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… heavily on Soviet support for arms and many Arab nations welcomed Soviet aid. Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry … five percent. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Omar Saqqaf, visited America and warned the Nixon administration that an embargo of sales to the United States was forthcoming. Nixon attempted to assuage Saudi fears, promising to …

… but at the time it seemed like a relatively minor threat in comparison with established groups like Hamas and Hizballah. … And the attack was executed in a manner that would soon come to characterize al Qaeda operations. The trucks were … Nairobi, the blast sheared off the face of the embassy and completely destroyed a neighboring seven-story office …

… Vladimir Putin has gone to extraordinary lengths to commemorate the Second World War. Even though the war ended … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Hello, and welcome to World War II Memory in Putin's Russia, brought to … Day parades on Red Square. He's met with veterans and made visits to memorials. He's emphasized his own personal …

… delegation to Sochi. Inadvertently, the Sochi games have become the gay games. Homosexuality in Russia Today The … the diverging paths of Russia and Western countries when it comes to homosexuality. Russian public attitudes are … of the new legislation, and Putin’s own remarks about visitors to Olympic Games, have focused on pedophilia as a …

… corruption scandals, doping controversies and rampant commercialism have done so little to dent the popularity of … Olympic teams. Even before the First World War, sport had become, as one French official put it, "a matter of state." … to showcase the achievements of Nazism, and many foreign visitors were impressed by the gleaming new stadiums and the …

… Hebdo a suscité une recherche profonde pour découvrir comment les hommes armés sont venus à être si irrités par … avec des conséquences mortelles leur colère envers des comiques dont le travail a été jugé blasphématoire ou opposé … regrettés était le chroniqueur Saïd Mekbel. Son esprit de comédie n’épargnait personne comme il s’en servait …

… call the Anthony Amendment, and what would eventually become the 19th Amendment. But not for a long time. California … support needed to pass a constitutional amendment. It was becoming less likely that a federal amendment was going to … be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… Just how has American society mobilized for a sense of common purpose in the past? And why have we seemed to lose that sense of common purpose today in the midst of the coronavirus … Riders on San Juan Hill. There was an even greater need for common purpose as the Great War , what we Americans came to …

… 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 … Forgetting in Russia by Aaron B. Retish Until recently, a visitor to Russia would have had a hard time finding any …

… the Supreme Court and amidst growing public criticism. To compound the confusion, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, sitting … in Israeli society—for example, divisions over territorial compromise with the Palestinians; divisions between Jews and … leadership. Netanyahu, a hardliner who opposes territorial compromises and promotes neoconservative socioeconomic …

… Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., China has a long and complex history of interaction with African American … James Watson-Krips  Hello, everyone. Welcome to this discussion with Melvin Barnes, PhD candidates … a source of inspiration. So you had, you had Chinese people visiting places like the Hampton Institute, and the Tuskegee …

… a chronic condition that can have serious, life-threatening complications if left untreated. Diabetes is caused when the … date to the ancient Egyptians, over a millennium before the common era . Later, in the second century CE, the Greek … healthier, more than twice her original weight, and had become a shining example of the power of insulin therapy for …

… before all slaves in Massachusetts would be set free, the Commonwealth v. Jennison case of 1783 ensured that slaves … by the early 19th century all the Northern states had committed at least to eventual emancipation, slavery’s … and social research and making claims about human nature. Commonwealth v. Jennison and its long aftermath also …

… and artist Jack Kirby in the eponymous Captain America Comics #1 , the patriotic hero became a breakout star for Timely Comics (the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics ). … “good war.” Four-color McCarthyism could not pull enough coins from adolescent pockets to prevent the superhero …

… Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora … Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , smart conversations about today's … planet. After more than four decades, the Soviet controlled communist bloc of Eastern European countries suddenly …

… administrations that deemed the application of force a welcome distraction from domestic problems. At the same time, … War (1962-1970) at the same time that Egypt’s overextended commitment of troops to North-Yemen’s republicans had … offensive mindset—“Rabin’s Schlieffenplan,” (145) as Laron coins it in pointed allusion. Rabin's "Schlieffenplan:" an …

… and Washington, the news media are now brimming with comparisons of alcohol to marijuana prohibition and “lessons … drinking habit. In 1970, two legal scholars wrote a comparison of alcohol and marijuana law that I believe still … The courts generally came to see the state legislatures as competent to decide whether drinking was a public evil and …

… King. Jury selection began November 15. The case hardly comes as a surprise. In recent years, the King family has … a fairly straightforward case like the King assassination become complicated with such stale, predictable theories that it …

… theme the denunciation of Democrats as being soft on communism, opened up relations with the People’s Republic of … of state, Dean Acheson, ran a “College of Cowardly Communist Containment,” it was Nixon who radically improved … 1970 and think about predicting that Richard Nixon would be visiting China and Russia, tripling trade with both nations, …

… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … lives, such as equality, freedom, limited government, community, dignity, and the distribution of resources. … as Sands sees it, religion-talk does not provide a common language with which to agree on visions, solutions, …

… With charges of fraud flying, Congress set up an electoral commission to settle the issue of who would be the next president. The commissioners were supposed to be like the original … paralyzed United States. Robert M. Saunders is a visiting Fulbright professor of American history at Hong …

… immortality. A better approach than polling is to compare Reagan with past presidents who are now regarded as … Reagan left office. Great presidents are also effective communicators. Lincoln was the finest speechmaker in … support for New Deal legislation. Reagan, dubbed the “Great Communicator,” was an enormously successful speaker. A …

… June 23, 2016, while most of the world was awaiting the outcome of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was … Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and the supreme commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia … drug cartel (Left) . Secretary of State Colin Powell visiting Colombia in 2003 (Right) . While there were some …