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… the legal framework for the nation, was written in 1787 and wasn’t finally ratified until 1788.) But never mind. … in a celebration of a shared history. “No North, No South, No East, No West,” one Centennial slogan had it: “The … home to nurse their Confederate grievances. In truth, Southerners might have been more comfortable in Philadelphia …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… 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 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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, …

… globe. Exhibitions, concerts, performances, book readings, and film screenings captured the ideological message of each … cultural contacts of small Bulgaria from the British Museum and NYC’s Metropolitan to New Lexington, Ohio, to Mexico City, New Delhi, and Lagos. Panel: Nicholas Breyfogle  | Associate Professor, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 … Amanda Lawson …

… 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 … Pandemics & COVID-19 …

… “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 … Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900 …

… 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 …