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… From a meagre population of 150 when the British East India Company first set up a factory and trading post on the … transactions were facilitated by the use of Chinese copper coins. Chinese currency facilitated trade not just with … to make Singapore a functioning port city open to free trade. A photograph of Victoria Dock, a British naval …

… at … well, any number of things. Lumping them together, the commentariat called all these angry voters “populists” and … when things go wrong with our health. Obama’s preference for arugula lettuce became a means for opponents to paint … “eggheads” who included, as the right-wing magazine The Freeman complained in 1951, “Harvard professors, …

… phone line or to check registration lists on a laptop computer. But very few majority-black districts received the … the Electoral College, since the winner — Republican Rutherford B. Hayes — received fewer popular votes than did the … where they had been posted since 1867 to protect new black freedoms — especially the right to vote. "The whole South is …

… campaign as a religious crusade and has made no apology for it. Satan is loose in the land, according to Santorum, … in the polls among GOP voters precisely because he is so comfortable mixing politics and religion. He presents a … also rejected the very foundation of American religious freedom: that we are each free to worship in our own way. In …

… the machine when I heard some Greek expletives and saw a commotion in front of me. The ATM ran out of money. I spent … of Greece in 2015 with a “vote no” poster in the background for the referendum to decide if Greece would accept the … While some seem to agree that a new debt resolution will free Greece from its economic woes and prevent a fall over …

… China, colonial Mexico, and turn-of-the-century California. Ultimately, a international perspective helps us to … drugs, we find that stories of drug wars are actually quite commonplace. Ultimately, these drug wars, waged across … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives — created to give religious groups tax … on Feb. 20. Behind the administration’s stated pious hopes for this project lies an unspoken fear that respect for … by (as abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison put it) freeing people “from the bondage of sin and bringing them …

… economy, it’s imperative that we rebuild the Iraqi military forces. It’s a time-consuming and very expensive prospect. … by hostile states or require an open-ended U.S. military commitment to Iraq. In short, this issue is of crucial … people support it. The United States fought Operation Iraqi Freedom with the goal of leaving behind a free Iraq, not a …

… and the Russian flag should be here." Huddled together for warmth, a dozen Russian explorers had just raised their … "This is posturing. This is the true north strong and free, and they're fooling themselves if they think dropping … understand why there is all this noise in the international community. If anyone wants to plant a flag down there, …

… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs perspective, not … attitudes; context, not anecdotes; analyses, not postures. For any kind of lasting illumination the focus must be on …

… Every commentator in America is drawing the parallel between the … U.S. Commission on National Security/21st century, a task force chaired by retired Air Force Gen. Charles G. Boyd, … black-out procedures — to preserve the fundamentals of a free society. Are Americans today ready to accept similar …

… People. Dr. Jacob is the Intercultural Specialist for Native American and indigenous Students and Dr. Rivers … throughout today if you have any other questions, feel free to put them in the chat and then Daniel and I will be … there's that opportunity to engage. You can go and actually visit the Newark Earthworks Center over in Newark. They do …

… The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Betw-een Black and -white: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations Despite the … European labor-as opposed to the growing population of "free coloreds"-would make up the newly forming middle class. …

… Seventy years later, public memory of the battle for Manila includes a mixture of gratitude toward the … history of a city that has long sat at the crossroads of competing powers, and it still looms large in the … Division broke through Japanese lines and rushed to Manila, freeing internees at Santo Tomas University and Old Bilibid …

… Zimbabwe , formerly Southern Rhodesia, gained independence from British colonialism on April 18, 1980. The nation commemorates this political milestone annually, with the … dominant ethnic group, also declared war to reclaim their freedom from the BSAC in the popular First Chimurenga …

… nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature. Title page of the … of months later Percy’s wife committed suicide, and just before the publication of the novel Mary gave birth to a … her father’s mechanistic determinism and opposition to free will—“Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow; / …

… of my captive audience to rehearse the impressions I was forming of the book which is the subject of this review: … as a jingoistic celebration of the flag. Perhaps the most compelling stories Eller tells come in the political and … an explication but not an argument. This voucher for a free glass of Coca-Cola, circa 1888, is believed to be one …

… Although “originalism” was once thought to be the best way for the court to achieve that goal, this controversial … about this theory. What is originalism? Where did it come from? Is it a good or workable theory of constitutional … What do the words “necessary and proper” mean? What does “freedom of the press” mean?  Historians focus on what the …

… 2017 might seem a long way away from ancient Athens. But for several years now, those of us who study the ancient world have become progressively aware that American Neo-Nazis, white … neoclassical techniques and Roman-style garb for "Forever Free"   to depict the end of slavery and the dignity of the …

… Opium War (officially 1856-1860), a conflict that not only forced that narcotic drug deep into China ’s politics, … of Qing laws prohibiting the drug. After one Chinese trade commissioner captured and publicly destroyed British opium … Beijing, and permitted foreigners to sail and settle freely in the Chinese interior. In the wake of this …

… "was somehow the cause of the war." Today, as the nation commemorates the war's sesquicentennial, the war's … the war fought over states' rights? Yes, but states' rights for what? Over Fifth Amendment property rights? Sure, but … urging the nation to dedicate itself to "a new birth of freedom." The point was unmistakable: This new birth of …

… a documentary biography about Woodrow Wilson that, for all its many positive qualities, was ultimately a … beautifully produced. Vivid photographs and footage were combined with informative and entertaining commentary by … labor, and campaign reform. Wilson countered with the New Freedom, asserting that the federal government's task was to …