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… the 1660s, which culminated in Henry Morgan's capture of one of the most vital cities in the silver trade. Earle's … most valuable colonial possessions in an era of uncertain communications and increased European competition. It also … Bracamonte acted with unusual haste for a Spanish colonial official but was unable to recruit or equip more than …

… children. What is different today is the often fatal outcomes of children's brutality towards one another, owing to the widespread availability of guns: … limitations of that perspective, too. Though the march's website invites "mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, …

… in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Gwangju was officially designated as the nation’s “sacred space of … as a “city of peace and human rights,” emphasizing the community’s legacy of peaceful organization and solidarity, … the institutionalization of May 18 as a democratic milestone, the event continues to resist any singular description. …

… from intervening when your friend wants to beat someone up. Keitt was censured by Congress, which is probably one reason the NRA was founded.   The reason Sumner deserved … standard-bearer for South Carolina. Among his many accomplishments, Thurmond holds the record for conducting the …

… The principal and her museum director proudly showed us the one room exhibition in which the history of the region was … forces highlighting Jewish suffering would have meant combatting anti-Semitism among their own population. … of the population. Most importantly, Stalin and his closest officials monitored the press themselves, stepping in …

… afternoon filed required restructuring plans with federal officials. Chrysler wants $5 billion more in federal loans … other successful 20th-century technologies such as telephones and television, the growth of registered automobiles … starting to remake Maxwell Motors into his future Big Three company. In 1922, there was one registered passenger car or …

… strong army.”  Global knowledge also became a cornerstone of the Restoration. Half of the Meiji ruling elite … past” in favor of the “just laws of nature,” progressive officials enacted far-reaching reforms. By 1889, Japan … Assistance.  “As the first non-Western nation to become a developed country, Japan built itself into a country …

… or mix’d of pale and red: and painful to the Patient,” as one 1714 text put it. This disease was ergotism: poisoning produced by exposure to the compounds found in a fungus that grows on wheat. In the … of the new drug’s profoundly psychoactive effects was one of the more famous accidents in the history of science. …

… occupation in early April, 2022 they discovered the damage done to its Taras Shevchenko monument. Bullets had hit the … He painted Ukrainian national landscapes and historical sites in an album he titled Picturesque Ukraine . He also … was, but we should keep this as it is now.” Learn More: The Complete Kobzar: The Poetry of Taras Shevchenko. Translated …

… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, Kathleen M. Sands … like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, this school official was the rearguard of a decades-long culture war … Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion …

… Yemen’s internationally recognized government is sitting comfortably in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 900 miles away from … and ethnic groups as well as tribal areas. Alternatively, one could trace the origins of the current conflict to the 9 … and Jizan. The 1934 Treat of Ta’if made this annexation official while also setting the stage for a perpetual …

… and afforded them vicarious trips to capitalist countries. One of Gilburd’s key arguments is that this Soviet audience … from viewers and readers and more than 6,000 entries in comment books from exhibitions—Gilburd gives voice to Soviet … did not really exist. Perhaps there was some truth to the official Soviet narrative of the capitalist world, after …

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary … brought together Sunnis and Shi'is , elites and commoners, city dwellers and tribespeople. It caught the British … assortment of patriotic and religious grievances. British officials had declared that they came as liberators from …

… The Crimea that most people have come to know is a peninsula occupied by Russian forces, ostensibly annexed to the Russian Federation, and one epicenter of an international conflict over Ukraine that … the importance of Crimea to Russia, as the ancient site where, according to medieval Russian documents, Prince …

… parties, struggle with their sexuality, track “likes” and “comments” on Facebook, experience domestic abuse, and dream … to imagine it. To see beyond fantasies about Greenland, one must look to its history and culture. Only then can we … Each time, Denmark vehemently refused.  Greenland was officially incorporated into the Danish realm as a county in …

… 181 (II) partitioning Palestine into  two states , one Jewish and one Arab, with  Jerusalem  under a UN … the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has conveyed “water, … through neighborhoods containing viruses, bacteria, parasites, toxic metals, and other pollution. The industrial …

… States on Oct. 26 he has been dogged by demonstrators. None of them have been more strident and belligerent than … Tibet. They demand that President Clinton act forcefully to compel China to change its policies toward Tibet. This … and win popular approval for the Clinton administration. Official U.S. policy has always been that Tibet is not …

… Laws and the Nazi blood laws viewed America as only one of many countries with racist legislation, and that … law” (p. 5). This argument revolutionizes the discussion of comparative racism and our understanding of the influence of … meeting between Nazi lawmakers, judges, and high-ranking officials, these men decided that the American racial …

… casts himself as a man of principles who, unlike his opponent, is ready, willing and able to stand up to political … the act. The Republican domination of Congress does not alone explain Bush’s record of agreeing to every bill that has … liberties or fiscally irresponsible. Even Calvin Coolidge, one of George W. Bush’s role models in terms of fiscal …

… little gestures of bonhomie that were expected of them. Nonetheless, with ugly anti-American protests in Paris and … to the United States in 1803. Although there’s been no official cancellation of the event, nobody I know here in … French Louisianians like myself no longer have much in common with our cousins in Paris. But in 1803, following the …