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… memory. But with these changes have come many questions and tensions. Is the focus on the politics of marriage … Netflix's Orange is the New Black has Laverne Cox, who's an African American trans woman who's one of the sort of … of large tech companies just like in the Sun Belt in the south and the West move to California to the suburbs, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Adrian Tinniswood begins The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science by describing … in for concentrated scrutiny. For example, Sir Robert Southwell brought his unicorn horn to a meeting in 1661. An … scathing ridicule from clergymen-scientists, such as Robert South, and even from contemporary authors, like Jonathan …

… 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 …

… This country began with a fierce debate, and it does not appear to be over. The folks rallying to the … we think of it, the movement is as American as apple pie. And its followers think so too, calling themselves … That was why it was called a confederacy. (The Southern states, equally determined to protect states …

… played annually since 1903 (with two exceptions in 1904 and 1994). Debates over which are the “greatest” of these … Dodgers roster and broke the “color barrier” that prevented African-Americans (and dark-skinned Latinos) from playing in … Series. Their manager, Cito Gaston, was also the first African-American to both manage in and win a World Series. …

… the UN eerily resembles the League of Nations of the 1920s and 1930s. By allowing North Korea to flout international nuclear norms, permitting genocide in Darfur, and watching Iraq crumble into chaos, the UN’s record is as … of its nuclear program, the UN has placed a low priority on Africa. The Sudanese government has been pursuing a policy …

… New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley talks … Lake in Oregon, or Mesa Verde in Colorado, or Wind Cave in South Dakota, went to Congress, they got passed and moved to … that an eel in a Pennsylvania River had made a journey from Africa. Everybody writes about bird migration, what about …

… Thanksgiving was little more than a harvest festival , and that the morally conservative Puritans would have eschewed the indulgence and recreation that characterizes the holiday today. In … 1942. Readers will learn about Memorial Day’s origin as a Southern celebration of Confederate veterans , only later to …

… On December 6, 1922, Ireland’s struggle for independence from the United Kingdom … Still, violence continued in both the north and the south. In Belfast, sectarian violence killed approximately … had to flee their homes, many seeking refuge in the south.   The war between England and Ireland continued until …

… This month marks the first anniversary of the Parkland shooting, when a gunman killed 17 students and staff … rights and gun control. The rights—or the lack thereof—of African Americans first brought the Second Amendment to the … Cruikshank  (1876), which ruled that states could prohibit African Americans from keeping arms because the Second …

… the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage … have. So I look at women who and men who come from North Africa and all over Europe, who meet American, British and … depending on whether you're in Italy, Northern France, southern France, Germany, Belgium, into encounter. Where are …

… an unchecked majority can be just as threatening to liberty and justice as a dictator or tyrannical oligarchy. … partisan leanings keep many people from understanding this subtle but essential point. Recognizing the role … C. Calhoun in the nineteenth century.   Calhoun represented South Carolina in the U.S. Senate, served as secretary of …

… In its brutality and horror, the World Trade Center attack of September 11 outmatched Pearl Harbor. Because it did so, our grief and anger are settling into a cold rage against whoever … finally ended by a precipitate French retreat from North Africa. On the other side of the argument about what we are …

… McCain has made it clear that, previous positions notwithstanding, he has now embraced the Republican economic … orthodoxy: eliminate regulation, cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy, and the free and unfettered market will … most importantly the 1886 decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court used the 14th …

… or perhaps a date, like “410” or “476.” In popular culture and imagination, the fall of the Roman Empire takes on the … Edward Gibbon’s famous eighteenth century work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . Scholarship on this period, … in the Western Empire (parts of Western Europe and Northern Africa) though not in the East (the Eastern Balkans, …

… McCain has made it clear that, previous positions notwithstanding, he has now embraced the Republican economic … orthodoxy: eliminate regulation, cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy, and the free and unfettered market will … most importantly the 1886 decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court used the 14th …