the United States the … corporate reorganization, and the challenge of new overseas competitors. Past patterns suggest that the United States … century. Carl Abbott is a professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University, Ore., and a …

… see Israel’s response to the capture of three of its soldiers as entirely justified. Why not, they ask, punish those … so today will ensure that Israelis and Lebanese continue to die in vain. Michael H. Creswell is in associate professor …

… the terrorist attack seems too much to bear. Professional commentators, and current and former government officials … war.” His unit had killed and wounded several American soldiers and taken others prisoner. President James K. Polk, … to the attack of September 11, 2001. K. R. Constantine Gutzman teaches history at John Jay College, City University …

… continues to our day. Do these Church actions prove the incompatibility between science and religion? What lessons can … into trouble. A geocentric model of the solar system (top) compared to the heliocentric model (bottom) Galileo … In February-March 1615, one Dominican friar filed a written complaint against him, and another one testified in person …

… State , the preceding volume to this work, Young adopts a comparative approach. As he outlines in his introduction, a …

… ethics of the robber barons. Between 1871 and 1883, commercial hide hunters slaughtered buffalo by the millions. … the resulting public outcry finally allowed Congress to overcome the railroads and pass a law creating meaningful …

… getting Congress to rein in lobbyists? Can any good really come out of congressional efforts to thwart corruption? The cynics say no. Yet democratic reforms have come out of past scandals. Many pessimists claim that reform … vice president. Indictments and convictions today are coming fast and furious. Gilded Age outrages mounted quickly …

… protests in Hong Kong that have directly challenged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies and yet have not been … November as the leader of the Politburo’s powerful Standing Committee. But we shouldn’t make too much of Jiang’s passing …

… 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 … by iconic leaders such as Reies Lopez Tijerina, Jose Angel Gutierrez, and Rudy Acuna. Women were also present. Emma …

… resonated strongly in the 1980s, because they reminded audiences of the behavior of Ivan Boesky and other … investments broadly through risky buyouts of disparate companies. Often they stuffed their pockets with cash while … was the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which separated commercial and investment banking and restricted the use of …

… of “violence.” Pekka Hämäläinen made an argument that the Comanche past constituted an “empire.” Benjamin Madley, … one overarching Apache ‘tribe’ or nation.” Despite this complexity, the author sticks to this Euro-American … of scholarship typically based in African diasporic studies, Conrad’s use of the term highlights the long history …

… President Bush is presiding over what is fast becoming a foreign policy disaster. The war in Iraq is a … standing in an increasingly dangerous world. Pundits have compared Bush to Woodrow Wilson because of his championing … of democracy. A less flattering, but more insightful, comparison would emphasize they shared an initial lack of …

… are only make things worse. America’s goals in Bolivia come down to two things: limiting the production of cocaine … elite. The target of the demonstrations, in which soldiers shot some 70 protesters, was a government plan to … national resources that will benefit the country. Bolivians compared the recent protests to the most famous rebellion in …

… discovered since the mid-1960s (four of which just cause a common cold in humans). A microscopic image of SARS-CoV It … 2002- July 2003. While these numbers are miniscule in comparison to the COVID-19 pandemic, the mysterious nature … of Hanoi and who first identified the disease for the WHO, died of the disease on March 29. Though his death was …