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Neighbors of an apartment house near the Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus lost the latest round in their challenge to the development last week in the state's highest court. The Court of Appeals rejected the neighbors' argument that Baltimore officials violated a city ordinance by permitting each bedroom in the Cresmont Loft Apartments' four-bedroom suites -- marketed as student housing -- to be rented separately.
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Caplan reviews The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A Hundred Years of War by James L. Gelvin.
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FARMINGTON -- Two months after the Confederate Army fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor, launching the Civil War on April 12, 1861, the residents of little Farmington Falls were embarking on their own contribution to the war effort. One hundred and fifty years later, they are getting the recognition they deserve.
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ONE HUNDRED fifty years after the Civil War began, we're still fighting it - or at least fighting over its history. I've polled thousands of high school history teachers and spoken about the war to audiences across the country, and there is little agreement even about why the South seceded. Was it over slavery? States' rights? Tariffs and taxes? As the nation commemorates the anniversaries of the war's various battles - from Fort Sumter to Appomattox - let's first dispense with some of the more prevalent myths about why it all began.
