… secondary to the spiritual, which is contrary to most people’s image of Islam as a conquering religion that compelled people by military means to embrace the religion. The history … This clerical class was constituted of a branch of the people who founded the Ghana Empire. The impulse of clerical …
… Eastern Languages and Civilizations. “Why are all of these people engaging with it? We want to explore this,” he adds. … “What is harder is to try to convey to the students that people are studying these materials now and may spend their … canon to be a good book. “These are important books that people have come back to again and again. ‘Pretty Good Books’ …
… programs to reduce the burden of poverty for millions of people. Their approach fills the gap between research about what works and solutions for people in need. Evidence Action operates in ten countries in … Dispensers for Safe Water serves approximately 4 million people across rural Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi through a …
… Rashauna Johnson examines the lives of enslaved people in the South’s largest city. By analyzing the laconic … This innovative study of urban slavery reveals enslaved people’s connections to each other and to the Caribbean, the … the Gilder Lehrman Institute illuminates the stories, people and moments that inspire students of all ages and …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… the 29th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. So many people joined the encampment that they formed a second Black … political power—none of which were available to most Black people in either the North or the South. Contributing to … troops entered Galveston, Texas and informed enslaved people there that they had been emancipated. But legally …
Council on African Studies, Council on Middle East Studies, Political Violence and its Legacies Workshop, + 1 more
… written about Nazism and Stalinism and who was educated by people who experienced and were repressed by communism. That … 20 lessons of my book in the lyrics. In the late 2010s, people around the world were looking for ways to articulate … in other countries. All of us who believe in rule by the people can see how the attack on freedom is happening as …
… paint a picture of what the environment was like for the people living here almost 400,000 years ago. They can tell us … dates to help determine what was going on at the site. “People lived on different land surfaces at different times in … grow back on that surface. You’d get a nice soil layer, people would live on it, and then another explosion would …
… things up” by engaging deeply with the thoughts of other people. Marci Shore spoke next, reflecting on Prof. Donskis’ “magical” way of talking and connecting with people, and shared her experience of finding out he had …
… many sources. Categories included are: 1. Documents of the People’s Revolutionary Tribunal (PRT), the 1979 Cambodian … at the time and distributed at the trial; a number of people have partial sets. The database was commenced with …