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… disc jockey Alan Freed crowing “That’s Bill Haley and the Comets rockin’ and rollin’ you with ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll.’” Yet a much deeper history exists and a more complex set of origins. Sister Rosetta Tharpe On March 20, … left gospel music, though her secular music would alienate some of her fans who saw blues and jazz as “the devil’s …

… that the electorate has cast a virtual tie vote is not something any candidate is eager to hear, however. … to 79. Had Henry chosen to fight, Mason's fears might have come true. The infant nation was fragile. In Massachusetts, … He employed it to make sure that Mason's prediction did not come to pass. His closing words to the Virginia convention …

… June 23, 2016, while most of the world was awaiting the outcome of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was … superior to their leaders.” This conflagration would blossom into a full-blown civil war called La Violencia that … They began levying “taxes” on coca producers and drug trafficking routes and eventually became active participants in …

… The 5,280-pound monument of the Ten Commandments installed by the Alabama Supreme Court Chief … will keep recurring.   Why? Because the United States is an extraordinarily religious country with a long tradition of … all intents and purposes, Hebrew (in translation of course) comes a close second.   Moore’s claim that the Ten …

… it’s more like the little exasperations voiced by a quarrelsome old couple, married more years than either likes to … French Louisianians like myself no longer have much in common with our cousins in Paris. But in 1803, following the … the governor learned to loosen his collar a little, to compromise, to speak French, and to practice crafty …

… 1939 to over two million in 1945 (64). This process was accompanied by considerable growing pains. Indian troops … to outfit its own troops (70). While Lend-Lease eased some of the supply bottlenecks India experienced, British … it could be made to produce wartime goods without unduly competing with Britain (89). Early in the war, India’s …

… are being built in Brazil and China, while campaigns to decommission dams are gaining traction in the United States … near the Roman capital, the Subiaco dams also served some municipal functions. Scholarship on Roman drinking … In 1928, Congress approved a bid by a consortium of utility companies to construct the Hoover dam on the Colorado River. …

… power and with pampering their members at the cost of the common good. Union leaders, however, have offered to make … will add nothing to state coffers, whose depletion will be compounded when Walker's tax breaks for business begin to … periods of crisis in the past, Wisconsin has provided some of nation's greatest leadership—and some of its worst.  …

… Every commentator in America is drawing the parallel between the … In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the United States asked some hard questions about its lack of preparedness and held … pointed to America’s growing vulnerabilities. The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st century, a task force …

… increase in animosity toward the United States may remind some of attitudes abroad toward U.S. foreign policy at the … trade, encouraging the development of the European common market and paying the lion’s share for NATO, the … supporting right-wing dictatorships in the name of halting communism, but also saw the United States as a defender of …

… argue that she was murdered because of her Jewish blood. Some of them have gone so far as to accuse the Church of … “Christianize” the Holocaust in order to play down Catholic complicity in Nazi atrocities. This controversy comes at a time when relations between Jews and Roman …

… facing American negotiators today: how to work with a sometimes-undependable ally.   The Paris Peace Talks opened … shown the agreement, he felt presented with a fait accompli and refused to consent.   Believing that he had been …

… multi-cultural society. Ironically, re-segregation has become prevalent in some school districts while at the university level … have lowered admissions standards. Both developments are compromising the original intent of Brown. On May 17, 1954, …

… repression. Dreams of wealth and prestige fueled by some of the world's most valuable natural resources dashed … State , the preceding volume to this work, Young adopts a comparative approach. As he outlines in his introduction, a … resemble those occurring in areas south of it, albeit in some instances with a different set of cultural and …

… with President Obama's birth certificate, still not completely laid to rest, is an extreme version of a tactic … Democratic candidate John Kerry in 2004. President Bush's Commerce Secretary Don Evans publicly remarked that Kerry … doubt that Obama was actually born in Hawaii, but even some of those who accept that he was born there aren't sure …

… nearly 117,000 perished during the war — 53, 402 in combat — and another 204,000 were wounded. Many believe that … minute before the 11 a.m. armistice of Nov. 11, 1918. In comparison, roughly 34,000 Americans died in combat during the Korean War, and some 47,000 died in combat in Vietnam.   The American …

… This years Veterans Day comes in the wake of fierce political campaigning over which … drove this fall’s march of troops through dueling political commercials. But history and tradition both suggest more … political views, despite what candidates for office might sometimes imply. When pressed, most would concede that the …

… Apple Computer, Inc. has opened an ambitious, brilliant … Pablo Picasso. The campaign probably will and should win some awards, but it strikes one false note for those who … reads simply “Think different.” At the bottom is “www.apple.com.” Take a closer look at the ad, however, and you see, …

… year of anticipating “Y2K” has served to remind us that the computers we call “personal” actually answer to specialized … American life has resulted in decreasing measures of both competence and control by ordinary citizens over the vital … Firefighters battled a thousand blazes. And, according to some estimates, the looting resulted in $1 billion in …

… cameras, the nation was appalled. Despite urging from some quarters, the United States has not used nuclear … the last decades of the 20th century. Tales of Americans committing atrocities in Korea have persisted for decades. … Calley of killing 22 villagers at My Lai. He may have become a sort of folk hero during his trial and was later …