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… history can help us find a way forward. they'll discuss past patterns of climate change both recent and others of … were tied to fears over deforestation, or sometimes the opposite, actually hoping to moderate the climate, changing the … are globally affected differently than some of the richer constituents that Sam pointed out, can push the, push …

… done it with these water and sewer systems that have become ubiquitous in our lifetimes.   Nicholas Breyfogle  The … specific laws to further that goal. In 1948, US Congress passed the Water Pollution Control Act, the first policy … to power all of the process equipment in the building.   Cheryl Soltis-Muth  This is our biology team. In the …

… from Akin's, and President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to not make "health care decisions on behalf of … Western European women enjoy access to elective abortion services—also called abortion on demand. While there are … act of 1803 and was fully realized when Parliament passed the Offenses Against the Person Act in 1861. Abortion …

… recreational use. Across the state, celebratory stoners welcomed the New Year by lining up at licensed retailers to buy … of various forms of marijuana for medical purposes; in the past several months, the governor of New York, a state known … logic of harsh anti-marijuana laws. The National Parent Teacher Association Congress, American Medical Association, …

… in biomedicine in recent years. Three of our “deadly companions.” Poliovirus ( left ), Influenza ( center ), and … in Des Moines, Iowa sharing messages of encouragement to passing cars during the Stay at Home Orders of 2020. … a record 12 to 18 months. A drive through COVID-19 testing site in Louisiana, 2020. To date the fastest vaccine …

… of living, demonstrators soon widened their criticisms to encompass the full impact of Bashir’s three decades in power: … of popular protest within Sudan, which have twice in the past toppled autocratic governments. As protestors continue … a civilian government continues. So what can Sudan's past tell us about current events there? And can it give us …

… Australia has water troubles. For at least the past nine years, the people "down under" have been … is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … water supply in Sydney, the Tank Stream, quickly became a site of contention—and disastrously polluted—as local elites …

… crucifixion and tomb lay near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Built in 335 CE and rebuilt in 1048 CE after a … A narrow stairway leads to Dier Es-Sultan, a contentious site atop the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. It now houses an … and the Armenian flag hang outside a restaurant to remind passersby of the Armenian genocide. Nestled in the southwest …

… global economy. Drawing on exclusive interviews with company executives, corporate archives and other records, … corporations. He then considers what each has become: an essential presence in the daily workings of the … moment to get to know our speaker. Bart Elmore studies the past to understand how we can live more sustainably on this …

… Sam White , John Brooke , and Nicholas Breyfogle , discuss past patterns of climate change—both recent and others from the deep planetary past—and what these historical processes of climate … Patrick Potyondy  In what ways has climate change over the past decades, centuries, or even millennia changed here and …

… ongoing capital campaign. Workers survey the damage after a commuter train crashed into a passenger car near Valhalla, NY in 2015 ( left ). In 2007, … and internal improvements fill a wagon being pulled in opposite directions with Henry Clay and Horace Greeley on one …

… when the revolution’s leader, and now Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, began to speak. The whole event felt more like a … role in the mobilization of the population. Indeed,  some commentators noted  that it had more in common with … as many as a million people (one third of the population) poured into the streets of Yerevan demanding unification …

… article. Instead, the article was used as a resource for teachers to gain information on the history of media for the … The next activity allows students to work in groups to compare and contrast media from today to media of the past. As a class, the teacher and students will have a …

… and how it has evolved with new technologies over the past century. The main theme of this lesson plan is showing … the lesson continues with a mini-lecture in which the teacher will describe the history of the profit-driven media, the government regulations on the media companies in the 1940s, then the deregulation of those …

… This lesson explores the effects of debt accumulated from WWI and how these radically changed the world. The lesson will start with the introduction of an essential … ensure that they understood the content of the lecture. The lesson will then transition into a gallery walk in which the …

… out a specific sequence of rituals at a constellation of sites, recalling activities of the Prophet Muhammad, Islam’s … growth of Muslim communities in Europe, accelerated this past year by  the arrival of over a million migrants and … sums to support hajj pilgrims making the long and often treacherous journey to Mecca through their empires, along land …

… law, for instance, usury is now accepted as a standard accompaniment to the modern market economy. Indeed, one of … Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and many others began making financial services sharia compliant. Furthermore, Islamic societies … the success of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act in passing through Congress, usury is not recognized as a …

… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs … essays feature brief new histories on anniversaries of past events, large and small. We also offer book review … Miller , Leticia R. Wiggins and Patrick R. Potyondy Music Credits for History Talk Song: "Star-Crossed" Band: The End …

… and defining cultural moments. And with that, I'm going to pass off to Bob, who's going to introduce us to Getty … stats and numbers can be. It is the people that work on site with this material that keeps Archive living and breathing. We have editors, researchers, production staff, as well as a rolling curatorial …

… and what modern political processes can learn from the past.  … Trailer Transcript: ( music ) Sarah Paxton  “What is past, is prologue.” These words are carved beneath the … of color. That’s it. ( laughter ) ( music) Sarah Paxton ( credits) This season of  Prologued  was brought to you by  …

… This lesson plan deals with the continued strained relationship … and Russia. It uses the Origins article “The collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the USSR brought … In each group there will be an author, a least two researchers, and someone to search for visual representations. The …

… Native Americans visited colonial cities from New Orleans to Montreal, Boston, … have cities, and cities don’t have Native people. In the past and often in the present, “cities represented progress … and Savannah authorities regulated the numbers of Cherokee basket-sellers through a pass system. A stream of …

… up a phone wired to a wall-mounted jack seems simply passé, a relic of a long ago past. If you want to get a hold … an app (maybe Skype, maybe FaceTime) to unlock portals of communication. Apple’s original iPhone, released in 2007. … opening of the first commercial transatlantic telephone service on January 7, 1927 made possible by American …

… narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … computers, federal offices like the Internal Revenue Service, Social Security, and the Department of Education … tape, could never die; that the notion of an inescapable past was somehow un-American; and that it showed no respect …