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… taxes and keep the peace, the more than one thousand soldiers were heavily resented by Bostonians as an affront to … soldiers and townspeople and by early 1770, fights had become commonplace. The death of a young man, Christopher … grenadiers stood trial in Boston, adeptly defended by the future president John Adams. Only two of the soldiers were …

… continues to our day. Do these Church actions prove the incompatibility between science and religion? What lessons can … reveal a stationary earth). Copernicus did not really refute these objections, but he elaborated a novel and … Copernicanism, but provided new evidence in its favor and refutations of some old objections. Galileo became more …

… easily between historical periods, and languages. Her command of her own discipline, political theory, and other … racial, and ethnic differences within the West. Euben also complicates the idea of a singular Islam and instead … a way that will appeal to specialists, and not a general audience. At times her language is convoluted and her …

… State , the preceding volume to this work, Young adopts a comparative approach. As he outlines in his introduction, a …

… to fight on until the enemy is utterly vanquished has become our shared myth. But its appeal is as dangerous as it … sameness: Sept. 11 = Dec. 7. With this false equation, the complex history of United States – Muslim relations may be … Harbor attack. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… ethics of the robber barons. Between 1871 and 1883, commercial hide hunters slaughtered buffalo by the millions. … the resulting public outcry finally allowed Congress to overcome the railroads and pass a law creating meaningful …

… getting Congress to rein in lobbyists? Can any good really come out of congressional efforts to thwart corruption? The cynics say no. Yet democratic reforms have come out of past scandals. Many pessimists claim that reform … Even a cursory look at Congress in the late 19th century refutes that charge. In the past, votes — and political …

… of the Heaven’s Gate suicides now blame everything from comets to cults to cyberspace to the dead themselves — the “weak” among us, as commentator David Gelernter put it. Perhaps when we have … leaves many Americans unprepared to confront life’s complexities, challenges, and disappointments? More than a …

… protests in Hong Kong that have directly challenged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies and yet have not been … November as the leader of the Politburo’s powerful Standing Committee. But we shouldn’t make too much of Jiang’s passing …

… TV age, campaigning is expensive business. Today’s bribes come in the form of enormous but legal campaign … he has continued to sell out rather than close up shop. A hundred years ago, muckraking reporters exposed the … and politicians. But today’s media — and today’s audiences — are more interested in tawdry sex scandals than in …

… woman has held that position.   But Julian Castro did not become mayor on his own. He attributes his rise to the Chicano … activists held their own reunion in El Paso, Texas, to commemorate the 1972 national convention held in that city … recorded, taught, or known. Texas Board of Education committee member Mary Helen Berlanga tried to add stories …

… of “violence.” Pekka Hämäläinen made an argument that the Comanche past constituted an “empire.” Benjamin Madley, … one overarching Apache ‘tribe’ or nation.” Despite this complexity, the author sticks to this Euro-American … of scholarship typically based in African diasporic studies, Conrad’s use of the term highlights the long history …

… are only make things worse. America’s goals in Bolivia come down to two things: limiting the production of cocaine … elite. The target of the demonstrations, in which soldiers shot some 70 protesters, was a government plan to … national resources that will benefit the country. Bolivians compared the recent protests to the most famous rebellion in …

… discovered since the mid-1960s (four of which just cause a common cold in humans). A microscopic image of SARS-CoV It … 2002- July 2003. While these numbers are miniscule in comparison to the COVID-19 pandemic, the mysterious nature … of Hanoi and who first identified the disease for the WHO, died of the disease on March 29. Though his death was …

… According to official accounts from the Chinese Communist Party, “The ‘cultural revolution,’ which lasted … (1958—1962) and his fear that enemies in the Chinese Communist Party planned to place China back on the … is a short book, but it makes a sizable contribution to studies of the Cultural Revolution. Paradoxically, however, the …

… the CEOs of transnational firms such as Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossings in our “deregulated” economy have … instituted when it established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1934. The Securities Exchange Act compelled publicly traded firms to provide listings of their …

… spirit. Even in the mid-19th century, New York City was in competition with new garden suburbs that beckoned well-to-do … dwellers with natural landscaping, open space, and cheap commuter steamer and train service into the city.   …

… as fakes should make readers ask why these cliches are so compelling in the first place. Autobiographies, with their … outsiders were offering up their life stories to an audience eager to learn about life on the margins. As early as … not only defies our expectations, but teaches us their futility. Yet, until our expectations change, the …

… to loosen his creativity and imagination. As we have come to know Fitzgerald the person, the chances are good … prohibition became the fulcrum of moral and civil disobedience by those who formerly considered themselves … were the era's cultural form of political civil disobedience; these actions infused prohibition with political …

… of magic. Belief in magic and magical occurrences was commonplace before the Reformation and persisted long after … Keith Thomas’ 1971 Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and … the Drummer of Tedworth, 1700. Chapters 4 and 6 are case studies that round out the book by focusing on popular beliefs …

… the Department of War assumed that gays would make bad soldiers because of stereotypes of effeminacy. Military men caught committing sodomy faced courts-martial. During World War II, … therefore seen as security risks. Yet no gay American soldiers or civil servants ever revealed state secrets to keep …

… . The surge of U.S. forces to Iraq in 2007-2008 and the accompanying counterinsurgency strategy along with a Sunni … ungoverned spaces that ISIS has used to regenerate its combat power with an infusion of new recruits, financing, … the umma (the Islamic people) should be ruled by the most competent person, while the Shi’a believe that the ruler of …

… Office shenanigans. Presidents and their underlings have committed numerous immoral, illegal or dodgy acts. They’ve … stocks for supporting federal land giveaways to railroad companies in 1873. Warren G. Harding’s secretary of the … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …

… has proclaimed 2004 the “Seussentennial,” a year-long commemoration of Geisel’s work. Geisel’s books have expanded … and challenged us to make the world and our local communities better places. They’ve also reminded us that the … and liberty have always existed in tension with community, restraint and personal sacrifice. Born in …