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… but at the time it seemed like a relatively minor threat in comparison with established groups like Hamas and Hizballah. … of militant groups called The International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders. The document amounted … And the attack was executed in a manner that would soon come to characterize al Qaeda operations. The trucks were …

…   Brionna Mendoza Previously on Prologued … James Bradford The United States essentially becomes one of the major contributors to Afghanistan's … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… in an administration are almost always losing propositions for the party controlling the White House. Indeed, only … It has happened twice before in this century, and the comparisons are instructive for the current situation. In … the longer run. Robert S. McElvaine, a writer for History News Service, is a professor of history at Millsaps College …

… Just how has American society mobilized for a sense of common purpose in the past? And why have we … struggles against racism and police violence ? At different points, particularly as the United States has gone to war, … Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era …

… China, colonial Mexico, and turn-of-the-century California. Ultimately, a international perspective helps us to … drugs, we find that stories of drug wars are actually quite commonplace. Ultimately, these drug wars, waged across … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… 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 …

… and the New York Times has called it “a defining moment for Black America.” The Black Panther himself is T’challa, … was elaborated in the next issue (#53, August 1966). Marvel Comics’ dynamic duo Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the … , who has penned the storylines for the Black Panther comic since 2016, has also pointed to Ethiopia , a country …

… They argue that the Monica Lewinsky matter would never have come up save for the lawsuit filed by Paula Jones. Conservative donors in part funded the suit, they explain, while right-wing newspapers and periodicals publicized it. At least so say … History News Service …

… insisted that there can be no limits to the power of the commander-in-chief in time of war. More recently the … conundrum. President Bush has given Commander-in-Chief Bush unlimited wartime authority. But the "war on terror" is more … establishing "probable cause," attempts to assassinate foreign leaders and surveillance of American citizens. Now …

… survive in a changing world. The movie revolves around a visit by King George V and Queen Mary to Downton Abbey. George V’s reign marked a tumultuous time for Britain that witnessed not only the calamity of the … its effects: “My maid was rather curt with me, but she is a Communist at heart.” Mounted police clear demonstrators from …

… Guernica was not the first strategically insignificant, non-combatant town ever to be targeted for aerial bombardment, … that the black and white palette of the Guernica mural points to the fact that Picasso, living at the time outside … of war itself, and of the atrocities that continue to be visited upon civilian populations in the form of aerial …

… is, and used this argument to weaken the campaign finance reforms passed after Watergate. One of the justices even … rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s … political spending with political speech is but the latest version of a very old argument. The money-speech …

… largely white and conservative tradition of Protestantism. For the nation’s Catholics, liberal Protestants, Muslims, … influenced preaching in the decades since. Three important components of Graham’s outreach in particular were … century. There he attracted the attention of influential newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, who told his …

… the ways in which the flourishing of new media is transforming political and artistic expression throughout the …   Mark Sokolsky  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … the question of women's rights frequently comes to the fore. And generally the overall impression is one that …

… outside deck to get my first look at Cuba, a country that for so long seemed almost fictional. The United States’ … of Florida, yet American citizens have been restricted from visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the … the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: …

… 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 …

… In his latest work Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt … the ambiguity that debt has occupied in banking and finance for three thousand years” (p. 332), and believes … law, for instance, usury is now accepted as a standard accompaniment to the modern market economy. Indeed, one of …

… member states of the European Union in their ongoing search for safety. By extension, it describes the response of … face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely register on the radar of the global … called into question, with asylum as one of the pressure points, against the backdrop of the other crisis—that of …

… 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 …

… 1009 CE, the church serves as one of many major pilgrimage points. The interior of the Church has been split as … Catholics, and Greek Orthodox now each have a section. Visitors can observe processions of monks, priests, nuns, … Residents of Silwan gather for a celebration at their community center. This is the same question the Palestinian …

… Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … didn't die from it. And there are two interesting kind of points we can take from that. First, it tells us a little …

… and justice as a dictator or tyrannical oligarchy. Unfortunately, partisan leanings keep many people from … helps explain the behavior America’s two polarized parties, for each party is sometimes in the majority, sometimes in … the majority could not do.   One can imagine Calhoun today coming to the defense of Sen. Mitch McConnell and the …