In 1994, Dr. Lonnie Bristow became the first African-American president of the A.M.A. Yet reminders of this rancorous history persist, and the A.M.A.'s apology remains pertinent, if long overdue.
The silence about gay history persists because teaching this subject raises anxieties about promoting homosexuality.
Images show the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, as the largest rescue operation in Texas history persists.
The belief that we are just re-enacting history persists into the modern era, even among the nonreligious.
Richard Goldstein ("Gay History Is Still in the Closet," Op-Ed, Oct. 30) is correct to say that "silence about gay history" persists in many classrooms, even those devoted to civil rights.
If the ongoing 5-year-drought, which included the driest four-year stretch recorded in California history, persists longer than six years, there could be too little water for the toads to reproduce, and their populations from Santa Barbara to Baja California could die out. .
This set up within the German tradition an opposition between two alternative projects in natural history that persisted into the nineteenth century (Sloan 2006a; Wilson 2006 in Smith 2006).
Still, oral history sceptics persist, and some historians cling to documents as the only source of evidence.
Despite this history, the conflict persisted, and federal agents later learned from local law enforcement that one of the brothers, Rocky Houston, had a prior felony and thus was in violation of federal law for possessing firearms in his rural property -- which he shared with his brother Leon, who slept in a trailer, and an adult daughter, who lived in a nearby barn.
