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There was Pearl Harbor and there was the internment in the United States to boot. During the cold war days, there was a great deal...

in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...

his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...

(orange, red, sky-blue pink, whatever); the day Palast is discussing was an "orange alert" day, meaning it was "low threat" (Palas...

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

and industrial in both appearance and flavor, though a commentator notes that "it is a complex and visually stimulating structure"...

effort or for the true protection of the country. Brit Hume remarks: "Give me the rest of the theory there. Is it that the United ...

pictured Japanese soldiers as monkeys in military garb and machine guns, swinging through the trees (Dower 183). Likewise, the Jap...

that would "sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge" (Paine). The alternative was to return to British control, wh...

price was higher in real terms than it is today. It is also worth noting that the major peak seen towards the right of the chart b...

mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...

surprised by change. To him it is has if the village and his family stayed frozen as they were in 1928. In his absence, his father...

from terrorism, no rights should be accorded to suspects captured in the war on terror. Terrorism is not an activity endorsed by ...

94). The U.S. and the U.K., in making their legal case for war, "did not base the legality of their attack against Iraq on a self...

a position of great economic need. They had borrowed a great deal from bankers, British as well as Dutch, in order to pay for the ...

over activities off its shores," which pertain to the utilization of these resources (Truman). Having laid out the rationale for...

consider the real grievances that help terrorists recruit" (Dickey, 2006). It also means that the U.S. will be locked into a strug...

forever banned and the other so useful it is still in production. The first is gas, the second, the tank. Gas attacks were so dead...

personality was bolder and more action-oriented than Emersons. He was far more progressive and activist than Emerson on the anti-s...

to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have ...

in an abundance in Col. Patton. The first example we have of Pattons intelligence is his experience in various educational/academi...

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...

the tension caused by the U.S. presence in the region; it is also the incident that can be said to have caused the Gulf War (Pittm...

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...