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… great paradox. With its fast-growing economy, China has become the leading producer of CO2 (though not on a per-capita basis). Simultaneously, it has become the world's leading producer of green and renewable … environment, and what global role China might play in the coming years in confronting climate change. ( Image Source ) …

… getting Congress to rein in lobbyists? Can any good really come out of congressional efforts to thwart corruption? The cynics say no. Yet … a colossal travesty of representative government. What ultimately changed things was public outrage, a stubborn … History News Service …

… horizons of empathy,” quickly became the dominant priority for people under German occupation. His conclusion, finally, … phases of the war affected daily life. Gossip about the latest news of the war mattered to people trapped in the … German soldier. Fritzsche is particularly interested in comparing the French and Polish accounts about sharing space …

… lucky. Their ability to afford their monthly payments was compromised first by the falling market, then by mortgages … down payments, usually at least 40% of the house's price. Mortgages before the Depression were not amortized, … homes by extending their mortgage terms up to 30 years, ultimately decreasing the borrower's monthly payments. While …

… nation. Strained budgets have been the most cited reason for past cancelations of Memorial Day events. But the truth … in Arlington National Cemetery were not even permitted to visit the grave sites of their relatives after the Civil … the national holiday from its pedestal. Memorial Day commemorates the men and women killed on the battlefield or …

… a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed … Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that … in History Program, and President of the Association for Jewish Studies. Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator) is an …

… that the Native acquisition of arms accounted for their ultimate subjugation at the hands of Euro-American … them and Euro-Americans saying “Indian polities used commercial and military leverage to shape these … of some Native groups in this new world did come at a price for others. Indian groups with less access to or …

… Published just before the November 2016 U.S. presidential election, Stephen … U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … circumstances, wishing to return home. Eleanor Roosevelt visits Hungarian Freedom Fighters in Salzburg, Austria, …

… expenditures dropped precipitously and remained low for several decades. Even though the nation’s population … ongoing capital campaign. Workers survey the damage after a commuter train crashed into a passenger car near Valhalla, … international Cold War politics created a two-tiered price system for petroleum (imported and domestic), and …

… a chronic condition that can have serious, life-threatening complications if left untreated. Diabetes is caused when the … first successfully used on January 23, 1922. The efforts to refine and distribute insulin therapy represented … ketonuria disappeared. Within two months, Banting and his team published their results. In April, Macleod suggested …

… on Prologued...   Alexander Aviña  So it's a really, like, complex, messy matrix, right? So I don't want to say that … of politics and economic development, and I would argue, ultimately, for the human sanctity of life, because what you … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit the episode descriptions for citations to background …

… Yours for $17,900. $17,900. That house—that home—for the price of a cheap car. Pick up a paper these days and you … the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the … crying. We'll still talk, we tell each other. We'll come to visit. Nothing will change. And we believe what we're …

… Historians have come to love the milestone anniversaries of significant … exclusively to the description and analysis of the winding fortunes of the colony once it is actually planted in the … Guiana, Newfoundland, and New England. Jamestown was ultimately successful and is therefore extremely important …

… ubicada en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, prosperó como una ciudad hace casi dos mil años. El ascenso y la … Aztecas, el sacrificio humano probablemente era una de las formas más profundas de apaciguar a los dioses. En 1519, … Aparte de ser un lugar estupendo que turistas pueden visitar, el Zócalo también es usado para protestar contra …

… present in the Alexander legends. The Egyptian tradition, for example, credited Nectanebo, the last historical pharaoh … birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … Persia. The Jewish and Arabic traditions relate Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and his founding of cities. In the Jewish …

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate with the 1960s, a … we see today. In comparison to today’s bloated ticket prices, admission for Monterey cost between $3 and $6.50 …

… three industrial revolutions: mechanized production by steam power in the first, mass production by electricity in … in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … centered on efficiency, maximal productivity, and ultimately human redundancy—and instead championed other …

… and profitability.” Aside from PERU-Hub, research teams from OU recently completed the first phase of … themselves, as one NGO put it, caught “between two fires.” Ultimately, however, organized community resistance, both in … Today, as national governments and institutions abroad revisit the idea of transferring technology to Peru’s farmers, …

… share of the paycheck. The astronomically high real estate prices in Silicon Valley (where even people with six-figure incomes may qualify for housing subsidies) have attracted … of Homeowners: Ciudad Kennedy President John F. Kennedy visits El Techo housing project, Bogotá, Colombia, 1961 On …

… Department of History share how environmental history informs our shared future in a world confronted by pandemics, … last president said about these things, it didn't matter ultimately, and forgive me for this, that we never really … it doesn't look so bad. You go out to the gas station, the price looks decent, right? But that's because of that …

… view of wartime Washington. On most mornings, Lincoln commuted into the city, but during hot summer months his … president shut the doors of his cottage to uninvited visitors. Lincoln met with antiwar politicians while at the … anything else. Perhaps it’s unfair to criticize the Bush team for missing such opportunities in the dog days of …

… empire and the swirling political currents that would ultimately engulf him and his family. This month, a century … to old Muscovy. The imperial family cruised on luxury steamships along the Volga through ancestral Romanov lands. … workers were carefully muzzled in advance of the tsar’s visit. Celebration of the Romanovs’ heritage could draw …

… very heart of the case. In amicus curiae briefs submitted for U.S. v. Windsor , children were a central focus in both … of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere—organizations that had come out of gay-father activism of the 1980s—wrote a brief … from their ex-spouses in order to keep their children or visitation rights. There were still dangers involved in …