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… 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 …

… On the Season 1 Finale of Prologued, we look back and what we … see the rise of women stopping there. Mayor Nan Whaley When you have 35,000 women across the country signing up to … each time. So you saw it like kind of in the, I think was like in the late 90s. Like you saw one of these. And …

… The war between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the … simmering between the two sides came to a boil on April 13, when the SAF denounced the increased deployment of RSF … condominium (1898-1960). Even though the Sudan was under the joint control of Great Britain and Egypt, the …

… Once the most respected branch of the federal government, the … apolitical, and impartial manner. Although “originalism” was once thought to be the best way for the court to achieve … a constitution is different from what historians do when they make sense of other old legal documents, such as …

… In the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February … Montenegrins, Bosniaks, and Albanians starting in 1944 when Soviet troops moved into those areas and stayed until … them proponents of revisiting the postwar treaties. There was little trust between Hungarians and Slovaks or between …

… Suppose an African American goes to the polls on Election Day. Although she registered to vote … violates American law as well as our national conscience. When Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, many … districts received the laptops. If the phone line was busy, then workers in these precincts would not allow …

… In the wake of Donald Trump’s failure to immediately condemn … of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black … paraders for inciting the violence, but the mass shooting was a clear attempt to prevent expanding voting rights as …

… Two years ago the world was gripped when Boko Haram kidnapped 279 school … the development of Boko Haram’s ideologies and approaches. When Borno was conquered by Rabih Zubzyr ibn Fadallah in …

… the trajectory of twentieth century world history until he was finally frozen by the cult of personality he helped … and perfectibility led him inexorably toward Marxism-Leninism in the wake of the Versailles Conference. According … navigating these political minefields as his leadership when organizing the autonomous Viet Minh. Divisions among …

… US, we have something to compare it with, you know, so I wasn't around for the centennial of, you know, the Civil … -- and I will agree the red poppy that I have comes from when I happen to have been in Britain in November a month in … about the legacy of the war, where the Bolsheviks, I mean Lenin in particular, seeing the wars and this imperialist …

… John Mueller, Andrew Bacevich , and Peter Mansoor discuss the War on Terror (a.k.a. the war formerly known as the War … for going after terrorists remains about as high as it was before, but I think there's been a considerable drop in … and 20 years later had gone down some, but this is a time when there was no reminders. I mean, the domestic Communist …

… Well, this is not the National Basketball Association, where a player who’s … One of Jimmy Carter’s biggest mistakes as president came when he listened to the pundits who told him it was time to get tough. He seemed weak. ‘Never seem weak’ ran …

… The recent carnage in Iraq has made public a dirty little … rather than the exception in the history of warfare. If war was the sport of kings, then mercenaries, immortalized in … and nation-building, in a political environment when the death of a single soldier — whether draftee or …

… People understandably clamor for some response to the events of September 11, 2001. Devastating acts of war … in a war in remote Sicily in 264 B.C. The Romans said yes. When the other side asked Carthage for help, the Romans … by the emperor’s anger) to invade Serbia. The result was World War I, the largest war in history to that time. …

… The Bush administration wants to drop some cash in the … religion. Past leaders understood what we sometimes forget: when religious groups depend upon the state, they abandon … Jefferson and other eighteenth-century leaders knew better. When independence required Virginia to form a new …

… The United States dodged a bullet last week when American … and European prisoners.   Then, as now, the United States was coming out of a long and costly war (with England). …

… After these mid-term elections, the Tea Party populists are … are comparing this election to the election of 1994, when anger at Bill Clinton gave Republicans control of … power in 1994, the best the Republicans could do in 1996 was to run the aging Bob Dole for president.  Clinton barely …

… In the introduction to Byzantium , Herrin relates a story of … after passing it daily to ask her what exactly Byzantium was or is. The ensuing conversation, and her realization … era of the Eastern Roman Empire down to the 15th century, when Byzantium falls to the Ottoman Empire. Herrin sets …

… One of the most remarkable things a human being can say is this: … 13.77 billion years ago, our entire observable universe was compressed into the size of a peach and had a … newly identified particles. (LHCb Collaboration, CERN) When our universe was somewhere around 10 -36 seconds old, …

… On February 7, 1964, the Beatles made their arrival in the United States. … that a new kind of British Invasion had begun. Little was that nation aware that these British gentlemen would … to choose what music they were hearing and where and when they were hearing it. Once teenagers had this power, …