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… David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea  is not, strictly speaking, a history of … Ming dynasty, were highly desired trade items. Scandinavia was also central to global trade networks at this time, with … makes the importance of a region’s trading prowess clear when explaining that the Portuguese Empire emerged from a …

… In the early 1960s, the English economist, Joan Robinson, … lecturing to a U.S. audience on the British welfare state, was asked to comment on the American “welfare state.” … present in the New Deal years, and after World War II when both parties forged a consensus around fighting the …

… Somewhere in the Davis Mountains of the vast Texas Trans-Pecos is a … McLaren and his followers are a little misguided. Texas was annexed in 1846 — under unusual circumstances, to be … and a special convention. The votes were not even close. When put to the citizens of Texas for ratification, the …

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… This past summer the American public awoke to the spectacle of thousands of … get papers [e.g. legal status/work rights] in the North. It was not true. Our children are our future. Let’s protect … it’s more akin to a traffic ticket than arrest for assault. When discussing the issue of immigration, it is worth …

… Woodrow Wilson that, for all its many positive qualities, was ultimately a disappointment. Like the vast majority of programs in the "American Experience" … earlier, stating, "There was no credit to come in when I came in. The whole nation had awakened." Yet on …

… Today is the 26th anniversary of the horrific conclusion of the worst … One of America’s most notorious penitentiaries, Attica was a powder keg of the cumulative frustrations of the … would not consider. Negotiations reached an impasse when Rockefeller insisted that “law and order,” the …

… December 11, 2018, marked the one hundredth birthday of Alexander Isayevich … whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, Solzhenitsyn would achieve worldwide fame as … during World War II, and in the aftermath of the war, when trainloads of Soviet soldiers were sent directly from …

… how to hunt wolves. She can skin a moose. She lives way up there on America’s last frontier. So, we might think, here’s … and Orange County in the U.S. Congress. Add to the list Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire from the busy … map. The turning point was actually a decade earlier, when census numbers showed that the level of urbanization in …

… For a majority of Americans, the "legitimacy" of George W. Bush's election to the … of that contested election, in which Rutherford B. Hayes was ultimately declared the winner over Samuel J. Tilden. … be given access to the ballots for independent assessment when their findings, perhaps a year down the road, may cast …

… Since the beginning of 2015, more than one million people have … a meager selection of donated toiletries: shampoo and body wash, laundry detergent, disposable razors. Everything was … Samir told us, they'd been in Greece for over a month. When we asked what they did all day, Hisham shrugged and …

… The United Nations declared 2019 to be the International … law. Early in 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was in a predicament many people are familiar with—he was … available chemistry textbooks in Russian were translations) when he developed his periodic law.  Perhaps most important, …

… The familiar, yet superficial history of rock and roll … if largely forgotten, creators of rock and roll was born - Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Tharpe was born Rosetta … and even of sexuality. Tharpe’s career was cut short when she died of complications from diabetes in 1973, at the …

… John Dos Passos met the Spaniard Jose Robles in 1916 during his first venture to … lose both friends during the Spanish Civil War. Robles was murdered at the beginning of the war, and that tragedy … turns on his search for creative salvation through women. When these relationships ultimately fail him, he becomes the …

… has recirculated his five-year-old Middle East peace plan. The Prince first floated this proposal to President George … been the British territory of Palestine. The Arab response was to attack the fledgling Jewish state and for Egypt and … Israel received a barrage of kamikaze-style bombings. When extrapolated over a population of seven million, those …

… think that all peace agreements lead to an end to violence. They don’t. As the recent killings in Northern Ireland … what had been British colonial Palestine. The Arab response was to attack the fledgling Jewish state. Egypt and Jordan … most densely populated cities, Ashkelon and Ashdod. When extrapolated over a population of seven million, those …

… An 18-year-girl gives birth at the prom, allegedly suffocates or strangles her baby, leaves … of moral decay. George Will, in his column in the June 15 “Washington Post,” also described Drexler’s actions as the … of just under 40 percent. In other words, during the time when abortion became legal, the sexual revolution flourished …

… Last week’s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have elicited … and guns, and killed 17 Americans. Before last week, it was the last American blood shed by foreigners on … in their discussions of Osama bin Laden in the press. When it went after Villa in 1916, all the United States …

… If ever there was a time for the United States to lead NATO in a new … could no longer be based on French territory. De Gaulle was dismayed that the major European powers continued to … reform.   De Gaulle always had a long-term vision, even when he didn’t have the means. The current economic crisis …

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… of business and politics. Pope John Paul II apologizes for the Crusades, the Inquisition and the long tradition of … a foreign country: they do things differently there."  He was right. In the 1200s the papacy "knew" that it was a … say "sorry," didn't we? But, as my mother used to tell me when I was a boy, "sorry" does not always make it right. We …

… December 2015 marks the 50 th anniversary of the “Acid Tests,” events held by … to ripple through American culture and counterculture. LSD was first synthesized and tested by Dr. Albert Hofmann in … two occurred in San Francisco on October 2 and 31, 1966 when the pranksters held their “Closing Jam” and “Graduation …

… The thick walls of a medieval city offered protection to its inhabitants. While open during the day, the gates shut tight after curfew; no one could … stories and images of miracles to reveal urban anxieties. When discussing the fear individuals had of being locked out …

… The American flag is enjoying a new popularity since the … sewed the first one in June 1776 at the request of George Washington. But neither of these points is certain.  What we … the role of a benevolent international policeman. By 1949, when President Truman signed an act of Congress making June …