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… Fifty years ago this September the first episode of Star Trek hit the American airwaves. … own historical significance would have been worth noting. When Star Trek first appeared in 1966, the media landscape was quite different than it is today. While there were a …

… In voting on President Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court this week, senators should consider her … an empathetic justice. Republicans mocked President Obama when he suggested that empathy was an important ingredient in a justice. In fact, the …

… The ZUNR fought a Polish invasion in the west until it was defeated in June 1919.  In the UNR, the Ukrainian Party … the provinces claimed by the UNR as an independent state.  When Germany collapsed in November 1918 , the Bolsheviks … Putin invaded Ukraine again in 2014 as had Vladimir Lenin in 1917. Today, however, Ukraine has an independent …

… analyzing women's voting and activism, we finally turn to the final frontier: Public Office. From School Boards to the … Paxton, and this is  Prologued . (Music) Public office was a part of the women's suffrage movement from the very … loss Mrs. Salter was sure to face would humiliate the WCTU. When Mrs. Salter learned from early morning voters that her …

… Wisconsin doesn't often provide political leadership at the national level, but when it does, it's like that old nursery rhyme about the … few upon the rights of the many."   Robert La Follette Jr. was elected as his father's successor in the Senate and …

… literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes! Can't even go for a damn jog man! … James in his Cleveland Cavaliers uniform, 2008. James was reacting to a forty-second video released of three white … teams, in Sol White's Official Baseball Guide (1907). When the National Football League was formed in 1920 it …

… The family of Martin Luther King, Jr., much maligned of late … complicated with such stale, predictable theories that it was secretly orchestrated by the government? One reason may … Hoover’s hatred for King bordered on the pathological, and when the civil rights leader received the Nobel Peace Prize …

… One of the growing challenges facing our digitally-driven world is … in the British empire.  McKenzie first visualized the story when suffering a "bad case of footnote paranoia" (291). … Australia as a "place for social reinvention"—was far more interesting than she had initially realized.  …

… Bush is responding to national disaster by assuming the mantle of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. … prove to be a lot more like a cold war than a hot war.” When Bush’s speech writers had him tell the nation, on Sept. … or free,” Truman declared. Truman shook off fears that he was a weak leader by launching a multi-decade crusade to …

… 18, 2011, some 500 U.S. soldiers at Camp Adder in southern Iraq boarded 110 military vehicles and drove off … without incident, it left behind a legacy of a war that was controversial in origin, costly to Iraqi civilians and … national borders, and built it into a pro-Western monarchy. When a threat developed that Nazi Germany might gain …

… June 2015, I stood in a long queue that wrapped around Athens’s busy Stadiou Street hoping to withdraw some euros … After what felt like an eternity under the blazing sun, I was just two people away from the machine when I heard some Greek expletives and saw a commotion in …

… a contemporary problem in a new light and can even aid the construction of sensible public policy.  Misconceived or … mock the authorities. The problem with such analogies comes when they’re used to illuminate, not just undermine the … on the principle of succession through bloodlines. There was never any serious thought that this would happen after …

… “If our bombs are so ‘smart,’ how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and children?” … “How are we supposed to peacefully resolve our differences when our government uses violence instead of diplomacy?” As … I listened to his argument. It seemed as if Robert McNamara was there making the case for Vietnam, except that I was …

… They just don't make 'em like they used to. How often have you muttered this phrase when thinking of something and wished that things could just … past because it makes us think that everything "then" was a lot nicer, a lot simpler, and maybe just plain better …

… How we understand policing in the United States depends not only on what issues we focus … the facade of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington DC is the famous clause equal justice under the … policed more harshly than others. This begs the question, when will we see "equal justice under the law?" Stay tuned. …

… Hunger is on the rise in America. The Conference of Mayors recently … serving what came to be known as the “penny lunch.”   This was one of the first attempts to provide school feeding for children. When the school superintendent stopped by to see Walsh’s …

… The Birth of Soviet Ukraine. When the Russian Empire … ways. Progressive Ukrainians wanted an independent Ukraine, socialists desired a future that was connected with the Russian Bolsheviks, but factions …

… The years 1940–1949 were ones of continuous horror for the Greek people. When the Second World War (WWII) ended in 1945 and the rest of Europe was beginning to rebuild itself, Greece entered into a …

… and several phases of history. San Juan Teotihuacán, on the outskirts of Mexico City, thrived as a city nearly two … is the smallest out of the two pyramids. Originally red, it was dedicated to the goddess of water and fertility. The … a new one. They would know the location of their new lands when they saw an eagle eating a snake on top of a nopal …

… 2024, thousands of people throughout  Afghanistan  took to the streets in celebration. This jubilation erupted when the Afghan cricket team advanced to the semifinals of … The extraordinary achievement of the Afghan cricket team was just one underdog story that dominated the headlines of …

… “Greed” is suddenly the operative word for characterizing the bonuses received … hard times but are less audible in days of prosperity. When the economy performs well, Americans talk, instead, of … “God gave me my money,” evoking a popular view that wealth was the Lord’s reward for good work. Social Darwinism taught …

… On February 6, New Zealanders will mark Waitangi Day on the 180th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of … sovereignty over the country, citing what it claimed was the free consent of over 500 rangatira (chiefs) and the … a war of independence. There are no points in time when New Zealand formally separated itself from Great …

… Historical analogies, comparing something in the present with what appears to be its counterpart in the … created equal. Some are better — or at least more useful when it comes to seeking guidance from history — than … F. Kennedy and his advisers learned that the Soviet Union was installing medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuba, …