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… by Colin Woodard, David Cordingly's Under the Black Flag and Ed Kritzler's Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean have all … instead of the Muslim Barbary pirates of North Africa famous to students of American history from the … of Portugal actually led Crusader-style campaigns to North Africa. That being said this was also a century which saw …

… by bringing to light Yale’s involvement with holding and trading slaves in the nineteenth century. Many of Yale’s … and Mary, proposed the gradual abolition of slavery in the South. The power of the idea of liberty was strong and could … required northerners to return fugitive slaves to their southern owners, orators at Yale, Harvard and Brown argued …

… Perry recently denied any interest in being vice president, and that’s understandable.  To be taken seriously, a … projects, and bilateral commissions with Russia, Egypt and South Africa.   Perry's own predecessor as Texas governor, George …

… Last week, Ryne Sandberg and Wade Boggs joined the more than 180 players who … to the minor leagues at Little Rock, making him the first African-American ballplayer in Arkansas history. There, … has become the convenient excuse for not promoting African Americans, whether in the ranks of the players or of …

… Reagan’s great aspiration seems far off today. Both Russia and the United States hold thousands of nuclear weapons … Diplomacy among the United States, Russia, Japan, China, South Korea and North Korea is setting a path toward … it comes to dealing with Iran. Great danger also exists in South Asia with nuclear weapons owned by rivals India and …

… Leticia Wiggins interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Taylor Branch on the contentious yet interlinked history of the American university system and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. … Trilogy , Branch has published  The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA . He has also been featured in …

… inflexibility put constant downward pressure on prices and wages, and the first large waves of immigrants from … Strike reached from coast to coast and moved even into the South. By the time the unrest cooled, at least 80,000 … immigrant workforce into a “company town” on Chicago’s south end. Pullman owned the houses, the opera house, the …

… Britain. In the 19th century, Britain believed itself to be and acted as if it were the world's single great power and …   The British did not suffer reverses until the Boer War in South Africa between 1899 and 1902 when the descendants of Dutch …

…   Why the fuss about 1862? Because the 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act, signed by Lincoln in the midst of the Civil … not an admissions factor. Because 1890 was the peak of the South’s post-Civil War Jim Crow segregation, a substitute … (1886), Savannah (Georgia) State University (1890), and Southern (Louisiana) University (1881).   It is commonly …

… battled over the party’s stance on the Vietnam War. And in 1980, the Republicans, for the first time, inserted … State colleague Albert Gore, Sr., perhaps the last great Southern populist; and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy, … Kennedy’s 1960 selection of Lyndon Johnson, a moderate Southern Protestant, is the classic example. The last two …

… An eerie silence fell over the world’s cities and towns this spring, as governments ordered their citizens … have been invented and spread across the land. Throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America the old poison is still … which killed half the population of Eurasia and northern Africa. Ground zero back then was the city of …

… Russia’s cooperation with the Kurds of Iraq and Syria in the fight against ISIL has been widely … with Christianity, Islam, and Zoroastrianism. Russia’s southern expansion (from the 18 th century on) in search of … occupying the northern half of the country and Britain the southern half. At the end of the war, Moscow refused to …