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Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America

… fight racial prejudice through a celebration of multiracial community. The event takes its name from the 1967 Supreme … means to raise funds for the Virginia Company’s colony. She died in England soon thereafter and the peace brokered with … a white person in that state. While Rolfe—and his alleged future descendants—won esteem for association with an …
The Taras Shevchenko monument in Borodyanka, Ukraine damaged by the Russian attack, April 2022.

Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine

… history of the Cossacks for Ukraine. The freedom they embodied became a potent inspiration for Ukrainian readers. His … village girl seduced and then betrayed by a Russian soldier. It warns from the first lines, “Fall in love, you … was, but we should keep this as it is now.” Learn More: The Complete Kobzar: The Poetry of Taras Shevchenko. Translated …
Flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

NATO Expansion in Eastern Europe: For What and For Whom?

… funded by the United States, to contain/encircle Soviet and Communist power in Eastern Europe, prevent powerful … while hailing the “death of Communism” as proof that the future belongs to media-savvy versions of Herbert Spencer … no need to maintain military expenditures as corporate subsidies, and no need to wield a global big stick against Third …
The historic Floyd County Courthouse in Rome, Georgia.

Marcus Dixon or Strom Thurmond: Which Is the Predator?

… to Vanderbilt University, will likely contemplate his own future while sitting in a cell block. Before the Civil War … husband when he was nine) declared that her son “may have committed a sin, but never committed a crime,” she … injustice can bubble up and wash away a young black man’s future with all the force of a mighty stream. When it comes …

Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks

… remittance of funds without having to use banknotes or coins. Emergency wartime arrangements were also extended to … and 2013. Indeed, we were still living with the barely studied consequences of the financial crisis of 2008 when the … economic growth that all governments should want for the future of their people. The Debts of Our Children In 1948, …

What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments

… the violence had already begun. But the worst was yet to come. Saturday’s rally was scheduled to start at noon, but … the Right rally ( top left ). Virginia National Guard soldiers and Virginia State Police in the aftermath of the … University]. A monument to the sacrifices of Confederate soldiers in Baxley, GA originally on courthouse grounds but now …
An electron microscopic image of a thin section of SARS-CoV within the cytoplasm of an infected cell, showing the spherical particles and cross-sections through the viral nucleocapsid.

Could SARS Set off Another Great Pandemic?

… threat to public health: the specter of a pandemic, and the complacent American response. The so-called "Spanish" flu … million people around the world, more than the number who died in World War I battles. In the United States it killed … Why should we have forgotten the modern equivalent of the medieval Black Death? Perhaps because it killed mostly the …

The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State

… in the last year on what people are calling “ the Maduro Diet ,” a scathing reference to current president Nicolás … in 2016. Diphtheria, once thought eradicated, has made a comeback . By some estimates, 2.5 million people have left … ratings in Venezuela from 1998 to 2013. Lessons for the Future Venezuela’s misfortune offers a number of lessons. …
Photo of Ernest Hemingway smiling.

The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles

Review of The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles, by Stephen Koch (New York: Counterpoint, 2005)
… spread to the Spanish conflict. Robles went to his death a committed Stalinist, but to shroud the reality of the … of his political charisma nurtured the roots of his future conservatism. The book is not primarily about the … a lethal wound. Dos Passos lived until 1970, but his art died in 1937. Koch's book is light on the history of the …
cars on a highway

Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol

… search for clean and affordable alternate energies has become an increasing priority in the twenty-first century. … Center Co-sponsors: The Center for Latin American Studies, https://clas.osu.edu/ The Sustainability Institute, … about what energy transitions of the present and the future might look like as we search for alternatives to …
The colorful buildings of Tirana, viewed from the steps of the National Museum.

A Postcard from Tirana: Overcoming the Past

… dotted with reminders of this past, but the residents welcome visitors with true Albanian hospitality and intend to … dot the countryside today. After a 40-year rule, Hoxha died in 1985. With the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse … in vivid colors to reflect the bright outlook of the future. Empty spaces were turned into parks and complexes …
Lenin waving flag in front of crowd of workers and soldiers

From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100

… in Ohio, a specialist in Russian and post Soviet studies. Dr. Stephen Norris   Hello. Brenna Miller  In the … behind all of this, all these debates over what what the future of Russia should look like was just, was an attempt … Vinas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website
Glacial ice on Lake Baikal

Climate Change and Human Life

… populations throughout the world to a world where in the future, we're going to find that most biomass was … in the last five years is how much major decision-making bodies, sadly, non-democratic decision-making bodies, have … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, …

Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution

… tri-color Armenian flag and filled with hope for a better future, the crowd roared with enthusiasm when the … role in the mobilization of the population. Indeed,  some commentators noted  that it had more in common with … for corruption and the rise of oligarchs . Armenian soldiers in Karabakh in 1994 using Russian AK-74 assault …

From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American "Elite"

… at … well, any number of things. Lumping them together, the commentariat called all these angry voters “populists” and … what is going wrong, and what threatens to go wrong in the future. But who are “they,” more precisely, this cabal of … candidates that year split the remaining 60%. Lincoln embodied what Americans wanted to believe about their political …
Six founders of the Algerian FLN: Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi, 1954

The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace

… That paper, simply entitled “Declarations Drawn up in Common Agreement,” was signed in a town on the French side … to be domestic disturbances by terrorists. French soldiers patrol the hills above Souk Ahras, Algeria (1958). On … in the Sahara in 1960); and the framework that would govern future associations between France and an independent …
Cover of The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts.

Falling for the Fall of Rome

Review of The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)
… *which* Roman decline and fall is the best parallel. Some commentators prefer the fall of the Roman Republic as the … great again and will be teaching using that framing in the future. One of the best examples of his analysis is in … become a powerful metaphor to speak about the present and future that was now open to all who wished to evoke it.” …
Cover of With Our Backs to the Wall Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson.

The End of the War as They Knew It

Review of With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918, by David Stevenson (Cambridge, M.A.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
… of 1918, then nuanced chapters examining the major combatants in technology, logistics, and intelligence, … gains Germany could position itself advantageously for a future war that the military chiefs expected. 3 Weaknesses … the lack of German replacements; and recognition of the futility of further sacrifice. 4 Economically, Stevenson …
Herbert Hoover

We Could Use a Man like Herbert Hoover Again

… Hurricane Katrina has underscored the importance of unified command and control in response to national disasters. … programs to better prepare state and local leaders for future crises. These programs should be run by the National … to the 1927 flood. If we are to deal effectively with future hurricanes, earthquakes, forest fires and mudslides, …

Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now

… victory signals that the ERA has a renewed chance to become the 28 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To be … conditions, and physical tasks too arduous for pregnant bodies. In the years leading up to the introduction of the … National Consumers League (NCL), disagreed. She enlisted future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis to argue the …