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… to remain an unsettled and unsettling question. In years to come, hundreds of articles and books will flow from the pens … of that state's election such as instructions and e-mail communications between the Florida secretary of state's … weighed if these significant records are to be preserved:  Since the ballots presently are the property of local …

… seats in the House. The 1986 election marked the first time since World War II that the Senate had changed hands after a … hand, would be wise not to take the recent election outcome as a clear mandate that Americans support an aggressive … of history at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin and a writer for the History News Service. He is the …

… with the assumption that the Nixon scandal was about a single event, a “third-rate burglary” and the subsequent … at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An abbreviated list of what came to be … of course, crimes, but if Clinton were ever shown to have committed these offenses, these would be his only crimes. In …

… of Black sovereignty and nationalism that led to the disintegration of the British empire in the Caribbean. Jamaica … Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and African Communities League in Kingston in 1914. Though Garvey was … on the location of its capital, political leadership, and competing views on individual nationalism. The Federation …

… were an obvious denominational marker. “Part Two: Dynamics” comprises the bulk of the book. In chapters five through … of some pilgrims were not strictly spiritual, and he compares the practice with modern tourism. In chapter … of naming practices, noting that the saints were increasingly used in the names of churches, towns, and individuals …

… the polls were moved to schools and churches and community centers. There was some change in how candidates … associated with women and the home. Churches, schools, community centers, and this continues through to this day. … was unclear. Establishing a coalition of women focused on a single issue during the interwar period was difficult. …

… other hand, speak piously of keeping politics out of sports competition. I am frequently asked, "Must politics be a part … feeling." The former president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Juan Samaranch, declared on American TV: … of apartheid South Africa, some walking out of Olympic housing after the Games had already begun. North Korea has been …

… United States is characterized by three great waves of newcomers. The first wave came primarily from Ireland, Germany, … century. The second wave arrived between 1882 and 1924, coming largely from eastern and southern Europe. This was … though many individuals and groups became increasingly wary of the tides of new migrants arriving from …

… differences? Opponents of Electoral College reform commonly respond that the federal government should not … geographic and population apportionment safeguards smaller communities’ important interests. It’s an argument as old as … tiny James City County in Tidewater Virginia, proposing a compromise between the 1776 system and Jefferson’s …

… cyclists might wear the yellow jersey during the three-week competition, only one will ultimately win it. Cover of the … leadingsports paper’s support of Dreyfus as well as the rising price of advertising space, pulled their ads and … this hue. Ultimately, the Tour was born out of blistering competition and vigorous debate over who could be considered …

… visions of Malthus, Ehrlich, and other doomsayers have not come to pass.  Drawing on a rich variety of government … number of deaths due to any particular famine because of incomplete records and because death tolls are often … though this has often been driven by fear of uprising from below or fear of infectious diseases.  Governments …

… movements; and the third being "crib-sheet books, the compilations, quote books, 'dictionaries' and … and intelligent; she has received credit for almost single-handedly halting the Equal Rights Amendment's … by arguing that grassroots activism, centered on anticommunism, played a central role in the rise of the American …

… history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and comparatively modern city of about 150,000 people. Exiting … Turkic nomadic tribesmen from the early centuries of the Common Era, Khorezm became an important commercial and … which the Earth revolved around the sun; the physician Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, whose Canon of Medicine …

… exchanges and cooperation between their armed forces. A competition in armaments between China and the United States … Condoleeza Rice said, “One has to be concerned by increasing Chinese military power,” adding that “there’s a … Taiwan, a self-ruled island separated from Mainland China since 1949 as a result of a civil war. At the White House, …

… Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple … the DNA of the pathogen that causes it—the bacterium Yersinia pestis —in the remains of late Neolithic-era humans … the plague’s social and economic impact on the infected community. Our best historical source is Procopius of …

… away from the actual events of the war, movies have become the dominant means for us to envision them. But can you … the most striking scenes from The Burmese Harp , Mizushima comes upon a beach, stops, and stares in shock at an … Collection). When Polish participants in the 1944 Uprising climb into the sewers in Andrzej Wajda’s Kanal , we …

… WWII, the United States began to boldly pursue a global community modeled upon American political, economic, and … menace seeking to snuff out America’s light. The godless Communists, American logic went, would stop at nothing to … approach to drugs. But it all gets lost in the Kennedy assassination and all the other chaos of the 1960s. Brionna …

… reader finds a series of chapters organized around either a single president or several. Less a narrative, the book … Yosemite as home for several lit-up resort hotels and casinos with their sprawling parking lots . . . the Mormon … onto both parties’ national agendas for decades to come and FDR splicing “conservation into the Democratic …

… sides their full due, we will be honoring only a bloodless, comforting reflection of the whole troubling man.  Most … He taught that each of us is tied to all other people in “a single garment of destiny.” Only by loving that whole … greatest triumph, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the black community of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in riots. More …

… victory because his predecessor Herbert Hoover had been singularly unsuccessful in dealing with the ravages of the … everyone thought Roosevelt was up to the task. Political commentator Walter Lippmann called him “a kind of amiable … 'Construction of a Dam' (1939). The federal government commissioned this mural, along with many others, to fund …

… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … has had a murky, even “schizophrenic,” view of its commitment to the world’s dispossessed. Although the United … aid into what historians have identified as the “increasingly public, hierarchical, and institutionalized” …

… and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (which would later become the Pan American Health Organization) financed and … the experiments. The Guatemalan government was also complicit and received compensation for its participation. … Transmitted Infections (STIs) in the military. Ever since the Civil War, STIs like gonorrhea and syphilis had …

… of the sort espoused by Richard Rorty. The maneuver is a common one from the perspective of positivism. In The … monstrous infamy that is antisemitism. But it is useless, completely useless.” However, Lipstadt stops short of … through the film. As she runs past a sandwich board advertising a newspaper’s summation of the verdict—“he …