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Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America

… 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 …
Unification council of Orthodox Church in Ukraine, 2018.

The Religious Roots of the War in Ukraine

… 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 …
Capture of the Pirate Blackbeard, 1718 depicting the battle between Blackbeard and Robert Maynard in Ocracoke Bay; romanticized depiction by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris from 1920.

Why Piracy Remains a Threat

… 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 …

Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now

… 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” …

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… 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 …
Restored color photo of President Rutherford B. Hayes.

Will an Eighteenth-Century Election System Paralyze America in the Twenty-First Century?

… 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 …

Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts

… 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, …
Abraham Lincoln Campaign Poster 1860

"Great God, What does it Mean?" - Lee's Escape at Williamsport

… 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 …

From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American "Elite"

… 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. …
Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944

The Liberation of Paris

… 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 American Dream after COVID-19

… 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 …

Two Popes and a Primate: The Changing Face of Global Christianity

… 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 …
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs Book Cover

The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism

Review of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs (Viking Books, 2006)
… 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, …
US Marine Corps during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.

“Operation Mississippi Freedom”: When State-Sponsored Terrorism Was American

… 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, …
Soviet and US Flags

Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War

… 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 …
Nationalist police forces in Barcelona preventing voting in the October 1, 2017 referendum.

Top Ten Origins: Catalonia (Catalunya) and Spain

… 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 …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference in 1964.

Martin Luther King’s True Legacy: Revolutionary Ideals

… ideals rooted in the 18th-century vision of freedom and equality and grounded by a Christian theological vision … created national discomfort in cities, north as well as south, throughout the 1960s. Holding true to his principles … should all be mindful that King carried on the tradition of African American political activism that believed in the …
Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.

Greenland Fantasies

… A good starting point for those seeking to better understand Greenland is Niviaq Korneliussen’s kaleidoscopic … Red—arrived and established settlements on the unoccupied southwestern part of the island around 985 CE.  The … Greenlandic walrus ivory faced competition from superior African and Asian elephant ivory, and demand faded. The …

Human Rights at a Crossroads

… Yet Trump offered a pointed critique of the United Nations, and specifically the Human Rights Council (HRC) and the … audience in Paris, he denounced imperialism—especially in Africa and Southeast Asia. Following the speech, many colonial …

American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

… Washington Post political columnist David Broder puzzled and amused left-leaning portions of the political … began in 1892, as a secondary means of referring to the southern and western political insurgency that actually … being fed corn and wheat by suffering farmers in the south and west and milked by top-hatted, stripey –panted …
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act as MLK and other civil rights leaders look on.

Can today’s candidates revive Martin Luther King’s “shattered dreams”?

… As the civil rights revolution’s most famous strategist and self-proclaimed “symbol,” King stood at the forefront of … agendas. Like Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans and their white allies organized, … income inequality, poverty, voter disaffection, and racial apartheid in housing and education. King’s “shattered …
U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon

Ten Terrorists Attacks in History

… recent attacks in Brussels, Paris, Beirut, San Bernardino, and so many other places around the world are only the most … 2. Irgun: Zionist terrorism Irgun’s bomb collapsed the south wing of the hotel, killing 91 people and injuring 476 … attributed to Hizballah, the Shi’ite militia that dominates southern Lebanon.   The government of Iran  also played a …