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… Politics." Thanks for being on the show Sarah, and welcome.  Sarah Siff   My pleasure. Thanks.  Patrick Potyondy   … talked about class warfare, and capitalists had a lot of money, and they had a whole bunch of people working for them. … often conservatives use when they want to talk about someone as redistributive, or what they would call socialist …

… Catholic Republic of Ireland, an utterly unacceptable outcome. They therefore fiercely fought the civil rights … the six counties. Peaceful Catholic marches were met with stones, police batons, and water cannons. By August 1969, … IRA. The majority faction came to be known as the Official IRA. Shortly afterward, Sinn Fein split along …

… Historians have come to love the milestone anniversaries of significant … Kupperman makes clear that the Jamestown project was only one among many that were proposed at the opening of the …

… Memphis, a pall of shock and sadness blanketed the black community. Anguish soon turned to anger. Fearing a riot, the … , inadequate municipal services, failing schools , and nonexistent jobs . The looting that took place during these … D.C. in June 1968 having failed to persuade federal officials to act. The assassination of Dr. King neither …

… Arab world. Among you there are those who love power and money more than they love their country, as, alas, there are … If those people fail to subordinate the love of power and money to the love of country, Iraq will not develop a working … strife between Sunnis and Shiites within your great community of Islam weakened the entire civic and social …

… latest round in the Israeli-Palestinian battle nears its one-year anniversary, the violence mounts with no end in … as a permanent fact of life. The Zionists aimed to overcome that psychological infirmity by making the Jews a … broke out again. For Israel, the only alternative to real compromise was to show more power. The tanks and missiles we …

… Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, … book from Ohio State historian Lucy Murphy "A case study of one of America's many multi-ethnic border communities, Great … Lakes region." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …

… damaging sanctions against the Russian state, its companies, and its citizens. The sanctions were intended to … financial and military.  Months after the war began, in one of the most visible effects of sanctions to date, major … the world’s largest steel works and an entire city on a site located in an unsettled location on the steppe, miles …

… Democrats will miss a massive opportunity to reform one of the most outdated and anti-majoritarian practices in … anti-democratic, inefficient, and a symbol of legislative incompetence. Liberals in the earlier post-World War II period … cloture (the process by which a filibuster is ended). Opponents, such as the conservative southerner James Allen, …

… destroying the old world, Hitler created a new one that has ever since demanded constant attention and … the “Jewish Question,” the conviction that Jews were parasites and could only destroy, not build civilization. By the … Hitler created the opposite of what he intended to accomplish by invading the Soviet Union. Instead of destroying …

… One November 12, 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, famed women’s … Elizabeth Cady Stanton was, however, a force to be reckoned with, and the most important and well-known female … my daughter, I wish you were a boy!” Whether he meant the comment as an affront or as a statement on the injustice …

… One hundred years ago, early in the morning on April 30, … by his own arrogant risk-taking. But the legend of Casey Jones, soon to be immortalized in a Tin Pan Alley ballad, … whole cloth. A hundred years later, letters to the editor commenting on the anti-trust suit against Microsoft suggest …

… superpower status. Its narrowing, unstable economy has become dependent on the export of a single commodity: energy. … would nearly double the existing pipeline's capacity. One of Gazprom’s most ambitious projects—the Nord Stream 2 … is reported to have drifted around 12 km from the accident site. In this animation, diesel oil is visible in the …

… on the grounds of the Tuileries Palace in Paris to witness one of the first manned balloon ascents. The exhibition … of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime. …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … own. Each podcast episode is about an hour long with accompanying text, images, and conversational style to … or two about female characters in history! Go listen to one of their podcasts, check out their stories, or follow …

… ago, the prospect of a non-Protestant president — let alone a non-Christian one — was enough to cause panic among many Americans. When … "more faithful" to Israel than the United States. But these comments have drawn a negative reaction from the most blacks …

… Four young men have accused the leader of one of the largest churches in the country of sexual abuse. … who belong to New Birth Baptist Church near Atlanta. Some commentators have condemned Bishop Eddie Long’s virulently … of human rights.  And, sadly, it is more likely to be mentioned on a sitcom than on the nightly news.   We also hear …

… to be sacrificed on the altar of profit - we are flames, committed to conquering darkness, and we will continue the … referred to as “ Hiroshima of the chemical industry,” and one was an activist working with the survivors for over two … poisoning, discovering severe contamination of the factory site, surrounding land and groundwater. Levels of mercury in …

… the recent controversy involving Kim Davis, a public official in Rowan County, Kentucky, who refuses to issue …

… elsewhere indicate that the slavery lawsuit could become an invaluable tool for bridging the racial divide in … since 1865. Some people object to the court filing because none of the potential beneficiaries of any reparations that … suit is a direct victim. To counter the criticism, one of the plaintiffs' lawyers has promised that no …

… from the high-profile case studies of Cuba and Nicaragua, one region of the Global South has remained conspicuously … and development. Latin America is a vast region comprising 33 individual countries in the southern half of … otherwise “tepid” approach to a third way never truly abandoned its “strong, consistent pro-United States strategic and …

… We've heard such sage advice before. But in the past, no one heeded it. Now it's time for leaders in Washington to … bankers began to fail. Investors reacted by pulling their money from banks and trust companies. The stock market lost nearly half its value. J.P. …

…                           The 2014 Winter Olympics are now officially in full swing. Historian and  Origins  contributor, David R. Stone, recently interviewed on  All Sides with Ann Fisher to … these articles below, and also keep an eye out for David Stone's February article focused directly on the 2014 Winter …

… be creating a political cartoon about a topic featured at one of the stations. Instructional Strategies: Bell Ringer …