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… been a minor Jewish festival. Yet this holiday — which commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second … assimilate into the prevailing Hellenistic culture — has become “the Jewish Christmas.” How did this happen? And is it good for the Jews? The story begins with the commercialization of Christmas, which emerged as the major …

… and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain. Not since … guaranteed rights. The late historian Henry Steele Commager, denouncing President John Adams' suppression of … Texas minutemen claim that it targets the "patriot community," which probably means private militias. RIOT USA …

… Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … seen whether George W. will allow his administration to be completely captured by his fossil fuel buddies. Eisenhower, … the environmental movement proved to be a formidable competitor for legislators’ attention into the early 1990s. …

… nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature. Title page of the … shortly after being born and her half-sister Fanny Godwin committed suicide, a couple of months later Percy’s wife committed suicide, and just before the publication of the …

… the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has conveyed “water, … limited sources of water that face “constant threats.”  The company employs dams and other barrages, pumps, irrigation … dedicated to agriculture. The environmental Nakba that accompanied the 1948 conquest destroyed both lives and the …

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of … to the West for the technologies and ideologies needed to compete in European international politics. In the usual …

… legacy with which Americans will sooner or later have to come to terms: today we live in a society of greater … critically weakened the one entity best equipped to combat growing income inequality in the United States: organized labor. …

… the fact that she thought he had “showed himself to be a complete idiot. “Why?” the perplexed reporter inquired. … of voters will value consistency above even wisdom or common sense. The whole Bush campaign seems to be centered … who, to cite but two among several major differences, was committed to balancing the budget and was uninterested in …

… on “the near absence among the men I worked with… of any comprehension of what Nazism meant.” Commentator Dwight Macdonald called the war simply “the maximum of physical devastation accompanied by the minimum of human meaning.” An official …

… of Qing laws prohibiting the drug. After one Chinese trade commissioner captured and publicly destroyed British opium … ship seized by China on suspicion of piracy—reducing its complex causes to only its precipitating event. … events entirely. In the 1950s, for example, observers of communist China described Chairman Mao Zedong ’s campaign to …

… after Lee challenged anyone who doubted his word to come to his studio in Oakland. Russo makes his case by … arts practitioners. Even the famous Wong Jack Man fight comes across as more of a draw than a complete victory in Russo’s retelling. Bruce Lee's grave in …

… thereby over-ruling earlier decisions that courts were not competent to decide such political questions. Two years … the rapidly growing majority of urban dwellers (often newcomers to the state, immigrants from southern and eastern … meant not only transferring political power to the newcomers in the city; it also often meant transferring control …

… allows us to reflect on such important ideas as justice, communal violence, and political legitimacy. Like any civil … views among Creek people concerning the direction of their communities. But the civil war was also about justice. … decided in the summer of 2012 to significantly expand their gaming operations at Hickory Ground (ironically the place …

… new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the … Jessica Vinas-Nelson   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … men seem to emerge almost every day, as more and more women come forward, and many are heralding this as a new era and a …

… been lifted, and negotiations for a new constitution had commenced. While political violence between the ANC and … governance, and hold together the ANC when it seems to be coming apart at the seams. Some of these problems go back to … Africa in 1652 under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company to set up a station for passing ships at the Cape of …

… by the specter of our nuclear past. And given Japan's complicated past with nuclear issues, it is especially … for energy to power Japan's rapid economic growth and the complexities of post-World War II international relations … and Three Mile Island (1979). Regardless of the outcome of the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear issues …