Editorial

Today we post the first articles in our new issue of our online journal. The next ones will follow soon

Program of the Fulbright Hays Seminar in Bulgaria - download here

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Author: Dr. Kostadin Grozev, Associate Professor, Chair of Modern and Contemporary World History, Faculty of History, Sofia University

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Българо-американските отношения през 70-те години на ХХ век

Въпреки че притежават някои особености, поради което могат да бъдат изведени като отделен период в българо-американските отношения през епохата на Студената война, 70-те години на ХХ век не следва да бъдат считани за „преломен момент” в диалога между Вашингтон и София. Те унаследяват всички характеристики и проблеми, съпътстващи официалните контакти на двете държави, а доколкото проличават и някои позитивни моменти, последните просто ...

Author: Teodor Talev, Ph. D. student, Faculty of History, Sofia University

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American Studies: “Discovery of America” or Discovery of Geography?

The Area: Similarities and Differences in Constituting the Object of Study

America is the object of study of both American Studies and Regional Geography. Regional Geography “divides” the Earth’s surface in areas, called regions and classifies them, according to natural and/or cultural criteria. It views America as one such region – an area of “vertical” interaction between human...

Author: Dr. Boian Koulov, Institute of Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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Verses Across the Atlantic

Fish in Geneva State Park

The barbelled male with wide lugubrious head
is poised, or somewhat poised, from where I stand,
twelve foot or so above, on the sunny bank.
It’s the first warm day of spring.
Not so the female. She does move, ahead,
with muscular decisive-seeming venturings upstream,
or in a skirting semicircle to the left.

But always she...

Author: Roger Craik, Associate Professor of English, Kent State University Ashtabula, OH

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Current Election Campaign (August'08)

August 23, 2008

Senator Joe Biden, Jr. is Obama's Running Mate, Los Angeles Times, August 23 2008

CHICAGO -- Barack Obama has tapped Joseph R. Biden Jr. as his running mate, bringing to the Democratic ticket a 36-year veteran of the U.S. Senate with deep expertise in international relations, two high-level Democratic operatives told the Times on Friday.

The chairman of ...

Author: Dr. Kostadin Grozev, Associate Professor, Chair of Modern and Contemporary World History, Faculty of History, Sofia University

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Globalization of the world. Globalization of the soul. Globalization of life

Globalization of the world.
Globalization of the soul.
Globalization of life (*1)

The idea of sanctity as an all-embracing principium has been agitating humankind throughout the entire history of its existence. Sanctity has been interpreted differently by the individual religious communities during the centuries, but it has always been related to some value, phen...

Author: Dr. Desislava Panayotova, Director, Center for Religious Studies and Consultations „St. Cyril and St. Methodious“ of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church

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About Freedoms

Have you ever wondered why America is strewn with national flags? I have. The American flag is practically ubiquitous: from the front lawn to T-shirts and dog-jackets. Every office or swimming-pool has a flag somewhere on the wall. Once, in this ongoing sense of bemusement, I heard a different question: “How do Americans develop a national feeling in such a vast country? They cannot even grasp the expands of their own state!” ...

Author: Daniela Ivanova, Student, Wesleyan University, CT, USA

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