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… Elizabeth Cady Stanton, famed women’s rights activist, was born. Stanton is most closely associated with advocating the right to vote for women and helping to orchestrate the … November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, NY to a prominent family. When she was eleven years old, after the death of her only …

… We often hear that the election that takes place next Tuesday will be one of … Voters turn against a party that has long held power when it presides over a major failure.   A long period of … public against the party. The Democratic ascendancy that was made possible by the Panic of 1929 and began with the …

… The United States: Anger in the Room by Marc Horger In 2011, … April 2011. That same month, Barack Obama experienced what was once regarded as the best weekend of any politician in … equilibrium in the United States is a bit long in the tooth when judged historically, so is the international …

… The “gay sheep” research on rams from the U.S. Sheep … meanings of homosexuality. Kameny held a minority position when he publicly maintained in the 1960s that the cause of homosexuality was not important. Many things have changed concerning …

… Albania’s first republic was ill-fated from its inception. The National Assembly founded the First Albanian Republic on … the 15th century, became independent on 28 November 1912 when leading national activists severed ties with the empire …

… In the midst of talk of war, it’s hard to focus on the U.S. … strike at Iraq has the president ever indicated that he was dependent upon Congress for a declaration of war. Yet … to command the nation’s armed forces, the other to decide when the United States goes to war. They juxtaposed the will …

… Arthur Schlesinger wrote The Imperial Presidency in 1973 in a climate of concern over … the Iran-Contra scandal in part because President Reagan “was viscerally opposed to congressional attempts to limit … Caspar Weinberger knew that their actions were illegal. When Reagan was elected president in 1980, he and his …

… with bad news, my joyful parents called to let me know that they had paid off the mortgage on the home they had owned … fund an expansion to his small business. My childhood home was both my parents' largest financial burden and their … the homeowner expects to sell soon at a lofty profit, like when the housing market is booming, or if the homeowner …

… National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump , said when asked about the U.S. administration’s vocal support for the beleaguered … of U.S. policymakers showed they believed Latin America was part of “our hemisphere” in the possessive sense, at …

… As you ride the Number 22 bus towards Ocean Terminal, you watch the city … pubs, Indian restaurants, and the occasional Tesco Express. When you reach the end of the long Leith Walk, you are … Banana Flats once embodied everything that Edinburgh felt was wrong with Leith. They were overcrowded, riddled with …

… A History , ends on a very ominous note. Whilst penning the conclusion to his book in January 2015, Nesser noted a … Nesser’s observation would seem prophetic in November 2015, when small teams of terrorists shocked the world by … the Air France flight 8969 hijacking on 24th December 1994, was orchestrated by the GIA, an Islamist group in Algeria …

… On November 9, 1989 the wall that had long separated East and West Berlin ceased … fall of the Berlin Wall—as detailed by Mary Elise Sarotte—was the result of a series of insignificant gestures, of … citywide marches. The watershed moment came on October 9 when, unable to reach his superiors and overwhelmed by the …

…   On September 8, 1404, the Castilian diplomat Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo reached the … the man who Europeans called Tamurlane. If possible, he was to forge a peace treaty with the world-conqueror, whose … called the ‘archaic globalization’ of the world, a period when travelers from the Christian, Muslim and Chinese worlds …

… Caster Semenya, the South African runner who won the women’s 800-meter race … declared intersexed. If she is, it means that she was born with some discrepancy between her external … were dishonest and fraudulent (say, in illegally voting when the franchise was limited to men), or were seeking …

… In the early hours of April 26, 1986, the staff of the 4 th … system designed to shut down the reactor. The result was disaster. A power surge led to a series of explosions … tried at first to conceal and minimize the accident. Only when the radioactive cloud was detected over Sweden did the …

… Well, the pundits were wrong. White voters didn’t change their … In his 1963 address, King looked hopefully to a day when blacks like his children would “not be judged by the …   The polls reveal, too, that America’s younger generation was more open to the idea of a black man running for …

… The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education has come … is an old problem and that parents do not stop fighting when it comes to their children’s education. Children’s real … to the city’s African-American schoolchildren. What Clark was criticizing was the continued impact of de facto …

… to watch for suspicious men, New Jersey postmarks and other signs that American security is sliding from bad to … violence, known as the “May Day Bomb Plot” of 1919, began when a package arrived at the office of Seattle’s mayor, Ole … seven American cities. One blew off the front of Palmer’s Washington home, killing the bomber in the process. …

… A great deal of ink—and much blood—has been spilled during the current “ refugee crisis .” But what do we mean by that phrase? It describes what has happened recently when Syrian, Afghan, and other refugees attempted the … in Poland and Czechoslovakia after the war’s end. But this was only part of the global “refugee problem.” To this …

… Boyle , Stephanie Shaw , and Hasan Kwame Jeffries about the importance and difficulties of teaching race and civil … you know, and, and perceptions of sort of Black males that was just sort of missing, so but we get to do that in the … next question directly to Stephanie to start us off and so when a current event, like a police involved shooting takes …

… New York Times columnist David Brooks called the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett … Chief Justice John Jay’s resignation, President George Washington appointed Rutledge Chief Justice while the Senate … Senate. He became the first failed cabinet nomination when the Senate rejected President Jackson’s nomination of …

… most of us had almost forgotten — most, that is, except the million-plus Cuban-Americans. Not only do … in large cities. Their migration to this country began when Castro overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista, who fled … with the Soviet Union. But the exiles' relationship with Washington began badly. Outstanding among the CIA's many …

… Clinton caused a sensation earlier in this turbulent year when she charged that a “right wing conspiracy” was behind the allegations of wrongdoing leveled against her husband. …

… A student of Lebanese background at a university in Ohio was walking across the campus when someone pointed a finger at her and yelled, …