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… major headlines. China-watchers, journalists, and academics commemorated June 4—as the event is called for short—with articles and books, and with lectures and … times in unison to a monument for the martyred. In many ways, this year the Tiananmen vigil followed similar …

… the Philippines and to the United States.  In the same way, the book ranges across sources from war memorials to … who view the dead and choose to remember them. This is a complex work.  Equal parts philosophical treatise, … the self and the other, our humanity and our inhumanity together.  “Ethics” explores the ways in which groups build …

… by the specter of our nuclear past. And given Japan's complicated past with nuclear issues, it is especially … complexities of post-World War II international relations together led the Japanese government to pursue nuclear power. … victory—high quality coal had to be imported all the way from the east coast of the United States. In addition to …

… Rep. James Traficant of Ohio was convicted this summer of getting his palms greased, the last serious accusation of … TV age, campaigning is expensive business. Today’s bribes come in the form of enormous but legal campaign … prosecution as long as someone, somewhere has gotten away with murder. Money for a free pass = government for …

… acted, and Secretary of State William Henry Seward formally announced the ratification on July 28. It was a … ratification of the original Constitution itself. In many ways, it gave Americans a new constitution. On the most … too much about it." (Library of Congress) But that did not come to pass. The “no state shall” language was ideally …

… emerged as a spokesperson for a diverse global movement to combat the climate crisis following a spate of … that population must grow, too. Thus we have more highways and fewer trees, more electricity and fewer undammed … interstate highways , and an unending array of consumer gadgets, public attention had begun to shift. Some started to …

… measles, typhus, and influenza decimated Indigenous communities in the Americas is a commonly held one. Like so … the Americas. Aztecs wrote about a smallpox epidemic just before Spaniards came among them: “there spread over the … Cancryn, “American Indian tribes thwarted in efforts to get coronavirus data.” Politico . June 11, 2020. …

… red planet so close to Earth, has become a tantalizing target for humans to visit. Noted space entrepreneur Elon Musk recently released … due to a rocket problem, but Mariner 9 made it all the way there. When it arrived Nov. 13, 1971, a surprise …

… cultures, collecting interest represented a possible way to impoverish people. Such an act, scholars and … law, for instance, usury is now accepted as a standard accompaniment to the modern market economy. Indeed, one of … followed the Koran’s regulations but also helped families get out of poverty while fostering communities. The …

… the tactical and operational brilliance of their military forces for granted, such has not always been the case. Perhaps no historical event illustrates … the mercurial personality of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. and Filipino forces. Overconfident …

… documents written to persuade the public, Whalen uncovers a communications battle between the papacy and the Holy Roman … conflict, although various contingent factors got in the way. A manuscript image of Pope Innocent IV excommunicating … European public. Whalen relies heavily on the chronicles to get a sense of the reception of the letters circulated by …

… For a moment, everything seemed possible. From February 22 … since well before Marcos’s declaration of martial law. Committed activists who organized underground in the … policy calculations had shifted against Marcos in crucial ways. Senator Benigno Aquino in an interview with Pat …

… In his latest book, Peter Brown surveys the ways in which Christians living in Western Europe from … of the living, and that the property of the church had come to be thought of as being held as a trust with which to … informed by their reading of Tertullian, it is remiss to forget about the way that less recondite modern Christian …

… a black president at the nation’s helm, even the most glib commentators can justify focusing on black history. But … kings and candidates.   No one tells us more about all the ways that power works than people excluded from its official … official men of the government did not know that working together would be the salvation of the bipartisan system. They …

… The September 11 th  attacks put terrorism in the forefront of American consciousness. Since then, the U.S. … dates back well into the Cold War. How did terrorism become a focal point of U.S. foreign policy? How did earlier … deeper history tell us about what terrorism is, how our common assumptions about it might be wrong, and how we …

… both countries appear to break from the autocratic past and complicate our understanding of their political future. In … attempt to rectify this problem, Nazarbayev fashioned a new way to prolong his tenure in office while still coloring … overhaul, Tajikistan held a constitutional referendum to get rid of presidential term limits entirely for its …

… Prologued is a serial podcast from Origins that performs in depth discussions of historical roots that have … the history of a major issue society is facing, in an effort to not only explain how we got here, but to reveal a … history of women in the United States beginning all the way back with the American Revolution. Join us as we reveal …

… The news media today are full of stories about efforts across the United States to draw new state and federal … thereby over-ruling earlier decisions that courts were not competent to decide such political questions. Two years … Political corruption developed in consequence. The only way Chicagoans could exert influence in the legislature …

… citizens to stay home, avoid unnecessary travel, and keep away from large-group gatherings. Urban streets, rural … future when “some evil spell” had settled on our communities, when “mysterious maladies swept the flocks of … or network of highways. Complicated checks and balances get disrupted. Local diversity gets suppressed or lost. …

… indicating various locations in Georgia and Azerbaijan visited. Georgia My first stop was Georgia, a small country … only after St. Nino spent an entire night praying for it to come back. From its bark, once it was grounded, flowed holy … to whose generosity I was able to participate in this unforgettable event. Azerbaijan After the whirlwind of Martkopi, …