Search Results

… answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces,” Pres. Truman wrote to Lt. Robert Ricks in 1945, “I … because of stereotypes of effeminacy. Military men caught committing sodomy faced courts-martial. During World War II, … counseled young, straight men to become “hoaxosexuals” as a way of avoiding service. Ironically, one group of young men …

… for new nuclear weaponry. The U.S. refusal to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to eliminate nuclear test explosions is a roadblock in the way of nuclear disarmament. The United States needs to … between Russia and the United States is essential in getting North Korea to disarm its nuclear capability and …

… of South Carolina. Like Wilson, Brooks let his emotions get the better of him. So much so that on May 22, 1856, … Sumner collapsed unconscious, but Brooks kept flailing away.   Several other Senators tried to help their colleague … standard-bearer for South Carolina. Among his many accomplishments, Thurmond holds the record for conducting the …

… people are in the United States illegally. During the visit of Mexican President Vicente Fox, President George W. … unfashionable today, but in their heyday, the nativists targeted those thought to be unable to assimilate: the … often perceive the change as an attack on old familiar ways. When the immigrant population hit upward of 20 percent …

… which any high school can take pride.” Does this statement come from: (a) A 1987 National Assessment, after which … do no better now. But facts are important, so we’d better get used to this one: Today’s youths get their history from … “Forrest Gump.”  Rather than pretending that we can do away with popular culture, let’s try a radically different …

… has already abandoned a strategy that called on American forces to fight and win two regional wars simultaneously. … and means to maintain its present overseas positions and commitments, it will fail, as did Great Britain in the late … America and yesterday’s Britain falls short in other ways as well. The industrial democracies after the First …

… have derailed President Obama’s popular campaign finance reform bill, it’s time we admitted a sad truth: bipartisanship … such as the president, claim it’s necessary for “getting things done.” Yet instead of efficiency we have … Fathers designed it to have, while working against true compromise. That’s bad not just for Democrats, but for …

… use history to justify their views. The problem is a common propensity to mangle the past to suit current needs, … historians tell them something in the past that doesn't conform to the way they view the world? Ideally, when this happens they … History News Service …

… the test of the first Soviet atomic weapon in 1949. The combination of the Soviet Union’s atomic weapons and its … States at a severe disadvantage that some feared would only get worse. The position the United States now occupies in … of mass destruction, with many people busy dreaming up ways to turn the stuff of daily life into weapons. We cannot …

… national politics as much as many fear? The answer is more complicated than you might think. Check out a lesson plan … kind of looking for maybe a little bit of a roadmap here to get us started. And, Paula, if you wanted to start us off, … voters, with the slaves well stocked with liquor, on their way to voting places.   Patrick Potyondy  Always a good way …

… years ago that Kremlin guards hauled down the Soviet flag for the last time and Mikhail Gorbachev calmly resigned as … wanted to emulate. Now that they had been freed from communist oppression, many supposed, it would not be long … crusade” have not recognized that there are different ways to be missionaries. While some Christian evangelists …

… his party's $12.6 million, thanks to the Federal Election Commission, which ruled in a recent 5-1 decision that … who believes rich and influential elites have too much sway over government and society. Second, Buchanan is … an establishment elite. For example, after college at Georgetown University, Buchanan went to graduate school, where …

… With election day less than a year away, President Bush must justify something most Americans … a seemingly endless string of American casualties on foreign soil. No doubt, the president will argue that we … on “the near absence among the men I worked with… of any comprehension of what Nazism meant.” Commentator Dwight …

… orders. But while clerical abuse has only recently become a news item, it has a much longer history. This month, your … .    What makes the Catholic Church such a rife environment for sexual abuse? How do these scandals reflect the history … in the United States, cases of this kind began making their way through the legal system. Most of them were settled out …

… natural theology’s best arguments and paving the way to the broad scientific acceptance of evolution. Natural … glossed over some obvious problems. Why do some people get cataracts? Why do our eyes have a blind spot where the … and natural theology was a debate within the scientific community of the day. Within the modern scientific …

… Apple Computer, Inc. has opened an ambitious, brilliant … and should win some awards, but it strikes one false note for those who know the history of the 20th century. Gandhi, … Apple and their advertising agency, Chiat/Day, may find his way of thinking differently is not quite the same as theirs. …

… television, in living rooms across the country—during his visit. In a well-written narrative, historians Lawrence … to Washington, Camp David, and President Eisenhower’s own Gettysburg farm. The opportunity to share in this journey, … there, repeatedly emphasizing Khrushchev’s joy at breaking away from security cordons and official engagements and …

… been around for more than 200 years. It will not be going away anytime soon. The Early American Republic and the Qing … else in its cargo: more than 20,000 Spanish silver coins. The goods the Americans were bringing would not be … trade. Silver increasingly bound the two countries together: the United States became one of the chief producers …

… 24 it will have to decide whether to accept the rules reform introduced by Senators Tom Udall, Tom Harkin, and Jeff Merkley.  The target of the rules change is the filibuster, which Republicans … would eliminate filibusters to prevent legislation from coming to the floor for debate, while retaining filibusters …

… jobs, better schooling and freedom from landlord control. Together with their white allies, these northern blacks laid … jeopardize the process of integration. He was, by nature, a combative individual, so he had to struggle to restrain … black fist," Robinson once meditated. "Then I could walk away from baseball and never become a star. But my son could …

… officers as presidential contenders. Generals who have become president (there were ten, six of them notable as … so skillfully that even the Democrats tried in vain to get him to bear their standard. In this respect, Clark has … does he hunger for war. Historian David Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and …

… over Enron’s collapse will revitalize campaign finance reform and deliver gains in the fall elections. Shredded … public interest. Neither did Whitewater in the 1990s. Commentators can’t decide whether Americans are too … and defrauded depositors took to the streets. They targeted the property of the bank’s directors and lawyers. …