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… has caused a stir in California, Minnesota, North Carolina and South Carolina by unveiling plans to put up anti-immigrant … immigration in the name of reform goes back centuries and relies upon two time-tested formulas, both of which are …

… involving Hubert H. Humphrey, the incumbent vice president, and Richard Nixon, his Republican opponent. This prospect … the October Surprise. The Nixon team beseeched the South Vietnamese to await a Republican victory and promised an ample reward. Talk of a conclusion to the …

… The movie centers on an M-4 Sherman tank nicknamed “Fury” and its crew of battle-hardened soldiers during the waning … driver; Trini “Gordo” Garcia, the Spanish-speaking gunner; and Grady “Coon-Ass” Travis, a bestial mechanic with a southern drawl. Their fifth crewmember, the assistant …

… from the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico migrated to southern California with four young daughters. The family caravanned up and down the state working the agricultural migrant circuit. That young mother was my grandmother, my abuelita.    My abuelita's stories about those …

… remodeled airport in Tashkent, the nation’s capital and a modern city of well over two million people. But to head to the architecturally magnificent and richly historic town of Khiva (formerly known as … from the mountains that surround the Ferghana Valley in the southeastern corner of the country. Horses pasture off in …

… December 11, 2018, marked the one hundredth birthday of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. Born in southern Russia thirteen months after the Bolshevik Revolution , the only son of a mother whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, …

… a large portion of Ukraine's cultivated agricultural land in the south, as well as blockading ports on the Black Sea, a significant amount of grain for export is stranded in Ukraine. Written by Ian M. Sheldon. Narration by …

… is today lauded as an early food safety regulation. And, as beer-making elsewhere has taken off in all sorts of … shape new tastes and different interpretations of beer. In Africa, major beer brands like SABMiller and their … Zambia, and Zimbabwe . In countries such as Mozambique and Southern Sudan , adopting cassava in the brewing process …

… Tirana is Albania’s capital and, with a population of nearly 1 million, over one-third … past that began under the oppressive rule of Enver Hoxha and continued into the post-socialist era with political … in 1920, replacing Vlora in the country’s still-turbulent south. In 1939 the city succumbed to fascist forces and …

… We take off our shoes and coats and send them through the X-ray machine with our … a bright and sunny day while flying over the desert of the Southwest. Neither aircraft’s crew were in contact with air … Security measures at Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina in the early 1970s. King Hussain of Jordan, …

… memory. But with these changes have come many questions and tensions. Is the focus on the politics of marriage … Levi’s jeans commercials changed the public’s perceptions, and has it always been for the better? How has the study and teaching of gay and lesbian history changed? What is the …

… On the night of March 5, 1770, a man and a British sentry exchanged heated words in Boston, … While little about him is known, he was probably of mixed African-Native descent. Far from unusual, Attucks’s … in the French and Indian War. Crispus Attucks, of mixed African and Native descent, was one of the five victims of …

… of seduction. Given the vast number of people , both men and women, who watch the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show … same time the Shelly Easy Rider Bra and panty designed in South Africa was described as “practically nothing to wear under …

… English Channel resulted in the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England by William, the French Duke of Normandy. It is a reminder that the complicated, ambivalent, and … later, William, Duke of Normandy, landed his fleet in the south of England at Pevensey, which forced Harold to rush …

… while you stay out of the heat? I can help you. Analyzing and teaching books are large components of my job, and, … Arc of Justice follows the murder trial of Ossian Sweet, an African American doctor who bought a house in an all-white … an African American teenager named Latasha Harlins in South Central Los Angeles. A jury later convicted Du of …

… York.  Smith traveled to the hill in question the next day and uncovered gold plates on which he claimed were written … scripture by over 17 million worldwide members of the faith and has been translated into more than 100 languages. Even … skewered in popular culture, e.g., the television show South Park . But 200 years later, the story of how the Book …

… security. In the long list of presidential misdeeds and scandals, this one stands out. It’s the first time a president … whether Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium from that African country. Revealing her identity was a clumsy attempt … Andrew M. Schocket … A Dirty–and Deadly–Trick …

… Afghanistan to stabilize the pro-Soviet Afghan government and offer support in its fight with rebel forces. After … Kabul. Of the luxury high-rise buildings in Kabul, a South African urban planner, Jolyon Leslie, recently said, “ …

… The accusations have sent shock waves through the media and the 25,000 souls who belong to New Birth Baptist Church … condemned Bishop Eddie Long’s virulently anti-gay theology and political activism and have called for a black church …  The sexual assault of incarcerated men, disproportionately African American, is more often a source of jokes than a …