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… measles, typhus, and influenza decimated Indigenous communities in the Americas is a commonly held one. Like so … one’s breast, etc. there was indeed perishing, many indeed died of it.” Aztec victims of a sixteenth-century epidemic. … stark disparities are not because germs affect Indigenous bodies differently. Across the nation, by late May 2020, …

… that, 17 years after its inception, remains stubbornly incomplete. On the positive side, the Belfast Agreement … party and joined the Irish Free State as Fianna Fail (“Soldiers of Destiny”). This new party kept Irish nationalism as … that it offered the possibility of Irish unity in the future, since differential population growth between …

… Revolution--and learn that women in America have never been completely united.  … refrain of both campaigns. In April of 2016, Trump accused future Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton of “playing the … Take, for instance, Abigail Adams’s famous “Remember the Ladies” letter, in which she implored her husband, John Adams, …

… Evropa to the prominent display of the Parthenon on the website of the Neo-Nazi forum Stormfront, classical texts … dumpster summer of racism ” confined to classics alone as medieval historians , too, found themselves increasingly … entire  website  specifically devoted to documenting and refuting the appropriation of classical antiquity by hate …

… the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the … that in time we'd have similar, agreeable choices to make; futures to shape however we saw fit. We were remarkably … Race We knew about race, of course. Though we lived in a completely white neighborhood, there was no way to avoid …

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … you know, they don't want to be in these majority Black audiences. And I said, well, you know what, this is actually a … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website …

… 2000 and Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 2007, has come to the end of his legal term limit and must step down. … we are to make sense of what will happen in this once-and-future superpower after the polls, it pays to delve deeply … the population had long been waiting. Putin in effect embodies Russia's "recovery": he has succeeded in putting an end …

… while other jurisdictions declared these children unwelcome. A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border … rights] in the North. It was not true. Our children are our future. Let’s protect them.” And those hoping for a … as a part of the Bracero Program, 1954. The British West Indies’ complementary Temporary Foreign Worker Program ran …

… the unemployed. In some cities, mayors established these bodies. Elsewhere, they were founded and run by private … women found temporary jobs in laundries or sewing shops that were established specifically to provide work for … committee to study how the United States could stave off future economic downturns. By the end of the 1920s, the …

… huge bestsellers. We celebrate the Founders’ audacity and commitment, marvel at their battlefield heroics, literary … taxes for the rich and welfare provisions for the neediest, we have allowed our material inequalities to … They imagined that they were acting in behalf of future generations and humanity at large. Turning a …

… dates back well into the Cold War. How did terrorism become a focal point of U.S. foreign policy? How did earlier … deeper history tell us about what terrorism is, how our common assumptions about it might be wrong, and how we … these ideas, and there are a lot of historical case studies, such as the IRA, where this has actually happened. We …

… 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. First, a radical left-wing … to be a dangerous security nuisance for the foreseeable future. A decade after the attacks on the World Trade … such as faith or community. Historically, the decision to die on behalf of others has been the right of the …

… the term “New Cold War” has mushroomed among analysts and commentators seeking to define contemporary geopolitics. … are understood and how they condition the present and the future. As anthropologist Heonik Kwon shows in his 2010 … unceasing warfare from the very beginning: a decorated soldier returns to his village to begin life in the new China …

… inventing new “nukes” and new ways to deliver them. He felt compelled to build almost all of them, lest the Russians get … wants to harness U.S. security to space technology and the computer revolution. This will lead to another costly trap. … have to be paid. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… WWII, the United States began to boldly pursue a global community modeled upon American political, economic, and … menace seeking to snuff out America’s light. The godless Communists, American logic went, would stop at nothing to … half million refugees, hundreds of thousands of people have died from war and conflict and instability, Afghanistan has …

… of two Russian ships by a German taskforce under the command of a German admiral improbably marked the entry of … in the Middle East is relatively well-known. Movie-going audiences are familiar with the dashing exploits of T. E. … Arab rebels commanded by Emir Faysal (Hussein’s son and the future king of Iraq), stormed northwards, occupying Damascus …

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to The Global War on Drugs brought to you by the … drawn from dozens of anthropological and archaeological studies, indigenous groups ingested datura medicinally and … took datura to experience visions that would predict the future, heal the sick. They took it in initiation rituals …

… 78 whales restranded the following day, and at least 100 died. Although the exact cause of the stranding remains … and tied to ropes and anchors off the bay, left to decompose within the ecosystem. Europeans who lived in the … bears its name. At some point in the following decade (he died in 684), a group of 237 porpoises was involved in a …

… The left side of the American political-entertainment complex has passed the time since the 2012 election watching … sufficiently entertaining to generate speculation about the future of the party itself. How much longer can the … After the war, which most Federalists opposed, the party died out. Historians sometimes describe the national …

… But how does political engagement on campuses today compare to the history of American campus activism, … protests can teach campus activists, administrators, and communities today. For more on OSU campus protests in the … to learn and want to express themselves, you have the ingredients that can lead to a lot of activists’ behavior.   …

… would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … left to hold it up. By the early 1960s, Buddy Holly had died in a plane crash, Elvis was making movies, Chuck Berry … what [they] used to play at the Crawdaddy, a regular diet of Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters with some Slim …

… Gaul, or today’s Emilia Romagna—the statesman and accomplished general Julius Caesar crossed the little Rubicon … However, when their third ally, Marcus Crassus, died shortly after the death of Julia, Caesar’s daughter and … Caesar crossed the river, uttering his famous phrase, “the die is cast,” which Appian wrote that he spoke “like a man …

… peace than Bush’s “axis of evil.” The president’s comments have led to denunciations from the three nations he … the president is issuing a legitimate warning to the world community or defining global enemies unilaterally and writing a blank check for the Pentagon. A comparison between the Axis that the United States and its …

… Whenever a famous politician dies, obituary writers and other commentators immediately start comparing the departed figure … of dying at the right time. What historians of the future will make of Nixon and Deng remains up for grabs, of … The Nixon-Deng Comparison …