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Cover of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC by David W. Anthony and  Jennifer Y. Chi.

The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC

Review of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC, by David W. Anthony and Jennifer Y. Chi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. pp. 254)
… York University. The exhibit ran through April 25, 2010, and the objects on display are appearing in the United … ). It is a collaborative project between the Institute and over 20 museums in Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova, the … three, "Houses, Households, Villages and Proto-Cities in Southeastern Europe" by John Chapman, presents an overview …
Barry Faulkner's mural, "The Constitution," depicts the framers of the U.S. Constitution.

Term Limits: Thank Goodness We Didn’t Have Them in 1787

… Once again Congress has debated and, at least for the moment, defeated a proposed … would indeed have seemed odd to the nation’s founders and to the great congressional leaders of the nineteenth … — Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri — stayed in …

The Politics of International Adoption

… Nor is it any easier if we break it down: thirty thousand children each day; more than one thousand every hour. … 22% of all foreign-born adopted children have come from South Korea, and 28% of those under six have come from China … of Black Social Workers condemned the placement of African-American children with white parents, whether for …
A 1963 photo of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem.

In Bethlehem, Persisting Hope

… When the Roman Catholic Patriarch of the Holy Land Michel Sabbah celebrates mass in the Church of the … in Bethlehem this Christmas Eve, events in the town and region will have changed dramatically from where they … via Israel’s Mediterranean ports, freeing up Israel’s southern port of Elat for expansion of tourist hotels. …
Saxonburg Memorial Church.

Does the First Amendment Separate Church and State?

… Delaware Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell's recent comment–wondering whether “separation of church and state” is “in the First Amendment”–raises a serious … combination of state legislation and local option. In the South establishment meant supporting the Church of England
Mosul Grand Mosque in 2007

Bush Needs War — FAST

… Bush is mindful of growing difficulties with public opinion and an ailing economy, problems that could soon make war … unworkable.  A crescendo of protests against war and disturbing news about a flagging economy are undermining … consequences of large-scale military involvement in Southeast Asia took time to build. Problems with inflation …
Kagan, Obama, and Roberts before her investiture ceremony, October 1, 2010.

How Empathy Makes Superior Judges – and Justice

… Court this week, senators should consider her legal ability and constitutional vision, but also her capacity to be an … judges invariably have had close association with wealthy and powerful people. Those relationships dispose them to … of the Equal Protection Clause because it created in African-American children a “feeling of inferiority as to …
A photo of Al Gore I\in Manchester, New Hampshire, campaigning for President of the United States in 1999

The Case of the Disappearing Vice President

… (No. 63) warned that “the people” were dangerously unstable and easily duped. They were likely to make bad choices when … best remedy would be “the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens,” the disinterested few who … clearly the loser, became the winner when he promised Southern Democrats he would to jettison the gains blacks had …
1942 photo of an American flag.

The Changing Symbolism of Old Glory

… of Sept. 11, 2001. Annin & Co., the nation’s largest and oldest flag-maker, reports that sales are still 25 … percent above normal as Americans continue to fly the Stars and Stripes from their front porches and cars. Grandiose … by smaller, underdeveloped nations in the Caribbean and South America. There, the United States impeded nationalist …
Top view of person serving themself a rice dish from a table of food

Food for Thought: Diet in History

… How and what we eat defines who we are. Food is both everywhere … several parts of the world, Australasia to a lesser extent South Africa, Argentina, certainly, even Denmark, and Canada. And
Photo of "Fighting Bob" La Follette

Lessons for the Nader Camp: ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette in 1924

… As campaign 2000 moves past the conventions, Ralph Nader, candidate of the Green Party, is again in the limelight. Some … reports predicted that La Follette would carry Wisconsin and possibly 12 northwestern states. Journalists forecast … the support of many well known and admired activists, from African-American leader W.E.B Du Bois to conservationist …
The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Book Cover

The Jamestown Project

Review of The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)
… new television documentaries, stage elaborate recreations, and release new books that reflect upon the current state of … of the settlement of Jamestown, the first of England's colonial projects in North America to survive … others around the world as the English sought to cut into African and Asian trades, and aided efforts to fight back …

Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution

… In April and May 2018, the small nation of Armenia experienced a … August 17, one hundred days after the upheaval’s end, thousands of Armenians—young and old, workers and … of the Caucasus Mountains, Armenia is situated on the southwestern extremity of the former Soviet Union. Located …
A black and white photo of Barry Goldwater in 1962.

Rick Perry, Social Security, and the Ghost of Barry Goldwater

… away from his comments after his Republican opponents and the press jumped all over him. Perry now finds himself … a “Ponzi scheme” captured the media’s attention, hurt his standing in the polls, and provided an opening for his … 61 percent of the vote and every state except five Deep South states and Goldwater’s home state of Arizona. …
Royal Irish Rifles in foxhole at Battle of the Somme, 1916

Legacies of the Great War

… the centennial of the war, U.S. events have been few and far between. Why is the war remembered so differently in … wars, in fact, where they were fighting, you know, in Africa and East Asia and things like this. And the firepower … and see the ways in which these same issues took place. South Eastern Europe had similar wheeling than dealings. The …

America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System

… A familiar scene plays out again and again in American public life in the 21 st century. In … of color, the poor, unmarried mothers, and the disabled. Southern asylums in the Jim Crow era were segregated and ones for African Americans received far less funding and accordingly …
1866 cartoon by Daumier, L’Equilibre Européen, representing the balance of power as soldiers of different nations teeter the earth on bayonets.

Democracy by Force, or by Example?

… necessary. It’s a proposition that deserves some thought, and we’re fortunate that in 1824 the House of … how best to serve democracy worldwide. Considering the pros and cons of this thorny issue would demonstrate how a … hated evil and loved virtue. Congressman Joel Poinsett of South Carolina insisted that the bravery and enterprise of …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders in 1963.

Giving Up on the Dream?

… of social justice, personal witness to God’s saving grace and the vision of a new world. Today’s black leaders have … parties because of the risk of alienation. “Popularity” and “political correctness” have replaced the independence, … Similarly, Secretary of State Colin Powell, a leading African-American officeholder, finds himself hostage to the …
British Fleet Spanish Armada of 1588

1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses

… 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the … around Scotland and Ireland instead of the shorter route south?" Second asked "did the Dutch fleet play any role in … pleasant guy. But he's busy trading slaves from Africa and the Caribbean. And there's a big port, there is …
President George W. Bush sitting at his desk in 2001.

Social Security: False Crisis, Destructive Solutions

… that he wanted “to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and benefits.” “With those taxes in there,” he tartly … for 20 percent of the elderly and for 38 percent of the African American and Hispanic elderly. Together with …