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… Katherine Borland , to learn why so many Hondurans are seeking refuge in the U.S., the political, economic, and social …   Brenna Miller  So why exactly now is the U.S. thinking about ending the temporary protected status?   … right now.   Professor Dana Frank  And a lot of those assassinations were committed by the Battalion 3-16, and …

… Ohio Senator John Sherman put it, "If we will not endure a king as a political power we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of … competition from the new, more efficient chain stores, by making it illegal to discount prices. By the 1980s America was …

… mission statement. And so that's where I began with a rethinking of what the mission statement for the museum might be. … in different kinds of ways, someone who was really close to Martin Luther King, and along with modern U.S.  scholars, people …

… see von Humboldt as the founding figure of ecological thinking. Von Humboldt, for example, recognized that the falling … in von Humboldt's work: J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace Melville and John Muir. Of the three, … remarkable autobiographer, regarded his friend Clarence King as the greatest figure of his generation. In the …

… are often musicals but can also lack any music at all. Picking a “Top Ten” list from such a diverse category is a … ten years after India’s independence from the United Kingdom. This was an era in which Hindi cinema highlighted … a courtesan Anaar Kali (Madhubala). Prithviraj Kapoor plays King Akbar, the father of prince Salim, who opposes the …

… FBI files on those he considered subversive, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. Historically, when the dust has settled the United …

… a dangerous majority , a fate perhaps worse than rule by a king. A republic, on the other hand, offered the perfect … not gain traction until Progressive reformers started speaking out against the elitism and corruption endemic to the … states with histories of voter discrimination from making new voting laws without federal approval, is …

… in Matthew 16:18, from whom Peter is given the “keys to the kingdom of heaven.”  Unfortunately, very little of this … deaths and an eight-year papal schism.   Ultimately, the king of Italy weighed in to end the conflict. He picked … Roman Emperor Henry IV at Canossa, where the excommunicated king lay on the snow at Gregory’s feet seeking absolution. …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… or, more plainly, mercenaries. Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution estimates that private contractors now … in the history of warfare. If war was the sport of kings, then mercenaries, immortalized in Biblical verse and … Nigeria. But in a post-nation-state era, the mercenary is making a comeback. In a world no longer characterized by Great …

… 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 …

… rebellious side and all of us he's even been spotted sneaking out of the Vatican in the evening, but all be at … organization.   Patrick Potyondy    And that's and that's Luther and all of that.   Dr. David Brakke    So Luther, of course, started all of that, right. But, but it's …

… 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 …

… Indigenous groups arriving in town, lodging, dining, drinking, attending performances and performing, health , and … explores the anonymous Native people living and working in early American towns. It is among the book’s best. … Native Americans tour Philadelphia near the New Lutheran Church, 1800. Teedyuscung died in a suspicious fire …