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… 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 …

… 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 … under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. With the detonation of the Trinity … routinely detonated nuclear devices in the Nevada desert and the Marshall Islands. Not only was nuclear fallout a …

… 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 between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after … 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 …

… R. Porter’s Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many … in the racial and economic tensions of America’s Jim Crow south, and how the haphazard work of an overburdened private … of a Hungarian student at an all-black university in South Carolina. The final two chapters extend the question …

… podcast shorts on key events in history, described first-hand by the individuals who lived through them. Each episode … moment, person, or topic in history, using interviews and audio from the BBC archive and readings of historical … podcast episodes and videos on particular themes such as African history, science, music, and war. The podcast is …

… a different result. So take the following history test and find out if your ideas about our kids and what they know about history are crazy or not. Identify … fine. But those with specialties in medieval, European and African history failed miserably when confronted by items …

… Playmobil figures of Luther, Luther Christmas ornaments, and tote bags decorated with his image all focus attention … for 25 years. Vasco da Gama and his crew had reached south Asia nearly two decades earlier. Within two years, … Walter Raleigh assured local people in sixteenth-century South America that the Protestant English were far better, …

… Their stunning victory in August 2021 over American and allied forces—arguably the most powerful military … of veterans of the jihad gathered in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. These men had spent their lives … forceful implementation of religious orthodoxy and gender apartheid. …

… a scary disease that is particularly dangerous to infants and children under 5. Its symptoms include high fever, cough, runny nose, and watery eyes. The characteristic rash appears a few days … including a 150% increase in cases in Europe and 900% in Africa over 2018. The efficacy of vaccination as a tool of …