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… of the Heaven’s Gate suicides now blame everything from comets to cults to cyberspace to the dead themselves — the … It was the story of a Mississippi riverboat crook who left passengers penniless and disillusioned because he lured them … least the glitz, of Donald Trump. Even the Internal Revenue Service has been gulled into dispensing a tax exemption to …

… an old American tradition and they teach us much about our past. The August 1963 civil rights March on Washington led … before 1963. Coxey and the suffragists were not the only marchers to face hostile receptions. In May 1932, nearly 15,000 … reputation by ordering his men to attack their former comrades in arms with tear gas and riot weapons and burn …

… support, Rep. Jane Harman's "Thought Police" bill, HR 1955, passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain. Not since … Polytechnic University and a writer for the History News Service. …

… made it impossible for them to get married. Many others complained of low pay and underemployment. While the … things at that time were the big landowners, known as the Pashas, and they were loath to agree to these demands. State … young military officer named Gamal Abd al-Nasser led a bloodless coup. He soon enacted an ambitious land reform program, …

… to the Supreme Court.   T.R. recognized that those who become judges invariably have had close association with … T.R. and Obama understood that empathy is often a prerequisite for impartiality.   Justice Holmes’s great colleague, … University School of Law and a writer for the History News Service. …

… households. The idea is to generate demand for goods and services. In addition, the government is expected to invest … to think about the balance between individual wants and common goals.   What was the effect of Carter’s speech? Some … infrastructure, but Americans must choose to consume less oil and use more public transportation.   After decades …

… When Al Gore allegedly claimed he invented the Internet, comedians, political  pundits and Republicans had a field … the creation of hundreds of other new technologies in the past.  They demanded decades of work by skilled people, lots … In May of 1999, Gore told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, "During my service in the U.S. Congress, I took the initiative in …

… households.   The idea is to generate demand for goods and services. In addition, the government is expected to invest … to think about the balance between individual wants and common goals.   What was the effect of Carter's speech? Some … infrastructure, but Americans must choose to consume less oil and use more public transportation.   After decades …

… protection for gays?  Perhaps the same impulse — the same combination of religious fervor and fear of social collapse … Anti-gay advocates have not gone as far as trying to pass a constitutional amendment banning homosexuality, but … gay men and women cannot serve in the military.  Gay teachers can expect to be threatened with dismissal if they …

… that followed the earthquake wiping out its business and commercial districts. Still the scope of the two disasters … years ago, army and navy units quickly offered their services to city officials to organize both relief and … sometime in the next fifty years California will be revisited by an event similar to the 1906 quake or the flooding …

… can be heard on Dragon TV; and state-sponsored websites devoted to the China Dream litter the Internet. The … of official spaces for presenting Party views of the past. The National Museum of China was born in 2003, an … echoed by Xi Jinping in his “China Dream” speech: “the long-cherished dream and aspiration of the Chinese people will …

… cautious, thoughtful Obama was just plain weak, or worse: incompetent. Well, health care legislation has passed, the White House looks like a smoothly run machine, … Century (2009) and is a writer for the History News Service. … History News Service …

… Fathers designed it to have, while working against true compromise. That’s bad not just for Democrats, but for … In fact, the reigning authority on republics, Baron Charles de Montesquieu, had argued that representative … you want, he told U.S. politicians; you’ll be performing a service by checking the other guy who’s fighting just as …

… revolution, such a proposition was not far-fetched. It was common sense that government should rest on the consent of … towns in Maryland and in Chicago school elections. Over the past decade, noncitizen voting campaigns have been launched … movement of our time. Ron Hayduk, a writer for History News Service, teaches political science at the Borough of …

… up from the nation's second job.     But Garner's pithy comment no longer describes the vice presidency.     The … as Bush's lieutenant governor, a period of Perry's public service that gets little mention in his official biography. … disparaged. History tells a different story. If the recent past is a guide, Perry could be among those who see the vice …

… the global war on terror is the central event of our time, comparable to the great struggles of the last century … we go about our daily routine as if it didn’t exist. Pass through a major airport, visit a mall or grocery store, … serving in Saipan, Tinian, and occupied Japan. Her military service remains the pivot of her young adulthood. Our …

… be a wonderful gift. Before scrapping that wish as hopeless, consider one area where the two sides do have a … meals program in 2000.  The McGovern-Dole initiative was passed, and Congress appropriated $300 million to provide … enemies of peace."   Democrats and Republicans could surely come together to realize that children overseas dying or …

… surely will be. But they are inappropriate for this coming Sept. 11, no less than a newspaper printing last week’s headlines over … therefore, is not a time to be retreating into a different past, nor continuing a selfish present. Rather, it’s a time … History News Service …

… They're the greatest show on earth, exciting the passions of literally billions of people. But are the … corruption scandals, doping controversies and rampant commercialism have done so little to dent the popularity of … at Harvard University and a writer for the History News Service. …

… attacked, but Obama has yet to specify how the cruise missiles fired into Libya or a no-fly zone will oust Gadhafi or … to stay.   As the bombardment continues, the lessons of past failures should be remembered, for the history of U.S. … never quite sure what those air assaults should or could accomplish. Though he hoped that Hanoi would abandon its …

… 30, 1900, an American hero emerged from the wreckage of a passenger train in Vaughan, Miss. A newspaper account the … whole cloth. A hundred years later, letters to the editor commenting on the anti-trust suit against Microsoft suggest … vilify him, even had they known of his penchant for recklessness, so is Gates admired as a bold individualist who …

… Jan. 24 it will have to decide whether to accept the rules reform introduced by Senators Tom Udall, Tom Harkin, and … would eliminate filibusters to prevent legislation from coming to the floor for debate, while retaining filibusters to block passage of a bill.  More significant, the proposed changes …

… they should be careful what they wish for. In order to become president of the United States, the Constitution … that a person must be at least 35 years old, have spent the past 14 years in the country and have been born on American … (R-Utah) and other Republican leaders have advocated the passage of a praiseworthy constitutional amendment allowing …

… "was somehow the cause of the war." Today, as the nation commemorates the war's sesquicentennial, the war's … memory. It's time we get it right. Only by facing the past honestly can we as a nation progress toward a more … Confederate battle flag. One can see it displayed on vehicles and clothing and, perhaps most provocatively, on the …