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… on brains. Undead and not quite living, where do zombies come from and why are they here? The story of our … living dead—not fully a part of our animate world and not completely divorced from it; zombies exist on the line that … (Sotho/Tsonga) and maduxwane (Venda). The dead and sometimes the living were thought to be a risk of …

… other Europeans with sailing experiences were brought in, some of them to work off debts. Magellan’s second-in-command was the Spanish overseer and accountant, Juan de … of the death of Magellan (left) ; a plaque in Cebu commemorating the site of Magellan's death, Philippines …

… break with socialist tradition. Though ideologically committed to human equality, socialists had long argued that … On March 18, 1911, the fortieth anniversary of the Paris Commune, International Women’s Day was marked for the first … Day, and sowed deep divisions among socialist women. Some supported nationalist sentiments while others protested …

… so a throng of investors responded, venturing thousands, some even millions. They came from the East, from the West, … reward for reasonable risk. We're talking about the dot-com industries of the '90s, aren't we? Not this time. We're … industry, sure to reap fantastic profits with little risk. Common sense would seem to argue against this. But American …

… Class is back. Whatever its other accomplishments, the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprouted … Budget Office offered this analysis of household income shortly after Occupy Wall Street started, showing that … rich," such as CEOs. Billionaire Warren Buffet raised some hackles when he suggested in a New York Times op-ed …

… of “violence.” Pekka Hämäläinen made an argument that the Comanche past constituted an “empire.” Benjamin Madley, … one overarching Apache ‘tribe’ or nation.” Despite this complexity, the author sticks to this Euro-American … Spanish referents like ‘Warm Springs’ or ‘Mimbreño.’ While some readers may be familiar with ‘Chiricahua’ as a cover …

… In the face of disasters we have come to expect that our governments will respond. … erected statues of him. Tiberius then struck and circulated coins celebrating his rebuilding efforts, the ancient … and included a massive volcanic eruption that destroyed some communities completely, notably Pompeii. It also …

… How are these heroes not lost? We know a little more about some of them. Serhii Nihoyan, from Dnipropetrovsk region, … or face off with the police created nonviolent initiatives. Some developed legal aid networks to help those who had been …

… never passive victims.  From the very beginning of black community development in the North, African Americans fought … trajectory of activism was toward increasing militancy.  Some of the earliest black activists in the 1920s focused on … to anti-colonial struggles around the world.  With the coming of the Cold War, McCarthyism temporarily quieted the …

… the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences … on the piano to an admiring public, and published several compositions. Among these were his four-movement piano trios … he started a symphony. Although he eventually shelved it, some of its ideas resurface in the First Symphony.  …

… of years the kings of Europe sought glory through a combination of military victories like Lepanto, the great European naval victory over the Turks in 1571, awesome extravagance such as the palace of Versailles and vast …

… in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … machine-breaking in general became a “serious phenomenon” sometime in the 17 th century. This “collective bargaining … National Archives. One English magistrate called them “so extravagantly paid that by working three or four days a week …

… Over the next three years, the Bolsheviks (soon renamed Communists) would have to win power in a bloody civil war … liberal democracy and capitalism. But many on the left welcomed the Revolution as the start of a new era, with harmony … Soviet regime really a product of socialist ideology? In some ways it was. Vladimir Lenin and other Communist Party …

… a U.S. audience on the British welfare state, was asked to comment on the American “welfare state.” Explaining that the … citizens, not just those whose lack of employment or low incomes made them eligible. In these countries health care was … subsidized public housing and transportation and(in some societies) paid maternity leaves, family allowances …

… Daniel Walker Howe wrought? The answer is a sweeping and commanding synthesis of the political and economic history … franchise the Founders imagined, Howe casts a much more somber eye over these years. There is much that is dark … supremacy, resolute and explicit, constituted an essential component of what contemporaries called 'the Democracy' – …

… was upgrading the recent outbreak of H1N1 influenza, more commonly known as "swine flu," to a global pandemic. Although the designation comes from the increasing spread and not increasing severity … mundane was changed by the disease. The book suffers from some small organizational problems. The first is the …

… Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … But you argue for a sense of historical perspective when it comes to evaluating the election. What is France's history … piece of writing geared toward a popular audience. Is there some advantage to this form of writing over what historians …

… America , demonstrates that my professor is onto something. Patterson shares with other commentators the feeling that 1965 was a “pivot” or a … the fact no one knew how much it would cost; and struck a compromise on the issue of federal funding to parochial …

… and long-lasting empires in world history responded to some of the most devastating pandemics known to humankind. … ecology and disease. Indeed, this earlier experience with combating plague served the Ottomans well as they entered … to its experience confronting pandemics brought on by a completely different disease: cholera . Cholera While plague …