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… There is perhaps no greater challenge facing humanity (and all species on the planet) than climate change . Yet, … From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. Climate change gradually gained attention as a major …

… of 1812. Like all wars, this was a war filled with ironies and unintended consequences. It’s also a war that’s hard to … so did a great slave power. The Cotton Kingdom of the lower South was secured by Jackson’s victory. As slavery followed Americans southward and westward into new territory, the conditions …

… blockbusters, Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” and Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” are about, respectively, … some one million slaves were forcibly moved from the Upper South to the Deep South, 60 per cent of them through sale to traders. Like …

… On September 10, Indiana University President Myles Brand dismissed Indiana University's men's basketball coach … Communist North Korean troops launched a surprise attack on South Korea. There he devised a daring amphibious assault … Chinese intervention forced an ignominious retreat to the south, MacArthur tried to widen the war, pleading for …

… art form, combining spoken dialogue with music, song, and dance. For many, musical theater provides an escape from … Evangeline and Gabriel everywhere from the American West to Africa and adding in a dancing cow for good measure. … a critique of northern hypocrisy about slavery from South Carolina representative John Rutledge; and “Momma, …

… brought to the western hemisphere by European explorers and settlers. They quickly became incorporated into Native … pelts, like sea otter in the Northwest and deerskin in the Southeast, as well as slaves. Although the body of the book … historians have come to call “play-off diplomacy” in the Southeast to seek favorable trade negotiations and gifts …

… Greece embrace the enigmatic White Tower as their city’s landmark. Seventy-five feet in diameter, the earth-colored … provides a gathering place for Thessalonians on sunny days. African and Greek traders lay down blankets brimming with … in 1912, when troops from Athens and other areas of the south beat the Bulgarians to Thessaloniki by one day and …

… the Tea Party populists are claiming victory.  Their anger and insurgency fired up the conservative base, and the base … 19th century began in farm country, in the west and in the south, in the 1870s and '80s.  Farmers saw their livelihoods …  The Democratic Party, seeing some of its base in the South and West leaving for the Populists, decided that the …

… known, noncitizen voting is as old as the Republic itself and as American as apple pie and baseball. Noncitizens voted … intrinsically tied to citizenship, which is why women and African Americans — who were citizens — were widely denied … disenfranchisement associated with women prior to 1920 and African Americans before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. …

… a massive opportunity to reform one of the most outdated and anti-majoritarian practices in American politics. And, … a filibuster is ended). Opponents, such as the conservative southerner James Allen, warned that the change would bring … Senate. In his first year as a senator, Humphrey enraged southern conservatives by championing civil rights and …

… to the political convictions of our founders. “No standing armies” was one of the rallying cries of the American … served as a peacekeeping force in both the West and the South. The West was short of law enforcers but well stocked … anti-Confederate, pro-black laws in the Reconstruction South was offensive to Southerners who had just lost a war …

… the 71st birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., on Jan. 15 and Congress considers a Library of Congress proposal to … recall some of the obscure people, particularly hardworking African-American women, who saved the church that nurtured … bus boycott gave working men and women of Montgomery and African Americans across the land a sense that together they …

… West Bank — When the Roman Catholic Patriarch of the Holy Land, Fouad Tual, celebrates Mass in the Church of the … attacks against the farms and villages of central and southern Israel. Israel retaliated in its January 2009 “Cast … via Israel’s Mediterranean ports, freeing up Israel’s southern port of Elath for expansion of tourist hotels.   …

… since television audiences bid adieu to the Crawley family and their servants, but now the characters of Downton Abbey … have returned: the chic 1920s style, the majestic grandeur of the country estate, and, of course, incisive quips … heart.” Mounted police clear demonstrators from a street in southeast London during the General Strike of 1926. Overall …

… globe right now the epochal struggle is not between Islam and the West, but between those societies in which women are … however, extends well beyond the Islamic world. In many African societies women are forced to have their genitals … and be sterilized. So as Ohio and Louisiana rush to join South Dakota in attempting to criminalize abortion, we …

… U.S. Capitol. In Oklahoma, the discussion about apologies and reparations relates to a more recent tragedy: the Tulsa … and Native American land in the United States, apartheid in South Africa, Nazi slave labor, and war crimes China, Korea and …

… (today, materials from 2100 courses are free to anyone), and MITx and edX were the next logical step in this … for education to be an example of federal overreach. Many southern states, in particular, rejected this; Clement Clay … Act was passed only in 1862, during the Civil War, after Southern legislators had left Washington. Morrill proposed …

… of the military, from providing security for diplomats and heads of state (including Afghanistan’s president, Hamid … force for good, as long as they remain on the job. When the South African firm Executive Outcomes was hired by the government …

… important new biographical details to the traditional commander-in-chief profile. After having 43 presidents cut from … half the nation’s population. Still, that’s far more than African Americans can claim. There have been only three … breakthrough. Edwards would be the first president born in South Carolina, the birthplace of secession. The early …

… Historians have widely accepted the value of motion pictures and literature as ways of delving into the past. Video … Hearts weaves a narrative of four primary protagonists: an African American soldier, a Belgian nurse, a German soldier, … masters and are eventually sold into bondage in the Deep South. But at times Freedom is cringe worthy. Some of the …

… for which the  first vaccine was developed (in 1796); and it was a disease that was responsible for as many as 300 … and financial aspects of the program in western and central Africa. He also appointed Henderson, then head of the … in the world. Maalin was a hospital cook in Merca, in southern  Somalia , who was also a part-time vaccinator, …

… believes that conflict helps explain the Iran-Contra scandal in part because President Reagan “was viscerally … was a “policy dispute” rather than a criminal act, and that Reagan was unaware of what was going on. Virtually … FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, 1987 U.S. relations with Iran were also …

… to become an independent nation. While many inside Kosovo and out will rejoice at its liberation from Serbia, there … for independence in secessionist regions such as Georgia’s South Ossetia and Sudan’s Darfur. What’s needed is an agreed … any new international agreement governing secession. Unlike South Ossetia or Darfur, Kosovo passes on all three counts. …

… his administration believed, to keep the capitalist system and traditional American values secure. Now, he said, those … within each nation. Countries such as Mexico, Brazil and South Africa are often touted as economic success stories, even …