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Glacial melt from Myrdalsjökull glacier in the south (jökull means glacier in Icelandic). Note the alluvial cones formed by volcanic ash and sediment.

A Postcard from Reykjavik: Iceland’s Volcanic History

… Humans weren’t around when volcanoes formed Iceland’s unique island landscapes some 20 million years ago. … within the last 100 years.  Glacier flowing down Iceland's southern coast;  Volcanic landscape. Recently, the … Katla sits underneath the Mýrdalsjökull glacier in the south and will trigger massive flooding when it resumes …

Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story

… over the last several months, warning of labor shortages and a migration crisis . Despite an abundance of job … numbers of migrants have arrived to the United States’ southern border , the vast majority of whom are prevented … for laborers and looked to eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa in order to solicit their best and brightest. …
Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling

The Long View of Sports Protests

… in by condemning such actions, the focus dramatically expanded to questions of free speech, patriotism, and … The Ohio State University and a specialist in 20th century African American history.   Dr. Hasan Jeffries   Hi. Good to … intertwined. Looking at, you know, coming out of the south, my father was a big fan of Jim Brown and the Browns …
1864 depiction of the Fort Pillow Massacre in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper

Ten Moments of White Supremacist Violence in U.S. History

… Trump’s failure to immediately condemn the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis following the events in Charlottesville, VA by … elections that fall, which led to federal occupation of the South and measures to allow black voting rights. 3. Colfax … and killed roughly 60 black Wilmingtonians. Over 2,100 African-Americans left the city during the carnage and did …

The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?

… States is delivered by winter storms from the Pacific, and over the past year, those storms were largely blocked by … of California is in severe to exceptional drought. The southwestern states are also experiencing moderate to severe … 25 percent of normal for late January. Elsewhere in the Southwest, Lake Powell, the largest reservoir on the …
L to R - Indigenous, African American, and Jewish Peoples

Ideas of Race and Racism in History

… The issues of race and racism remain as urgent as ever to our national … mid-17th Century, however, colonial leaders had relegated Africans alone to a status of permanent slavery. In order to … principal legacy of the institution of slavery, North and South was the persistence in the belief in of white …

Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later

… about efforts across the United States to draw new state and federal legislative districts following the 2010 Census. … not just in the mostly one-party, racially segregated South of that day. Many of the states of the North and West … a redistricting scheme that seriously under-represented African-American residents' voting power, the Court would …
President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton in 1993.

Why Clinton Will Survive

… The specter of Watergate has hovered over the Clinton scandal. Yet overlooked in the stampede to compare Bill … of the Radical Republicans, who wanted to reconstruct the South by making African Americans citizens and creating an interracial …

An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History

… has never been more anger directed toward “big government,” and that anger has boiled over during the last several … American life: 1) At a town hall meeting in Simpsonville, South Carolina hosted by Republican Congressman Robert … them, among other things, that “big government” had failed African Americans. 3) In July 2008 David Koch, billionaire …
An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, March 1, 1780. Pennsylvania State Archives.

The Forgotten First Step Toward Freedom

… in the United States can explain the neglect of this landmark law. The American Revolution had provided the … compelled to check the felonious dispatch of slaves to the South. The successes of these measures removed the incubus … slaves to liberate themselves by escaping to the North. New African-American churches, schools and mutual help …
Medical examination photo of Gordon showing his scourged back, widely distributed by Abolitionists to expose the brutality of slavery. From at least the 1860s onwards, photography was a powerful tool in the abolitionist movement.

Can Reparations Heal the Wounds of Slavery?

… A group of African-Americans is demanding in federal court in New York that the United States … a social fund to improve health, education and housing for African-Americans.   But this is a weak argument because it …
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, by Harry S. Stout Book cover.

Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War

Review of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, by Harry S. Stout (New York: Viking, 2006)
… Upon the Altar of the Nation is a provocative and disturbing moral history of the Civil War. It is not a … conduct. From the outset religious leaders in the North and South helped shape the conduct of the war by imbuing their … of Southern cities. Stout only briefly mentions the rape of African American women and the execution of African American …

Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America

… decision at the time. Many decried it as judicial overreach and resisted its implementation for decades. The case that … European indentured servants as their primary labor to African slaves. As these two labor pools worked alongside … despite the undeniable evidence of interracial offspring on Southern plantations resulting from slave owners forcing …

Conflict Termination: How to End -- and Not to End -- Insurgencies

… of the on-going American military commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan has combined with memories of Vietnam and … governments in Laos, Cambodia and—most pivotally—South Vietnam, where they continued to exercise a large … the dissolution of the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa and Asia. Communist-supported guerrilla insurgencies …
Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.

Invisible Man

Review of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer , by Wendell E. Pritchett (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
… November 4, 2008, after months of hard-hitting campaigning and nationwide discussions on the need for change, the United States elected an African American for President.  The campaign and subsequent … city at a moment when civil rights was viewed largely as a Southern issue.  Although he was not a well-known leader of …
With its rhetoric of "the 99%" (the people) against "the 1%" (the elite), the international Occupy movement is an example of a (left-wing) populist social movement.

A New Populism in the United States

… Party’s nomination for president. Fulani’s announcement and Buchanan’s acceptance of her endorsement has drawn sharp … voters who have seldom seen eye-to-eye in the voting booth: African Americans and working-class whites. While African … in the new territories. Populists in the 1890s brought Southern black and white farmers and laborers together in …

Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics

… showcased his Third Reich at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and Jesse Owens’ four gold medals were hailed as a repudiation of Nazi racism. African nations boycotted the 1976 Montreal games over the issue of South Africa’s apartheid policies. The United States and
President George W. Bush with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley in 2006.

Is Iraq Vietnam?

… The wars in Vietnam and Iraq differ in major respects, but U.S. policy in both … For that reason, the intervention in Iraq, like that in South Vietnam, seems almost certain to end in failure. … needs; the problem is that so few Iraqis seem to agree. South Vietnam’s governments also had serious problems. The …
Group of women marching with signs: "GWU Women's Liberation," "I'm a second-class citizen," "Women demand equality"

A Slut from East Toledo (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 5)

… era of women's activism, the Women's Movement of the 1960s and 70s. In the wake of World War II, the revived women's … vital roles in the war effort. Men of Color, including African Americans, Latinos, Chicanos, and Japanese men, … that not only were the women in the Latino and Chicano and African American communities less willing to return to the …
Plate of enchiladas at a Mexican restaurant.

Mexican Food in the United States

… Though restaurants and their customers use such words as “traditional,” … from the distinct culinary traditions of the people of the Southwest whose desire for dishes like chili and tacos … avocados are a global conflict commodity comparable to Africa’s so-called blood diamonds. Regional Mexican Fare: …
King speaking to an anti-Vietnam war rally at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, April 27, 1967.

Which Martin Luther King to Honor?

… Which Martin Luther King Jr., will we honor this year?  The Southerner who broke the back of legalized segregation?  Or … what he called “the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism” throughout the nation, North and South? Unless we give both sides their full due, we will be …
A portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

… April 4, 1968, at 6:01 pm, James Earl Ray, a white drifter and petty criminal, raised a bathroom window at the rear of Bessie Brewer’s Rooming House on South Main Street in Memphis, TN and aimed a Remington Model … and small, stretching from the East Coast to the West, African Americans poured into the streets to vent their …
Senator Barack Obama

Memorandum to Sen. Obama: How to Run

… were alive to give you wise counsel, now that your candidacy for the Democratic Party’s nomination is official. … He realized that if he were to become the city’s first African American elected mayor he would need a ground swell … candidates may face at the polls, especially in the South. To reach the most elevated political office in the …