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… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … has had a murky, even “schizophrenic,” view of its commitment to the world’s dispossessed. Although the United … officials accept affidavits of financial sponsorship from accredited NGOs that could assure private assistance to …

… to Mark Twain, “it often rhymes.” Indeed, few historical comparisons make more compelling verse than the COVID-19 outbreak and history’s … shock” (fewer people available to perform wage labor) in recorded history. The Black Death's path across Europe …

… willing and able to stand up to political pressure. His record of having signed every single measure that has … in non-discretionary spending and the metamorphosis of the record federal budget surplus in 2000 into the largest … domination of Congress does not alone explain Bush’s record of agreeing to every bill that has crossed his desk. …

… to individual states, and for decades many had found this a comforting justification for their tolerance of an … all of Lincoln’s success as lawyer, politician, orator, and commander-in-chief, perhaps what should be most celebrated …

… important new biographical details to the traditional commander-in-chief profile. After having 43 presidents cut … children and notable military and political service to his credit, McCain tries to be all about the “Faith of My … Coming: Something New in Presidents …

… could operate off the books. Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, … that could have implicated Reagan, there followed the Tower Commission, a congressional inquiry, and the Office of the … president to conduct foreign policy without oversight has become the norm in the United States. The imperial presidency …

… I saw the ad on a real estate web site a week ago. For sale: 3952 Chatsworth Street, Detroit, … the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the … Race We knew about race, of course. Though we lived in a completely white neighborhood, there was no way to avoid …

… democracies, and political experiments such as Bolshevik communism. Much of Europe lay in tatters and virtually an … I battlefields to reconnect with their loved ones. Others visited the tombs of the unknown warriors, under the Arc de … relationships. The war also was financed almost entirely on credit, through the issuance of short-term treasury bills …

… of Young's evolution as a leader brings the full complexity of his character into focus.  Upon his ascension … As a leader, he could use mirth to build consensus and community, or he could dictate terms in absolutist manner to … of the book is one of a man both flexible and stalwart, accommodating and uncooperative, whose choices and positions …

… Yemen’s internationally recognized government is sitting comfortably in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 900 miles away from … Yahya envisioned this group, known in the Yemeni historical record as the Famous Forty, as his administration’s future … by faith. Vice President of Yemen and Deputy Supreme Commander of Yemeni Armed Forces Ali Muhsin al-Ahmar (left) …

… who were then fighting the founders of today’s communist government, a deployment almost unknown to … many influential Americans, including Douglas MacArthur, commander of the allied forces, to call for war on China …

… I am become death, the shatterer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer … atomic bomb, his creation, explode at the Trinity test site. An atomic age was dawning and Oppenheimer was leading … in different ways. Lesley Groves, the senior military commander in charge of the Manhattan Project, and …

… in meeting recruiting goals. Old and New Uniforms in Comparison: Modern-day reenactors (left and center) wearing … a plain olive drab uniform, officers had a choice of color combination. Since most opted for “pink” (officially Olive … era and early War on Terror disqualified it. Uniforms in Comparison: Sergeant Major of the Army Dan Dailey (Center) …

… Cemetery were not even permitted to visit the grave sites of their relatives after the Civil War.   President … the national holiday from its pedestal. Memorial Day commemorates the men and women killed on the battlefield or … Gibbons (R – Nevada). Both bills were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Government …

… its efforts to build atomic bombs after a series of shortcomings and failures convinced its government to focus on a … though he was predominantly focused on American lives. His commanders predicted upwards of half a million American … Istukushima Shrine which is both a UNESCO "World Heritage Site" and less than 30 kilometers from downtown Hiroshima. …

… in the first five books of the Old Testament.  It was common throughout ancient India, the Middle East, Africa, … pass on property to the children born to her wife. She also commanded the loyalty of these children and reaped the … people whose love was based on the fact that they were opposites. Men and women were increasingly described as having …

… some ten thousand years ago to the seventh century of the common era. They tell the stories of successive … language) epic. Chapter six details the rule of the Kassites, who in many ways continued the practices established … for the recovery of stolen objects. Matthew Bogdanos, the commander of this force, has published his finding here: M. …

… the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught … and children."  President Dwight Eisenhower, the Allied commander in Europe during World War II, recalled in 1963, …

… rights activism throughout the rural South.  While not discrediting the work of such leaders as King, they have given due credit to lesser known individuals like Ella Baker and local … never passive victims.  From the very beginning of black community development in the North, African Americans fought …

… big government” has ended. Future generations will no doubt credit these developments at least in part to the Reagan … legacy with which Americans will sooner or later have to come to terms: today we live in a society of greater … involving a total of one million workers in 1979 to a record low of 17 walkouts, involving only 73,000 workers, in …

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … be in the military, how could a woman be president and be commander in chief?" And I think over the last 5,10,15 … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website …

… It’s good history, and it reflects a willingness to give credit where credit is due. It’s also called generosity of spirit, a …

… Daniel Walker Howe wrought? The answer is a sweeping and commanding synthesis of the political and economic history … supremacy, resolute and explicit, constituted an essential component of what contemporaries called 'the Democracy' – … discovered the latent constitutional powers of the commander in chief to provoke a war, secure congressional …

… by the specter of our nuclear past. And given Japan's complicated past with nuclear issues, it is especially … unabated. By the mid-1950s, most of the easily dammed sites had already been developed. Likewise, Japanese sources … local, not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) style protests around the sites of the early nuclear plants built in the mid-1960s to …