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… Bakken oil-shale region in western North Dakota to a tank complex in Illinois. Its route crosses the Missouri River … the Meskwaki (Fox) Nation of Iowa. Theirs has nonetheless become the most dramatic demonstration against the project, … of Tears in Oklahoma. An estimated 3,500 Native Americans died along the 1,200 mile journey. Indian treaty-makers did …

… from the priesthood in February 2019.  All of these tragedies are tinged with a sense of déjà vu. Similar patterns of … changing sexual mores since the 1960s. Occasionally, commentators have referred to an insular institutional … rebellion” and called on him to “repent” and return to obedience to the papacy. Viganò retorted with further …

… would serve merely as an explicit reminder of the U.N.'s incompetence.   An examination of the situation with an eye to … too quickly and therefore resulted in too many shortsighted compromises.   The order to follow the Second World War … Security Council. Meanwhile, the General Assembly and its accompanying subsidiary organizations, which were to be much …

… Hurricane Katrina has underscored the importance of unified command and control in response to national disasters. … the determination to get the job done. He was secretary of commerce from 1921 to 1928 under presidents Harding and … the flood control work of the Army Corps of Engineers and commanded other divisions of the War Department as needed. …

… Sweden, larger than the three Baltic republics (PDF File) combined, and larger than Austria. It would be the 11 th … way of comparison, approximately 1.3 million Americans have died in all wars since 1776). Belarus, the historian Timothy … opened, complete with a 100-foot stone sculpture of a soldier entitled “Courage.” In the destroyed village of Khatyn, …

… colonialists in their war against Ho’s Vietminh, he had become a bitter U.S. enemy. Over the next decade, Ho frustrated American designs in Southeast Asia. By 1964, communist guerrillas, aided by the North Vietnamese army, … were in Vietnam. By 1973, more than 58,000 of them had died there. Congress later recognized the mistake of the …

… one day after the author's arrival. ( United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees ) We came to Greece with only a … measures imposed on Greece by Europe's central monetary bodies . A pro-refugee banner from Piraeus. (Photo by author) … to know refugees as individuals. Abdul, for example, had studied civil engineering at university in Afghanistan , and …

… disc jockey Alan Freed crowing “That’s Bill Haley and the Comets rockin’ and rollin’ you with ‘Shake, Rattle and … even of sexuality. Tharpe’s career was cut short when she died of complications from diabetes in 1973, at the age of … packed Griffith Stadium were mostly middle-aged church ladies, not the screaming teeny-boppers who would fill Shea …

… By September 1862 the Battle of Antietam provided the bloodiest day in American history, rewriting "the rules for … 24,000 casualties, yet religious leaders only became more committed to their crusades and more strident in their … war was immoral. He cannot accept that 620,000 Americans died in vain, and he feels compelled to share the sense of …

… strategists have long been concerned that Americans would become complacent” about the war on terrorism. “Skepticism by … of hope? Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… anti-democratic, inefficient, and a symbol of legislative incompetence. Liberals in the earlier post-World War II period … that civil rights organizations in the 1950s placed committee and filibuster reform at the top of their …

… a Kiwanis Club gathering in Columbus, Ga. Calley told his audience that “not a day that goes by that I do not feel … who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers who were involved and their families. I am very … who has been assigned blame for another’s actions. Calley committed murder at My Lai and ordered his men to do the …

… Trump held up Carrier, an air conditioning and heating company, as a symbol of the plight of American … by free trade deals that hurt American workers. The company had planned to close an Indiana plant that makes … through new international institutions. In his Fourteen Points speech, Wilson called for “the removal, so far as …

… the first few decades of the nineteenth century the dead bodies themselves became precious commodities because the dissection of human cadavers for … straight to an untapped and ever-replenishing source of bodies by killing unsuspecting victims which they quickly sold …

… in 1947, Pakistan’s political elites have faced regional, communal, and religious obstacles to building a stable, … Beginning: Independence and Partition Salmon Rushdie has famously described Pakistan as “a place … … the head of state, Governor-General, of Pakistan. But he died the following year leaving a power vacuum. The …

… natives of the New World.   Las Casas ( above ) rose to become one of the most influential thinkers of his day. He … extremely popular Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, which was published during his lifetime (c. … Americans because Spaniards considered them to be hardier than natives. The 16th century  Florentine Codex …

… for the political party whose policies promise the best outcome. But if we had any way to make such calculations—if we … a more minimal notion of what politicians and parties can accomplish, and what they ought to be accountable for. The … an unknown who ascended to the presidency when Roosevelt died in 1945. He then accidentally presided over the end of …

… in the moment. Some, however, really do represent something completely new in American political history, and not always … set subsequent political norms, permanently altered the composition of national political coalitions, or revealed … involving a federal election commission, railroad subsidies, and the renewed threat of regional violence, Hayes was …

… movements; and the third being "crib-sheet books, the compilations, quote books, 'dictionaries' and … by arguing that grassroots activism, centered on anticommunism, played a central role in the rise of the American … the Daughters of the American Revolution, Critchlow also points out that Phyllis Schlafly, who held high office in …

… cougars, and rattlesnakes. If he hasn’t been rescued by his compatriots, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the … in 1846 — under unusual circumstances, to be sure. To overcome abolitionist objections, President John Tyler resorted … might in fact take its affections elsewhere. His strategy accomplished much. Great Britain was the leading abolitionist …

… Since the economic crisis we’re now in is being compared to the Great Depression, the solutions being … (R-Ohio) is so angry at the New Deal that he told an audience recently that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal actually … the details, but there was a broad consensus around these points.   The result of that consensus was the greatest …

… The consensus among many academics, journalists, and commentators is that Boko Haram is an Islamist organization … the most powerful person in Borno. Muhammad al-Kanami died in 1838, and was succeeded by his sons. The last of … it would reach a widespread and linguistically diverse audience. According to Paul Newman, who is among the foremost …

… Amendment does not prohibit robust gun regulation, it compels it. Today’s gun rights ideology is antithetical to … about an obligation citizens owed to their government and communities to contribute to public defense. They also …

… in state and local races across the land.  Many pundits are comparing this election to the election of 1994, when anger … gambled wrong.  In that election, the GOP crushed this combined Democratic/Populist party, and the Populist Party … bees:  They sting one of the two major parties.  Then they die.   This is where the Tea Partiers find themselves now. …