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… drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout … emotional support of Virginia’s ban on cross-burning. The incoming governor of Georgia meanwhile ponders whether to … the wrath of his neo-Confederate supporters. Such ghostly visitations are hardly new in a region whose history is …

… over Confederate monuments. How do these two trends in commemorating our nation’s past relate to one anther? What … Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together a … Jim Crow, and continued inequality that should also be revisited?   Dr. Sarah Gardner  Public schools, street names …

… the Cold War was at its peak, and the Soviet Union had become Cuba’s patron, pouring billions annually into its … year Pope John Paul II changed the picture. In an historic visit to Cuba, he criticized the embargo, thus encouraging … movement in the U.S. to end it. Shortly after the Papal visit, Secretary of State Albright hurried to Miami to …

… history, from native New Yorkers to those who hope to visit one day.” You can find recent Bowery Boys Podcast episodes here . (For older shows, visit “ The Bowery Boys Archive: The Early Years ” on … Boys Podcast also maintains a blog at boweryboyshistory.com , which serves as an additional resource for listeners, …

… Fidel Castro is not exactly welcoming the new president of the United States with open … Richard Nixon. But Nixon surprised almost everybody by visiting China and meeting with its leaders. In many ways … Clinton, after all, opposed the war in Vietnam, had visited Russia in the 1970s, and had close ties to China — …

… the term “New Cold War” has mushroomed among analysts and commentators seeking to define contemporary geopolitics. … rapprochement with the US. Nixon, after all, famously visited the country in 1972; the Shanghai Communique was signed during this visit. Calling for normalization in diplomatic relations …

… Yet there's every reason to believe that the president's visit, even coupled with European sanctions, will not … to Iran in 2007. Switzerland's Swiss EGL energy trading company recently completed a forty-two billion dollar … leaders said the right things on President Bush's recent visit, it remains to be seen if Europeans will carry through …

… been interwoven with human history. Although the data are incomplete, over 170 volcanic eruptions have been recorded in … of almost 10% per year since 2000. The number of annual visitors doubled between 2000 and 2010, when half a million people visited the island. At this rate, Iceland’s Tourism Board …

… noted that work on the largest mosque in the city had been completed just before his arrival, but Timur ordered its … of Clavijo and the party of other ambassadors who he accompanied to the cosmopolitan city provoked mild interest, … here to Hajji Muhammad al-Qazi, a Chagatai courtier who had visited the court of Castile in Toledo several years …

… 2009, with events sponsored by national and state "Lincoln Commissions," and because of the remarkable presidential … like a badge of honor. So now that the Darwin Year has come to a close, I want to review the difficult reception … exhibits a certain degree of variation, he proposed that competition over resources and breeding would tend to favor, …

… to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … spirit as well. In this book, Koistinen explains how that complex (he abbreviates it MIC) came to be and how it has … $7.5 trillion on nuclear weapons, but when he takes us to visit warehouses full of mothballed tanks, Koistinen points …

… survive in a changing world. The movie revolves around a visit by King George V and Queen Mary to Downton Abbey. … of Independence. While this central plot about the royal visit venerates the preservation of the traditional order, … its effects: “My maid was rather curt with me, but she is a Communist at heart.” Mounted police clear demonstrators from …

… of Florida, yet American citizens have been restricted from visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the … the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: … off from any new American products. The Kennedys no longer visited the Tropicana, the 1950s Ford Fairlane would be one …

… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … trustee critical of Brand's action invoked a pointed comparison: "President Truman fired General MacArthur.  … "his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." He visited New York City, where 7.5 million people gathered to …

… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … has had a murky, even “schizophrenic,” view of its commitment to the world’s dispossessed. Although the United … circumstances, wishing to return home. Eleanor Roosevelt visits Hungarian Freedom Fighters in Salzburg, Austria, …

… dot the landscape and stand beside opera houses and statues commemorating prominent figures of German cultural heritage. … gradually become taller and more imposing the deeper the visitor wanders into the center. Berliners respect what the … as a place on which to rest or play, which often confuses visitors who are unsure about the appropriate boundaries for …

… birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … Persia. The Jewish and Arabic traditions relate Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and his founding of cities. In the Jewish … by swearing to obey Jehovah. Yet the story of Alexander's visit to Jerusalem is certainly fiction, and he did not at …