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… too frequently heard, “if only you were white,” as a compliment to their skills, but also as a reality check that … At a young age, to make money for his family, Paige carried visitors’ bags at the train station. As the story goes, he … him “one of the greatest pitchers of all time.”  The compliments were great, but they might as well have said, …

…   Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone from … week. And as a delegation of US congressional Democrats visits Cuba, and other US political and economic interests … years, and if it's not working, then we know it's time to revisit that and think about other options. I think it's a …

… Hurricane Katrina has underscored the importance of unified command and control in response to national disasters. … the determination to get the job done. He was secretary of commerce from 1921 to 1928 under presidents Harding and … work of the Army Corps of Engineers and commanded other divisions of the War Department as needed. In fact, Hoover …

… Revolution--and learn that women in America have never been completely united.  … Trump. Think pieces blossomed overnight, denouncing the complicity and betrayal of white women to the feminist … to Seneca Falls, lived on the Seneca reservation. She was visiting the Seneca reservation in early summer and was …

… spelled out, in English, the word Newborn . Fireworks accompanied live appearances by pop stars and elected … "ethnic" labels to grossly oversimplify the many existing divisions among Kosovo's inhabitants. What is now the … Ottoman state sustained sharp Muslim-non-Muslim religious divisions that severely disadvantaged and maltreated many …

… to Byzantium , Herrin relates a story of two builders coming to her office after passing it daily to ask her what … I found myself flying through the pages, feeling very accomplished as I finished each short chapter. This division also helps in another way; namely that by dividing …

… An estimate compiled by the nation’s intelligence services reaches the … Khrushchev and Chinese leader Mao Zedong during a 1958 visit in China ( left ). Captioned “We use the skill of the … Republic of China in 1949 ( left ). President Nixon visited China in 1972, but the U.S. did not formally …

… To delay is impossible.” The tsar did not reply, instead complaining that “Again that fat-belly Rodzianko has written … entry into the First World War in 1914 . As those who have visited Russia know well, the First World War can seem … called for the defeat of their homeland and army, who sowed division inside Russia and sought only power for themselves, …

… Vladimir Putin has gone to extraordinary lengths to commemorate the Second World War. Even though the war ended … Day parades on Red Square. He's met with veterans and made visits to memorials. He's emphasized his own personal … think partly, once again, because it sort of shows internal divisions within Russia. Instead, you know, World War II is …

… had literate, talented, industrially and technologically competent populations, a huge help in building a modern … than Iraq’s, which has profound religious and ethnic divisions. And in the case of Germany, the people had close … officials today talk of a one- or possibly two-year commitment in Iraq. After World War II the vanquished …

… the polls were moved to schools and churches and community centers. There was some change in how candidates … that labor laws should also be gender equal, creating class divisions in the women's rights movement. Working class … be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… No disaster scenario more challenges human hopes to overcome nature’s forces than the sudden and unpredicted strike … with his secret death ray. Yet there was no neat division between science and fantasy in the history of … they wanted to determine if a guest from outer space had visited. Yet their commitment to empirical research …

… draft exemption for college students. At the time, family income was the largest single determinant of who attended … the rich from danger while drafting poor men to send into combat. Accurate or not, the widespread perception of … measures for the nation’s post offices and airports will come ultimately from the taxpayers. But broad support for …

… U.S.-based corporations, most infamously the United Fruit Company, used bribery and other methods to gain the support … U.S. economic interests, their shores and harbors would be visited by U.S. warships carrying legions of hated Marines … Nicaragua Canal and all the revenue and investment such a commercial hub would have generated. Then, in 1909, …

… Congress to honor the passing of Paul Ecke, Jr., who helped commercialize the plant in the United States in the middle … to  Mexican-U.S. relations . The date itself was chosen to commemorate the 1851 death of Joel Roberts Poinsett, the … outcome of Spain’s surrender, he set the tone.  Next, he visited the estate of a wealthy Philadelphia merchant to …

… clubs and launched multiyear protests. While sharing a common goal, these efforts were not without internal … level were proposed and introduced only to languish in committee often without a vote. Then, in 1910, Washington … be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… to get voters registered. He realized that if he were to become the city’s first African American elected mayor he … demonstrates the distance that the people of Chicago have come since Washington’s election. Like it or not, though, …

… He twice attempted to escape the tremendous financial commitment by promoting a joint lunar trip by the United … most Americans opposed sharing technology or glory with the Communist giant. Without the threat of a hulking enemy … while an equal number oppose it. Given the public’s sharp division and the costs of the ongoing war on terrorism, …

… kingdom were convinced that the United States had become a base for terrorists. No one then actually used the … of Granada and Nicaragua. Foreign diplomats repeatedly complained to the State Department that their countries were … assaults. Just as the U.S. news media suggest Saudi complicity in the attacks of September 2001, so foreign …

… your right, you will encounter the upscale whiskey house, complete with nineteenth-century stone walls that feature … maritime, industrial, and working-class culture, when you visit the neighborhood today, the only reminders of that … room and a popular hangout amongst Leith dwellers. Anyone visiting Edinburgh should make a note of the contrasts found …

… of waterways serves as a metaphor for the subcontinent’s complicated post-colonial coming of age. Favoring academic history over Rushdie’s … this proved increasingly problematic. Ethnic and linguistic divisions in Pakistan meant that an Islamic religious …

… Leticia Wiggins  Hello everyone and welcome to our webinar on 100 years of women and the vote. I'm … Just a little bit about the format: we're delighted to welcome three experts on women's history. We have Susan … which analyzes women's rights activism and the historical divisions within the female electorate. So to begin, I'd …