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… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… On the Season 1 Finale of Prologued, we look back and what we have learned over the last seven weeks and forward to what this means for the future of women in American politics.  … The New Normal (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 8) … see the rise of women stopping there. Mayor Nan Whaley When you have 35,000 women across the country signing up to …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… This month marks the 100-year anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial of the war, U.S. events have been few and far … -- 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 …

… John Mueller, Andrew Bacevich , and Peter Mansoor discuss the War on Terror (a.k.a. the war formerly known as the War on Terror), the US response to terrorism following … 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. …