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… the British military. Yet, they also inherited the English common law tradition of regulating arms. English statutes … security and linked bearing arms to civic duty. Despite its common invocation today by gun rights advocates as the … troops armed by the 1792 Militia Act partook in suppressing Pennsylvania’s Whiskey Rebellion. Early federal …

… A common response to the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide has been … It seems clear that verifying personal COVID-19 status is becoming part of our near-term future. And a key part of this … soon be required at international airports , workplaces, nursing homes , and other places. But, as with most seemingly …

… fireworks light the sky and effigies burn. The celebration commemorates an event from 1605, when authorities discovered … of Parliament, killing King James I, the Lords, and the Commons in one stroke. The conspirators hoped the chaos would allow them to incite a Catholic uprising and install a monarch sympathetic to their faith. Over …

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary … of the country during the First World War . The popular uprising brought together Sunnis and Shi'is , elites and commoners, city dwellers and tribespeople. It caught the …

… Dr. Dr. Daniel Rivers: Thank you so much and welcome to our webinar for Indigenous Peoples' Day. It's … for Native and Indigenous students. So thank you all for coming out today. Daniel and I are very excited to have a … of Red Power in the 1970s. And what was happening, increasingly by 1977 is that Red Power activists, like …

… began in 1817 and continue to this day, cholera ravaged communities and strained political and economic orders … of the 20 th century, the threat of cholera became less pressing in much of the world. Public investment in municipal … interventions. However, the response of most states was a combination of both methods. They tended to be pluralistic, …

… four years of Nazi occupation. Following a week of guerilla combat between Resistance fighters and the occupying German … Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor and commander of the city’s German garrison, formally … to Paris, 14-25 August 1944. For de Gaulle, however, bypassing Paris was unthinkable. While the city’s value as a …

… perceive that reality. In so doing the words we use also become a part of the world we are trying to understand. One … the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism. "We have yet to come to terms fully with the threat that Islamic … possible—to discover any examples of commentators using the concept to analyze Muslims in those years. Thus, as …

… partnership.” Those conciliatory words, however, were accompanied on both sides with qualifications, skepticism, and … After several decades of invasion and imposed stagnation, combined with the profligacy and incompetence of Persia’s … empowered a small, Westernized elite, which became increasingly alienated from the rest of Iranian society. By 1978, …

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone, … because there is no school which you might go in order to become one. There are no certificates of validation that … white male intellectuals who were serving like Arthur Schlesinger as a, you know, a kind of a court historian to the …

… in the beginning of 2025, still working in the name of the commitment that President John F. Kennedy had made in 1961 … address, “for whatever period is required—not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, … their expansive empires, but they were joined by an increasing number of other countries that viewed national …

… In 1985, it seemed the Soviet Union would last forever. Its Communist Party rulers held a monopoly on political power. … by pervasive surveillance and forced labor camps. And they commanded the largest military in the world. The Exhibition … and sought a more humane form of socialism. Many rising Party officials of Gorbachev’s generation had been …

… B. Anthony begin to press for a federal amendment enfranchising women. Sarah Paxton If the names Susan B. Anthony and … call the Anthony Amendment, and what would eventually become the 19th Amendment. But not for a long time. California … support needed to pass a constitutional amendment. It was becoming less likely that a federal amendment was going to …

… dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our … and power—and how dietary choices connect to the pressing issues of climate change and food supply. Panelists: … Nicholas Breyfogle: Welcome to Diet for a Large Planet by The Ohio State …

… helps make sense of the 2016 presidential election by discussing the connections between the collapse of the New Deal … to stop bad trade deals and global special interests, we welcome you with open arms, perhaps sensing an opportunity with many anxious Americans. Trump has …

… and grandparents when they were our age are rapidly disintegrating in the face of wondrous technological marvels. … narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … by then it was too difficult to roll things back. We had become too dependent. Worse, we had become too complacent. And …