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… peace with all their neighbors, their frustrated desire for security is now blocking the path to peace. As the latest round in the Israeli-Palestinian battle nears its … as a permanent fact of life. The Zionists aimed to overcome that psychological infirmity by making the Jews a …

… the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences flocked to public concert halls to applaud the latest music. It was in this environment that Beethoven …

… The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in 1993, but encompasses a long history of African American and African … diaspora through technoculture and science fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared … experiences.” In the first lesson, we move McDow’s argument forward by exploring Black Panther, and other Black …

… of Justice decided to revise the Second Amendment. This latest example of politically motivated historical revisionism completes the task begun by John Ashcroft in 2001 in his … memo designed to give activist judges a historical pretext for striking down existing gun laws. Ironically, rewriting …

… For a while it was thought that William Shakespeare … the rights of his novel to a printer. He was buried in a common grave. Most profoundly, our modern sensibility is … of the Bible, the  Iliad  and  Odyssey , the  Divine Comedy  and the  Canterbury Tales —didn’t explore our inner …

… William Colby has become a more or less forgotten figure in the turbulent history of the 1960s and … the newly created CIA. Colby was assigned to the “Plans Division”—what we now call operations. By now, the Cold War …

… material. 2. Increase student empathy and awareness of the complexities of a pandemic (past or present). 3. Introduce … the human impacts of a pandemic (again, past or present). Visit the  Pandemic Pedagogies  website at  https://pandemicpedagogiesproject.wordpress.com/ …

… President Obama and candidate Mitt Romney take to the stage for a foreign policy debate on Oct. 22, nuclear weapons are sure to come up, especially Iran’s ambitions for the bomb. But the … have nukes, including Russia, China, North Korea, and rivals India and Pakistan.   As President Eisenhower once …

… 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 …

… to confederate into the Dominion of Canada. Preparations for the celebration of this anniversary have been branded … leaders from Métis artist Christi Belcourt to Anishinaabe comedian Ryan McMahon have pointed out that the past 150 … built on the theft of indigenous lands. Canadian rule has visited the violence of the residential schools, a sustained …

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate with the 1960s, a … later, as well as the music festivals we see today. In comparison to today’s bloated ticket prices, admission for …

… Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom is certainly timely. Brands engages … His subsequent arrest, trial, and execution led to Brown becoming a martyr for the cause of liberty. The book’s final … or Dred Scott. This type of book would much more fully encompass the diversity within the anti-slavery movement of …

… civilization is a myth. It does political and cultural work for those who cling to it, but it does not faithfully convey … story, the myth relegates that city’s more interesting, complicated history to the margins. Ian Worthington’s latest book, Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander …