Fortifying the U.S.-Mexico Boundary: The 1993 “Hold the Line” Experiment … lost decade, due to the severe financial instability that plagued many Latin American countries. However, in his …
Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal … the idea of a bridge over the Bosporus also has a literal meaning that reflected a long legacy of large-scale state …
Black Woodstock: The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival … America (MacMillan Publishers, 2007) Emily J. Lordi, The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s …
Babylon Revisited Review of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297)
Mom and Apple Pie (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 6) … the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act of 1963, meaning that women would lose far more than they would gain …
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth … that the Pacific was much wider than previously guessed, meaning that they owned some of the Pacific islands as …
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. … shot and killed and the nation is still wrestling with the meaning of his life and death. One thing is for sure. Dr. …
Washed Ashore: Marine Mammals from Medieval Times to Today … the whale is evidence for changing cultural ideas about the meaning of these beachings. As commercial whaling increased …