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… inhabitants of Montreal.” It is possible that in choosing to volunteer in the Black community, Francis was aware of its marginalization. Being … laundresses for women, for example) put their racialized communities at risk. When people are viewed as expendable …

… Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello, and welcome to Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern … all, many thanks to all of you who are making the time to come here today on what is at least in Columbus, Ohio, a … was met with a standing ovation by his audience, and the business of the conference soon began. Several days later at …

… my guests are historians. We look back and study what has come before and  this …this is a decidedly forward looking … we analyze if the promise of women's rights activists have come to fruition and what we can learn from the last 200 … Michigan. These elections will likely be critical to increasing women of color’s access to public office and political …

… or the Republican who aspires to succeed him. If so, the outcome will reinforce conclusions previously drawn from the … the conduct of national security policy. That legacy deeply compromises our constitutional system. Lessons drawn from … No wonder that John McCain, watching from his Senate seat since 1985 as impeachment efforts repeatedly failed, has now …

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … the papacy of Leo XIV may herald the end of an era,  recent commentary celebrates several notable firsts.  Besides being … soul … made after the image and the likeness of God.” Addressing the College of Cardinals this year, Leo XIV  observed …

… Vickers, the man responsible for security at the House of Commons, with taking down the gunman. Commentators not completely caught up in Zehaf-Bibeau’s … first gun control laws. Such laws conflicted with an increasing acceptance of a constitutional right to bear arms for …

… the intellect with emotion and place. You can follow our common fight for independence and creating and keeping a … a ranking of the best—something that really is impossible, since all of us bring different sets of values and … and headed to the Lamar Valley, it was like entering a completely different park. The traffic drops off and the …

… not acknowledge. Rusian pilgrims travelled to Santiago de Compostela in northern Iberia, as we see from the … belongs to all of them collectively, at least in part, since they have all also made their own history over the nearly 800 years since the kingdom of Rus lost its functional unity. The …

… seemed to me, foreshadows what the United States would become more than the Puritan outpost of Boston. After all, … Winthrop Fleet, which was funded by the  Massachusetts  Bay Company, came ashore in 1630. Ditto across the 19th century, … In a particularly splendid chapter, Rodgers describes the single instance when the phrase “city on a hill” had real …

… time that the United States hosted an international cricket competition. In fact, the first international cricket game … records, and in 1744, members of the London Cricket Club composed the first known written rules of the game.  … decline coincided with the Civil War, as Americans increasingly turned to baseball.  Yet cricket did not immediately …

… were Bollywood films. In recent decades, Bollywood has become popular across the world with sizeable audiences in … productions range widely. They can be artistic or cheaply commercial. They can have low production values or high … in Hindi cinema at the time. The production budget for a single song, “Why Fear When You Are in Love,” was almost as …

… will be no grounds for the United States to reject its outcome. Both U.S. presidential candidates have made … Cuba’s Fidel Castro “raised serious questions about his commitment to leading a truly democratic country.” Of … like a “monkey,” they complain, pointing to his impromptu singing and folksy digressions on his six-hour-long weekly …

… Americans' budgets. According to the report, the pain of rising food costs extends beyond the nuclear family to the … early twentieth century to the present, highlighting the complex interaction of politics, economics, nutrition, and … strings together, Levine reveal what turns out to be the complexity of the school lunch program, and she weaves these …

… Nadler of New York warned that "if we don't want to become an empire instead of a republic," Congress must …  Congressman Nadler disagrees.  "The president is becoming an absolute monarch," he said.   As a Democrat, … declaration.  While one might legitimately argue that chasing Pancho Villa was indeed a "police action," it's …

… Existential fears of “losing” what is seen as “Western Civilization” have animated … Brenna Miller   Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together a … and I don't mean that in a positive way. I think you are losing your culture".   Brenna Miller   The conclusion that …

… for new  popes  always so politically fraught? And most pressingly, where do they shop for those amazing robes?   As an … The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … Nevertheless, Christians in Rome from the third century commemorated Peter as their founding apostle and first …

… would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … as different and prohibited for white youth. Restrictive housing practices and economic disparities limited housing … in race music and began to provide more of these records to complement the demand. Radio DJs like Alan Freed started …

… was his only advice, citing a famous and beloved Russian comedy about excessive drinking, Eldar Ryazanov’s 1975 film … The Irony of Fate . Mark Schrad’s book puts that all-too-common Russian experience in a long historical context. And … Russian citizens a year died from alcohol poisoning (370). Since the collapse of communism in 1991, over 400,000 …

… framework of decolonization struggles. Violence has accompanied decolonization whenever the goal of political … of a late twentieth-century drive of colonial peoples to become sovereign nation-states. Much of the fury behind the … It is seen as a viable, moral and democratic polity. Since the critical factor in anti-colonial nationalist …

… Over the last year, we have come to know a good deal about Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. … about him, the odder it seemed that he should have become a terrorist. This fresh-faced twenty-three-year old … anymore. In the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, an MTV poll finds 75 percent of …

… of Chinese defeat in the face of British imperial power and commercial interests. China wanted to stem the flow of opium … to prioritize anti-drug trafficking laws as an important component of their activities. In his aptly named Opium’s … by anti-opium activists in Britain. A vital aspect of using a transnational framework to study world history is the …