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… going to receive international approval for its quest to become an independent nation. While many inside Kosovo and out … Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army in 1999. A special UN commission is supposed to release a report on the province’s … Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. E-mail:  jmankoff@yahoo.com . …

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… of the Marne. Both sides then dug in along what would become the great Western Front, a series of trenches extending …

… Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … a digital media piece of writing geared toward a popular audience. Is there some advantage to this form of writing over … but that you have a chance to reach a much broader audience through distribution over the internet and especially …

… If eight percent of the population of seven million had died or been killed during WWII , the Greek civil war (GCW) … coups d’état and dozens of governments. Although Greek communists had been a serious threat to all Greece’s … built on it decimated. The period of Greek civil strife is commonly divided into three “rounds”. The first one began in …

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… When Billy Graham died in February of this year, many of the tributes referred … influenced preaching in the decades since. Three important components of Graham’s outreach in particular were … a provocative recounting. But Twitter has also made it easy for Christian commentators to speak up about events in …

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… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone. I'm … I'm a professor of history and women's gender sexuality studies at Ohio State. And I teach on modern South Asia.   … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website …

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… After touring British colonies in Africa, Macmillan had become increasingly convinced that “national consciousness” … of Lumumba’s anti-Western sentiments and as a result of soldiers’ mutinies and secessionist movements in the southern … of the British Gold Coast Colony, stood before an audience of nearly 50,000 to announce the birth of a new …

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… of the small town of Wittenberg, Germany, in 2017, it is easy to get the impression that the 500 th anniversary of … the course of Christianity and western civilization. Commemorative Playmobil figure of Martin Luther. But to stop … Archbishop of Mainz—Luther was following a longstanding medieval tradition of calling for debate within the university …

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