Search Results

… 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 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Proclamation, President Obama’s declaration that gay and lesbian Americans deserve a right to marry is a historic … of white Northerners (and perhaps more than a few white Southerners) on slavery. Northerners understood that the … no practical authority. At this time he still encouraged African-American emigration to Liberia. Nevertheless, the …

… 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 …

… will erode national sovereignty, usurp domestic courts and end up limiting America’s freedom of action on the … court. There are plenty of recent precedents — from South Korea to Mexico — where former leaders have been … (The Iraqi Governing Council wants to create a South Africa-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address …

… 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 order to better understand the current coronavirus pandemic, a panel discussion … 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 … where sport played an enormous role in visibly ostracizing South Africa.   Dr. Steven Conn  Which in turn, when South …

… 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 …