Taras Shevchenko is not just the founder of the modern Ukrainian literary language, he is also the most important symbol of modern Ukrainian nationhood.
Just past noon on Monday, May 4, 1970, a squadron of Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire at a loose collection of students gathered across an expanse of leafy lawns and campus parking lots at Kent State University in northeastern Ohio.
What can we learn from the public/medical responses during previous epidemics and pandemics to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels?
Public memory of the battle for Manila includes a mixture of gratitude toward the Americans, nationalistic defiance, and horror.
… includes a mixture of gratitude toward the Americans, nationalistic defiance, and horror. The liberation claimed … includes a mixture of gratitude toward the Americans, nationalistic defiance, and horror. … Philippines … East …
… this statement for a rousing pep talk to the South Korean national soccer team moments before it took the field … included a hasty division of the country itself. The SovietUnion occupied the north while the United States occupied …
… over its name. In 1989, Burma’s military rulers appealed to nationalist sentiment by adopting the name “Myanmar” for … a name adapted from local usage, but it hasn’t won international recognition because the regime is an international outlaw in flagrant violation of human rights. There …
… attack. The source of this threat has changed from the SovietUnion to terrorist groups. Yet what hasn’t changed is the … … William Lambers … History News Service … Global/Transnational … Nuclear Power & Weapons … Cold War … Russia … …
… from the history of the WHO about the importance of international cooperation in the promotion of public health . … material support (especially from the United States and the SovietUnion) in the form of vaccines, materials, and money. …
… women attained the vote in 1920. Paul and her allies in the National Woman’s Party (NWP) pointed out that more than … legal protection, not legal equality. Women’s groups, labor unions, and others representing female factory workers had … Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with members of The Women’s Trade Union League in New York in 1958 ( bottom ). In 1940, the …
… Last week Congress voted to reaffirm that the national motto of the United States is “In God We … we would be following “our predecessors” by declaring a national trust in God. Last year he and the Congressional … in a speech in Jakarta that “E Pluribus Unum” is the national motto. The conservatives who criticized Obama and …
… Islamic and Islamist—overthrew Mubarak and dismembered his National Democratic Party (NDP). The Supreme Council of the … al-Ittihad al-Nisa’I al-Tahdhibi (Women’s Refinement Union), Jam’iyat al-Raqy al-Adabiyah li-al-Sayyidat … Girls”). The Colonial Encounter and the Egyptian Feminist Union The ideological situation grew more complex when …
… General Order 11 establishing May 30 as Decoration Day at national cemeteries to honor soldiers who died in service. Gen. Logan's order spoke only to honoring Union soldiers' sacrifices. Former Confederate states … and families of Confederate soldiers buried in Arlington National Cemetery were not even permitted to visit the grave …
… and tagged “Colonialism 150.” This is the trouble with a national anniversary in a colonial state: it brings the … struggling Maritime Provinces. The net result is a basic national standard for schools, infrastructure, arts, and … Canada’s transfer payments are bested by the European Union’s Regional Policy that dedicates a full one third of …
… His role in ending the Cold War was less important than the SovietUnion’s collapse from internal strains. He was a political … change. In 1933, his New Deal projected a change in the national government’s role in regulating and balancing the …
… 11 fighting each other in the streets of New York City. Unionized firefighters scuffled with police officers. … site, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urged the firefighters’ union to cooperate with his downsizing of the search for … Zero? When the mayor of New York tells firefighters who are nationally celebrated as heroes to listen to his authority …
… constituencies of the umbrella opposition group, the Syrian National Council (SNC), are staunch non-Islamists. Two weeks … Party. The regime also cultivated closer relations with the SovietUnion, the German Democratic Republic and the other …
… policies and demanding protection of the Amazon. International attention focused on the fires, the majority of … fired Ricardo Galvão, the director of INPE, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, who defended the … highest total in 10 years. In the face of a torrent of international criticism, Bolsonaro blamed NGOs and …