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… "has nothing to do with slavery."  He proposes that it is a commemoration of South Carolinians who "stood up for their … waltzes get headlines, but Monday night will be just one more showdown in another civil war, one that has raged … Americans in Charleston also built a cemetery for Union soldiers who had died as prisoners of war, and they came by the …

… of Canada’s past held by many Canadians, this act functioned as an Indigenous ceremony and as a declaration of … even before treaties were signed, suggesting that expediency and opportunity trumped genuine regard for Indigenous … for 2018. Indeed, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s website “ Beyond 94 ” that tracks which of the …

… was a slave-holder or even that he fathered children with one of those slaves. Rather, Jefferson’s sin in the eyes of … French scholar Jean Bauberot. Bauberot sees three essential components to a secular society: 1) the separation of religious …

… the elevator. (Photo Credit, AP)  In late July 2014, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also handed Rice a two game suspension. … closest to God, could use physical violence to punish disobedient wives, children, or servants. In Puritan society and …

… August, the American news media note the anniversary of one of the most important events of the twentieth … atomic bombing of two Japanese cities. Most reporters and commentators who write about Hiroshima and Nagasaki … against men, women and children." A few months later, one of the most popular radio commentators during the war …

… One of the growing challenges facing our digitally-driven … suffering a "bad case of footnote paranoia" (291).  While completing a last minute source review before sending her … The swindler—now called John Dow—was exiled to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) for his crime.  But before his ship …

… how General Motors and Chrysler and Ford are hemorrhaging money; how they're lurching toward catastrophe; how disaster … But in the end most of them had chosen Detroit for only one reason: work.  In the first half of the twentieth … the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the …

… Drexel Burnham Lambert, Michael Milken’s junk bond shop, to die a slow death from 1986 to 1990, the term “regulation” … landscape and lexicon. This trend has left ever more complex financial markets and multinationals to operate in … regulated risky gray areas. The latest near collapse of one of Wall Street’s biggest firms recalls the market …

… tenants of true womanhood to argue that women were morally superior and well equipped to care for American society in … determine whether the United States should join World War One. Rankin, representing the poor rural mothers of her … as president of the NCN,W the organization deepened its commitment to the Civil Rights Movement, with Height joining …

… Bridge, Rick Perlstein—a journalist by profession, but one with a keen eye toward the historical—completes his trilogy chronicling the rise of what has been … is to chart how Americans were able to re-declare their superiority, their exceptionalism, their faith in …

… when  Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election by one electoral vote. It happened again in 2016 when  Hilary … in the 18th century included the selflessness to put the common good above special interests. Only a few (men) could … originated in ancient Greece and Rome, reemerged among medieval Italian states and again among Dutch and Polish …

… Hornet pilots defied the orders of their American commanding officers. These pilots independently aborted 40 … of civilian casualties. Australian authorities reprimanded none of the pilots—they were following Australian rules of … device. The "blue on blue" incident killed one British soldier and wounded another. These two incidents are cautionary …

… Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009), one of the most celebrated American landscape architects, … outside of Haifa, then Palestine , working on a kibbutz (a communal farm). When Halprin returned to the U.S. he trained … drugs at one end of the fountain, walk to the other end and die. This was not the “interactivity” Halprin had in mind. …

… Crocodile ] in 1922 and the equally influential magazine Ogonek [ Little Spark ] the following year. He estimated that … It is impossible to imagine a Soviet citizen who lived and died without encountering at least one of Efimov’s images. … War I and after the 1917 Revolution and to signal their commitment to the new Bolshevik cause.   Mikhail, the elder …

… to Mecca, is a central ritual of the Muslim faith and one of the largest and oldest gatherings of people in the … safety, and how much states should subsidize the ritual—is complicated. In many countries, demand for hajj visas … Ukraine , Russia offered Crimean Tatars generous hajj subsidies ($1000 per person, about a third of the cost of an …

… And while they could not be more different in style, tone, and story, the two films are instructively complementary in reminding us of an uncomfortable truth … gave masters ownership and control over the labor and bodies of the men, women, and children who by law were their …

… Class is back. Whatever its other accomplishments, the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprouted … of shoes from start to finish; now as a wage worker, he cut one piece of leather to the same shape over and over. As … all boats. Harry S Truman, who became president when FDR died in office in 1945 and narrowly won a second term in …