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… among them the abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, many jailed addicts welcome the Nation of …

… Realizing they had lost their independence, the Ndebele kingdom, under King Lobengula, declared war against the British, initiating … in 1951. The NLHA resulted in compulsory livestock destocking and downsizing of land owned by Africans to avoid …

… now been initiated. But even as classical historians are working harder than ever to debunk the use of classical history … the racist origins of their own field, however, when Martin Bernal began publishing the controversial … multi-volume work Black Athena in 1987. The first volume of Martin Bernal’s 1987  Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of …

… them to follow their respective careers. Nichols was thinking of leaving Star Trek when Martin Luther King Jr. visited the set. He insisted that she remain …

… Appropriately marking the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, … domestic slave trade so critical to the rise of the cotton kingdom. Between 1800 and 1860 some one million slaves were … with Django’s bounty-hunter mentor and partner, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), that formally liberate her …

… winner would fail to profit. First published in the United Kingdom in 1909, Europe’s Optical Illusion by Norman Angell … he declared a “Bank Holiday” and temporarily banned all banking transactions. Congress then passed legislation that … Japanese assets in the United States were frozen, making it impossible for Japan to use its gold reserves to …

… Netherlands, Portugal, Rhodesia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It and the broader Yom … administration was prepared to supply new weapons to the kingdom, convinced OPEC to lift the embargo. On March 19, …

… put a Muslim fundamentalist in the White House." Right-thinking Americans have a duty to thwart that plan. To allow the … Richard Niebuhr, Talcott Parsons, Richard Hofstadter, and Martin Marty, Americans learned to think of fundamentalism … to "modernity and modernization." (Those phrases come from Martin Marty's article "Fundamentalism Reborn.") Americans …

… injustice catapulted her into the limelight, ultimately making her the reluctant face of Canada’s Civil Rights … Klux Klan members stand by a cross erected in a field near Kingston, Ontario in 1927. At the same time, Desmond’s …

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary of the 1920 revolution. For many … conscription mechanisms, and tax collecting apparatus, making these institutions more efficient but skewing their … and radical wings of the independence movement. RAF plane taking part in the British campaigns in Iraq. At the same …

… throughout its history. As a vital part of the medieval kingdom of Serbia, Kosovo became a veritable center of … symbolic of the "rebirth" of the legendary medieval Serbian kingdom—despite the fact that Kosovo was by then largely … a "moderate nationalist." The EU chose not to recognize the assassination for what it was—namely, an act of violence …

… open up things for discussion. If you're interested in asking a question, please write it in the Q&A or the … you to ASC and Clio Society and the Bexley Library for making this event possible. I'm delighted to be here today. … in celebrating and acknowledging World AIDS Day we are thinking about and recalling the 38, the 32 point 7 million …

… imagined.” Pakistan shook itself free from the United Kingdom in 1947 after almost 100 years of colonial control … Pakistan became a cold war ally of the United States. Seeking economic and military aid to defend against its …

… , Bosnia, and Kosovo have been described as ad hoc and lacking precedent. Such observations reflect a misunderstanding … have failed to recognize the extent to which religious thinking infuses U.S. foreign policy. Obama and the Libyan … Stephanson has argued that the founders of the U.S., taking the baton from the Puritans, conceived their new nation …

… noble, Magellan possessed an extensive knowledge of mapmaking and sailing, and already had years of experience … a route to the west, Magellan then turned to the new king of Spain, Charles I. If Magellan’s expedition was … who refused to bring tribute for Raja Humabon and the King of Spain. Fighting in the shallow waters off the shore, …

… those who had criticized Kaepernick and those who were taking a knee early on, but Trump statements, and then his … was the Muhammad Ali in the 1970s, who appeared on the Dean Martin celebrity roast. He was initially presented to the … Certainly, Gallup would have told you in 1963, that Martin Luther King was, was unsuccessful as an American public …

… independence. Likewise, the government of the United Kingdom compensated slaveowners after the abolition of … and other French and British Caribbean territories such as Martinique or Guadeloupe, gradually abolished the slave … Chinese laborers. Not granted financial compensation and lacking marketable skills, many Afro-Cubans secured marginal …

… head in one of the bloodiest conflicts in American history, King Philip's War. Philip, also known as Metacom, was … of the period between the arrival of the Mayflower through King Philip's War Philbrick focus much of his attention on … Community, and War , by Nathaniel Philbrick (New York, Viking Press 2006) … David Dzurec … Reviews … North America … …

… of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was taking place in Havana, Cuba . At a meeting hosted by … as both a source of revenue as well as a means of making political statements. In the later decades, they often … of a kidnapping attempt. He himself was the target of an assassination attempt during the 2002 campaign, and his …