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… women, who saved the church that nurtured him and composed the movement whose spokesman he became. King was … up against the wall." Such women were the backbone of the community that nurtured young King. "The church has always … of working women and men to accept his challenge to stop using the buses throughout 1956. The bus boycott gave working …

… from religious life, because government money always comes with strings attached. Understanding that, in the late … Still, many religious leaders in poor neighborhoods welcome any help for their impoverished parishioners and … First Amendment barred a federal establishment of religion. Since then, the nation has benefited greatly from religious …

… over the Clinton scandal. Yet overlooked in the stampede to compare Bill Clinton to Richard Nixon is the fact that … frustrated contemporary political visionaries intent on using Congress to remake American society. Andrew Johnson … a Southerner and white supremacist, utterly refused to accommodate the Radicals’ plans for Reconstruction. Even …

… over Confederate monuments. How do these two trends in commemorating our nation’s past relate to one anther? What … Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together a … opening of the Lynching Memorial has coincided with increasing controversy concerning Confederate monuments around the …

… and Russia, and with nearly two times the per-capita income of China, Brazil is on track to become a major force in the global economy. How Things Change … engulfed in decades-long economic tumult with prices rising at a rate of 80% per month. At that rate, a sandwich …

… of Ukraine: Russia cannot be an empire without Ukraine and coming to terms with Ukraine’s separate nationhood is a … his domestic popularity, but in so doing he exploited complexities and confusions about Ukrainian identity … yet their group political and cultural identity was increasingly marginalized or treated as an ethnographic curiosity. …

… Do the police reify inequality by targeting low-income communities of color or are they the “thin blue line” … urban centers. It called for greater federal spending on housing, education, and welfare as the remedy for riots. … Review of Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism , by …

… as a missionary people, uniquely called to bring the blessings of liberty to the oppressed. As publisher Henry Luce … of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz dared to undertake a comprehensive land reform campaign, nationalize corporate property and open diplomatic relations with communist countries in 1954, Washington was quick to …

… it was being spoken about by fans of literature, who often complained about the stifling power of the novel and the … of pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta committed by ex-student Rodion Raskolnikov were “the purest … novel offers a path to redemption for the criminal and the sinner. With the historical events of 1866 now long …

… administrations that deemed the application of force a welcome distraction from domestic problems. At the same time, … War (1962-1970) at the same time that Egypt’s overextended commitment of troops to North-Yemen’s republicans had … intended to return those territories--, including the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank , and the Golan Height-- in …

… to Byzantium , Herrin relates a story of two builders coming to her office after passing it daily to ask her what exactly Byzantium was or is. … I found myself flying through the pages, feeling very accomplished as I finished each short chapter. This division …

… As the president made his way to the train, chatting companionably with Secretary of State James G. Blaine, a man … and reporters delved further into the mind of the assassin, Charles Guiteau, they found that the answer lay with … ballot, Congressman and Senator-Elect Garfield emerged as a compromise candidate, ultimately winning the nomination on …

… children. What is different today is the often fatal outcomes of children's brutality towards one another, owing to … when one looks at gun deaths in the United States compared with other industrialized nations, that has … And we need to consider the march not as an example of single-issue politics, but as part of a historical pattern: …

… the Russias.” Services in Moscow capped a series of events commemorating the Romanovs’ tercentenary, in what proved to … peril to the future of his country and its people. Immersing himself in a celebration of the past, he turned away … deemed oppositional, the tsar brusquely cut him off. He welcomed supplicant peasant elders, but Kostroma was part of a …