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… Long before the recent initiatives to strengthen the border wall … tell us about the current state of affairs and prospects for the future between the U.S. and Mexico? Join us as hosts … immigration policy over the past couple of decades, which rivals in every way, the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico …

… For scholars of the Reformation , the question of legacy is … The prominent reformer, Martin Luther boasts the most complex legacy of his contemporaries because of how he … Martin Luther’s World and Legacy grapples with Luther’s complicated legacy through a series of brilliantly …

… In his latest book, Peter Brown surveys the ways in which … known as “Late Antiquity,” he argues that a total transformation in Christian views occurred in Western Europe over … of the living, and that the property of the church had come to be thought of as being held as a trust with which to …

… What Everyone Needs to Know  should be required reading for any student studying the Black Sea region, and for any … Saint (~ 988) to the present, and it would require dozen visits to Ukraine to understand the land and its people. … the reader.   The reviewer’s photos during the peaceful component of the pro-democracy EuroMaidan protests.  …

… the victims of the great Russian famine of 1921 to 1923. Before the phrases ‘universal human rights’ and …

… “is a reference, research, and teaching tool conceived for students and scholars of art history,” that allows users … civilizations, themes, and artists and makers. Entries for individual artworks include descriptions, information … conservators, and educators--to ensure that visitors have access to new research and perspectives on the …

… Supreme Court. Why is Microsoft in so much trouble? Because for two centuries Americans have hated political and economic bullies. "Free competition" has always been our rallying cry and the … with him, but will the courts? Microsoft beat out such rivals as WordStar, Word Perfect, and 1-2-3 because its …

… percent of surveyed cities have seen increases in the need for emergency food aid. These findings coincide with a … the effect of child hunger in war-torn Europe, started a committee to bolster the existing national school lunch … these efforts the journey to end child hunger is far from complete. There are still huge gaps in participation in the …

… History can be instructive and often inspiring. Take, for example, the case of the nation’s sixth president, John … immortalized on screen in “Amistad,” Steven Spielberg’s latest effort at cinematic history-telling. The film ought … all, to effect mental, moral, and national improvement. Commitment to improvement of self and nation motivated …

… the tactical and operational brilliance of their military forces for granted, such has not always been the case. … was problematic at best. With the exception of one division of American regulars and a few capable Filipino … the mercurial personality of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. and Filipino forces. Overconfident …

… days of civil disobedience that brought Los Angeles, California to a standstill in April 1992. They do this by … and ethnic diversity as well as the class and political divisions that polarized Los Angeles leading up to the … distraught business owners next to coverage of families and communities reeling from extrajudicial violence runs …

… fathers, Thomas Jefferson. We revere the third president for his statesmanship and for the ringing prose of the … it. He sank huge sums into landscaping his grounds in the latest styles and entertained a constant stream of guests … luxury and self-indulgence with the stern defender of the common man we know from history textbooks. As chief …

… War (2020). The “fruit of a multinational, multilingual effort by fifteen scholars,” this collection of essays … and development. Latin America is a vast region comprising 33 individual countries in the southern half of … its “strong, consistent pro-United States strategic and commercial biases and interests.” Other authors consider …

… begins to fade, there’s a race among critics to find a compelling Rasputin or a group of gray eminences pulling the … public image has become — with fashion magazine covers, visits to schools and tours of vegetable gardens — few people doubt her intelligence and passion for favorite causes and ideas.   Is she possibly the real …

… warfare threatened to tear the party apart. This division ran the risk of continuing indefinitely the … defining paradigm in American politics.   By 1976 Gerald Ford, a member of his party’s moderate wing, found himself … They have shown no inclination toward the kind of compromise that characterized President Reagan on issues …

… President Obama, South Carolinians doubtless recognized it for what it was: the latest in a long, distinguished history of … standard-bearer for South Carolina. Among his many accomplishments, Thurmond holds the record for conducting the … History News Service …

… to consider Ukraine’s architecture during war first and foremost because it is important to the Ukrainian people. Ukrainians are not only fighting for the right to live on their territory, they are fighting … For more information about the Co-Haty Project, please visit https://www.metalab.space/co-haty-ukr Video production …

… fend off disaster. That’s unlikely. Today’s crisis calls for a new take on what used to exist: preventative … landscape and lexicon. This trend has left ever more complex financial markets and multinationals to operate in barely regulated risky gray areas. The latest near collapse of one of Wall Street’s biggest firms …

… they evolved over time? When, how, and why did abortion become such a controversial topic in the United States? How … Mark Sokolsky   Hello, everyone. Welcome to History Talk , where we ask a panel of leading … and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies. Thank you all for joining us today. So to start off, how would you define …

… anniversary of the so-called “Rumble in the Jungle,” George Foreman’s 1974 heavyweight title defense against Muhammad … saw the fight. An article from The Lantern, the student newspaper of Ohio State University, reporting on spectators … knocked out an exhausted Foreman with a series of powerful combination punches. George Foreman vs Muhammad Ali, October …

… of 2000 just as it did during the election of 1876. As the news media and lawyers from the Gore and the Bush campaigns … In the election of 1876, the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, vied for power with the Democrat candidate, … to resolve the issue in 1876 through a special Electoral Commission and a resulting complex set of commitments that …