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… 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, …

… 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 …

… James G. Stahlman Chair in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. Cowie has written extensively on American economic, racial, cultural, and political history, and is the author most recently of The Great Exception: The … 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. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …