Category: Current Affairs

Demuth Exhibition Opens this Saturday

The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, TX will present Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster, an intimate exhibition of the work of one of American’s greatest… READ MORE

Blum’s History News Network Editorial

"If Democrats and Barack Obama want to ‘get religion’ and if historians want to witness a deep commitment to leftist politics and spirituality, they should get to know the spiritual… READ MORE

Sageman’s Senate Committee Testimony

Marc Sageman, national security consultant , forensic psychiatrist, and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security yesterday at a hearing entitled… READ MORE

Wildlife of the Week: The Bald Eagle

It looks like good news for this week’s featured wildlife species, the Bald Eagle (Halieaeetus leucocephalus). This morning, the Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, flanked by an eagle named … READ MORE

A World Refugee Day Reading List

World Refugee Day is an event created by United Nations General Assembly resolution as an expression of solidarity with refugees and those who offer aid to them. While today, June… READ MORE

Conflict and Compliance–Now Available

Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure Sonia Cardenas 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3999-7 | $65.00 | £42.50… READ MORE

Jamieson Comments on Imus Firing

In today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, political communications scholar and Penn Press author Kathleen Hall Jamieson expressed her views on the cancellation of Imus in the Morning: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of… READ MORE