On Tuesday, February 11, 2015, the state House of Representatives budget panel voted to close the South Carolina State University for two years, leaving students adrift.
So vital was Christianity to the southern defense of slavery that some historians have estimated that ministers penned roughly half of all proslavery literature in the decades after 1830.
In a one-on-one brawl, a Neanderthal would probably have beaten a Sapiens. But in a conflict of hundreds, Neanderthals wouldn’t stand a chance. Why? Sapiens possess the ability to create fictions.
Within a matter of months, the U.S. government seems likely to become the only nation in the world still rejecting the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Placing the blame for Greece’s difficulties today on its accession to the EEC, without reminding ourselves of the history of the Cold War, is dangerously misguided.
Renowned
American historian Eric Foner demystifies and clarifies the story of
the Underground Railroad in his new book "Gateway
to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad."
In her groundbreaking new book "The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers," renowned British historian Joanna Bourke explores how the understanding of the human sensation of pain has evolved over the past three centuries in the English-speaking world.
Older Americans are facing rampant job discrimination. The law enacted in 1967 to protect them has been weakened by the Supreme Court. Congress won’t act. Obama should.
