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… 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: …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… of COVID-19 has been shocking—in terms of global spread and relatively high lethality—but it is hardly the first … by 1833, the disease crossed the Atlantic to both North and South America. Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes … Asia, the Pacific and beginning in 1970 spread across Africa. More recently still, localized epidemics broke out …

… From Plague to Influenza and HIV, learn about the history of global pandemics in … associate professor in the department and I specialize in African and Indian Ocean history and the history of HIV … the Black Sea in the late 1340s, where it spread as far as southern England in one year. Traditionally it has been …

… The demand that society legally recognize same-sex marriages is … talking about exotic island cultures or lost tribes in the African jungle. In 70 percent of more than 1,000 societies … India, the Middle East, Africa, China, and many kingdoms in South America. The upper classes in several regions of what …

… us from the traditions of the past.   Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were exact contemporaries. Both were … the Civil War and the emancipation of roughly four million African American slaves; the other initiated by Darwin’s … abolitionists. Exposed to slavery during his trip to South America, Darwin wrote, “It makes one’s blood boil.” He …

… That gesture, which has now spread throughout the NFL (and to other sports , even abroad ), is by no means the … white athletes refusing to compete against or alongside African-Americans. On at least four occasions between 1883 … baseball, intercollegiate athletics outside the south were not uniformly segregated before World War II. …

… squad after being told, “If you win, you die.” Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising gloved hands in the Black Power … the 2014 Sochi Olympics. The role of sport in dismantling South Africa’s apartheid regime and the 2010 World Cup in putting …

… action against Iraq. Sadly, most members of the House and Senate appear ready to acquiesce, eager to support a … Over the next decade, Ho frustrated American designs in Southeast Asia. By 1964, communist guerrillas, aided by the … on the verge of toppling the pro-United States regime in South Vietnam. Americans in the early 1960s lived in an …

… constituted an “empire.” Benjamin Madley, Jeffrey Ostler, and others saw “genocide” in the destruction of native … of some contemporary Apache groups in using the term ‘Southern Apache’ instead. This is in recognition of the fact … servants and slaves, including other Indians and enslaved Africans, helped shape the creation of ‘chosen’ families in …

… war's fundamental cause—slavery—is obscured in mythmaking and selective memory. It's time we get it right. Only by … economics? Of course, but what was the foundation of the South's economy? No matter how one cuts it, the unequivocal … slavery, there would have been no war between North and South—period.   This fact was vividly clear to the men who …

… new book, After Abolition . Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic to death or … an Anti-Slaving Squadron to catch slavers off the West African coast, many of the ships they confiscated were …

… A glance at recent opinion pages and political blogs reveals that immigration is a hot topic. … between 1882 and 1924, coming largely from eastern and southern Europe. This was the population that came through … Europeans and Slavs occupying lower ranks, and then Asians, Africans, and various aboriginal peoples at the bottom. But, …

… James G. Stahlman Chair in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. Cowie has written extensively on … they had to exclude occupations that were dominated by African Americans such as agricultural work and service and domestic work. The reason being they needed to win the south, the solid south, the white Dixiecrats was it would be …

… 28 states needed to approve the Fourteenth Amendment acted, and Secretary of State William Henry Seward formally … with the voting population. Unless that was changed, southerners would gain representation in Congress (and … had so strongly resisted, even though they did not allow African Americans to vote or hold office. The third section …

… the United States. Sometimes, in fact, we try to hide our hand completely. For example, the administration frankly says … proxy war. Still it fits the pattern. We encouraged the South Vietnamese to fight a war in which we demonstrated … became obvious that U.S. money, supplies and advisers plus South Vietnamese soldiers was not a winning combination. …

… wildfires ignited in the San Diego County backcountry and began their march toward the Pacific Ocean. They … played an enormous role in events this week. For centuries, Southern California has burned, especially in October when … their agony. Some argue that these horrendous fires on the Southern California coast are the unnatural by-product of …

… by enabling farming, encouraging an influx of settlers, and marginalizing – and expelling – Native Americans.  … of a policy that  President Jimmy Carter referred to as Apartheid – the legal and physical separation of … and Palestine. An endorheic river, it flows north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains into the Dead …

… clear objectives has rarely proven an effective choice. And, unfortunately, the lack of clear objectives is exactly … that Hanoi would abandon its support of insurgents in the south, Johnson misjudged the resolve of North Vietnamese … campaign would not halt the guerilla war on the ground in South Vietnam. The political goal of the Johnson …

… one ran away to sea, the other was elected vice president — and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.” John … the Whig ticket in 1840, Tyler was picked because he was a Southerner and, until his nomination, a lifelong Democrat. … therefore turned to the only people whose support he had, Southern Democrats. Tyler’s pandering to this faction helped …