This was certainly the case in the US Civil War. Open hostilities began on April 12, 1861, with the bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina. While there was violence around the issue of slavery for years, the formal fighting between the two sides of the war began on that date at that...
Dr. Arthur W. Galston, whose research led to the creation of Agent Orange, once said, "Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral, and it can be turned either to constructive or destructive ends. That's n...
The English Civil War, which happened in the mid-1600s, resulted in the execution of the king, Charles I. His heir, Charles II, was exiled to France. He eventually returned, but the English monarchy's power was diminished and Parliament gained a great deal of political control. Royalty ...
thus making it the world’s leading shaper of what one might call the American world order since 1944), I also very briefly describe the Big Cycles of both China
If American millennials are fighting a bad rap as entitled and unemployed, how are young people navigating adulthood in other pockets of the world? What about in an extreme country likeNorth Korea? Six decades after the end of the Korean War that divided the Korean peninsula, the North remains...
It would be like assuming that we will never have a civil war or world war again because they haven’t happened before in our lifetimes without studying the mechanics that brought them about in the past. (By the way, I believe that both the civil war and world war dynamics are also ...
If American millennials are fighting a bad rap as entitled and unemployed, how are young people navigating adulthood in other pockets of the world? What about in an extreme country likeNorth Korea? Six decades after the end of the Korean War that divided the Korean peninsula, the North remains...
He received an 83 percent grade on civil liberty issues -- voting ID requirements, torture, and a gay marriage amendment -- from the American Civil Liberties Union for his record in the 109th Congress. Read about how Obama voted on some key issues on the next page. Voting Record of ...
In the Encyclopedia Dramatica, a very popular wiki in troll culture, there's an entry that claims that the American Psychiatric Association will include "internet troll personality disorder" in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The entry then goes on ...
Eric Foner, Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, is known for his writing on the culprit values which led to the American Civil War, in hisFree Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The I...