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… of magic. Belief in magic and magical occurrences was commonplace before the Reformation and persisted long after … Keith Thomas’ 1971 Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and … that Hunter only devotes one chapter to Scottish magic and superstition. While Chapter 6, which focuses on …

… of a satellite” to the world. Pravda put a distinctively communist spin on the news, arguing that “artificial … appeared) would be used for legitimate research and not for competition in what he called “an outer-space basketball … transformed the balance of power between the two emerging superpowers. Equally worrisome was the larger message sent …

… 1494, after Christopher Columbus returned from the West Indies, the Spanish and Portuguese governments signed a deal … and develop trade with Africa, Asia, and the East Indies, while Spain controlled the Americas. By 1515, then, … in, some of them to work off debts. Magellan’s second-in-command was the Spanish overseer and accountant, Juan de …

… it’s a Daoist mountain to the east, a Buddhist reliquary complex to the west, or the tomb-speckled hillside to the … hot June afternoon, the coolness of the tomb is welcome relief from the Shaanxi sun. Murals inside the … began on what was to be the largest shopping mall complex in Xi’an. During initial excavation, however, …

… the Department of War assumed that gays would make bad soldiers because of stereotypes of effeminacy. Military men caught committing sodomy faced courts-martial. During World War II, … therefore seen as security risks. Yet no gay American soldiers or civil servants ever revealed state secrets to keep …

… . The surge of U.S. forces to Iraq in 2007-2008 and the accompanying counterinsurgency strategy along with a Sunni … ungoverned spaces that ISIS has used to regenerate its combat power with an infusion of new recruits, financing, … much of northwestern Iraq this year? A U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornet receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over …

… reputation by ordering his men to attack their former comrades in arms with tear gas and riot weapons and burn …

… Office shenanigans. Presidents and their underlings have committed numerous immoral, illegal or dodgy acts. They’ve … stocks for supporting federal land giveaways to railroad companies in 1873. Warren G. Harding’s secretary of the … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …

… has proclaimed 2004 the “Seussentennial,” a year-long commemoration of Geisel’s work. Geisel’s books have expanded … and challenged us to make the world and our local communities better places. They’ve also reminded us that the … and liberty have always existed in tension with community, restraint and personal sacrifice. Born in …

… luxury and self-indulgence with the stern defender of the common man we know from history textbooks. As chief … parlor. He took down the second story and added a dome to complete the perfectly proportioned facade that looks out at … sacrificing what he called “the pursuit of happiness,” embodied in nothing so much as our national pursuit of real …

… or environmental poisoning, for instance—COVID-19 was compelling “people everywhere . . . to put their immediate … opportunism . . . are being brought to heel by the pincer combination of shared values and facts on the ground” ( … Frequent exhortations to “Follow the Science” and its common variation, “Trust the Science,” became not rallying …

… Northern Pakistan to trek in the shadows of some of the tallest mountains on earth. As a launching pad to the Nanga … of only 0.75 years of schooling during their lifetime as compared to rural boys who receive 10.76 years. Further, … language, biology, English, math, physics, and Islamic studies. When I walked into their classrooms, they were shy to …

… Nick and Maria decided they must flee from Escobar’s soldiers. Entrance to Hacienda Napoles, the main Escobar compound, with a gate adorned with Escobar's first smuggling … point out his tactics of assassination, employing child soldiers, and bankrolling local officials. Painted Portrait of …

… La juxtaposition du rire et de la tragédie dans les fusillades de Charlie Hebdo a suscité une recherche profonde pour découvrir comment les hommes armés sont venus à être si irrités par … était le chroniqueur Saïd Mekbel. Son esprit de comédie n’épargnait personne comme il s’en servait …

… Kent attempts to fix that and introduce Crimea to a wider audience with his new book Crimea: A History . Kent, who is … the Greeks, the Romans, and the Goths, among others. This comprises the first chapter of Kent’s history. The next … however. The book is clearly intended for a more general audience, and if Kent’s intention was to encourage interest …

… Guernica was not the first strategically insignificant, non-combatant town ever to be targeted for aerial bombardment, … in collaboration with the Spanish Nationalists under the command of General Francisco Franco , left little doubt that … dramatically from the darker earth tones of the rest of the composition. It therefore seems right to say that the …

… the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a complicated imbroglio marked by the intersection of European … Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company after the United States and Britain refused to … effect on November 7, tensions gradually eased. UNEF soldiers arrived in Egypt on November 15 and were positioned …

… Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. … New historical estimates put the death toll at 750,000 soldiers, or 2.4% of the American population in 1860, which … As the conflict wore on, the distinctions between enemy soldiers and civilians blurred, as non-combatants increasingly …

… in Foreign Affairs in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, offers a unique and in-depth … Darwinism, who shaped Ataturk's ideas about the role of soldiers and military leaders in a society. Goltz famously said "born rulers are also great soldiers; and it is easy to conceive that the greatest military …

… Do the police reify inequality by targeting low-income communities of color or are they the “thin blue line” … Fifty years ago, those urban riots resulted in the Kerner Commission Report. The Kerner Report pointed the finger at … Review of Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism , by …

… the holiday or diminished it by linking it to Confederate commemorations.  Federal recognition had finally arrived, … emerged—unpaid holidays, ceremonial proclamations, or commemorations folded into existing calendars. These efforts … a federal holiday was the one the nation already felt comfortable claiming: the dreamer at the Lincoln Memorial, …

… at the fringes of European and Asian societies, Ho's complex experiences have been canonized at home and abroad, with records from former communist territories off-limits, and formal writings from … the ways in which Ho Chi Minh engaged groups of communists, nationalists, socialists, and liberal democrats …

… wished that things could just be like they used to be. A common sentiment, it is actually responsible for distorting … ends and actual history begins. In Chivalry in Medieval England , Nigel Saul aspires to these aims as he discusses one of the most distorted topics in medieval history: the code of chivalry. Although not without …

… on brains. Undead and not quite living, where do zombies come from and why are they here? The story of our … macoutes “behaved with the complete immorality and obedience of the undead, and were sometimes assumed to be … (right). Zombies arrived in North America as U.S. soldiers returned from the military’s occupation of Haiti that …