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… The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in 1993, but encompasses a long history of African American and African … and creative work. According to Yaszek (2006) “Afrofuturism addresses themes and concerns of the African … Afrofuturism: Constructing a Better Future …

… Caesar and, therefore, to understand the kind of present or future he is asked to encourage or warn against (21)."   In … Whereas in the 20th century, Caesar could just as easily become the savage conqueror again, someone to be resisted … who would finally surrender to Caesar in 51 B.C., would become the symbol of the revolutionary spirit in 19th- and …

… French scholar Jean Bauberot. Bauberot sees three essential components to a secular society: 1) the separation of … tumult of French politics in the 19th century, the French commitment to what they call laïcité remained. By the Third Republic (1870-1940) it had become “a defining ideology of the state.” It has become …

… Now Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., who chairs the Senate committee looking into Clinton’s fund-raising, has joined … a contrast with Clinton, Thompson praised Roosevelt for coming to the Senate in person to testify on the funding of … Roosevelt’s scandal hit when a New York State legislative committee looking into the finances of the state’s insurance …

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of … to the West for the technologies and ideologies needed to compete in European international politics. In the usual …

… stubbornly. When it appeared he could no longer win by competing fairly, he tried playing up the dangerous aspects … expert Maurice Gunderson of Nth Power, a venture capital company in San Francisco, it wasn’t so much that Edison was … electricity on a local scale, while at the same time accomplishing other tasks. Four sewage plants in New York …

… them and Euro-Americans saying “Indian polities used commercial and military leverage to shape these … over the gun trade? During diplomatic negotiations it was common practice to receive gifts as a sign of brotherhood. … with the most fearsome of natural elements and embodied the awesome power of the Thunderbird and the Horned …

… hibernation. The return of the problem today has been accompanied by its earlier logic. There is a striking … insisting that “the great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is … today’s Christian populists will have a much harder time refuting science and evolution than they did in Tennessee in …

… past will help transform the way we see the present and the future. Different Truths to Live By Every human community tells its own stories about the ultimate order of … 1552 work A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies . For the peoples of Abya Yala , this holocaust was not …

… opportunity for “town and gown” to create dynamic, thriving communities. David Staley outlines a talent magnet strategy … David Staley is an historiographer, writer, designer, futurist, and journalist. He is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History, Design and Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. Nicholas Breyfogle …

… hands in public, embracing at an airport, or from being comfortable in workplaces where heterosexual family photos … According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, “Studies and surveys consistently show that between one-third … signals of same-gender love. This culture has a deep and complicated history as the Freemasons engraving and poem …

… Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan has provoked comparisons with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Like … women earned only 51 percent of what men did for work of comparable worth.   During the Depression, officials … do "men's work," and the new administration should make a commitment to hire them for "non-traditional" employment.   …

… International Monetary Policy: From a Fixed to Uncertain Future …

… revolutionary journal of record, The Royal Society embodied modern scientific principles. Gresham College, where … to elevate them to an esteemed position in the eyes of competing Oxbridge scientists, derisive Anglican clergy, and … began to wane, and by the century’s close meetings had become a place to present research (comparable to modern …

… is available at https://origins.osu.edu/read/heroes-never-die-ukraine. Video production by Svetlana Ter-Grigoryan, … Heroes Never Die: The Legacies of Euromaidan …

… REVIEWS~ COMMENTARY Thurgood Marshall: A Justice For All While Carl … to end, he has much to learn from the judge about the complexities of race in late twentiethcentury America. … English Professor Shelby Steele and former Civil Rights Commissioner Clarence Pendleton as models of their political …

… for insight and entertainment about the past, present, and future. Find new episodes here or subscribe to Prologued on … Take, for instance, Abigail Adams’s famous “Remember the Ladies” letter, in which she implored her husband, John Adams, … that would formally enfranchise women. They set up shop in Philadelphia in 1876 and wrote what they called the …

… the names and brief obituary information of people who had died. The New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, elected in … everyone thought Roosevelt was up to the task. Political commentator Walter Lippmann called him “a kind of amiable … New Deal and is essential today. The New Deal produced studies and reports on all manner of the nation’s problems with …

… was entered in Pennsylvania that would alter the American diet. The case was the United States v. E.C. Knight, et.al . … case effectively created the legal context for sugar to become ubiquitous. Look at any U.S. food label today and you will find that one of the top five ingredients listed, in some form or another, is sugar. From …

… the war in 1917, the German language was prohibited in some communities, and Americans even resorted to the absurd expedient of renaming hamburger “Salisbury steak” and sauerkraut … acceptable, Gen. John DeWitt, head of the Western Defense Command, observed: “A Jap’s a Jap. It makes no difference …

… History share how environmental history informs our shared future in a world confronted by pandemics, climate change, … who believes history can be used to create a sustainable future for his two young boys, River and Blue. Folks, you … independent thing out there, a farm, dry cleaner, a paint shop, we don't have that under control. And that's where …

… giant leap forward for their cause. Both activists and news commentators have compared this ruling to Brown v. Board of … again? Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN …

… of all classes and races know a lady when we see one. She combines a highly attuned sense of others’ needs with an … something greater than themselves. Lady Bird Johnson embodied both kinds of ladies, the self-effacing and the self-amplifying. Shy and …