… If Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, do you think he would believe …

… hectic first four months in office, he looked forward to taking the train to the New Jersey seashore. There he would … of the Republican Party in 1880, the year before Garfield’s assassination, will sound familiar to anyone following the … year to the day after the shooting of Garfield. Garfield’s assassination and Guiteau’s subsequent trial highlighted …

… the tensions between tradition and modernity in the United Kingdom that dominated the series. Set in the interwar … in a changing world. The movie revolves around a visit by King George V and Queen Mary to Downton Abbey. George V’s … story line; there is no historical evidence that such an assassination attempt happened in Britain. During the …

… As we celebrate the 71st birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., on Jan. 15 and Congress considers a Library of …

… This lesson will examine Gavrilo Princip and his infamous assassination, often cited as the start to WW1. Students … for them. The essential question they are going to be asking is, “Was Gavrilo Princip a heroic rebel fighting for … and be prepared to present on their findings, as well as taking a stand. Instructional Strategies: Think-Pair-Share …

… today, Westminster was then the coronation hall of English kings, while Saint-Denis served as the chief mausoleum for … not quite what it set out to become, it is a thought-provoking work. Too often historians have viewed the great abbeys … To Serve God and the King? …

… collected in China, Russia, United States, and United Kingdom. Autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, oral narratives, … rules, and centrality continue to influence Chinese thinking about their international relationships. However, these … Putting the Middle Kingdom in the Middle …

… just when it seems to be at its weakest, sometimes even taking bellicose action against the West while at the very … the vessel and attempted to infiltrate the South, sparking firefights that left 24 North Koreans and 14 South … lie the key to understanding the policies of the Hermit Kingdom. These new materials suggest that two related forces …

… and authorities in Afghanistan; the horrors of the Saudi assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; the US government’s … overview of the long-ruling and highly influential Islamic kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula. In Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain , Catlos …

… Berlusconi has toyed with divestment, blind trusts and parking his assets with fellow media magnates Rupert Murdoch … genius, the playwright Luigi Pirandello said, lay in making the passage from the stage to the mass media. Master of … A Media King Becomes Prime Minister (Again) …

… President James Garfield's Assassination …

… On August 22, 1485, King Richard III of England (r. 1483-1485) died fighting in … Field. The victor, Henry Tudor, was promptly crowned King Henry VII (r. 1485-1509).   This battle was one of the … (c.1564-1616). Shakespeare painted a pitiful scene of King Richard’s demise. Richard is left wandering a field …

… King John (r. 1199-1216) in a thirteenth-century portrait. … was in civil war as disaffected barons took up arms against King John (reigned 1199-1216). John’s reign had been marked … abusing royal power. When the rebel barons seized London, King John was forced to capitulate to their demands. Meeting …

… it over the rest of society from their great castles. Any king who wanted to do anything significant had to have their … enough, those barons would rebel and wage war against him. King John, for example, managed to exasperate so many of his … massive armed opposition. In other similar situations the kings usually won such wars, or were able to negotiate some …

… 27, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II of England briefly met with Martin McGuiness, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland … and Martin McGuiness shake hands, June 27, 2012. Before making the turn to politics, McGuiness was a leader of the … fought a low-level war characterized by ambush and assassination. Irish General election results map, 1918. In …

… In his recent book, Armada, (co-authored with Colin Martin), Parker draws on archives from around the world and … smelled; and what happened when they finally clashed. Looking beyond the events of 1588 to the complex politics which … co-authored with one of his formal doctoral advisees, Colin Martin. With that introduction, let me lay out the plan. …

… 1922, Ireland’s struggle for independence from the United Kingdom reached a turning point. With the creation of the … out of the Free State, remaining instead in the United Kingdom as the province of Northern Ireland.  The road to … against England, which had only just been suppressed when King James I ascended the throne in 1603.  James then …

… fictional character, the middle-aged patriot-hunk Benjamin Martin. It is one of the film’s better lines, encapsulating … of Independence. We witness repeated bloody clashes between Martin’s grassroots guerrilla militia and Cornwallis’s … by Parliament and, the Patriots ultimately concluded, the King himself. The colonists, this ideology warned, were on …

… 1962, the island of Jamaica became an independent nation, making it the first sovereign English-speaking country in the Caribbean. The tremendous victory of … Association (UNIA) and African Communities League in Kingston in 1914. Though Garvey was not elected to public …

… in structure, Part Two addresses the role that Martin Luther’s struggle against Papal authority played in the … of the Monasteries in the 1530s. Hans Holbein's portrait of King Henry VIII (1536) Henry’s Reformation and his new role … United Kingdom …

… gunpowder beneath the House of Lords, prepared to blow up King James I (b. 1566; r, 1603-1625), his family, and all of … toleration, in no small part because the new Stuart king (son of catholic Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587)) … detonate it during the State Opening of Parliament, killing King James I, the Lords, and the Commons in one stroke. The …