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… HarperCollins, Seal Press, Rowman & Littlefield, and St. Martin's Press. Treva B. Lindsey is an associate professor … Within 100 hours, he signed 17 executive orders, 12 revoking counterproductive immigration policies of the previous … and undocumented immigrants rather than just those lacking papers, revoking immigration orders and also the border …

… who were charged with attempting to assassinate high-ranking Soviet officials, and a power struggle among members of … Stalin, both at the Party and ground level, but someone looking for an explanation of where that fear originated and …

… economic sanctions, political isolation, scores of assassination plots against the Cuban leadership, and years … some of the most fundamental premises of U.S. strategic thinking, “imperiling the very survival of the United States,” … War. The bottom caption on the original read: "Taking Cuba from Spain was easy. Preserving it from …

… opposition parties, this smelled like a monarchy in the making. The morning of June 23, demonstrators gathered legally … there are shortages of everything. Now Wade wants to be our king, but we don't want a king. We want our country back." Returning to my room, I …

… that succession. Jackson was blocked in his attempt to make Martin Van Buren, who was his choice to succeed him, …

… This year marks the 500-year anniversary of the pricking of one man's conscience. Bartolomé de las Casas, … of war who were not Catholic . This category included Lutherans, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Slavs, non-Catholic … newly encountered indigenous peoples in the Americas, working many of them to death. The Spanish committed numerous …

… of 130 black men celebrating the convention before attacking those in the convention hall. By the time they ran out … Robertson, and Denise McNair ( right ). Two weeks after Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Klan members …

… international ridicule, particularly in the United Kingdom. "Water-boo," crowed The Sun. "Just for once, France … democracy." These cross-Channel jibes are especially striking given that Britain, which left the European Union after … of 2015, members of the British royal family joined high-ranking dignitaries from other European nations and a quarter …

… island territory. In fact, Puerto Ricans are Americans—making our relations not foreign, but familiar or even … or for independence, it was largely concerned with making life better for Puerto Ricans. The PPD sought land and … support from a variety of people including pop star Ricky Martin, Al Sharpton, and even Pope John Paul II. The …

… Cold War was designed to deter the Soviet Union from attacking the United States and its allies by threatening it with …

… to the Vatican, a man named Thomas Doyle, who began looking into this question. The lawyer on the case and Doyle, … Most people have heard of the indulgence affairs that Martin Luther objected to, but there's also a pervasive form of …

… colonial French rule in Haiti . Shaped by the edicts of King Louis XIV of France in 1685 that limited religious … beliefs that surround death and sorcery. Researchers looking for the origins of zombies outside of Haiti argue it is … growth of the genre that we know in the present. 9. Rethinking Zombies, from Ghouls to Monsters Covers of the 2006 …

… time in which they lived. Fletcher accomplishes this by walking the reader through nearly 150 years of Italian history, … urbanization, and the rise of Italian trade and banking, allowed for a vast concentration of wealth in … VIII invaded the Italian peninsula in order to conquer the Kingdom of Naples. Initially invited by some of the Italian …

… The best known example is the plunder of the capital of the kingdom of Benin in 1897 by a British “punitive” expedition, … symbolic “gifts,” such as an Ashanti stool that the United Kingdom returned to newly independent Ghana in 1957. These … around colonialism and its long-term effects, it is striking how similar the counterarguments against restitution …

… Wise diplomats, therefore, will not succumb to wishful thinking, dreaming of permanent solutions. The 58-year … its first climax in the 480s when Xerxes, the “Great King” of Persia, invaded Greece with an enormous army. …

… General Alberto R. Gonzales and Professor John Yoo, then working in the White House, Bush has insisted that there can be … 30 years ago during the Vietnam War, Congress passed laws making clear that presidents were not to engage in … agents, have both been violated by an administration seeking to restore "the legitimate authority of the …

… it was Algeria’s Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN), seeking independence from France, that defined modern terrorism … need not call into question Yasser Arafat’s recent peacemaking moves to recall that for years his Palestinian … civilians while committing some of the world’s most shocking deeds. The constituent groups of Arafat’s PLO pioneered …

… occupation of the Ruhr by Franco-Belgian forces, stoking nationalist resentments.  The economy, already in … The eight-hour workday, a cherished promise to Germany’s working class that stood out as one of the few tangible … through these crises. Just one month later, as “vigilante” assassinations and political violence destabilized the …

… a decaying party and a restive electorate cracked it. The assassination of a PRI candidate in mysterious circumstances … the process of selecting candidates, as opposed to handpicking by incumbent party leaders or cabals. The final …

… (then named Octavian) as his heir, and Julius’s assassination gave the young man an instant spot in the … grain supply, and the maintenance of public works, thus taking on the biggest responsibilities of any government. As … Prima Porta Statue shows a powerful and youthful Augustus making an address. This story is usually told and appreciated …

… David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea  is not, strictly speaking, a history of oceans. As the sub-title suggests, this … role throughout this book. For instance, the medieval kingdom of Sri Vijaya in Sumatra thrived because its …

… city into a state of panic by means of widespread arson and assassination, including the murder of Cicero. With the city … Senate’s advice, put the prisoners to death. Strictly speaking, the executions were illegal (as we are supposing … out a coup d’etat? When Cicero saved the republic by breaking the law, he had every reason to believe that he would …

… EU member, has stepped up to help its smaller, Romanian-speaking neighbor during this time of crisis. Bucharest has … until the mid-1800s.  Prior to this Romanian national awaking, the people who make up modern Romania and Moldova … his rule.  The union, however, soon collapsed with the assassination of Prince Mihai by a treasonous Habsburg …

… altogether. One of these influential isolationists was Martin Dies, the Texas congressman who chaired the House … for a pre-emptive attack on Britain and France before making war on the eastern front. And his impatience for …