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… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … the selection of the team they had, the museum did a very good job as being sort of stewards of the Lorraine Motel, of … be told about Medgar Evers, early NAACP activists. So that will then set up when we come back and deal with Freedom …

… unintended consequences should not be shrugged off lightly. Once an amendment is adopted, it can only be … can block the repair of a mistake. If we amend in haste, we will likely have to endure the result regardless of how much we come to regret it. The nation’s constitutional history is …

… are being built in Brazil and China, while campaigns to decommission dams are gaining traction in the United States … the world until its alleged destruction by clumsy monks in 1305.  Located near the Roman capital, the Subiaco dams also … photo of the Elwha Dam taken for the Lower Elwha Fisheries office in 2005. Many of the dams built by the BOR in the …

… Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple … source is Procopius of Caesarea (in modern Israel), a high official in the Roman government, who lived in … source is John of Ephesus (in modern Turkey), a Christian bishop living in Syria who lived at the same time as …

… initiative was passed, and Congress appropriated $300 million to provide school meals in developing countries. … enemies of peace."   Democrats and Republicans could surely come together to realize that children overseas dying or … since it got its start.  Global hunger has fallen far off the radar in the U.S. government, and programs such as …

… his party's $12.6 million, thanks to the Federal Election Commission, which ruled in a recent 5-1 decision that … William McKinley, led the charge for higher tariffs. In 1930, the Smoot-Hawley tariff, one of the largest expansions … as "selling out to the Business Roundtable." But a cutoff of aid to China would also fit in nicely with past …

… continues to our day. Do these Church actions prove the incompatibility between science and religion? What lessons can … charges against Galileo were unsubstantiated. However, the officials started worrying about the status of heliocentrism … by Pope John Paul II (in 1979-1992). This controversy will probably not end any time soon. This may be seen from …

… upon when he won approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Social Security, unemployment insurance, a … Administration that built new roads, bridges, dams, post offices, classrooms and libraries. This year, with votes … with the New Deal, content to thwart its advance but unwilling to risk its repeal. Few Americans thought that they …

… government. But based on advice from army and police officials and political advisors, Daladier stepped down to … French cities. In fact, the riots of February 6 th have become shorthand to describe the protests and violence that … collapse of the French Republic for the remainder of the 1930s, despite how close they came on February 6, 1934. But by …

… is likely to run again. So relevant "experience" is hard to come by.This presidential season, everybody is talking about … out military "experience" as beneficial to the would-be office holder. Zachary Taylor was a hero of the … whose major accomplishment as president was dying early on. William Henry Harrison, hero in the Indian wars, also died …

… to have an abortion–by ignoring morality, tradition, and common sense. Those who seek to ban abortion frequently … writers and jurists disagreed about how serious a moral offense abortion was. The punishments assigned in medieval … of medieval Irish saints. Saint Kieran, a sixth-century bishop, is said to have come to the rescue of a nun who had …

… victory over rebels in the duchy, appointed a new archbishop in Milan, and named two additional bishops in Italy in … Gregory VII chastised Henry IV’s association with excommunicated advisers and his appointment of three Italian … famous declaration to the Reichstag in 1872 that Germany “will not go to Canossa” as Henry IV did in 1077.  The …

… Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. step onto the balcony of room 306, he pulled the trigger. A fraction of a second later, a … Memphis, a pall of shock and sadness blanketed the black community. Anguish soon turned to anger. Fearing a riot, the … almost impossible. The disappearance of small mom and pop shops, many of which did not reopen after being burned, hurt …

… Carter. By giving him this honor at this time, the Nobel Committee seized the opportunity to express its concern over … has been long left behind. There was also his role while in office in securing the 1978 Camp David accords for peace … toward a resolution that might result in the use of force against Iraq. In announcing the prize, the chairman of the …

… What is the afterlife of an old communist statue? Just what to do with all the Soviet-era … bloc:” some blown up or knocked down, others shunted off to museums, and still others left standing and … on the structure. Even more striking is the neglect of the 1300 Years Bulgaria monument in the National Palace of …

… Henry V also laid claim to the crown of France, and to make good that claim he launched an unexpectedly successful armed … unalloyed sense of justification: She announces that the outcome of the battle of Agincourt showed "God had chosen to … with such a courteous nature, who followed "precisely the code of conduct that governed the medieval laws of war," …

… As any viewer of television news knows, those who comment on the Arab-Israeli crisis offer many different explanations for the current outbreaks … to indulge in these fantasies, significant compromise will be difficult to achieve.   The principal fantasy of the …

… peace than Bush’s “axis of evil.” The president’s comments have led to denunciations from the three nations he … the global menace of the old Axis powers, he would have a good point. But the huge dissimilarities between the Axis … States to fight what historian Charles Beard in the 1930s called “perpetual wars for perpetual peace,” a policy …

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate … culture, which had been in decline in England since the 1930s. That sound, a fusion of American R&B with British music … Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, and Paul Simon—to offer advice. The Beatles didn’t play there but they …

… implausible. History can promote human improvement, I've come to believe, but not in the didactic or formulaic manner … unnatural, it violates Christian sensibilities, and it will spark even more prejudice and discrimination) bore a … Court, Clarence Thomas, says that gay marriage is an offense to his religion. But he is also married to a white …

… the inspectors were too few and too weakly supported to overcome Iraqi resistance. But even if the inspections had … spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) seems like a good idea. So now we’re going to try something else: regime … turnaround of Japan in Iraq. The only way that Gulf War II will succeed in long-term disarmament is if the United …

… Loving v. Virginia , the most pertinent film is Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1968), which features a stirring defense … to her rescue, but before he can save the day, Flora jumps off a cliff to her death rather than allow Gus to assault … torturous delay, he declares his happiness, laughing: “Good. That's real good.” He begins looking screen right. …

… Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk Produced by Origins , a project of the … the ACA marks a shift away from the 20th century model of offering individuals federal assistance based on membership … you know, similarly developed countries, we're spending 30%, they're spending 9%. And then Bradley comes in and she …

… their way through a devastated Germany. The first major combat sequence takes place in an open field, as Collier and … goal with the film was to challenge the conventional “good war” narrative.  He wanted to demonstrate that “[the … evidence to document any clear patterns. Historians have offered highly divergent estimations of the number of German …