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… Every November we mark the anniversary of one of the most significant events of the … to travel to West Berlin for the first time since the Wall was constructed in 1961. The world looked on in hope and … transformation. As depicted in the excellent film, Goodbye Lenin! (2003) , hallmarks of Western capitalism such as …

… An eerie silence fell over the world’s cities and towns this spring, as governments … book Silent Spring with “a fable for tomorrow”—a future when “some evil spell” had settled on our communities, when … the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death.” The cause of her imagined silence …

… shot and killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo, part of the honor guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. He … Police (RCMP) tasked to guard the legislature, Zehaf-Bibeau was killed seven minutes after gunning down Cirillo. … debate has taken on either side of the 49 th parallel. When it comes to guns, Canada is simply not America. But it …

… After deliberating for sixteen hours, the jurors in  State of Florida v. George Zimmerman informed … charge of manslaughter. Less than an hour after the verdict was announced, Martin’s parents let their voices be heard. … family, echoed the sentiments of many on social media when he paralleled Zimmerman’s acquittal to that of the …

… That the American homeland is inviolable has been a basic tenet … that they ever would have. But the “safe America” tenet was demolished, along with the World Trade Center buildings … vulnerable. That has never been the case since the 1820s, when the British agreed to back our Monroe Doctrine and …

… with.  For political junkies and arm-chair pundits, this is the sort of book that you toss down in the middle of a table … the election of Barack Obama in 2008 but in the fact that when he left office, Bush's approval ratings stood at 20%. … and retrograde. Conservatism, as Farber looks back on it, was not a movement of Big Ideas.  While William Buckley has …

… When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington in November 2015, he arrived amidst a low-water … peaceful resolution to this decades-long conflict seems farther away than ever. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin … A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives …

… Today, on our season finale, on we reflect on the stories we’ve heard about drug wars around the world, to determine how knowing where we’ve been in our … The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Finale) … global war on drugs. There are often many factors at play when a country chooses to control drugs, and those who deal …

… Putin has gone to extraordinary lengths to commemorate the Second World War. Even though the war ended over 77 years ago, Putin has made World War II … Sciences Distinguished Professor, Department of History, The Ohio State University Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator), …

… In the early morning hours of July 26, 1941, guests of the … hotel in Montélimar, France were jolted from their sleep when a bomb exploded, taking the roof off of room #19 and … “National Revolution”—were to blame for the attack was hardly in question. The mystery was how high the plot …

… boldly declared in 1961 that Americans should race to the moon, and the nation rallied around him. Nothing like that happened when George W. Bush recently endorsed a return to the moon … Kennedy faced valid questions in 1961 about whether it was prudent to invest so much money in space when there were …

… long done, Democrats are beginning to speak openly about their religious faith, as they did so last week during a … who make up the Religious Right, faith is important when it comes to moral issues such as abortion and … or when it’s used to defend the notion that America was founded as a “Christian nation.” But Democrats have …

… The state of California is beginning its fourth year of a … rise across the nation. The question on everyone’s mind is when will this dry period finally come to an end and … interests. Prescient as Powell’s study has proved to be, it was almost entirely ignored at the time. Instead, those …

… more democratic—a narrative of rupture can be seductive. In the United States, events preceding abolition in 1865 are … as a foreign country. We historians feed into this paradigm when we divide our survey courses by this year, when “these” … as expressed in this sign at a beach in the 1980s, was dismantled in the 1990s. Yet inequalities persist. This …

… Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world's fastest-growing and most diverse regions—and also one of the most misunderstood. On this episode of History Talk , … and religion in contemporary African societies. Putting the emergence of religious extremism in a broader …

…     The inscription "Equal Justice Under Law," inspired by the … Seward formally announced the ratification on July 28. It was a momentous event, a change to our constitutional system … set general national standards that the states had to meet when establishing and enforcing state laws. Third, the …

… The conservative philosopher George Santayana made one of the world’s best known comments about history when he said that those who learn nothing from the past are … and a generation later, so did Andrew Jackson, although he was deeply embittered by charges that he and his wife Rachel …