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… In recent weeks the world has seen the passing of two of the most notorious autocrats of the late … were right-wing ideologues who cynically utilized fears of communism to crush opposition to their tyrannical regimes. … the Eastern Cape town of Cradock, including a popular teacher and community leader, Matthew Goniwe, disappeared while …

… starting to remake Maxwell Motors into his future Big Three company. In 1922, there was one registered passenger car or truck for every nine Americans. The country … State University, Ore., and a writer for the History News Service. … History News Service …

… and the Nineties, and does history offer “lessons” from a comparison? Some of the similarities are certainly … but, fortunately, the present is not the same as the past. History cannot simply “repeat itself.” One important … culture and politics, and is a writer for the History News Service. …

… forcing politicians to make hard choices and progressive commitments. Democratic candidates have recently been cherry-picking lessons from the civil rights and voting … in building a bipartisan congressional coalition to secure passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was indeed monumental. …

… You think that Americans’ national pastime is baseball, football, or Nascar? You’re wrong. It’s … to Christmas, head over to the local Wal-Mart. The company’s promise of “everyday low prices” is music to the … standards as the country continues its shift to a service economy. A simple first step would be to pay …

… to think that he can somehow escape the lessons that the past can teach us and that history will treat his … the Arab officials of Iraq’s British-backed King Feisal “incompetent.” He noted the gross over-expenditure of monies in … history at Yale University and writes for the History News Service. …

… are ruthlessly terrorizing Nuevo Laredo and other border communities. In the past, though, security-first strategies have typically … with the drug trade. Since 2000, the United States has poured several billion dollars into Plan Colombia, the … History News Service …

… and temperamental moderate. He was inattentive and passive in cabinet and other meetings and didn’t work very … number of letters that prove he was no dummy. A historian’s complaint, however, is larger than chagrin at the number of … He squandered this opportunity and instead led in the opposite direction, toward economic and population expansion …

… history may be to residents of the Land of Lincoln, it is a past that suggests ways to deal with the current mess.   One … John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and Charles Sumner, to the Senate. Occasionally quests for Senate … the honor. By the 19th century’s end, the U.S. Senate had become widely known, as it still is today, as a “millionaires …

… continues to our day. Do these Church actions prove the incompatibility between science and religion? What lessons can be learned from the thought and actions of … astronomical observations, the physics of motion, biblical passages, and epistemological principles (e.g., the …

… New mine safety legislation has now been passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress and with the president’s signature will become law. While a new law represents a positive step for … Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, came after the 1976 Letcher County coal mine disaster in Kentucky (26 dead miners). …

… marched in northeast China. Unfortunately, as in the past, the soundbites typically stressed just one sort of … a way to use history when trying to make sense of China’s complicated present. Another kind of continuity between 1989 … years ago, but we should also remember that some marchers carried portraits of the long dead Communist leader …

… nearly 117,000 perished during the war — 53, 402 in combat — and another 204,000 were wounded. Many believe that … the celebration of Armistice Day on Nov. 11. But with the passage of time these forms of memorialization grew to … has left the First World War without a clearly focused “site of memory.”   There is, however, an opportunity to make …

… This past weekend marks the anniversary of what, until Tuesday, … an unknown enemy, one whom many Americans believed had committed an act of war. And, like the destruction of the … at Columbia University and a writer for the History News Service. She is writing a book on the 1920 Wall Street …

… granted greater decision-making authority to local communities, and the Paraguayan government opened budget … seem to have learned from the mistakes of the past. In recent years, USAID has instituted sweeping reforms … the improved monitoring of polls that are essential prerequisites for free and fair elections. Third, foreign aid is …

… we have been imagining this for years, even decades. This past summer, New York and its World Trade Center were … and burned to the very bedrock is Miller’s apocalypse complete. In the paintings of Chesley Bonestell from the … of Chicago Press), a writer for the History News Service. …

… to get voters registered. He realized that if he were to become the city’s first African American elected mayor he … your candidacy will be a constant. Take good notes from the past, Senator, as you go forth trying to make history. … Grand Rapids, Mich., and a writer for the History News Service. He is writing a book on one of Martin Luther King, …

… that has raged ever since. Apologizing for slavery has become such a controversial issue not only because few … and must never be forgotten. We should always reexamine the past and those institutions that shaped it, for better or … the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money Pitcher: The Tragedy of Indian Assimilation." …

… With the passage of a Senate bill shoring up private pension plans, … on a mix of public and private pensions. Like it or not, company pensions are part of public policy. This struggle … of the Yale faculty, is a writer for the History News Service and the author of "For All These Rights: Business, …

… the words “The End” on a popular, long-running American comedy named “The Roaring Twenties: The New Era of Eternal Prosperity.” In his inaugural address less than twenty months before, Herbert Hoover had … last.”  Robert S. McElvaine, a writer for History News Service, is a professor of history at Millsaps College and …

… on the Supreme Court, appears before the Senate judiciary committee. Obama raised the subject when he identified “that … celebrated that same virtue at a ceremony honoring the service of retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.   Nixon and … that office, always had the humanity which was all-encompassing, the dedication to his family — his personal family, …

… capitals and Washington, D.C., to protest the federal income tax. As their name implies and their banners state, … tax revenue lost to smuggling.   So in May 1773 Parliament passed and King George III assented to the Tea Act, which … longer be taking a cut, colonists would actually be paying less for their tea than before. Nonetheless, thousands of …

… The Italian media mogul, Italy’s richest man, is now the incoming prime minister. How could that not be worrisome for … States and rake-offs from private interests. Electoral laws passed recently provide for modest public financing of … in Fascist Italy" (1981) and a writer for the History News Service. …