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… 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 …

… that seasonal influenza had reached an epidemic level and the number of cases of flu has continued to rise since. … began in Asia during the summer months, spread quickly to Africa and then into Europe along trade routes from Asia … through North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Brazil and the South Pacific. A shortage of physicians, especially in the …

… nominee has long since been determined by state primaries and caucuses, and his or her running mate has already been … of Texas , however, made him unacceptable to many southerners and expansionists. They managed to stop him by … themselves. By 1860, however, this was insufficient for southern Democrats, who demanded pro-slavery positions in …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… puzzles the punditocracy, since they are clearly so riven and disorganized? The implicit answer, at least in much … that included labor unions, the elderly, urban ethnics, African Americans and white Southern conservatives. Strange bedfellows indeed. Far from …

… history—a past often animated by the meeting between Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans in the Americas. The idea that diseases such … Native communities in the Americas much more than their African, Asian, and European counterparts? Alfred Crosby …

… “Hands up, don’t shoot!” Demonstrators chanted these words at … visible tragedy – the frequent death of young and unarmed African Americans at the hands of white police. An August … was urine testing on Vietnam veterans returning from Southeast Asia. The War on Crime had transformed into the …

… American eyes have been riveted on North Africa and the Middle East these past months. The popular protests … a huge pool of petroleum at Masjid al-Suleiman in southwestern Iran, and the future of that country was …

… Midwestern town. Snippets of King’s most famous speeches and pictures of his head, crafted from brown and black … The U.S. government took little interest in protecting African-Americans until the Civil War . In … The abrupt withdrawal of federal rights enforcement in the South by 1877 left a ripe environment for legislated hate …

… December 18, 2011, some 500 U.S. soldiers at Camp Adder in southern Iraq boarded 110 military vehicles and drove off quietly into the night, without having … On heightened alert, the convoy maneuvered steadily to the south and reached the border of Kuwait some five hours …

… both parties represent the same conservative consensus and compete with each other over patronage and personality. … majority," based on a strategy of appealing to the white South and suburban lower middle classes. In response, the Democrats developed their own version of Nixon's Southern strategy, turning to post-segregation …

… A great deal of ink—and much blood—has been spilled during the current “ refugee … To be sure, many people, particularly in the global South, who are not refugees suffer from poverty, … To this European total we should add at least 15 million in South Asia. One million Palestinians became refugees in 1948 …

… to the guidebook prepared for each passenger, Tim Bryars and Tom Harper’s A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 … and Palestine/ Israel , and completely ignore the rest of Africa and Southeast Asia. The book is surprisingly silent even on the …

… the higher latitudes in substantial numbers around 1200 CE and who have left their imprint on the region ever since. … rather than simply foreshadowing weather patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect … de Man (1639). In the early 1600s, as ships from the south plied the Greenland and Barents seas in search of …

… forces, ostensibly annexed to the Russian Federation, and one epicenter of an international conflict over Ukraine … create a second warmer and sunnier climate zone along the south coast of the Black Sea, where lush tourist resorts … the city-state of Genoa) took control of trade along the south coast of Crimea for two hundred years. Crimean Tatars, …

… home was both my parents' largest financial burden and their greatest asset, as it is for so many Americans, … policies kept many potential homeowners, particularly African Americans, from being able to acquire one, … history." Put more simply, instead of creditors rejecting African-American and women borrowers because of race or …

… Join hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy for part one of a two-segment History … here at Ohio State. My research is primarily related to African American women. But I teach courses that sort of … Civil Rights Movement, Black Power movement, 20th century African American History Month, generally, but specifically …

… Sept. 11, “terrorism” has become the new American watchword and scourge. Yet as George W. Bush declares a “war on … Palestinian and Irish nationalists, Marxist cabals in Africa and Latin America. By the 1960s, the killing of … Palestinian grievances. Like such contemporaneous groups as South Africa’s African National Congress, the PLO’s goals …

… conspiracy theories, rising from the strange circumstances and seemingly inexplicable actions surrounding it. Only one … the Soviet Union over Cuba, while his continued support of South Vietnam resulted in the initial American casualties in … unleashed on school children who voluntarily joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to protest …

… 19th Amendment the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences hosted a conversation with a panel of experts. … followed by Jim Crow laws, which essentially disenfranchise African American men who had just recently been enfranchised … of the 19th amendment, and black women tried to vote in the south and were turned away, some of them came to the …

… India and Pakistan. North Korea. Possibly Israel. And now Iran. … Sure enough, these predictions were realized, and now South Asia lives in constant danger of nuclear … officials are fearing a similar domino effect. South Korea, Japan or Taiwan could be forced to develop …