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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 perhaps most importantly, will we ever be able to quit?  … prologues today's discussions of drug use, abuse, and legalization. Panel: Dr. Isaac Peter Campos , Associate …
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. …
Afar community animal health worker describing the appearance and characteristics of rinderpest in cattle (photo credit: ILRI/Jeff Mariner).

The Second Disease Eradication: Rinderpest

… thanks to an incredible demonstration of global solidarity, and because it had a safe and effective vaccine .” … a disease of imperialism, aided in its movement across Africa and Asia by new technologies and networks of … Eritrea ) in 1887. The disease quickly spread eastward and southward. A horrific famine followed in its wake. “The …
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
… 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 … Between Black and White …
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 attended an historically and predominately white public university. She considers how … her indigenous ways of knowing, being and becoming. She is Southern Ute and holds dear the Native proverb, "Listen with …
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. …
Israeli soldiers stand around their tanks during the Yom Kippur War.

The Yom Kippur War and the OPEC Oil Embargo

… 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 visiting American troops in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day, 1990.

Selling Iraq with the Wrong Pitch

… 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.   …
Cover of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui.

Forces of Good and Evil

Review of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… 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 …
KKK Rally

From Dixie to the Third Reich

Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
… 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 …
The historic Floyd County Courthouse in Rome, Georgia.

Marcus Dixon or Strom Thurmond: Which Is the Predator?

… 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 …
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq

Iraq's 1920 Revolution

… 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 …

Original Origins

… 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 …