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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 …
Portrait of Francisco Franco in 1964 from Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa

The Death of Franco

… the Fallen. Built by the Francoist regime during the 1940s and 1950s with the forced-labor of thousands of political … Franco and other Spanish officers from the colonial Army of Africa staged a failed right-wing military coup against the … same time, three million Spaniards migrated from the rural south to the industrial north, where they broke the …
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 flag of the World Health Organization, founded in 1948, flies over the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Tuberculosis and the Optimism of Biomedicine

… the world, marshaled unprecedented resources to control and, in some cases, to eradicate infectious diseases. The … In 1953, the doctor who carried out the WHO’s first African TB survey wondered in amazement at “how much the … and wonder drugs. Tuberculosis Hospital in Seoul, South Korea, 1952.  In 1952 Selman Waksman won the Nobel …
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, …
Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia, 1819.

The United States: Democracy or Republic?

… 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 …
Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Election 2020: Insights from History

… Breyfogle, Associate Professor, Department of History and Director of the Goldberg Center; Susan Hartmann, … Clay Howard, Associate Professor, Department of History; and Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor, Department of … targeting black elected officials down in the deep south. And so one of the consistent themes that we see …
Image of Adonis on a red-figure squat lekythos.

Easter: A Season of Renewal

… 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 …
 Reagan in 1982.

Measuring Reagan for Greatness

… 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 …
Various sedimentary rock strata are visible in many areas of Badlands National Park.

Ten Moments of Insight in America’s National Parks

… 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 …
NCAA Basketball championship banners.

The Big Business of “Amateur” Intercollegiate Sports

… 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.  …

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 …
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 …
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 …

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” … Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now …

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 …