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....
Even if you've never seen his art and are confused by his names -- Eli Levin or Jo Basiste? -- you have probably brushed up against Basiste (his current moniker) by a sheer six degrees of separation. For some four decades, Basiste has...
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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...
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...
American economist and educator (b. July 31, 1912, Brooklyn, N.Y. —d. Nov. 16, 2006, San Francisco, Calif. ), was one of the leading proponents of monetarism in the second half of the 20th century; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976. Friedman...
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.
