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… 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.  …

… the price of a cheap car. Pick up a paper these days and you almost invariably see some mention of Detroit's … 1960s it was a festering wound cutting across the city. African Americans had come to Detroit in the first half of … embraced racial separation. And if, by some chance, an African-American family slipped past all the discriminatory …

… States dodged a bullet last week when American sailors and Navy Seals foiled Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. … policy. That’s exactly what happened 200 years ago, when African pirates last held Americans for ransom.   Back then the culprits were from the Barbary coast of North Africa, not Somalia. But like today’s Somalis the North …

… Church (ROC) called on God to “preserve the Russian land… the land which now includes Russia and Ukraine and … the political and religious histories of the northern and southern Rus territories diverged. The south-west and south-east lands, including Kyiv, were …

… nothing here...I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American … colony along with Canada , Australia , New Zealand , South Africa , Israel , and others. Let’s return to the “opening” …

… river. The priest, a tall figure with shoulder-length hair and a beard, intoned a hymn and the pilgrims joined in, … one third of the country’s annual water requirements. South of Lake Tiberias, the Lower Jordan River covers a … Peace Treaty with Israel in 1994. Israelis have no access south of the Yarmouk River, while Palestinians can only …

… presumably loyal to their parties, to represent their candidates. While the names of the Electors are not usually … challenged nineteen electoral votes in Louisiana, South Carolina and, yes, Florida. With charges of fraud … last time that political agreements rested on the backs of African Americans. Given the closely divided Congress that …

… Darwin a happy 200th birthday. They did so through symposia and conferences, exhibits and television specials, books and … Americans did, which put the United States slightly behind South Africa. In addition, roughly the same number of Americans, …

… Perhaps the most moving and iconic moment in American military history is the Battle … successes at Vicksburg and tipped the scales in favor of Southern slaveholding independence. By mid-1863, the … swept westward through the Cashtown and Fairfield gaps in South Mountain toward the Potomac. Back at Gettysburg, Meade …

… may say a great deal about your political point of view and the cultural assumptions that undergird them. President … the right to vote in all sorts of ways. Most infamously, Southern states made it effectively impossible for African Americans to vote between the 1870s and the 1960s. …

… a week of guerilla combat between Resistance fighters and the occupying German troops, General Philippe Leclerc’s … hall], with red and blue rockets answering them in the south and west. It was the signal. The first tanks of … which was composed largely of soldiers drawn from France’s African colonies. Three African soldiers in the Free French …

… The COVID-19 pandemic has brought widespread changes to the United States … of the privileged. Displaced Natives and enslaved African Americans lived with the cruelest opposite of the … environmental impact of those human dreams. A stop sign in Southeastern Ohio spray-painted in opposition to constant …

… The unexpected and nearly unprecedented resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, … to lands across the globe, including the Americas, Africa, Australia, and India. As these colonies became … liberal in matters of gender and sexuality, those in the southern hemisphere (especially Africa) evince great …

… County, California. The Humboldt River. All these places, and undoubtedly more besides, were named to honor a German … at least, from Europe – corners of the world, including South America and Siberia, resulted in a number of highly … in the world, running north along the western coast of South America, also bears Humboldt's name. By one estimate, …

… of civil rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman focuses attention on an era, only four … The use of military force to improve the situation of African Americans had been tried a century before, in the … two attempts to achieve analogous results in the American South. The total number of people killed in the nonviolent, …

… globe. Exhibitions, concerts, performances, book readings, and film screenings captured the ideological message of each … at cultural contacts in the West, but also in the Global South, and to try to think about both the manifestations but … were organized in Asia alone, but also in Latin America, in Africa, in Arab states, right, so this was a very ambitious …

… independent country from Spain, triggering confusion, fear, and demonstrations in the streets. Why did Catalonians vote … autonomous regions/cities in the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean. Each region governs itself, … Muslim invaders swept the peninsula, attacking cities in southern France. By 760, the Franks began pushing the Arab …