Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: America's Love Affair with the Two-Party System
… Locofocos , Doughfaces , Simon Pure and Silver Grey Whigs, Fire-Eaters and Free-Soilers – any of which might have …
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Violence Against Women
… Alexander, who wanted to use 'Stand Your Ground' to, as she fired a warning shot to prevent her husband from continuing …
LOOT: Colonial Collections and African Restitution Debates
… of the former Ethnological Museum of Berlin have come under fire for inadequate conditions, for example. Finally, …
Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population
… slowly through the mob… the dust, noise, heat, and cooking fires gave the scene a hellish aspect." Ehrlich wrote the …
Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective
… Till could just as easily have been them. It also lit a fire under them. Five years later, in 1960, these young …
A History of Stolen Citizenship
… third of those doing the dangerous work of fighting forest fires in California, where they are paid $1/hour. Nationally …
"Earn Your Spurs" (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 7)
… actually appointed to a commission under Jimmy Carter, got fired from her position because she challenged his budget. …
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd
… just after troops of the Provisional Government opened fire with machine guns, July 1917. In Britain and elsewhere …
Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again
… found themselves, as one NGO put it, caught “between two fires.” Ultimately, however, organized community resistance, …
Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising
… around Hama during the summer of 2005. A more intense firefight occurred in the suburbs of Aleppo that December, …
"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent
… voting bloc holding all the parties' feet to the fire. As the protest movement burgeoned in Senegal, events …
The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa
… Africa Cup of Nations in Angola. Separatist rebels opened fire on a bus carrying the Togolese team and officials, …
From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100
… a room to live in, and then creating and getting access to firewood, and getting access to, you know, cafeterias of one …
The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq
… Baqir al-Sadr, the father-in-law of the present-day firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He headed the Islamic Call …
“The Tragedy Has Never Left Us.” On the War in Ukraine
… army, sometimes after experiencing their baptism by fire in Donbas, as Coline Maestracci explains in her work. …
Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock
… attention to clear skies and brightly burning conference fires, helping put bad memories aside and focusing on a …
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville
… September 1991 issue of Newsweek. Bernal’s work set off a firestorm in the field of classics, but his primary focus on …
Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership
What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?
… record in Italy—especially in the months-long trial-by-fire they endured before fighting alongside the 10th—there …
The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy
… with the support of many Global South states, Republican firebrand Barry Goldwater claimed: “The time has come to …
