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… John McCain probably lost whatever chance he had to become president on August 28, the day he invited Sarah Palin … this year presented dramatic contrasts. Obama chose the most presidential candidate on his short list, Joe Biden. … been a distinguished and able Senate leader who has performed well in the national spotlight. Obama’s carefully …

… "discovered" the New World and then Spanish conquistadors tamed this new land and conquered its empires, thus paving the … ), the notorious document that the Spanish read to the uncomprehending Indians before seizing their land. These … humanists frequently cited in their letters. Perhaps the most innovative part of Abulafia's story is his section on …

… a strong hold on the imagination of the American public. To commemorate “Honest Abe,” Origins offers ten of the most important things to know about his presidency, his … to offer nothing of interest, since the murderer proclaimed his identity to a stunned audience in Ford’s Theatre. …

… alliances among Europe’s great powers quickly drew almost the entire European continent, and ultimately the … lives and change the face of the planet for generations to come. Gavrilo Princip Legend tells that shortly before his … and exploitation. Socialist-era Sarajevo memorial site where Gavrilo Princip shot the archduke. Reads: "From …

… Sweden, larger than the three Baltic republics (PDF File) combined, and larger than Austria. It would be the 11 th … of Belarus. Modern Belarusian nationalism was one of the most recent to appear in Europe. The first Belarusian … of it. The Belarusian dictator has revitalized the memorial sites and has dedicated other memory sites, including a new …

… human costs of the crisis have been dire, with  food and medicine shortages ,  soaring infant mortality , and one of … in 2016. Diphtheria, once thought eradicated, has made a comeback . By some estimates, 2.5 million people have left … country consistently ranked in the top 10% of the world’s most corrupt countries beginning with the first survey in …

… . Young Hamilton survived this encounter and went on to become the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United … Fernand Braudel. In Braudel’s magisterial study, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of … attitudes towards the role of government sharply define the most recent chapters of the book. During the Cold War, the …

… National Basketball Association, where a player who’s deemed ‘soft’ can drop a dozen slots in the draft. You play … our standing in the world. We are, perhaps, the world’s most hated nation. Or close to it. This is the challenge for our new president, and you’re the one most likely to change that. Not because you’re black. Not …

… On August 15, Venezuela will face the most important election in its history. It’s a critical … In April 2002, the United States stunned the world by immediately recognizing an illegal government installed after … will be no grounds for the United States to reject its outcome. Both U.S. presidential candidates have made …

… The left side of the American political-entertainment complex has passed the time since the 2012 election watching … fractured, ideologically incoherent, and contradictory almost as often as they have been coherent and unified. This … two factors. The first is that the founding generation distrusted political parties in and of themselves, and viewed …

… history.”  The phrase “ global polycrisis ” captures the complexity of events driving up world hunger over the past … in central and eastern Africa, where the hunger crisis is most severe.   Some of these states—notably Burkina Faso, … the Rome Declaration on World Food Security, which affirmed every person’s right to safe and nutritious food, and …

… became the top trending hashtag on Twitter after the combination of smoke from Amazon forest fires, a weather … a predictable fire in a church that is a World Heritage Site and wants to teach us what exactly?” The Bolsonaro … explorers’ chronicles described dense populations and almost continuous settlement along the lower Amazon. Neither …

… We all celebrate Thanksgiving in our own ways. So what do most Americans believe happened on that first Thanksgiving … are uncertain. The only documentary evidence of the event comes from the journal of Plymouth Colony’s governor, Edward … It’s not likely that the Pilgrims and the Indians consumed any bread dressing, mashed potatoes or pumpkin pie. In …

… Dr. Lucy Murphy  Welcome to Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma and … in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and it's probably one of the most well-known Native American boarding schools here in the … and even in the missionary, so, you know, the opposite side with the missionary schools, those were funded by …

… victory, it behooves us also to reflect on perhaps the most harrowing legacy of the war—the Nazis’ attempted … Thus, eastern Europe and particularly Poland —the site of the Jewish Pale of Settlement established by tsarist … devastated by the war and alongside neighbors whom they distrusted. Other survivors had no home to which they could …

… more as a diagnosis than as a description. “First and foremost,” I noted, “contemporary use of the term assumes there … the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, delivering sharp comic material about his recently released long-form birth … and Samar Islands in November 2013, then-Mayor Duterte visited within days and coordinated his own aid effort, while …

… attention on Cuba again, even on Fidel Castro, whom most of us had almost forgotten — most, that is, except the … most prominent Cuban-Americans arrived in the years immediately after Castro's takeover. Some of them, … the exiles and the U.S. government joined in a powerful common cause to dump Castro, who, in the peak Cold War …

… Dr. Lucy Murphy  Hello, welcome to "Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College … Of course, I've known I've known Lucy for gosh, I think almost all of my career. So she's like a sister to me in terms … and Neglected Children in Denver, Colorado when I visited on March 25, in 2018. This picture is on the grounds …

… the same could be true for the “New Turkey” he has proclaimed. After 11 years as Turkish prime minister and head of … of the Turkish Republic since its founding in 1923: the uncompromising secularism of the first Turkish president, … guarded the status quo in Turkey—but less so recently. Most notably, a longstanding entente between the AKP and the …

… global economy ran through the American South. Acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore explores that region's impact on the … global economy. Drawing on exclusive interviews with company executives, corporate archives and other records, … corporations. He then considers what each has become: an essential presence in the daily workings of the …

… the words “The End” on a popular, long-running American comedy named “The Roaring Twenties: The New Era of Eternal … Manhattan on “Black Tuesday,” October 29, 1929, was the most important such period of the twentieth century. It was …

… the global war on terror is the central event of our time, comparable to the great struggles of the last century … story. By historical standards, the enterprise that Bush’s most ardent supporters have described as World War IV has … fast approaching, the administration has not expanded the armed forces and apparently has no plans to do so. It …

… about the movements such books spawned. In this category, most of the books are crap. Generally written by liberals … movements; and the third being "crib-sheet books, the compilations, quote books, 'dictionaries' and … Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism : Leader Who Transformed the Image of Conservative Woman …

… lack of oversight, and diplomatic fallout. Antiwar activist Medea Benjamin heckled him mid-speech: “Can you take the … us from the ravages of modern warfare, or if they will become the appliances of Orwellian control. What is remarkable … combined with a “dynamite thrower” as conceivably “the most powerful engine of war known to civilized man.” Armed …