In Aversion and Erasure, Carolyn J. Dean offers a bold account of how the Holocaust's status as humanity's most terrible example of evil has shaped...
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Northeast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley was truly a dark and bloody ground, the site of murders, massacres, and pitched battles. The valley's...
Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the...
Since the early 1990s, the federal role in education—exemplified by the controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)—has expanded dramatically. Yet...
Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite...
In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to...
Why are some international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) more politically salient than others, and why are some NGOs better able to influence...