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Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

… fought between allies of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, to the globalization and economic … the most at the ready, they were being encouraged by international donor community to scale back.   Dr. Jesse Kwiek   …
A photograph from the tumultuous German-Czech border in 1938 during World War II. The Sudetenland had long been a hotspot of contact between the two groups.

The Space In Between

Review of Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands: Migration, Environment, and Health in the Former Sudetenland, by Eagle Glassheim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
… Europeans are certainly familiar with national borders. Across the 20 th century borders have been … perhaps the biggest issue tearing at the fabric of European union . Europeans might be less familiar with the concept of … or “liquidation” of Germans forcing them abroad to Soviet and American occupied Germany. In a more concrete …
Infamous photograph of German soldiers rounding up Jews for deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943.

Weathering the Storm: Wartime Lives of Ordinary People

Review of An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler, by Peter Fritzsche (New York: Basic Books, 2016)
… they perceived themselves as individuals caught up in the National Socialist storm. He is interested in those who … Fritzsche’s fascinating discussion of Swiss perceptions of National Socialist aggression is mentioned in the …

The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking

… published a report detailing the failure of global and national illicit-drugs policies and urging a fundamental … surgeries. In the years that followed, a booming international market emerged for coca and medicinal cocaine. The … Peruvian liberal elites praised cocaine as a viable, national industry. Placing cocaine at the heart of Peruvian …

Good Guys and Bad Guys with Guns: Gun Control in Canada and the U.S.

… Corporal Nathan Cirillo, part of the honor guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. He then burst into the … “has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government.” In other words, states were largely … to kill at such high rates. Canada did not begin compiling national crime statistics until the 1920s when the homicide …
Pamphlet of "Virginia Women Opposed to Suffrage"

Equal Suffrage Awaits Trial (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 3)

… level amendments encouraged hope in the suffragists. The National American Woman Suffrage Association, or NAWSA, had … activism as well. Alice Paul took over the Congressional Union Committee of NAWSA and staged the 1913 March on … together and found the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and they organize strikes and marches and again for …
In Mauritania, Aissata Abdoul Diop shows how the maize ears have dried in the drought stricken garden, 2012. 

Hunger Is Not Eradicated: The Food Crisis in Africa

… in food crisis—desert locusts, supply chains, seeds, international food standards, and so on—as part of a campaign to … government in Mogadishu is reluctant to ask for international aid because it does not want to discourage … Africa and South Asia.   As we enter 2023, the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement (IRCRCM) warns that …
U.S. Supreme Court building.

Tearing Down the “Wall of Separation between Church and State”

… opportunities to debate the proper role of  religion in national politics.  But "the wall of separation between … Baptist Association why he refrained from proclaiming national days of fasting and thanksgiving, Jefferson wrote … champion of religious liberty, James Madison — proclaimed national days of thanksgiving, fasting, and prayer. And even …
"We the People" Inscription located on the facade of the National Constitution Center.

How Europe Might Learn from American Constitution-Making

… their votes and make their state the 11th member of the new union. Then laggards North Carolina and Rhode Island finally … History News Service … Europe … Legal history … Global/Transnational … How Europe Might Learn from American …
John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams: An Example for Our Times

… duty, above all, to effect mental, moral, and national improvement. Commitment to improvement of self and … that the South’s “peculiar institution” threatened national progress, Adams fought the gag rule unsparingly … until the gag was finally repealed in 1844. If only the national conversation–why not, in the spirit of Adams, a …
Reagan in 1982.

Exit Gen. Grant – Enter St. Ronald?

… Saving the Union by defeating the Confederate army and being elected … want to be reminded that Richard Nixon tried to create a national health care system.   No, the current Republican … watched the Kremlin used to study photographs of official Soviet events to see which Communist Party members were …
A map showing China and the United States

Another Cold War? China This Time?

… Largely with that objective, Christian groups, trade unions, and politicians, including presidential hopefuls … guarded trains, mines, and other facilities for the Chinese Nationalists, who were then fighting the founders of today’s … & Southeast Asia … China … United States … Diplomacy/International Relations … Another Cold War? China This Time? …
a couple on their wedding day

Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

… after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: … after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed—from meeting and courtship to … after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe. …

Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones

… securing a second term, Obama appeared at Fort McNair’s National Defense University to launch a public discussion … and slow” by comparison. Months later, Spaatz predicted the Soviets had “improved on the German buzz bomb” capable of … attack by the Warsaw Pact.” By 1991, the year of the Soviet Union’s collapse, fictional drones were once again …
Coach Bob Knight holding a chair

Bob Knight: A Latter-Day MacArthur?

… rages. Brand was criticized for his rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was … won victory in the Pacific, Knight coached Indiana to three national titles and eleven Big Ten championships. But in the … rating him a page-one story in The New York Times and a national interview on ESPN. In support of Knight, students …
Unification council of Orthodox Church in Ukraine, 2018.

The Religious Roots of the War in Ukraine

… grounds. In 1596, the Ruthenian bishops signed the Union of Brest. The resulting Uniate church accepted Roman … Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) in 1921.   Soviet antireligious policies crippled church structures and … both Orthodox and Catholics claim the mantel of being the national faith.  The Catholics participate in the universal …
Minaret Islam Khoja in Khiva

A Postcard from Khiva, Uzbekistan

… medieval Islamic world. Abu Raihan al-Biruni depicted on a Soviet postage stamp. Many of the scholars who worked at the … 150 years before the region became incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Khorezm Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1920s, …
Photo of A. Mitchell Palmer, a congressman from Pennsylvania who later became the U.S. Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson.

Cracking Down on Dissent

… a private institution; the student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; and four members of pacifist groups … With the onset of the Cold War, genuine apprehensions about Soviet power and the widespread fears it engendered prepared … back in the courts, as the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild in Albuquerque have …
President JFK giving an address on civil rights in June, 1963.

A President Who Was Still Growing

… By issuing such a challenge, he inspired a strong sense of national purpose and pride, especially among young … invasion led to a critically dangerous showdown with the Soviet Union over Cuba, while his continued support of South …
President George W. Bush shakes hands with China's President Hu Jintao following his visit and meeting Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, with the Chinese leader at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leaders compound in Beijing.

What Open Skies Can Do For Chinese-American Relations

… in the American arsenal. The United States, Canada, the Soviet Union and other European nations began in 1989 to discuss … East Asia & Southeast Asia … United States … Diplomacy/International Relations … What Open Skies Can Do For …
Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.

Japan’s Meiji Restoration

… conscript army, launched new industries, and established a national education system, all under the slogan “rich … and a constitutional monarchy modeled on Prussia. It held national elections, seated a national parliament, and transformed Japanese social and …