The Right Reverend John M. Burgess is installed as bishop of the Massachusetts diocese. He is the first black presiding bishop in the Episcopal church. Sister Anita Caspany, president of the Immaculate Heart of Mary religious order in Los Angeles,...

The history of the United States from 1964 through 1980 includes the continuation of the African American Civil Rights Movement; the Vietnam War and protests against it; the continuation of the Cold War, with its competition to put a man on the Moon....

Introduction Studies of political parties that came to power in newly independent African states have frequently assumed that they, to a large degree, reflected a consensual nationalist popular consciousness, and a relative lack of social differentiation, in the countries which they governed. In...

Southern United States: An Environmental History. By Donald E. Davis, with Craig E. Colten, Megan Kate Nelson, Barbara L. Allen, and Mikko Saikku. Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 2006. Nature and Human Societies Series, edited by Mark R. Stoll. xxii + 409 pp. Illustrations, notes,...

Politics: Ted Kennedy attaches hate crime legislation to a needed defense authorization bill. Is he more interested in defending the U.S. or the gay rights agenda?Knowing that President Bush would veto it as a stand-alone bill, Sen. Kennedy attached to the recently passed bill authorizing...

A leading Iraq war opponent threatened Thursday to try prohibiting any U.S. military action against Iran without congressional sanction as House Republicans used military veterans within their ranks to oppose a resolution renouncing President Bush's Iraq troop buildup.Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said he would seek...

Essay contains analysis of the reforms taken place in the 1960's and poses a view on the originality of this era compared to previous reform movements.