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… War erupted in the Middle East when Anwar Sadat’s Egypt and Hafez al-Assad’s Syria launched a joint attack on Israel’s southern and northern borders. As the war progressed, Arab … Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Rhodesia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It and …

… President Bush likes to tell his usually hand-picked audiences that Iraq will become more democratic … invoke it? Because invoking the correct comparison — with South Vietnam — would give neither his beleaguered … threat,” just as their counterparts did for two decades in South Vietnam. That was never the case after World War II.   …

… In War Is All Hell Edward J. Blum and John H. Matsui argue that Americans living through the … of Satan’s fall was grafted onto the issues of slavery and southern secession. Preachers like G.W. Henry used … of “disunion,” influenced and directed by the devil, while African Americans likened enslavement to hell. By using this …

… had been inspired in no small measure by American laws and policies. James Whitman’s Hitler’s American Model makes … and segregation regimes, especially those of the US South, as models for these infamous laws. Rather than … “One-Drop Rule” which states that if anyone had one drop of African blood in them, they were considered an …

… Marcus Dixon isn’t the only newsworthy court case to be stranded by higher-profile events. But it may be the most … with her mother stressed the financial support the South Carolina senator had “magnanimously” provided. … often — white mistresses also had sex with male slaves. Southerners generally failed to distinguish between these …

… World War . The popular uprising brought together Sunnis and Shi'is , elites and commoners, city dwellers and … Iraqi history. Armed revolt broke out in the fertile plains south of Baghdad, as bands of tribespeople swept in from the … the restive agricultural districts between Baghdad and the southern port city of Basra convinced nationalists in the …

… Issues and Articles Volume 1, No. 1, May 1993 [ View pdf .]     A … Origins [PDF] A Gordian Knot: The Ethnic Relations of the South Slavs (revised 2023)  [PDF] Tragedy in Somalia: Clans, … After Apartheid: A unfied Democracy: The Evolution of South Africa (revised 2023) [PDF] Mexico's Black Eye: The Roots of …

… that nearly two-thirds of the people asked said that whites and blacks have an equal chance of getting ahead in today’s … in their younger years. During the 1950s and early 1960s African Americans lived segregated lives in the South and faced limited opportunities in the North. When …

… A Bosnian-Serb youth Gavrilo Princip, aged only 19, shot and killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent … but to realize its inclusion into a larger, independent South Slav state with Serbia and other South Slavic peoples. As plots go, the assassination was one …

… year’s cover story recently, Dick van Dyke’s lively song and dance routine in “Mary Poppins” ran in my head. Step in … post-World War II America. It was the most significant in African Americans’ 20th-century struggle for civil rights. … Ala., it continued in brutal confrontations throughout the South, the momentous March on Washington, the tragic bombing …

… the Fallen. Built by the Francoist regime during the 1940s and 1950s with the forced-labor of thousands of political … Franco and other Spanish officers from the colonial Army of Africa staged a failed right-wing military coup against the … same time, three million Spaniards migrated from the rural south to the industrial north, where they broke the …

… “Which Supremes?” applies Supreme Court cases to film and television representations. We could not have asked for … and people of other races. Such laws dominated the entire Southern bloc of sixteen states, from North Carolina to … Loving, a white man, and his wife, Mildred Loving, an African-American and Native American woman, reached the …

… Over the past months, politicians, journalists, and ordinary people across Europe have passionately debated … has functioned as the main route for migrants from Africa or the Middle East into Europe. This is perhaps one … A more relevant question might be: Do East-Central and Southeastern Europe need to receive more help from the rest …

… the world, marshaled unprecedented resources to control and, in some cases, to eradicate infectious diseases. The … In 1953, the doctor who carried out the WHO’s first African TB survey wondered in amazement at “how much the … and wonder drugs. Tuberculosis Hospital in Seoul, South Korea, 1952.  In 1952 Selman Waksman won the Nobel …

… of artists appeared, representing Black sounds from  West Africa to Motown and beyond. These performances are documented in the … gospel crossover hitmakers the Edwin Hawkins Singers, South African bandleader Hugh Masekela’s urgent polyrhythms, …

… Caster Semenya, the South African runner who won the women’s 800-meter race at the … external genitals, internal sex anatomy (ovaries or testes and her hormones and chromosomes. The International …

… women deserved to be full owners of their own citizenship and have the right to exercise that citizenship at the … radical to ask for women's rights along with the rights of African American men. Sarah Paxton For today's episode, I … clear of controversial issues such as Jim Crow laws in the South. Similarly, Alice Paul suggested that the Black …

… Civics quiz: Is and was the United States a) a democracy b) a republic c) … Americas – in British North America and Spanish Mexico, and South Americans who fought independence wars against their … democratic principles of equality and citizenship for African Americans.  Many white southerners, however, opposed …

… Breyfogle, Associate Professor, Department of History and Director of the Goldberg Center; Susan Hartmann, … to tramp down the vote of people of color, particularly African Americans. And so some of those efforts that we saw, … targeting black elected officials down in the deep south. And so one of the consistent themes that we see …

… in Central Asia . It is located between two even larger and much more populous states: Russia to the north and China to the southeast. Once part of the Russian Empire of the tsars and … following days. Ulan’s Nissan 4-wheel-drive SUV. We headed south into dry, almost featureless steppe that resembles …

… of renewal, a celebration of resurrection, lies anciently and deeply embedded in the human spirit. Hunters and … a time of rejuvenated hope. The puebloans of the American Southwest marked the beginning of spring, and the other … had such appeal and staying power that it spread from southern Mexico and Central America into the southwestern …

… be judged by history. The current proximity of his life and his presidency make an objective answer to this question … after the scandals of the Nixon administration. He unified Southerners, laborers, entrepreneurs and religious … his failure to take strong action against South African apartheid and his role in the Iran-Contra scandal …

… an astonishing range of natural areas as well as historic and other cultural sites, are often touted, justifiably, as … Bunny Slippers”: Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota Commander’s key insert to launch missile, … to the Bottom of the (Ancient) Sea: Badlands National Park, South Dakota Various sedimentary rock strata are visible in …

… considered one “game”). The teams had 25 players a side, and to the 100-odd spectators the contest looked more like … Coliseum was built in 1923, where nearby University of South California (USC) played football.  As early as 1926 … equity. Yet for nearly a century the NCAA fought to keep African Americans and women out of intercollegiate sports.  …