Search Results

… The institution of the Catholic Church finds itself in a … held for the opening session of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. in 2005. Some church leaders were found to … culture going back to the 19 th  century—the time when Pope Pius IX repositioned the Church against modernity …

… When in early March 2011 the “Arab Spring”—a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations … unity of the opposition movement, which, according to them, was above any sectarian and ethnic division and dispute. In … some Alawites to make careers in the Ottoman army and bureaucracy. The Alawites enjoyed little benefit from the …

… From the visceral beach sequence in Steven Spielberg’s Saving … to be “the first film I really felt I had to make,” was one of two great war films he made in the 1950s (the … Wajda, 1957 Still from Kanal  (Criterion Collection). When Polish participants in the 1944 Uprising climb into the …

… On October 1, 2017, the Spanish region of Catalonia—known as Catalunya to … Iberian Kingdoms in 1400 ( right ). In the 12 th century, when one of the kings of Aragon decided to marry a princess … became integrated into the kingdom of Aragon. Aragon was already expanding, and soon claimed the small kingdoms …

… 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 …

… called a counter-trip. Following President Bush's route in the region almost exactly, Chávez, an anti-American … American companies, and international economic activity was based almost entirely on exporting raw material goods … leaders were nationalists. Traditional populism came to end when the military took over in many Latin American countries …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… On April 7, 2023, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) celebrated its 75th … focused solely on mitigating  cholera —about which little was then known and on which no political consensus could be … foreign policy shaped the organization’s early work. When the World Health Assembly first met in Geneva in 1948, …

… 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 …

… George W. Bush is the first candidate to address the issue of Indian affairs, … in October, Bush claimed that “state law reigns supreme when it comes to Indians, whether it be gambling or any … it passed the Indian Trade and Intercourse Act in 1790 (it was revised and strengthened periodically thereafter) which …