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… for president, Thurmond said: "I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the … Internet and Sunday morning television pundits buzzed with commentary about it. The Washington Post's David Broder said … of Martin Luther King and a writer for the History News Service. …

… shown the agreement, he felt presented with a fait accompli and refused to consent.   Believing that he had been … picture of an agreement in Afghanistan will certainly not coincide entirely with that of the United States. Yet as … History News Service …

… to the world that people of any religious faith would be welcome. To Penn we owe our freedom of religion. Penn was a … was upheld. Since then, Mormons have managed an uneasy compromise with the rest of the nation. In return for … History News Service …

… flaw in the Saudi proposal. No political or territorial compromise on the part of Israel, including diplomatic … Georgia in Carrollton and a writer for the History News Service. … History News Service …

… to shape the present. This book is intended for a popular audience, but it has extensive archival work behind it. The … both in and outside of the United States. To write this comprehensive history, the author travelled to Alaska, …

… the world, trailing only Russia. The prison industry has become big business: billions of dollars are being spent on … reprisals and crackdowns on inmate reading material became common. Television replaced reading as the preferred source … University in Billings and a writer for the History News Service. …

… John McCain probably lost whatever chance he had to become president on August 28, the day he invited Sarah Palin … quality and the process leading to those choices, have become measures of presidential candidates themselves. Barack … times had either distinguished themselves by their prior service, by their success in presidential nominating …

… however, white women had greater access to the ballot box compared to women of color. The continued disenfranchisement …

… of escaped slaves. Ephesians 6:5 enjoined them to “be obedient to them that are your masters.”   Small wonder, then, … and equality. For them, slavery and Christianity were incompatible. These contrasting approaches parallel the … Some of the strongest resistance to gay marriage has come from African American ministers who quote scripture as …

… he stood on the shoulders of giants, so perhaps he’d welcome the gift.   Newton is famous for Principia Mathematica … here . Or, to tailor your explanations to various audiences, try this hilarious guide from The Guardian . Most … “Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.” …

… year marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, the medieval English historic legal document that is seen as the … (ecclesiastical censure) in England and to his own excommunication, the troubling loss of his French possessions, … agreed on June 15 to a set of provisions that would become known as the Magna Carta , or Great Charter, of …

… Spreading democracy has become the nation’s principal foreign policy goal. Yet there … one member said, should have nothing to do “with the wrongs committed by other Governments against those whom they … History News Service …

… the country, his own books, articles, and op-ed pieces accomplished nothing. Yet his declaration denies the real … Vietnam, ultimately rising to the rank of colonel before becoming an academic. A conservative, he nevertheless became … is work for everyone. The field is large. It is a glorious service, this service for the country. Every American should …

… 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 writer for the History News Service. …

… to study photographs of official Soviet events to see which Communist Party members were visible and which had been … History News Service …

… of taxing citizens. Lotteries, an essential source of income for 42 states today, helped pay for the Revolutionary War. The income tax first surfaced in the United States to pay the huge … war. Half a century later, in 1913, Congress passed an income tax. That progressive tax began at 1 percent for …

… owners and land developers, and in the process have become increasingly vulnerable. They have become the hard edge of the land rather than a transition zone … of particular events that has been erased. Shores have become our chosen places of forgetting. They are where we go …

… Heschel's work, the Prophets was written not for a Jewish audience but for people of faith in general. Writing during … Nazi anti Semitism and racial ideology required one to overcome a number of intellectual hurdles. How could one accept … weight to the propaganda of the Institute; propaganda coming from the pulpit calls forth far deeper resonance than …