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… Union. Nearly three years, later, however, the final outcome of Brexit remains uncertain. And issues that affect the … changed? What were the political and economic forces that compelled the UK to join the EU in the first place? What … Dream? , Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace , and The EU: Past, Present, and Future . ( …

… Eric Michael Rhodes   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together … infectious diseases can be caused by bacteria, fungus, parasites and viruses and HIV, which stands for ”human … propelled the spread of HIV, especially before it becomes something that is part of the scientific or public …

… Over the last year, we have come to know a good deal about Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. … Graduate had it. Today's college students face the very opposite: uncertain prospects in a capricious world. Many, I … of consumption with the first cell phone and the first credit card; pushes them into colleges that no longer …

… peace. At his inaugural ceremony in 2018, he counseled a complete break with the past forms of governance that were … and invited banned opposition groups to return. The Nobel committee was most impressed that he made peace with … which began around 1769, is known in Amharic as the Zemene Mesafint, which is translated as the “Age of Princes.” …

… nation must choose between alternative ways of life, “communist or free,” Truman declared. Truman shook off fears … taught the nation that in a cold war the only possible outcome is stalemate, not permanent safety. As dreams of … kinds of peril, too. Once again, terribly repressive regimes are being dubbed “friends of freedom.” Once again, a …

… Act — known also as the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act — a long and ugly history of violence and … hands in public, embracing at an airport, or from being comfortable in workplaces where heterosexual family photos … signals of same-gender love. This culture has a deep and complicated history as the Freemasons engraving and poem …

… while other jurisdictions declared these children unwelcome. A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border … Young immigrant girl in turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires; Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Archivo General de la Nación … was contributed by unauthorized residents, has been deposited into the “Earnings Suspense File” of the Social …

… unrecognized until recently by anyone in the international community. It has its own government, though largely staffed … and South Ossetians suffered horribly and fled their homes, but in the end it was mostly Georgian villages that … under Georgian nationalist pressures. Rising crime and unsupervised paramilitaries intensified the feeling of …

… ongoing capital campaign. Workers survey the damage after a commuter train crashed into a passenger car near Valhalla, … of the United States to stabilize and improve the nation’s credit ( left ). The 1993 unveiling of the road sign for the … and internal improvements fill a wagon being pulled in opposite directions with Henry Clay and Horace Greeley on one …

… London, city displaced court as the preferred site of the social scene, while new money engendered a … of intense familiarity with distance.  This is the "compound" that makes the celebrity sacred in modern society: … simultaneously invests her/him with the "remoteness of the supernatural" (10-11, 156).    Inglis' narrative of the …

… the British military. Yet, they also inherited the English common law tradition of regulating arms. English statutes … In 1792, Congress gave the president power to select two sites for the nation’s federal armories. George Washington … by adopting new inventions without being convinced of their superiority.” The government would not purchase weapons from …

… the term “New Cold War” has mushroomed among analysts and commentators seeking to define contemporary geopolitics. … rapprochement with the US. Nixon, after all, famously visited the country in 1972; the Shanghai Communique was … may not be state of the art for the 1970s, but as her supervisor points out, it is a stunning testament to the …

… kill a gorilla who had done nothing wrong. Still others posited that the wrongdoing lay not with any particulars, but … even have gorilla enclosures in the first place? It should come as no surprise that zoos make headlines. According to a … annually, more than do all NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB games combined. These zoos also contribute almost $20 billion …

… Republicans. This allows her to easily skim over the often complicated inter-relations between politics, science, and … of the changing world. The development of capitalism and credit networks throughout Europe is a fruitful location for … and networks of communication would do better to look at James Van Horn Melton's The Rise of the Public in …

… Loving v. Virginia , the most pertinent film is Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1968), which features a stirring defense … in which lovers look at each other, rather than in opposite directions. Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and … on the couch laughing at the TV. As Nichols’ film ends, the credits reveal the actual photograph of the Lovings on the …

… on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … west of Istanbul. The canal would bypass the Bosporus , the site of multiple shipping accidents, and link the Black Sea … list of grandiose construction projects that cram the volumes of human history. Canals throughout history have long …

… religious aura of rivers enhanced the status of riverine communities” (31). Rivers were ascribed human qualities and … the ancient world were lived and experienced in very local, site-specific ways. The annual flood on the Nile was an … lamented for their destruction. The study of Roman rivers comes with difficulties, however. There are only so many …

… its pragmatic approach to governance, especially during times of crisis. The Ottoman Empire at its greatest extent in … ecology and disease. Indeed, this earlier experience with combating plague served the Ottomans well as they entered … Eighteenth-Century Cairo: In Search of Burial and Memorial Sites,” in Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean …

… In June 2011, the non-governmental organization Global Commission on Drug Policy published a report detailing the … of drugs to consumers have moved geographically many times across Latin America. Like all successful businesses, … more easily moved from Atlantic to Pacific, where it transited Nicaragua and entered Mexican ports. Although the …

… ubicada en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, prosperó como una ciudad hace casi dos mil años. El ascenso y la … no se sabe enteramente, pero sus residentes dejaron dos enormes pirámides demostrando su fuerza e inteligencia. La … de Antropología en la Ciudad de México. En la parte superior de esta imagen, se encuentra un cuadro ilustrando …

… with his nutty words: the way the Bush administration has compromised American foreign policy and jeopardized world … in 1962 when the Soviets agreed to dismantle weapons sites in Cuba. Given Kennedy's brinksmanship, however, … bring countries like Venezuela and Russia together. To his credit, Barack Obama has been less bellicose. At the height …

… William B. Ross died while governor in October 1924 from complications following an emergency appendectomy. The … own.  In Texas, the Legislature impeached its governor, James E. Ferguson, in 1917 and subsequently barred him from … office. October 1974 saw the passage of the federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), which barred certain types of …