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… the most moving and iconic moment in American military history is the Battle of Gettysburg. While many will …

… the word “sex” included. In one of the many ironies of ERA history, the Civil Rights Act designed to obviate the need … the ERA help eradicate these gendered norms? Maybe not, but history suggests that it is hard to attain equality in the …

… the amendment’s passage was a milestone in voting rights history.  Neither Ross nor Ferguson were part of the  woman … 2005).  Tom Rea, “The Ambition of Nellie Tayloe Ross,” WyoHistory.Org: A Project of the Wyoming Historical Society. …

… one of the most important documents in Anglo-American legal history as the foundation of concepts such as due process …

… attests to the region’s checkered political history as a contested zone among rival empires.  The …

… automobile land speed record is set;” https://automotivehistory.org/first-automobile-land-speed-record/ Ernest H. Wakefield,  History of the Electric Automobile  (SAE International, … 2004). Paul Ingrassia,  Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars  (New York: …

… Brazil, the “giant of the South,” has had a long history of constitutional crises. After independence from …

… Mendoza. Join me as I uncover how the centuries-long history of global drug prohibition prologues today's …

… poinsettia/ cuetlaxochitl /flor de nochebuena has a long history that began for the United States two centuries ago …

… to collective security recognized that Europe’s more recent history had been dominated by an ongoing contest for the … accompanied this transformative moment in European history. While skeptics have used the financial crises of …

… for arguably the greatest revolutionary change in Chinese history (347). Making use of Chinese-language biographies, …

… of Spanish colonialism are very present reminders of Cuba’s history. Havana’s Catholic churches are both symbols and … is beautiful—a combination of cultures with a complicated history and resilient people. Now that U.S. citizens have …

… Spanish ethnographic research project). Throughout most of history, human populations have lived in an unvaccinated …

… challenges such as war and disease. Looking back on the history of U.S. cooperation with organizations such as the … Marcos Cueto and his co-authors argued in their recent history of the WHO—helped justify American participation in …

… from Lawrence proclaiming that the trial was “unique in the history of the jurisprudence of the world” and “of supreme …

… in the Balkans and Afghanistan . Yet looking at the history of NATO shows that since its origins in 1949 the … Poroshenko, and the subsequent Russian annexation of the  Crimean peninsula  and the outbreak of violence between …

… fuses religion and politics, but it also has had a long history of nationalism and anti-colonial activism. In early …

… trees shading the sandy school yard, Raji explained the history of the Outliers Secondary School (OLSS) and the need … to survive. Studying biology and physics from English textbooks presents challenges in understanding the material but … red trim, the girls sat at desks in pairs hovered over textbooks, attentively listening to their teachers present …

… Taiping Rebellion, the most destructive civil war in human history, from 1850 to 1864. Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the … to that of the United States. Given the city’s unique history and continued success, many in Hong Kong hoped that … mixed support by locals. Hong Kong merchants who sold books banned in China have disappeared. The PRC has …

… world calls the Great War, was erased from our country’s history and was labelled [during the Soviet period] simply … aboard—the deadliest shoot-down of a passenger airliner in history—he explained that the July Crisis of 1914 should … the diplomatic crisis sparked by Russia’s annexation in Crimea in April 2014 would have missed the allusion. Putin’s …

… forestall criticism, the Fuggerei represents a shift in the history of housing the poor. The Fuggerei still exists, and … that is happening around the world. For the first time in history, most people now live in cities rather than in rural …