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Spider crabs of the Western Atlantic with special reference to fossil and some modern Mithracidae [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2015
Spider crabs (Majoidea) are well-known from modern oceans and are also common in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. When spider crabs appeared in the Western Atlantic in deep time, and when they became diverse, hinges on their fossil record.
Adiël A. Klompmaker   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

open access: yes, 2017
The Color of Law examines the local, state and federal housing policies that mandated segregation. He notes that the Federal Housing Administration, which was established in 1934, furthered the segregation efforts by refusing to insure mortgages in and ...
Alison Mills
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Charles Willson Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon and the Great Chain of Being: The Interaction of Religion, Science, and Art in Early-Federal America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, I explore Peale’s monumental painting, a work that is many things, a self-portrait and history painting among others. Indeed, in this painting, Peale was responding to science, religion, and their shifting positions within early-nineteenth-
Zygmont, Bryan J.
core   +1 more source

Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America

open access: yesPLoS Genetics, 2015
South America has a complex demographic history shaped by multiple migration and admixture events in pre- and post-colonial times. Settled over 14,000 years ago by Native Americans, South America has experienced migrations of European and African ...
J. Homburger   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“The Most Dangerous Fifth Column in the Americas:” U.S. Journalists and Mexico’s Unión Nacional Sinarquista during World War II

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Between 1937 and 1945, numerous American journalists became gravely concerned about a rapidly growing Mexican Catholic right-wing movement, the Unión Nacional Sinarquista (UNS).
Julia G. Young
doaj   +1 more source

The Cult of Our Lady of Fátima—Modern Catholic Devotion in an Age of Nationalism, Colonialism, and Migration

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In 1917, in the context of extreme anxiety of a rural Catholic population during a period of war, revolutionary upheaval, and anticlerical politics, the apparition of St Mary to three children near the Portuguese village of Fátima stirred up emotions ...
Arpad Von Klimo
doaj   +1 more source

The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession

open access: yes, 2017
Dana Goldstein je novinarka i spisateljica te dobitnica nekoliko cijenjenih stipendija na području novinarstva. Piše o obrazovanju, ženskim pitanjima, nejednakosti i kaznenom pravosuđu. Njena knjiga „The Teacher Wars“ u kojoj pokriva 175 godina povijesti
I. Perić
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Genomic and transcriptomic resources for assassin flies including the complete genome sequence of Proctacanthus coquilletti (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) and 16 representative transcriptomes [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2017
A high-quality draft genome for Proctacanthus coquilletti (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) is presented along with transcriptomes for 16 Diptera species from five families: Asilidae, Apioceridae, Bombyliidae, Mydidae, and Tabanidae. Genome sequencing reveals
Rebecca B. Dikow   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2022
Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently synthesized as the History of Climate and Society (HCS), is today undertaken ...
Dagomar Degroot   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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