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… Across the United States this autumn, Americans watched intently … for parents, and structures of policing and law. When parents today express horror (and fascination) about … in 1874. When Charles Brewster Ross (known as Charley) was kidnapped on July 1, 1874, he was certainly not the …

… The Caucasus Mountains are one of history’s great transition … in Georgia and Azerbaijan visited. Georgia My first stop was Georgia, a small country (population roughly three … the third century B.C.E. through the fifth century C.E., when the capital moved to Tbilisi. Mtskheta was founded at …

… The shooting started in the early morning, 4:45 AM, September 1, 1939, when the obsolete German battleship Schleswig-Holstein … where the SS men gunned them down. The assault on Danzig was the opening act of the full-scale invasion of Poland as …

… While Americans have been focused on the economic crisis and the Presidential elections, events … Russia, Japan, and the U.S.). Amidst intense debate in Washington, and despite significant opposition, the Bush … has been the North's propensity for creating trouble just when it seems to be at its weakest, sometimes even taking …

… In the spring of 2003 I collapsed at a college debating … with a cough and fever is worrisome at any time. It was particularly troubling to me and to the intake nurse who … are learning how to respond more efficiently to pandemics when they hit to avoid mass fatalities. Influenza, unlike …

… electoral coalition swept Italy’s general elections. The Italian media mogul, Italy’s richest man, is now the … But Silvio Berlusconi is no ordinary politician. In 1994, when he first served, briefly, as Italian premier, he was simply a fabulously wealthy businessman with a talent …

… On June 4, 1989, while most of the world’s eyes were trained towards the massacres erupting … West; or the Polish leadership themselves, whose authority was split between the PZPR, the opposition, and the Catholic … of its own evolution. General Wojciech Jaruzelski in 1981 When General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law in …

… The 2024 elections in  South Africa marked a significant … occurred in  Zimbabwe , formerly Southern Rhodesia, in 2008 when the dominant ZANU-PF party failed to secure a majority … time since independence in 1980. A coalition government was also formed between ZANU-PF and the main opposition …

… as an independent country. From a meagre population of 150 when the British East India Company first set up a factory and … goes back to the late 13 th century, when a port and polity was established at the mouth of the Singapore River. Over …

… It’s a question worth asking because the Chinese government has already defied conventional … behavior to the change in leadership that occurred when Hu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin last November as the … Cultural Revolution decade (1966-1976), when the CCP was less dependable, since it was prone to let ideological …

… Location of Chennai (Madras) in India. Madras was born in 1636, when East India Company official Francis Day signed a treaty with the Nayaka ruler to acquire three square kilometers of land, …

… Long before the recent initiatives to strengthen the border wall with … the most famous platforms of the 2016 presidential campaign was then-candidate Donald Trump's promise that he would … today between the U.S. and Mexico seems pretty high. When did this animosity between the U.S. and Mexico begin …

… The summer of 2014 marked the 100 th anniversary of the … the rest of the century. Also known as the Great War, this was the 20th century's first man made global upheaval … and just sort of be present in the place at the moment when the sort of historic event occurred.   Patrick Potyondy …

… Humans weren’t around when volcanoes formed Iceland’s unique island landscapes some 20 million years ago. But in the 1,100 years that Iceland has seen settlement, the story … seen from the Ring Road; Iceland's Ring Road, Highway 1, was completed in 1974 and circles the island in an 828 mile …

… A revolutionary terrorist in late imperial Russia, Savinkov was responsible for several spectacular assassinations, … the Governor General of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergei. When not organizing plots, Savinkov published fiction under … direct political violence, hatching plans to assassinate Lenin and Trotsky and then sought to kill Boris Chicherin, …

… Andrés Manuel López Obrador (a.k.a.AMLO) rode to the presidency in 2018 by promising Mexico "juntos haremos … the long dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party. AMLO was the first candidate to receive more than half of the … about what Mexico City looks like now versus what it did when he took over? What sort of policies had AMLO …

… presidential candidates demanded stronger standards for the mortgage industry. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and … in the past, no one heeded it. Now it's time for leaders in Washington to stop the abuses. The Democratic candidates' … of reformers in earlier periods of American history. When hazardous practices created troubles in the past, …

… Donald Hempson ,  Lauren Henry , and Chris Otter to discuss the history of the European Union, an organization that has … little bit of the historical origins of the European Union. When and why was it created? And maybe Don, if you wanted to start us off …

… Mounting tensions in the Taiwan Strait pose perhaps the greatest security … ( Kuomintang , KMT) led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.  When U.S. mediation failed, the Americans threw their … Strait to prevent an escalation of war in the region.  Washington refused to recognize the PRC diplomatically and …

… Once again Congress has debated and, at least for the moment, defeated a proposed constitutional amendment on … of the nineteenth century. Thomas Jefferson, for example, was first elected to public office in 1769, when the 26-year-old lawyer won a seat in Virginia’s …

… publicized lecture — “It Takes a Historian to Understand the Middle East…Doesn’t It?” —  Jane Hathaway  of Ohio … to make sense of the Middle East today? Dr. Jane Hathaway  When a historian studies the Middle East, he or she is … the Shiite communities throughout the Middle East. And it was fundamentally that political division that began the …

… its captain hostage. U.S. military sharpshooters brought the incident to a relatively quick end, killing three of the … the most spectacular attack came on November 15, 2008 when pirates boarded the Saudi owned Sirius Star, a … The negotiations for the Ukrainian ship Faina , which was transporting 33 T-72 tanks, 150 grenade launchers, 6 …

… The Guatemala inoculation experiments entailed a series of … war effort The Guatemalan studies only fully became public when they were accidentally discovered in 2010. The U.S. … supported the experiments. The Guatemalan government was also complicit and received compensation for its …

… discounted as “fly-over country”—had a national moment. The Washington Post published the Pandora Papers , revealing … An event in December 2021 in Sioux Falls went viral when teachers at a minor league hockey game scrambled on …