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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 …
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. …
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 …
Barack Obama was inaugurated at the United States Capitol on January 20, 2009.

The Strong Wind at His Back

… 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 …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. exiting a plane in 1964.

King in Time; King in time

… 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 …
Richard and Mildred Loving in June, 1967.

At the Movies: "The Loving Cup"

… “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 …

Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective

… 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 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

Black Woodstock: The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

… 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, …