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… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …