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… Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I [Jesus] have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19 NIV). This Great Commission … Evangelical Left , explores the development of the understudied—and by many accounts, unacknowledged—Latin American … been hidden in plain sight. By giving a voice to understudied and often-ignored actors, this monograph colors the …

… the fact that she thought he had “showed himself to be a complete idiot. “Why?” the perplexed reporter inquired. … of voters will value consistency above even wisdom or common sense. The whole Bush campaign seems to be centered … who, to cite but two among several major differences, was committed to balancing the budget and was uninterested in …

… often  since the attack on the World Trade Center, but a comparison of the Black Tuesdays of 1929 and 2001 is equally … to respond, “What else is there?” Even though we have become far more materialistic in recent decades, it is … been “More, more, more for me, me, me!” Americans have become so addicted to spending that it now takes something …

… and Human Survival: What the Deep Past Tells Us about the Future, " by John Brooke " Dry Days Down Under: Australia …

… More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the entire …

… How do cold wars begin? The question is becoming more than academic as the Bush administration gropes … No single dispute was big enough, in itself, to cast the die for or against prolonged cold war. But each one required … our choices. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… Augustine, Brown emphasizes the importance of patronage and community in the famous bishop's career and suggests that Augustine saw the … (522-6). Brown characterizes this as the shift toward medieval Christianity. As expected from Peter Brown, this book …

… of global crisis but wonder about the country’s economic future in view of the recent evidence of declining corporate … and the Nineties, and does history offer “lessons” from a comparison? Some of the similarities are certainly … susceptible today to the wild investment schemes that were common in 1929. Furthermore, the Fed has played an effective …

… the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City to Acoma Sky City in New Mexico. NTHP activists are gathering in … items on July 20, 1969, to return to the orbiting command module, they didn’t know they were creating … The promise of establishing a base on the moon was soon compromised for the shuttle program and a near-earth space …

… in the city that a lynching was imminent. The proud black community, which was reading "radical" literature such as … were required to work cleaning up the burned area for no compensation other than meals and housing. By noon, more … to the ground and thousands were left homeless. Now, a commission funded by the Oklahoma legislature is …

… Grapevine".   Additionally, like other such events, it refuted the racist belief that Black people could not gather … Mongo Santamaría and Style in Harlem.   1969 was a complex moment. Even as the festival affirmed the victories … thrilled the Black crowds in Harlem to the mostly white audience gathered upstate at Woodstock.  Given these …

… jeopardize the process of integration. He was, by nature, a combative individual, so he had to struggle to restrain … "Then I could walk away from baseball and never become a star. But my son could tell his son what his daddy … An outspoken advocate of self-help, he urged blacks to become producers, manufacturers, creators of businesses and …

… Once part of the Russian Empire of the tsars and then the Communist Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has been independent … meal. We spent the night in our sleeping bags in a large communal dormitory. Path inside the Konyr-Aulie cave. Some … between seasonal pastures. Brutal Soviet policies that compelled the nomads to settle in one place, followed by a …

… that has raged ever since. Apologizing for slavery has become such a controversial issue not only because few understand what it will accomplish, but also because even more than 130 years after … the idea of a slave memorial on the Washington Mall is becoming more popular. And why the Founding Fathers have …

… 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 …

… The Founding Fathers balanced the power of the president as commander-in-chief with that of Congress, the people’s representatives — the one to command the nation’s armed forces, the other to decide when …

… reacted by pulling their money from banks and trust companies. The stock market lost nearly half its value. J.P. … Congressmen didn't want to rely on tycoons like Morgan in future emergencies, they created the Federal Reserve System … obligations. Obviously, these senators are proposing remedies to win support for their presidential campaigns. They …

… 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 …

… Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. … New historical estimates put the death toll at 750,000 soldiers, or 2.4% of the American population in 1860, which … As the conflict wore on, the distinctions between enemy soldiers and civilians blurred, as non-combatants increasingly …

… Chrysler was starting to remake Maxwell Motors into his future Big Three company. In 1922, there was one registered passenger car or … a car (or two) in every driveway.   From Keystone Cops comedies to contemporary movie chases to sophisticated art, …

… 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 …