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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… experiencing a new round of Israeli-Palestinian violence. And a peaceful resolution to this decades-long conflict … mutually exclusive hostilities have appeared in Cyprus, South Africa, and Sri Lanka in recent years. One analyst estimated … A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation …

… 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 …

… (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 …

… the phrase "under God" violated the separation of church and state and interfered with a father's control of his child's … program for protecting newly freed slaves and readmitting Southern states to be unconstitutional. The editor argued …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… How and what we eat defines who we are. Food is both everywhere and nowhere, so normal that we rarely consider how radically the production and consumption of food have shaped not only human culture … several parts of the world, Australasia to a lesser extent South Africa, Argentina, certainly, even Denmark, and …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… the centennial of the war, U.S. events have been few and far between. Why is the war remembered so differently in Europe versus the United States, and what legacies might we be forgetting? In this episode of … we speak to three experts— Jennifer Siegel , Aaron Retish , and Julie Powell —about the war that shaped the course of …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Spend a few minutes browsing news websites or blogs and you will see a barrage of infographics and informational maps used to prop up tendentious … Olmstead and Edward Atkinson used mapping to critique the southern assertion that slavery was the best labor system …