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… whom I have known for years. I wanted to find out how they were faring in the midst of the turmoil that has … family is familiar with political defeat: the elder Odinga was bested by Kenya's first post-independence president, … pressures have exerted significant influences. When Nobel Prizewinning author Ngugi wa Thiong'o says that …

… I stand at the bow of the ferry as the water of the White Sea comes in … People have come to Solovki for thousands of years, but it wasn’t until the late 15 th century that humans began to … to take advantage of the rich fishing in the waters nearby. When winter came they would return to their homes on the …

… recent, quasi-confessional speech about his religion and the role of religion in the town square, Romney said: … wants to join, tells a story of moral decline: America was once great and righteous and true, and now we have slid … of this separation to William Penn’s Philadelphia. When he founded the City of Brotherly Love in the 1680s he …

… The city of Yonkers, N.Y., has canceled its Memorial Day … the observance is fading as an American holiday. A sad fact when you remember the history of its placement on the U.S. … to exhume and reinter scattered Confederate remains in the Washington, D.C. area in a special section of Arlington and …

… Now that the Obama-Clinton battle is over, the Democrats face another fight that could split the party. In July, when the 186 members of the platform committee meet, they’ll … antiwar stance, in the primaries he charged that McGovern was too weak to stand up to America’s enemies. After …

… of Americans in a recent poll expressed support for the use of our military as part of law enforcement during … political convictions of our founders. “No standing armies” was one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution. … Always, though, the posse was composed of civilians. When the sheriff wanted people with military experience, he …

… In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, an unexpected … This difference revives a debate that most of us thought was settled nearly 50 years ago. In the early 1950s, it was … remained largely a historical curiosity until this year, when the Bush campaign began promoting its own version of …

…  hosts   Patrick Potyondy  and  Leticia Wiggins  explore the political climate of a nation that's remained on distant … of American involvement in Cuba between 1898 and 1959 was, and if you'd like to get us rolling first, Dr. … Cuban affairs up until, at least officially, up until 1934, when President Roosevelt finally did away with those …

… drifter and petty criminal, raised a bathroom window at the rear of Bessie Brewer’s Rooming House on South Main … Model 760 rifle across the street at the Lorraine Motel . When he saw Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. step onto the … at St. Joseph’s Hospital pronounced Dr. King dead. He was 39. As word of the tragedy spread throughout Memphis, a …

… Though his name is barely known in the West, the Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707) stands out as … and committing genocide.  To some South Asian Muslims, he was an exemplary orthodox ruler, whose conquests brought … of earlier generations and current political movements. When Aurangzeb took power, the Mughal Empire had ruled large …

… In Petrograd—as the too-German-sounding “St. Petersburg” was renamed during the war—cracks appeared in the form of … Practically overnight, Russia had become, at least in Lenin’s famous description, “the freest country in the … The tragedy that followed “reminds us what happens when aggression, selfishness and the unbridled ambitions of …

… When President Clinton named historian John Hope Franklin to chair the Advisory Board of the President’s Initiative on Race in … “To Secure These Rights,” released 50 years ago on Oct. 29, was a political bombshell, calling for the “elimination of …

… When was the last time you used a landline phone to make a … system would not officially emerge until the 1860s when cables were improved to endure oceanic conditions.) …

… As we near the centennial of the 19 th Amendment—and with the … thing, as a new voting group, women's turnout at the polls was much lower than men's and it remained, it remained lower … politics.   Dr. Susan Hartmann  But they didn't renew it, when they realized they passed it. I think, because they did …

… This Friday, December 1st, for the first time since Mexico's modern revolution in … States survived an acid test of constitutional government when Thomas Jefferson's party peacefully replaced John … Adams's. What made that distant election of 1800 so epochal was that it was the first peaceful transition between …

… In October 2010, the Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega made news by … inescapable conclusion for him and other finance ministers was that no country could gain if all countries devalued … development. This was true in the late-nineteenth century when the rising powers of the age--such as Germany, Japan, …

… The history of the US woman suffrage movement is usually … overlooks how profoundly international the struggle was from the start. Suffragists from the United States and … mixed-sex audience—embraced a diasporic vision of freedom when she asked in 1832: “How long shall the fair daughters …

… From Plague to Influenza and HIV, learn about the history of global pandemics in order to better … respond to your questions. Many of you submitted questions when you registered. And we also will be collecting … he's the dude in the middle there. Interestingly, Justinian was himself a casualty of the plague. He contracted the …

… 2018, Brazil elected far-right ideologue Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Bolsonaro, a retired military officer often … back what he called, quote, the good old days of 1964 1985 when a repressive military regime ruled the country, the … of the questions that we’ll be trying to answer today. Why was Bolsonaro's campaign so appealing to so many Brazilians? …

… On this episode of Prologued, we continue our examine of how the War on Drugs intersected with the Cold War by examining … did revolutionary politics threaten the status quo, but it was also suspected that revolutionary groups funded their … enact drug control within whatever states such as Mexico. When looking at drug control, and the relationship between …

… In this season of a million mothers marching for the cause of gun control legislation, we … a modern tragedy and an international embarrassment when one looks at gun deaths in the United States compared … of mankind interfere on these matters to prevent the waste of human life of which they alone bear and know the …

… Historian Deborah Lipstadt begins her 1994 book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory with … of Reason.” She worries about the 20% of Americans who, when surveyed about whether the Holocaust happened, answer … House after the election, shaking the recent winner’s hand was the only option for a sitting President interested in …