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… examines in his new book Faustian Bargain. The book chronicles how the relationship between these two powers was not … order and provide readers bite-sized analyses of complex political, social, and military affairs. For … in a partnership that led to rearmament. The technological component of Soviet-German cooperation stands out as its …

… Nazi anti Semitism and racial ideology required one to overcome a number of intellectual hurdles. How could one accept … with their Protestant ideology. There was even a law passed banning the use of swastikas in churches. The … Joseph Goebbels, or the publications of Julius Streicher, who was hanged at Nuremberg for editing Der Sturmer, a …

… capital city, Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Emperor was accompanied by battle-tested companies of Patriot guerilla fighters (the Arbanyoch). … Federation. Haile Selassie had not only retained Ethiopia’s cherished independence but also restored access to the Red … Milestones …

… them and Euro-Americans saying “Indian polities used commercial and military leverage to shape these … over the gun trade? During diplomatic negotiations it was common practice to receive gifts as a sign of brotherhood. … cede land, they did use gift diplomacy to sway Native peoples towards or against one side during periods of conflict. …

… years, and since 2006 has published several books and articles on the Middle East and oil. He has an intimate … had obtained independence. Morton tracks major individuals, companies, and governments taking part in the search for commercially viable oil sources as well as the negotiation …

… In the warm early autumn months of 2019, I visited Northern Pakistan to trek in the shadows of some of … of only 0.75 years of schooling during their lifetime as compared to rural boys who receive 10.76 years. Further, … hovered over textbooks, attentively listening to their teachers present lessons on Urdu language, biology, English, …

… with collaborationist neighborhoods, areas of union and communist strength, and the German headquarters district. As … battle inside Paris, preferring to surround and bypass the city in order to maximize their superiority in air … concerned about the advancing Allied armies, now only 30 miles from the Paris suburbs. De Gaulle's supporters inside …

… history is the Battle of Gettysburg. While many will commemorate the battle itself, the decision not to press … U.S. Grant’s successes at Vicksburg and tipped the scales in favor of Southern slaveholding independence. By … a shield to avoid unnecessary entanglement. The humid downpours continued until Lee reached the flooded Potomac at …

… Muslim states, a vague formulation that would nevertheless be important in the postwar period. With this … 1939 to over two million in 1945 (64). This process was accompanied by considerable growing pains. Indian troops … against the British. While they did not see front-line service against the forces of the Raj until 1944, they …

… Brutal violence is not typically the first thing that comes to mind when observing the artwork of the … a new era and the rebirth of human knowledge. Catherine Fletcher reminds the reader that this very artwork is also … patronage of art and literature. French troops under Charles VIII entering Florence, 1494. This era came to an end in …

… that, 17 years after its inception, remains stubbornly incomplete. On the positive side, the Belfast Agreement … way that it had tackled relations with Catholics in the past: discriminatory legislation that served to ensconce the … resulting in violent clashes between civil-rights marchers, Protestant mobs, and the police. Commemorative civil …

… . Young Hamilton survived this encounter and went on to become the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United … shaped historical events and trends. Two impressive examples are: Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A … of damage to estimate the intensity of earlier storms. In past centuries, many of the fatalities caused by hurricanes …

… administration and the North Korean regime and an errant incoming missile alert in Hawaii have focused America’s … 15 million tons of TNT and produced a mushroom cloud 62 miles in diameter. Radioactive fallout resembling snow and … Now anyone on earth, even thousands of miles from the site of a blast, could be killed or injured by nuclear …

… strong support of Ukrainian independence in the Versailles Declaration .  By contrast, in the Versailles Treaty of June 1919 that brought an end to World War I , … were war-weary, and saw no Entente troops or aid forthcoming.  Ukraine’s signing the Treaty was something the …

… Europe and the Soviet Union, made the future of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uncertain. It was in this period of … What led Deng Xiaoping, the leader of the world's largest Communist Party, to embrace capitalism so fervently? … just $40 and the amount of grain available per person was less than it had been in 1957. At the same time, the "little …

… years of the Turkish Republic, incorporating detailed tables explaining how Ataturk's religious discourse diminished as religion became less relevant in the creation of the nation-state (110-115). …

… chemists had worked to find an organizing principle that encompassed all of the known elements and that could be … roles as chemical educators rather than as chemical researchers.  He was writing a textbook for his students at St. … Milestones …

… a man running for his life, I immediately knew the answer. "COME IN!" someone was yelling. I need not have been told; … already made my way back through the gate of the archive complex. A security guard gave me a glass of water and asked … over the last three decades. Massive inflation, a relentless and formidable drag on the fabric of the Brazilian …

… the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing swath of territory across … book The Population Bomb , which opens with this memorable passage describing a "stinking hot night in Delhi." "The … family planning regime. All government employees—from teachers to train conductors—were given "quotas" of people they …

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … th century, Cincinnati slaughterhouses rounded up and butchered some half-million pigs each winter, when cold weather … English travel writer Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) who visited Cincinnati in the 1850s. After Cincinnati’s initial …

… “elected” president of Syria. The unrest resulted from a combination of socio-economic and political problems that … to pay the fee to exempt their children from military service. The Alawite presence in the military culminated in … Bashar al-Assad's fight against the Sunni “terrorists.” The past eighteen months have proved that Bashar al-Assad’s …

… disease was ergotism: poisoning produced by exposure to the compounds found in a fungus that grows on wheat. In the … however, he found himself “affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness.” As he … legal and cultural understanding of illicit drugs in the past five decades has been shaped by the impact of LSD. Like …

… to occupy the Suez Canal zone. Nasser, who did not become Egypt’s official head of state until 1956, came to … Nasser hardly pauses, and his speech becomes ever more impassioned: “O free men, let them kill me where I stand!” … Ikhwan, current repression is as traumatic as any in the past. The forcible break-up of pro-Morsi protests in Rabi‘a …

… This lens has led Oldstone-Moore to posit four “principles of beard history” which are: facial hair tracks … ancient Mesopotamian history. The bearded warrior kings and completely shaven priestly classes established a clear … Ages evolved into the Renaissance , the history of beards becomes far more tangled.  Influential figures like Henry VIII …