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… an avalanche of intense political reactions about "Europe's newest state". In Prishtina, the capital of the … spelled out, in English, the word Newborn . Fireworks accompanied live appearances by pop stars and elected … (the Battle of Kosovo, when Ottoman forces defeated the Medieval Serbian state) or 1690 (when the Serbian Patriarch of …

… As NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe goes on, sometimes taking on the aura of melodrama, … funded by the United States, to contain/encircle Soviet and Communist power in Eastern Europe, prevent powerful … no need to maintain military expenditures as corporate subsidies, and no need to wield a global big stick against Third …

… sometimes glitteringly attractive, creatures come from? While not an exact replica, the myths and legends of revenants, ghosts, and vampires of the late medieval and early modern periods present amazing parallels to … restless dead who rose from their graves, can be found in European literature, from accounts of saints’ lives to …

… to expand its military presence in central and Eastern Europe . The United States military begins preparing for war … the former communist territory. One of the main sticking points of re-unification, however, was that if East Germany … the Western alliance. Clinton pushed a new partnership embodied in the NATO-Russia Founding Act signed in May 1997, …

… concern about the war’s impact on global agricultural commodity markets: the disruption to Ukrainian agricultural … or black soils; lower costs of production than its European and North American competitors; and access to deep … consumption of meat and dairy products.   Through subsidies, as well as price and trade controls, meat production …

… of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial of the war, U.S. events have been few and far between. Why is the war remembered so differently in Europe versus the United States, and what legacies might we … the most important legacies of the war in the US and Europe and around the world. In the studio with us we have …

… Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has returned to its … positin as a major agricultural exporter of key commodities. With Russia currently controlling a large … portion of Ukraine's cultivated agricultural land in the south, as well as blockading ports on the Black Sea, a …

… around Athens’s busy Stadiou Street hoping to withdraw some euros from an ATM. After what felt like an eternity under … the machine when I heard some Greek expletives and saw a commotion in front of me. The ATM ran out of money. I spent … occupied by Nazi Germany, Bulgaria, and Italy. German soldiers raising their flag over the Acropolis in 1941 ( left …

… On 20 November 1975, Spanish General Francisco Franco died in bed, signaling the unceremonious end of one of Europe’s longest dictatorships (1939-1975). Written by … Steigerwald; Managing Editors Cameron Givens, Damarius Johnson, and Brionna Mendoza; Article Layout: Kristin Osborne We …

… signed between the PRC and a minority people and is part of communist China’s larger nation-building process in its so-called “peripheries.” The existence of a fully functional … the Seventeen Point Agreement, there were only a handful of Europeans in Tibet. Rather than liberating Tibetans, then, …

… Emperor of France and preserved the balance of power that Europe's traditional monarchs had just struck at the … Belgium's plans to make a special-edition euro coin commemorating the Battle of Waterloo. Belgium still … led to an unprecedented number of witness accounts from soldiers and civilians who had lived through the wars, but also …

… President Harry Truman signed the European Recovery Act into law on April 3, 1948. The Marshall Plan, as it’s more commonly known, was intended to revive the economies of … a long-standing U.S. foreign policy tradition of cautious isolationism. The rationale of abstaining from foreign …

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… The Napoleonic Wars are remembered primarily as European affairs, and for good reasons. The wars and the … rest of the world in a breathtakingly wide span of case studies ranging from Chile to Japan . These case studies … campaigns, particularly in 1805-1806, but Mikaberidze points out that the anti-French powers were even more …

… podcast of Writers Talk History , historian Anna M. Peterson joins the show all the way from Oslo, Norway. Host … as her research experience in a foreign country. ( Image Source ) … Anna Peterson, who specializes in comparative women's and European history. Anna joins us today from Oslo, Norway, …

… The catastrophe in San Diego is not entirely a natural one. As with Katrina, it’s also the work of humans. This week, two massive wildfires … are offering time, money and supplies. Inter-agency communication is decidedly better. And the city owns a … San Diego’s Natural Disaster Wasn’t Entirely Natural …

… has been described as a “a crime against peace” and “Europe’s Darkest Hour” since World War II. It is an attack … Director, Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, The Ohio State University •    Shawn Conroy, PhD … History, The Ohio State University •    Marianna Klochko, Associate Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University …

… autumn, the world watched in amazement as events in Eastern Europe transformed the planet. Socialist states that had … Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora Dragostinova and Slavic Studies Professor Angela Brintlinger as they consider these …

… defines who we are. Food is both everywhere and nowhere, so normal that we rarely consider how radically the … we shove into our mouths has shaped our cultures, our bodies, and our planet. ( Image Source )   … which refers to a shift in which is first seen in Western Europe, in France and the Netherlands, in Britain, to a diet …

… Conference on West Africa was signed.  The conference has become known for “carving up  the African continent ” for the benefit of European colonial powers, although the only boundaries that … army to impose rule. White officers directed African soldiers.  Often “freed” from slavery or “orphaned,” many of …

… Black Sea in the late 1340s. Hitting the Middle East and Europe between 1347 and 1351, the Black Death had … came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … rural and urban: the daughter of King Edward III of England died of the plague in the summer of 1348. But quickly—at …

… th century—the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism throughout Eastern Europe . The opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 … year 1989 , often referred to as the annus mirabilis , also witnessed sweeping political transformations in Poland, …

… even millions. They came from the East, from the West, from Europe to pour money into an American industry growing … actually got fatter as they grazed their way to Kansas and points north. Like our own era, it was a period of economic … investors didn't know the difference. The crash, the "big die-off," came the winter of '86-87. A harsh winter after a …

… In November 2018, a report commissioned by French President Emannuel Macron called for artifacts taken to France during the heyday of European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth … speak with two experts in material culture and museum studies — Professor Sarah Van Beurden and Origins editor Steven …