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… 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 … … Christianity … France … Medieval … 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 … Relations … Colonialism/Imperialism … 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 … … Economics/Business/Trade … A Media King Becomes Prime Minister (Again) …

… 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 …

… foggy morning of January 21, 1793—225 years ago—French King Louis XVI made the hour and a half journey through the … for his execution was assembled. Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, c. 1779. He traveled in the … “widow's window,” and was executed. The execution of the king by his people was a transformative moment in European …

… 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 … than learning the birth and death dates of even Martin Luther. Oh, I'm probably going to be struck down for that …

… 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 …

… authoritarianism. Obote also abolished Uganda’s constituent kingdoms – a key source of pride and identity for millions – … of the Ugandan Protectorate, he had been recruited into the King’s African Rifles, the British colonial regiment in East … there were various plots against Amin, as well as several assassination attempts, in the end he was brought down by a …

… Northern Ireland were and remain legally part of the United Kingdom, separated from the Republic of Ireland in 1922 in … of whom felt a strong sense of allegiance toward the United Kingdom. Known as Unionists, they monopolized political and … the election of a seven-man Army Council—Joe Cahill, Leo Martin, Paddy Mulcahy, Sean MacStiofain, Ruari O’Bradaigh, …

… year lease in Bankside, the prestigious royal patronage of King James I as the company became the King’s Men, and Shakespeare’s esteemed literary reputation, … catastrophe in a letter dated two days after the fire: The King’s players had a new play, called All Is True, …

… advice. Instead, he picked the Sunni Faisal bin Hussein, king of Syria and a supporter of the British, to be Iraq’s constitutional monarch. Once in office, King Faisal denounced British domination and proclaimed … Such are the consequences of ignoring history when making present policy. We should leave, and we should leave …

… During the Hundred Years War, England's King Henry V also laid claim to the crown of France, and to … the way that coronation was a "spiritual event" for the king; finally, Barker announces that the English army at … … within the chain of command that led directly to the king himself," to be of equal value with the shared hardship …

… who enlisted his support to test public opinion before making a definitive commitment to independence himself. Paine … symbol of the British monarchy] on the throne?” Depicting King George III as a tyrant, as a co-conspirator with … American colonists, Paine likened the monarch to a “father-king” who relished his children, the Americans, as his main …

… of the HBO show Game of Thrones, based on George R. R. Martin’s series of novels by the same title, has renewed interest in the English Wars of the Roses. Martin loosely based the political tangle at the heart of … Gristwood is more ambitious than Gregory or Carter in taking on seven women rather than three as both Gregory and …

… Since the global financial crisis of 2008, new economic thinking on the right and on the left has, for different … no longer a pressing economic problem. Older historical thinking, however, suggests the opposite: that nation states, just like kingdoms and empires, flounder and fail when they have …