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… The consensus among many academics, journalists, and commentators is that Boko Haram is an Islamist organization … the most powerful person in Borno. Muhammad al-Kanami died in 1838, and was succeeded by his sons. The last of … it would reach a widespread and linguistically diverse audience. According to Paul Newman, who is among the foremost …

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … in Ohio, a specialist in Russian and post Soviet studies. Dr. Stephen Norris   Hello. Brenna Miller  In the … Vinas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website …

… antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone … Guard moved on campus and pushed students from the central Commons back toward the dorms. Having done so, the Guard’s … back at the Guard. Some chucked rocks; others jeered the soldiers. Many students described the atmosphere as almost …

… for the political party whose policies promise the best outcome. But if we had any way to make such calculations—if we … a more minimal notion of what politicians and parties can accomplish, and what they ought to be accountable for. The … an unknown who ascended to the presidency when Roosevelt died in 1945. He then accidentally presided over the end of …

… Swat, Pakistan, where he was pursuing a graduate degree in computer engineering. He left seven months ago because he … of other refugees who remain trapped in Serbia. Hungary completed its first razor-wire border fence in September … but for those waiting in limbo time moves slowly and hope dies fast. [All photos by author] …

… sphere of influence. In this context Flavius Dionysius, commander of Rome's eastern military forces and a native of … book that is unique for the field of late antique studies. The book's great strength (and its focus) is its … or those who know nothing of late antiquity) who wants to immerse himself in the world of late antiquity as it was in …

… Ottoman rule for centuries. The Balkan Wars saw atrocities committed against civilians on a massive scale. The … However, the overall impact of these conflicts paled in comparison to the  First World War .  The magnitude of death … Gingko Library, 2023 ) Hans-Lukas Kieser, When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne …

… vaccines and by the concerns raised by now-discredited studies that linked vaccines and autism. And as vaccination … was brought to New England by Cotton Mather and Zabdiel Boylston in 1721. Following the development of … child as a man stands outside with a cow (from the Wellcome Trust). The term vaccination comes from variolae …

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in Beijing’s … But even those who survived would remember that they studied to “save the nation” ( jiuguo ). The students of 1989 … To this day the judgment of the Party stands: PLA soldiers were martyred suppressing “counterrevolutionary …

… is not quite as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. It is also the second-most densely populated … and a Leninist party structure in 1924 (the year before Sun died), the KMT under Chiang Kai-shek's leadership ran a … 27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988. As a teenager, he studied communism and engineering in the Soviet Union, and …

… a million people. South Dakota, the stories revealed, had become the “Cayman Islands of the Heartland.” As unlikely as … influence and 78 for drug-related offenses. Eleven people died; two were murdered. In response Sturgis residents … knew some local women were comfortable commodifying their bodies to make some extra cash. She was most assuredly not: “I …

… about nuclear weapons and who has them? How did the U.S. become so central in efforts to control them? And how can past … of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and chair of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at … Vinas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website …

… lives or the devastation it has brought on families and communities across the nation. The historical origins of … James Baldwin, who described white officers as occupying soldiers. “Their very presence is an insult, and it would be, … Trayvon Martin  was shot and killed in Florida by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who believed he was …

… narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … fragmented sloppily across digital tape, could never die; that the notion of an inescapable past was somehow … forced to settle for “sectoral” or patchwork policy remedies that regulated different industries such as banking or …

… the elevator. (Photo Credit, AP)  In late July 2014, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also handed Rice a two game … closest to God, could use physical violence to punish disobedient wives, children, or servants. In Puritan society and … home, especially violence that was meant to control “disobedient” wives, was acceptable persisted. This idea, combined …

… I’ve read about it, 1968 was quite a year. Writers have compared it to the most dramatic moments in modern history— … against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. ( left ). A soldier standing guard in Washington, D.C. after riots … stone and concrete plaza awash with blood and to the bodies stacked in adjacent building hallways. The army …

… cloud was detected over Sweden did the full extent become known to the authorities in the Soviet Union’s capital … for “nature”: humans or radioactivity? Some scientific studies indicate an abundance of wild life, especially large … Jim Green, “Chernobyl - how many died?” The Ecologist , 26th April 2014 …

… Union. Nearly three years, later, however, the final outcome of Brexit remains uncertain. And issues that affect the … changed? What were the political and economic forces that compelled the UK to join the EU in the first place? What … Dream? , Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace , and The EU: Past, Present, and Future . ( …

… many friendly moments as well. These constructive episodes complicate a history that is often painted as invariably … alliance was the historic meeting of Soviet and American soldiers on the Elbe River in Germany on April 25, 1945. The … where they spent two weeks in 1983. Unfortunately, Smith died in a tragic plane crash in 1985, but her letter set the …

… and the Equal Rights Amendment being well on its way to becoming the newest tenant of the US Constitution. But it was … Depression and big families could live on dad's single income in the new suburbs, most women didn't have to work. … feminist movements ERA momentum had stalled. The ERA was immersed in conflict, in no small part due to the rapid …

… are also experiencing moderate to severe drought, and this comes on the heels of a very dry decade. This long drought … we are experiencing now. Long dry stretches during the Medieval centuries (especially between 900 and 1350 CE) had … outermost rings of the tree stumps showed that these trees died approximately 4,800 years ago. Decades later, more …

… RSF as terrorists. Yasir al-Atta, the Sudanese army deputy commander, said in an interview on August 3, 2024, that the … of resources, the Arabian Peninsula would at times become over-populated. This led to mass migrations across the … Sudanese writer al-Sadiq al Raziqui wrote on Al-Jazeera’s website that mercenaries returning from  Yemen in 2019 were …