Mountain Meadows. Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many ...

Thanks to the tremendous efforts of a great number of people, the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series continues to gain momentum. With this volume, the seventh in our series, we can present ...

In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies makes the argument in a newly adopted resolution, citing the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford case, among others, which ruled at the time that enslaved ...

“The bowels of the banks, with us the great money-lenders, close with the snap and tenacity of steel-traps; and then a general panic, or want of commercial confidence, brings on a paralysis of ...

The High Court’s opinions are longer than ever. Sometimes even the footnotes establish important legal principles.

Utne, Kelsey J. 2023. Corpse Politics and the Traveling Bones of Jamaluddin al-Afghani. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 43, Issue. 2, p. 191.

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Ideology data is based on DW-NOMINATE statistics developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. More information can be found at Voteview . Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 ...