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… my professor is onto something. Patterson shares with other commentators the feeling that 1965 was a “pivot” or a … the fact no one knew how much it would cost; and struck a compromise on the issue of federal funding to parochial … options: looking soft on communism or sending Americans to die. Patterson emphasizes the feasibility of Johnson’s …

… noted that work on the largest mosque in the city had been completed just before his arrival, but Timur ordered its … of Clavijo and the party of other ambassadors who he accompanied to the cosmopolitan city provoked mild interest, … on account of their strange clothes and quaint customs. Medieval Castilians, it seems, were regarded as rather …

… on the Supreme Court, appears before the Senate judiciary committee. Obama raised the subject when he identified “that … with people’s hopes and struggles, as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.” … “that quality of empathy . . . as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.”   Nixon …

… magazine. She went on to Smith College, where she studied psychology and completed a year of graduate work at the University of … The Fountain of Age in 1993 as well as two memoirs. She died on her 85th birthday in 2006.   Despite Friedan’s …

… Board of the President’s Initiative on Race in June, commentators greeted the news with low expectations. Fifty … “Electric Charlie” Wilson of General Electric to chair his Committee on Civil Rights, few people expected much from his committee or from the President, a lame-duck, border-state …

… the Dominican capital, to stop what it believed was a communist insurgency there. The action was heavily … for the aftermath than many said were needed. U.S. soldiers soon spread themselves too thin. It took them more … At the very least, it should take heart that the successful supervision of elections in Iraq was also attempted in the …

… 3 presidential election in oil-rich Venezuela, the time has come for an overhaul of the Bush administration’s …

… spirit and with a large gesture invite an enemy to become an angel without further preparation or a flying … in vodka, brandy and other fire waters with the concomitant excitement of thrusting an opponent through the … the two unfortunate royal advisors who were invited to become angels that afternoon “without further preparation or a …

… as a “city of peace and human rights,” emphasizing the community’s legacy of peaceful organization and solidarity, … the event continues to resist any singular description. Its complexity is reflected in the many names used to describe … through major streaming platforms for international audiences.  Works like these reenact “what happened” and draw …

… are addressed, this work is not focused on ecological communities or human impact on marine habitats . Rather, … remaining two examine the interconnections among these bodies of water after 1492. This organization keeps the book’s … a crucial role throughout this book. For instance, the medieval kingdom of Sri Vijaya in Sumatra thrived because its …

… and which the young Lenin read five times (14).  Lenin's commitment to activism strengthened in college, first at … of St. Petersburg, where he, like many of his peers, studied Marx, finding the theory to be a "sound and scientific" … Lenin as a fanatic, Rappaport provides a context for his commitment.  The second theme which Rappaport explores is …

… French scholar Jean Bauberot. Bauberot sees three essential components to a secular society: 1) the separation of … tumult of French politics in the 19th century, the French commitment to what they call laïcité remained. By the Third Republic (1870-1940) it had become “a defining ideology of the state.” It has become …

… was upgrading the recent outbreak of H1N1 influenza, more commonly known as "swine flu," to a global pandemic. … young adults, those between 18 and 40, were most likely to die of influenza. The greatest strength of this book is the … of people off work. They evoke the frightening scenes of bodies stacked in morgues. They also discuss changes in …

… . Young Hamilton survived this encounter and went on to become the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United … and the major role of the United States as the regional superpower starting at the end of the nineteenth century. …

… procedure — is counter-productive. It's impossible to completely humanize an execution. There's always suffering … anesthetized or not. A prisoner could be unable to move and communicate but still be conscious during an agonizing … cruelty — but no one is deliberately cruel. Cruelty can come not only from sadistic intentions but from utopian …

… sprawling suburbs on the Colorado plains, and multi-ethnic communities in Los Angeles, perhaps ending up with a latte … Professor in the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban studies & Planning at Portland State University, Ore., and a …

… Santorum, April 2021 Former Pennsylvania senator (and CNN commentator) Rick Santorum made those comments at a conservative student organization-hosted … focused once or perhaps twice a year during our social studies classes. Samoset entering the Plymouth settlement in …

… treaty-based Israeli-Egyptian relationship is infinitely superior to the incessant warfare that characterized the …

… the history of science, Jacob offers a series of case studies looking at Avignon, Alchemy, early stock markets, … Republicans. This allows her to easily skim over the often complicated inter-relations between politics, science, and … of the same paths without much reference to the previous studies that have mapped out the connection between religion, …

… G. Castagnola depicting the disposal of cholera victims' bodies in Palermo, Italy. In a succession of pandemics that … began in 1817 and continue to this day, cholera ravaged communities and strained political and economic orders … interventions. However, the response of most states was a combination of both methods. They tended to be pluralistic, …