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… On the season premiere of Prologued, we confront the myth of … in American politics since the turn of the 20th century, when men who opposed women's suffrage based their concern on … an unanticipated election result. The most recent anomaly was the 2016 presidential election. November 10, 2016, was a …

… Conservatives portray the men who framed the Constitution as repositories of … Majority preference is at the core of self-government when choices can be confirmed or reversed on a frequent … They believed that a higher degree of democratic consensus was essential to obligate the government for an extended …

… For anyone who follows the American media’s treatment of Asia, coverage of President Bush’s recent whirlwind visit to Vietnam was bound to trigger a sense of d vu. Why? Because the … the one they took to Beijing’s moves in the same direction when Bill Clinton visited China back in 1998. What remains …

… Abiy Ahmed Ali accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, 2019. When Abiy assumed leadership of Ethiopia, a country of 110 … banned opposition groups to return. The Nobel committee was most impressed that he made peace with Eritrea. But his … of the emperor, and refashioned Ethiopia into a Marxist-Leninist state. Mengistu Haile Mariam became chairman of the …

… Musings on a Frozen History by David Steigerwald Given the number of half-century retrospectives I’ve read about it, 1968 was quite a year. Writers have compared it to the most … Cold War order. There is much to this view, particularly when we think globally, as the authors were doing. Whether a …

… 2018, daily street protests have taken place across the Republic of Sudan. Protestors targeted the regime of … the government. Yet the protests persisted until he was finally forced from office. These events join 1964 and 1985 as moments when Sudanese activists overthrew the country’s military …

… The story of Marcus Dixon isn’t the only newsworthy court … to 10 years in prison after having sex with a girl who was a few months shy of her 16th birthday. Dixon, who … of social superiority. The racial line might be crossed when lust came calling, but that line couldn’t be erased. …

… When President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation into law in 2002, one thing was strikingly clear: politicians loved it almost as …

… Join hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins and their guests, historians David Brakke , Tina Sessa , and … 16th, stepped down from this post and a second living Pope was chosen.   Leticia Wiggins   And then the excitement just … us off on this first question.   Dr. David Brakke   Right when I wrote about Two Pope's and a Primate, what I was …

… quality permeated impeachment proceedings in Congress at the close of last week. And rightfully so, for the House of … physical body of citizen Clinton will survive. This was not always the case with grievously erring heads of … precedents come from), of course, one has to be careful when using concepts like “the people”. For all practical …

… The demand that society legally recognize same-sex marriages … is indeed a huge challenge to traditional marriage. And it was heterosexuals who pioneered this revolution. Gays and … even unite two live human beings. In China and the Sudan, when two sets of parents wanted to forge closer family ties …

… With the August 18, 1920 ratification, women's suffrage was now … It was a fight to  gain  the right to vote. In an era when even if there were disagreements as to specifics and …

… Where’s the outrage? Americans often seem immune to it. Public … statutes to govern the developing capitalist marketplace. When flour merchants drove up prices during the American … that the bank had issued fifty times more paper money than was warranted by its gold and silver, the savings of …

… In his latest book, Peter Brown surveys the ways in which Christians living in Western Europe from … circumstances in the secular world. Fittingly, since it was none other than Peter Brown who defined the years … their standing in the hereafter. By the mid-7th Century, when the last traces of antiquity had faded from France, …

… Conspiracy theories have proliferated in both the United States and … over the past two decades. A popular meme plastered on a Washington, D.C. mailbox in 2016 that altered an iconic … theories, as many scholars have argued, tend to surface when a given society has an “other” against whom “the …

… When the second section of the High Line Park opened this month … Like Central Park, the High Line has proved an instant hit. When the first section opened in 2009, it quickly filled … civic spirit. Even in the mid-19th century, New York City was in competition with new garden suburbs that beckoned …

… Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009), one of the most celebrated American landscape architects, would … then Palestine , working on a kibbutz (a communal farm). When Halprin returned to the U.S. he trained under modern … architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Brauer at Harvard and was inspired by Frederick Law Olmsted whose work was pivotal …

… teen activist Greta Thunberg catapulted into public view when she began skipping school to sit on a bench in front of … The intended goal of this weeklong series of events, which was planned as a lead in to the United Nations Climate … revolutionary and founder of Soviet communism Vladimir Lenin. One Georgia politician sent telegrams to officials …

… In the spring of 2007, the author of an introduction to three … to some extent, salmon and crab taken from the water. It was no coincidence that when Atlantic fish disappeared from American meals, Pacific …

… Legislators across the nation are considering eliminating estate taxes for the … democracy? Aristocracy conjures up visions of bygone ages when noblemen believed that the blood in their veins … argued that the best way to prevent an aristocracy was to limit inheritance. In a 1789 letter to his friend …

… The medieval period was full of confrontations between the … happen at all, but instead on who had the power to decide when and how the crusades should be run. Mixed in with these … grounds for siding with either the pope or emperor, when in fact their complaints were far more localized. These …

… Having trouble keeping up with all the overlapping accusations of wrongdoing and scandal … comparisons were made between Nixon and President Trump when the latter fired the Director of the FBI, James Comey. … result wound up Thomas Jefferson’s first vice president. He was never particularly trusted or valued in the role, …