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… place the issue on a referendum, in hope that voters will change their constitutions to be more restrictive.   … New England founded its colonial enterprise with some official divisions between state and church — not allowing … religiously intolerant regimes in the world today.   The outcome of the recent referendum in California shows us that …

… duty and may face a court martial. U.S. military and Iraqi officials have decried the incident. This sort of act is … or seemingly unarmed, people have been killed before and will be killed again by soldiers making split-second … the last decades of the 20th century. Tales of Americans committing atrocities in Korea have persisted for decades. …

… best parts of the book. Each of Eller’s fifteen chapters offers a survey of the given tradition’s popular history, … saying grace before Thanksgiving dinner in 1942. Readers will learn about Memorial Day’s origin as a Southern … as a jingoistic celebration of the flag. Perhaps the most compelling stories Eller tells come in the political and …

… Mirror of Antiquity Podcast Donna Zuckerberg - How to Be a Good Classicist Under a Bad Emperor ( Image Source ) … Brenna Miller   Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together a … Greeks and Romans better than they do, because they've seen 300, or, you know, so I think that can be, I think, a …

… King. Jury selection began November 15. The case hardly comes as a surprise. In recent years, the King family has … One reason may be that while King was alive, federal officials who were aligned against him got away with … Negro leader in the country.” Hoover’s hatred for King bordered on the pathological, and when the civil rights …

… Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In addition to completing the monumental  King Era Trilogy , Branch has … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … Branch  Well, it's changed slowly in one way, which is that 30 years ago, when the NCAA controlled all of the televised …

… for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … region before. With only a small number of colonial state officials to administer an area of over 900,000 square … ( right ). Within months of official independence on June 30, 1960, the fragile democratic system found itself under …

… Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk produced by Origins , a project of the … president. And he is, he was coming from a relatively well off family, Alawite family who lived in that mountainous … If we talk about Turkey I will say 1920s, 30s, with the establishment of the Republic of Turkey under …

… having gotten his doctoral degree in Germany during the 1930s was in part responding to currents within German … Nazi anti Semitism and racial ideology required one to overcome a number of intellectual hurdles. How could one accept … manages to capture the intellectual milieu of Nazi Germany, offering a fascinating glimpse into academic culture under …

… Franklin Roosevelt's first vice president, "had a pretty good handle" on the vice presidency when he disparaged the office as "not worth a bucket of warm piss."  Perry also … up from the nation's second job.     But Garner's pithy comment no longer describes the vice presidency.     The …

… to worse. Newscasters spin doomsday scenarios. So do public officials. But should Attorney General John Ashcroft be … of immigrants were rounded up on vague suspicion of communist or anarchist sympathies. Ashcroft and his aides … flesh were several pamphlets titled “Plain Words”: “There will have to be bloodshed; we will not dodge; there will …

… of the Fallen is a mass burial site that was designed to commemorate the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) as a … began on 18 July 1936 when General Franco and other Spanish officers from the colonial Army of Africa staged a failed … who wanted to preserve the hierarchies of the pre-1914 order against those who embraced social and political …

… the Taliban now confront the challenge of governing this complex country and establishing a stable government. Since … how they achieved victory, and what they want today may offer a clearer view of the Taliban challenge for the … fulfills an injunction found in the Quran to “command good and forbid evil,” an interpretation that most …

… the global economy. This conversation has raised uncomfortable questions about contemporary businesses and … participate in moral consumerism? How do we promote public goods in an inherently immoral system while maintaining our … labor. Pictured here is Pellatt and Green’s glassware shop in St Paul’s Churchyard in London in 1809. Glassware …

… Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … electing the first person to have never before served in office or in the military. But the vitriol and divisiveness … civil discussion, civil debate being kind of eroded in last 30-40 years, and I also thinking here of Jill Lepore's great …

… it. Halfway through his first term, he secretly decided to complete American troop withdrawals around election time. … in Iraq shares the strengths and weaknesses of Nixon's offensive against North Vietnamese infiltrators on the Ho … discussed elections in the South. It sounded good to most voters. But South Vietnam had rejected Nixon's …

… two bitter wars from 1994-1996 and 1999-2009, is only 300 miles from Sochi. While Chechnya is relatively quiet … called for staying home from Sochi. Some European political officials announced that they will not attend Sochi, … delegation to Sochi. Inadvertently, the Sochi games have become the gay games. Homosexuality in Russia Today The …

… of the Second World War began. More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … had launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest military offensive in human history. After two years of decisive … Moscow. Within two weeks, the Wehrmacht advanced more than 300 miles. Hitler, increasingly directing military …

… Although he died more than 50 years ago, his life and work command more attention now than ever before. Many of his … international movements at the turn of the 20 th century against imperialism and for equality more broadly. He … of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 ( left ). Du Bois in his office at The Crisis , the official magazine of the NAACP ( …

… international race for the arctic . He tells us about the complex and perhaps explosive historical dimensions of … Jeffrey Dunifon. Thanks for being on the show, Nick and welcome.   Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Thank you so much, Patrick. … part of the 20th century, in particular, the 1920s and 1930s when it was the year of the Soviet Union. This was a …

… The Republican party, by the way, has no superdelegates. Office-holding superdelegates (most of whom are … and make their own choices free from the influence of the common people. Instead, nearly all states allowed the … national conventions. In virtually all elections from the 1830s through the 1890s, party politics firmly controlled most …

… In fact, as surprising as it may be to sports watchers and commentators, how Americans talk about sports today is a … as Percy Gardner (1846-1937) and E. Norman Gardiner (1864-1930). And it was utilized by politicians and intellectuals … when he was investigated for rape in 2012-13 and cited for shoplifting in 2014 – but his former high school retired his …