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… Since 1890, May 1st has been celebrated as International … Socialist Congress meeting in Paris in July 1899. The comrades set the date in solidarity with organized workers … fledgling American Federation of Labor had scheduled the upcoming May 1 to initiate a drive for the eight-hour day. The …

… to resolve the issue in 1876 through a special Electoral Commission and a resulting complex set of commitments that came to be called the Compromise of 1877. …

… children from Central America, some as young as five, crossing into the United States without authorization. News … while other jurisdictions declared these children unwelcome. A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border … and the Americas have long been at the forefront of these complex, worldwide dynamics. The highly personal act of …

… post-1868 empire, including Korea and Taiwan . The Chinese Communist Party would be reborn and re-legitimized through … year, the ROC capital of Nanjing fell in what one military commentator called “the worst holocaust of brutality since the troops of Count [Johann] Tilly sacked Magdeburg in …

… world’s most contentious issues seem to demand border-crossing responses. These include not only disease and public … policies as altruistic during the ideological competition of the Cold War. But these institutions and … loss of control frustrated Washington officials, who complained about the UN and WHO even as they generously …

… Arabic, European, and Persian architectural styles, the complex embodied purposefully Egypt's place at the … in Iraq equals killing. The nature of those people is completely different. They are tough and bloody, and they … sits now in a U.S. military prison, awaiting trial for passing along 251,287 such cables—only 2,000 of which are …

… As the international community struggles to respond effectively to the missile … intentions of its founder’s to allow each great power a comprehensive veto over any international action that might … that international obligations that come with its increasing global prominence.   China must be convinced that North …

… The rise of the presidency and decline of party machines since the New Deal gave presidential candidates control over … and the technology of the information age meant that comments made anywhere are now instantly transmitted … obtained new resources that have allowed them to become significant ongoing participants in the White House. …

… Americans associate with Christmas is everywhere. In fact, since 2002, December 12 has been known as Poinsettia Day, … 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 …

… 1200 CE and who have left their imprint on the region ever since. The Diavik Diamond Mine in Canada's Northwest … patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, … into oil, Smeerenburg emerged as a fleshy El Dorado, complete with shops, bakeries, and even a casino and …

… Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian … superpower status. Its narrowing, unstable economy has become dependent on the export of a single commodity: energy. Energy production in Russia, in addition …

… “elected” president of Syria. The unrest resulted from a combination of socio-economic and political problems that … drought of 2007-2010, high unemployment rates, inflation, income inequality, and declining oil resources all contributed … a political tool by the Assad family—who have ruled Syria since Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez al-Assad took power in …

… a fictional town where spring no longer marked the singing of birds, the buzzing of bees, or the laughter of … on chemical over-use. While the public, USDA, chemical companies , and farmers embraced pesticides with a fervor one historian has compared to a love story, a growing number of scientific …

… the franchise has expanded to include many more citizens since 1776, these gains have come haltingly and unevenly. Even as women gained suffrage, … voter suppression continue to affect electoral outcomes today? Listen in to find out. To learn more about the … Eric Michael Rhodes  Welcome to the History Talk , the podcast that brings together …

… Margaret Newell: Welcome! Thank you for joining us today for the “First 100 Days … about slavery, and will be your host and moderator today. Since the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt, … Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. and the forthcoming America Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the …

… Party officials were worried that some locals might try to sing along to the socialist anthem . Molotov and his party … and the simultaneous purges, officers were rushed into commission; in 1941, only half had completed any formal military education program . A Soviet …

… the towns in twin disasters that leveled homes and businesses, strewed debris across lawns and fields, and tore … by the specter of our nuclear past. And given Japan's complicated past with nuclear issues, it is especially … for energy to power Japan's rapid economic growth and the complexities of post-World War II international relations …

… law, the Blueprint preserved the basic approach of using standardized test scores to hold schools "accountable" … of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Weingarten complains that the administration's plans "put 100 percent … those of the school-focused activists, but they have also come to loggerheads—as they have done most recently. …

… Dr. Angela Brintlinger  Welcome, everybody. I went ahead and turned off my email so it … Let me just tell you again, I know some of you have come to many of these talks, others might want to come to … my focus here will be on the recent past, that is, events since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. In …