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The Real Marriage Revolution

… 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 …
Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington DC.

Bicentennial for Two Great Emancipators

… 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 …
Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Ten Protests in Sports History

… 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. …
Team photo of a soccer team

The Politics of International Sport

… 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 …
President LBJ's "Midnight Address" on the 2nd Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964.

Remember the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

… 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 …
Cover of Apache Diaspora by Paul Conrad.

“Diaspora” as a Creative and Historical Force

Review of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival, by Paul Conrad (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… 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 …
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.

After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807

Review of After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807, by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
… 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 …
Young Child dressed in a Uncle Sam costume

Coming to America to Contribute

Review of Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century, by Robert L. Fleegler Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
… 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, …
pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

… what we think we know about the War on Drugs.  When and where did it really begin? Why has it persisted? And … across the world from China, India and Afghanistan, through South and Central America, Europe and the United States. … but this war has completely devastated generations of African American families in the United States, which the …
Graffiti on wall: "Broken Promises"

Jefferson Cowie on Deindustrialization, Trade, and the 2016 Presidential Election

… 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 …
The words "Equal Justice Under Law" which are inscribed on the front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

The Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

… 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 floor seal of the Central Intelligence Agency

Getting Others to Fight Our Wars

… 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. …
Firefighters working on the San Diego wildfires in 2007.

San Diego’s Natural Disaster Wasn’t Entirely Natural

… 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 …
Seal of the Vice President of the United States.

The Vice Presidency Should Not Be an Accident Waiting to Happen

… 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 …
The headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in 1911.

The Nineteenth Amendment

… that “all inhabitants” who were “worth fifty pounds” and met the residency and age requirements could vote. In … tensions already present between those advocating for African American civil rights and those fighting for women’s … turning away a Black woman at a suffragist march. In the South, meanwhile, poll taxes , residency requirements, …
typewriter

Between Black and White

The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations
… The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … … discrimination in Brazil (like that of the U.S. or South Africa). Following the study, scholars began to focus on the …
Black women marching with signs supporting integration

Race in the Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights

… Join hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy in a conversation with historians—and … here at Ohio State. My research is primarily related to African American women, but I teach courses that sort of … Hawks owner and, and him talking about, you know, white Southerners not wanting to or being afraid of coming to …
Lady Bird Johnson in the Texas Hill Country.

The Power of the Pedestal

… as it contained it; “Lady” relegated women to the parlor and pedestal, away from public power. The respect and honor … no finer example of a lady than Lady Bird Johnson. Being a southerner, she had a good start; southern women of all classes and races know a lady when we …
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

… examine the experiences of identity erasure, invisibility and hyper visibility for Urban Indian, graduate students who … her indigenous ways of knowing, being and becoming. She is Southern Ute and holds dear the Native proverb, "Listen with … on. So this connects, this is a grounding space for my Southern Ute identity, and my and our family's inability to …
Clarence Thomas

Top Ten Origins: Controversial SCOTUS Nominees

… Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh a “nadir” in American life. And in the era of “stolen” seats on the Supreme Court of the … SCOTUS nominations have been. Rutledge represented South Carolina at the Constitutional Convention and Second … (1857) decision, which held that neither free nor enslaved African Americans were U.S. citizens, and thus has gone down …

A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti

… on January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti. The following day, as tens of thousands … couleur , occupied a middle position between the enslaved Africans and the European planter class. The goal, of … 60 years after Haiti gained its independence. Undoubtedly, Southern politicians' and slaveholders' desires drove U.S. …