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… The unexpected and nearly unprecedented resignation of Pope … media star. His down-to-earth style, which included his washing the feet of two female juvenile inmates in a … Byzantine emperors to force them to adhere to Chalcedon. When the Muslims completed their conquest of Egypt in 641, …

… In March 2017 Nevada became the first state in 40 years to ratify the Equal Rights … of the ERA?   Susan Hartmann     The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1923, just three years … was extended to 10 years. So the clock ticked until 1982, when the bill stalled at 35, after which point, some of the …

… On April 24, 2015, much of the world will commemorate the centennial of one of the most … thousand and 1.5 million Armenian people. The result was the physical annihilation of the Armenian communities … writing on the Armenian Genocide, key questions of why and when the Ottoman authorities ordered the deportation and …

… Americans are no strangers to political scandal. Over the past three decades, headlines in respected newspapers … Hastings impeachment trial. Hastings, ultimately acquitted, was brought up on charges ranging from corruption in his … loosely stated, is corruption, scandal, and power. And when Dirks contemporizes the topic, it is. The bulk of the …

… The period just after the death of a public figure like … the size of government. His role in ending the Cold War was less important than the Soviet Union’s collapse from … platitudes about “morning in America” on which it rested. When he began his run for the presidency in the late 1970s …

… him — as he did former secretary Robert Gates — to review the War on Terror's combat decoration recipients and upgrade … with only a medical bag and a field knife. He was shot in the leg, and an enemy grenade knocked him to the … out, tended the wounded, and set up a second perimeter. When another chopper arrived, Benavidez dragged the wounded …

… systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to … where she placed blame on a diet rich in meat and so on was bad for the Earth. Most of studies of the food crisis … world food system of the 19th and early 20th centuries when Britain was the dominant world economic and military …

… Although few know it, the anniversary of one of the world great human rights … state found a way to phase out unfree labor. New Jersey was the last to do so, in 1804. In New York City, where one … confidence in his diary that “the time is not far distant when the colored man will have his rights in Connecticut.” …

… Following the recent bombings in London, Britain’s home secretary, … printed texts or word of mouth. As long as 125 years ago, when neither desktop computers nor the Internet existed, men … injured more than seventy people. The bombers’ technology was not so different from today’s. A timed detonator, made …

… I saw the ad on a real estate web site a week ago. For sale: 3952 … Detroit—the vortex of poverty that is consuming what once was the nation's fifth largest city—that's not news at all. … a summer day sometime in the late 1960s, though precisely when I couldn't say.  I'm in the backyard of that house on …

… On March 3, 1913, the day before President-elect Woodrow Wilson’s … did. Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913. On January 21, 2017, 104 … to convince elected officials that women deserved the vote when the main way to influence office holders is through …

… just relinquished its weapons of mass destruction programs. These recent developments no doubt bring comfort to some. … possibility that the scarce resources that we have might be wasted in a ruinous and manifestly absurd nuclear armaments … stood in their way. Some nations disagreed on how or when the treaty should enter into force. When a treaty was …

… You can't read the newspapers or surf the web without coming face to face … rest on the efficiencies of "sustainability." And when it comes to energy, much has changed in recent decades. … and cheap energy to all consumers desiring service. That was the theory, at least. In fact, regulators faced …

… Spreading democracy has become the nation’s principal foreign policy goal. Yet there has … ancient Greece for its political and moral values. Here was a chance to act on that admiration. Americans held … the Greek revolt in the House of Representatives. As today, when the war in Iraq dominates the news, foreign policy then …

… The entanglement of the United States in Middle East … Americans could make to democratic self-government was by cultivating democracy at home. Virginia’s John … summed up the issue in words that are relevant today when he insisted that the United States could best help …

… strong, are turning 65 at a rate of 4 million per year in the United States. The press, the government, and the … and its related expenses. Neither of these conclusions was foregone; both were expedient answers to social and … to attract public and political attention in the 1930s, when industrialization, urbanization, mass unemployment, and …

… and political ideal, that of democracy, our way of choosing the president seems fatally flawed. It also provokes … presidential campaigners. Then there are times like these when the popular and electoral votes roughly coincide in … of American distinctiveness is a Bad Thing. But when was uniqueness a disqualification for American pride? And, …

… embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks utilized massive truck bombs that nearly … his rhetorical war against America the previous February, when he published a fatwa (religious edict), on behalf of a … between March 1997 and May 1998. The date of the operation was symbolic—August 7, 1998 was the 8-year anniversary of …

… The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500BC … and showing that a "rich and complex world can be found when looking beyond traditional and narrow definitions of … by archaeologists," (p. 85) and it seems that the house was not deemed an appropriate location for displays of …

… Three days before Americans gathered around their tables to carve their Thanksgiving … ceremony in the East Room of the White House. The occasion was to honor female activists who "undermined their … In conscious practice, they refuse to be beaten down. When being repeatedly struck to the ground and "beaten black …

… Concern over the trajectory of the on-going American military commitment … now apparent in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, how and when we get out of these wars may be the most important … the European theater, where in the final analysis the war was brought to a close by advancing Allied troops, conflict …

… Having just presided over Britain’s victory in the Second World War , Winston Churchill had believed he had … Attlee as a figure of little stature or significance. He was, in Churchill’s memorable phrase, “a sheep in sheep’s … a member of the War Cabinet and acting in Churchill’s stead whenever the prime minister was away. By 1945, the Labour …

… Party and Premier of the Soviet Union , arrived in Washington for a tour of the country. The first Russian … Khrushchev, master of captive nations,” a “Murderer.” But when he was able to connect with individuals, Khrushchev had … what he saw as an historical inevitability. If Marxist-Leninist doctrine was correct, then communism would outlast …