"On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring that 'separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.' This decision was pivotal to the struggle for racial desegregation in the United States. This exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of this landmark judicial case." And, at this exceptional site from the Library...

France Still Divided Over Lessons of 1968 Unrest [Free registration may be required] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/world/europe/30france.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Visiting the ghosts of Paris 1968 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7354335.stm Time: Battle of the Sorbonne http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,838353,00.html BBC Radio 4: 1968,...

During the months of November and December 2005, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution brought together a group of experts on Iraq to engage in a critical discussion about US policy. Upon the completion of their work, the Center’s Director, Kenneth M. Pollack, created this intelligent and thoughtful paper that details an alternative approach to the current US...

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace created this initiative as a way to offer the public access to pieces written in China by Chinese scholars and experts. The hope is that these works will provide "the international community better insight into and understanding of the debates taking place in China on important foreign policy issues." Visitors to the site can look at four main...

Back to School for Reform http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-ed-mayor05sep05,1,6157283.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california Harvard studies ways to promote teaching http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/09/05/harvard_studies_ways_to_promote_teaching/ Beloit College’s Mindset List for the Class of...

Getting together with old friends and new online is relatively easy these days, what with all the various social networking sites out there. Not many of the sites give users the leeway to create their own activist networks, but this application does just that. With this application, visitors can create different online event resources, email updates, and profiles, all of which can be used for a...

Cities around the world have been adopting various environmentally friendly policies during the past few years. Some cities have moved to make construction sites recycle materials, and still others, such as Chicago, have made a concerted effort to incorporate “green” building principles into their municipally financed structures. This past week, the city of San Francisco continued to consider...

More and more women are now located amongst the upper echelons of leadership in a number of professions, including higher education, business, and the entertainment business. As a result, there has been an increased interest in scholarly publications and journals on the subject of women in leadership. In 1997, a group of scholars convened to electronically publish the first issue of the Advancing...

As visitors enter this site, they will be presented with a collage of African nations coming together to form the entire continent, accompanied by the words “Africa must unite.” It is a visually stimulating image, and one that sets the tone quite nicely for the content within. The site is the homepage of the African Union (AU), which was created in 1999 as part of a declaration from the...

Nation awaits D.C. handgun ruling http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080317/METRO/510890365/1004 Statement of Paul Helmke President of the Brady Center on Supreme Court Oral Arguments http://bradycampaign.org/media/release.php?release=970 Fighting for Our Right to Bear Arms http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9285 Guns Out of...