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… 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 …

… 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 …

… completed, the United States now enters a more difficult and dangerous phase of combat. Repeatedly, President Bush … to the overthrow of the pro-United States government in South Vietnam. Bush has also asked the American people to … In 1965, Johnson made an open-ended commitment to support South Vietnam without a clear means to achieve victory or an …

… of the XXIX Olympiad. Olympic officials, on the other hand, speak piously of keeping politics out of sports … even helped them to formulate their complaint. Twenty-eight African teams refused to participate in Montreal's 1976 … the New Zealand Rugby team's earlier tour of apartheid South Africa, some walking out of Olympic housing after the …

… As the struggle between members of the Standing Rock Reservation and their allies against the Dakota … fields in western North Dakota, to an oil storage center in South Central Illinois. The pipeline was approved several … fights. My goodness, you had the copper mining in on the southwest. And you have just recently you had up in the …

… worse now. Nearly half of America's wage-earners are female and they're suffering proportionately from the economic … Women made up only one-sixth of WPA workers. The African-American and Mexican-American women who received … Women, they believed, merely earned "pin money," while African-American and Mexican-American families could make do …

… But does the presumed danger of smallpox justify the risks and costs of vaccination? It’s hard to tell. Because … worse severity.Ý An epidemic among the Griqua nation in South Africa in 1831 was reported to have caused mortality rates …

… This is a book to argue with.  For political junkies and arm-chair pundits, this is the sort of book that you … worst – as when offering tortured condemnations of white Southern violence while simultaneously defending the notions … Federal authority seems only to come to a boil when African American civil rights are involved.  Goldwater …

… of our electoral system,” he told the Washington Post, “and believe we need to improve it.” With former Secretary of … awareness and raise funds for the nations devastated by the Southeast Asia tsunami. Roles for former presidents are not … public awareness of critical issues such as starvation in Africa or head up commissions on, say, the future of Social …