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… as they did so last week during a nationally televised forum sponsored by CNN and Sojourners, an evangelical social … Democrats have a much better handle than their rivals on the role religion should play in the public arena. … who make up the Religious Right, faith is important when it comes to moral issues such as abortion and homosexual …

… 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 …

… I’ve read about it, 1968 was quite a year. Writers have compared it to the most dramatic moments in modern history— … an A-list of nearly monthly events, from the Tet Offensive for January and February to the triumph of Richard Nixon in … oil interests, and his third wife made an official state visit to West Berlin. A 1967 state reception for the Shah of …

… The war between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary militia Rapid Support … because SAF leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti, … settlers and southern tribes. Armed with the latest weapons, the Arab militias carried out destructive …

… Headquartered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH, Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air … the World to Flying Saucers https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/ … Project Blue Book Termination https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary Project …

… This presentation commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster … disaster, the immediate and ongoing health repercussions for the people of Bhopal, and their global legal and activist fight for justice and corporate accountability. Dr. Madhumita …

… HIV/AIDS in the late 1980s—how officials initially blamed foreign nations for the virus and denied the possibility of extensive community spread among the Soviet population—offers a … and homosexual and bisexual men. Letter writers to Soviet newspapers floated the idea of setting up a colony for the …

… and Alexander Hamilton — along with histories of our War for Independence such as David McCullough’s “1776” — into … huge bestsellers. We celebrate the Founders’ audacity and commitment, marvel at their battlefield heroics, literary … material inequalities to intensify, our social and cultural divisions to widen, our industrial and commercial …

… year, Russia’s legacy as an imperial power has suddenly become the stuff of current affairs. As Russian leaders assert … have also looked to strengthen ties with (or just annex) former imperial domains, from Crimea to Kazakhstan. Many … officer who led a polyglot army (his so-called “Asiatic Division”) against Bolshevik (Communist) forces in Mongolia …

… For several years, Iran has been at the center of … its weather, and the origin of the word "Persian," which comes from Fars province in southwestern Iran, home to … exceptionalism. For the reader who is not familiar with the division between Sunni and Shia Islam, Axworthy points out …

… For over 600 years, the Ottoman Empire stood as one of the … Anatolia by disproportionately affecting the Ottomans’ rivals remains a matter of controversy. A depiction of … ecology and disease. Indeed, this earlier experience with combating plague served the Ottomans well as they entered …

… a million people. South Dakota, the stories revealed, had become the “Cayman Islands of the Heartland.” As unlikely as … Bill” Janklow singlehandedly enticed Citibank’s credit card division to relocate to Sioux Falls, the state’s largest … costs associated with the rally impacted local people and visitors alike. Sky-high rents, for example, meant that some …

… who is better known by her given name of Edith Stein — was formally declared a saint and martyr by Pope John Paul II. … “Christianize” the Holocaust in order to play down Catholic complicity in Nazi atrocities. This controversy comes at a … Jews a priority of his papacy. He is the first pope to have visited one of the chief synagogues of Rome. Under his …

… into law on April 3, 1948. The Marshall Plan, as it’s more commonly known, was intended to revive the economies of … Italy, and West Germany, the program was an ambitious foreign aid effort and an unprecedented display of U.S. … economy committed to capitalism, however, hardened early divisions between Western- and Soviet-occupied lands. …

… employed them in operations to deliver weapons to various combatants in Africa. By his own admission, he had flown weapons to anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan during the 1990s and aided the French … Republicans, and he arranged shipments so that the best and latest weapons went to Franco while the oldest and least …