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… the Charleston harbor, past Confederate fortifications, and to the Union fleet blockading the city. The architect of … of the 19th century. Smalls was born enslaved in Beaufort, South Carolina at 511 Prince Street in 1839. His mother was … undermine Reconstruction and the political power of African Americans. Unable to overcome entrenched Republican …

… sanctions. Trump has tightened embargoes on North Korea and Iran , frozen the assets of Venezuelan leaders, and … Ethiopia , a member of the League and one of the few African nations to have escaped previous European … . The apartheid policy of the white minority government of South Africa became an early target. For a transnational …

… the "Big Dry," as they're calling it. The drop in rainfall and river flows has been most severe in the southern and eastern states (Victoria, New South Wales, … in North America, 48% in Asia, 39% in Europe, and 38% in Africa. "Water Dreamers" Yet, for all the variability built …

… "Rosa sat down, Martin stood up, and the white kids came down and saved the day." -Julian Bond Thus goes the traditional narrative of the African American civil rights movement.  As most school … King inspired Northern white liberal college kids, who went South and participated in grassroots organizing, and by the …

… the nineteenth centuries, the labor of millions of enslaved Africans generated tremendous wealth for an elite community of slave owners, slave traders, and political rulers in Europe, West Africa, and Atlantic societies. Simultaneously, formerly … Review of Reparations for Slavery and The Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History …

… the Republican Party with a bowl of popcorn in one hand and a bourbon in the other, listening for the sounds of … bank, generated significant opposition in the Tidewater South and parts of the mid-Atlantic, as well as among those … to enfranchise, and the Democratic attempt to suppress, African-American men as voters. Democrats eventually won …

… 100th birthday party of retiring Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina: "I want to say this about my state: When … ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had of followed our lead, we … as the first U.S. senator from the South who hired an African American to serve on his senatorial staff.   But …

… ; follows with numerous state campaigns, court battles, and petitions to Congress; and culminates in the marches and … rather than gradual end to slavery. Boston reformer and African American abolitionist Maria Stewart—one of the first … organized suffrage efforts in the white British colonies of South Africa, New Zealand, and South Australia, the WCTU was …

… the case of four police officers charged in the beating of African American motorist Rodney King on April 29, 1992, Los … production by Hannah Keller, Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Laura Seeger. Learn more about the L.A. Riots: Abu-Lughod, Janet L.  Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles  (New York: …

… Europeans had many different interactions with penguins, and these shaped how they understood what the birds were. Sailors and scientists alike brought back accounts of the strange … which were only slowly understood to be unique to the South. Featuring Ellen Arnold, an environmental historian …