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A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan

Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday

… in power: brutal political repression, economic stagnation, and civil war in the country’s west and south. In the end, the huge crowds who took to the streets … Understanding Boko Haram , Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story , and our recent …
A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, 2014. UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID

Sahelian Arabs and their Role in the Sudan War

… the  paramilitary militia Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in 2023.  According to … have fled to neighboring countries such as  Egypt , Chad, South Sudan, and  Uganda .  The warring parties are … tribes of Niger,  Nigeria , Cameroon, Chad, and the Central African Republic. These Arabs are known as Baggara Arabs, …
A Biafran child suffering the effects of starvation due to the federal blockade during the Nigerian Civil War

“No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War

… British colonial rule, Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, collapsed into a civil war. The Nigerian Civil War, … traumatic effects, evident in persistent ethnic animosities and distrust , continues to shape the narrative of Nigerian … European powers at the Berlin Conference. By 1900, most of southern Nigeria had fallen to the British through conquests …

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict

… of a bloody conflict that has led to the death of thousands of people and the displacement of more than two … and caricatured accounts of "Arabs" killing "Black African Muslims." Moreover, much of the coverage tends to … belt. (The Sahel or the Sudanic belt refers to the region south of the Sahara Desert, stretching from the Atlantic …
Photograph of wounded American soldiers during the Korean War.

12/23/2014: Remembering the Korean War

… Sides with Ann Fisher . "By its end, some thirty-six thousand five hundred American troops died fighting the three … Korea in the Nuclear Age … Connecting History … East Asia & Southeast Asia … South Korea … North Korea … Military/War/Peace … 12/23/2014: …
A Memorial to the "Forgotten War" of Korea with the insignias of the United States Uniformed Services ringed around it.

Forgotten War, Tragic Peace

… in a new kind of peacetime: not a time of cooperation and harmony, not a time to change for the better, but only a … Service. … Ira Chernus … History News Service … East Asia & Southeast Asia … Military/War/Peace … North Korea … South Korea … Forgotten War, Tragic Peace …
Person holding sign that reads "Stop Voter Suppression"

From Poll Taxes to Partisan Gerrymandering: Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States

… In a democracy, our political leaders receive their mandate, and the system itself derives its legitimacy, from … come haltingly and unevenly. Even as women gained suffrage, African Americans were kept from the polls in many parts of … research examines race, law and gender in the American South, particularly around disenfranchisement of people who …
Isaac W. Williams (front) in a file photo from the 1960s.

Still Fighting the Civil War in South Carolina

… in Charleston.  Confederate enthusiasts are throwing a grand ball there to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the … with slavery."  He proposes that it is a commemoration of South Carolinians who "stood up for their self-government … displaying a hearse that proclaimed, "Slavery Is Dead."  African Americans in Charleston also built a cemetery for …
Indian troops in Burma, 1944.

A Forgotten Theater of War

Review of India’s War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia, by Srinath Raghavan New York, NY: Basic Books, 2016
… of one of the global powers, there has been a growing demand for more scholarship about the rise of modern India. … India’s War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia examines India’s role in the Second World War, a … of British interests in the Persian Gulf and East Africa. While expecting that the Congress could be made to …
Iraq by Raymond Bucko SJ on Flickr, cc by 2.0

Redeeming Honor — the South and Iraq

… American indifference to Iraqi society and values is proving calamitous. That’s because American … powerfully affect events. With their defeat in 1865, Southerners claimed to have lost all “save honor.” Retaining … hoped to fashion a bi-racial, two-party democracy in the South. Their experiment failed. Occupying the former …

A History of Stolen Citizenship

… rights to ex-felons who had completed their prison sentence and been released from parole or probation, except for those … and regional pattern. These laws disproportionately affect African Americans across the nation and southern states are much more likely to impose long, …
In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman

After Midnight

Review of Midnight’s Descendants: A History of South Asia Since Partition, by John Keay (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
… of his past, of India’s early years of independence, and the upheavals wrought by Partition. It is fitting, … magical realism, Keay’s work examines the history of South Asia from the Partition of British India in 1947 to … in 1992. Despite the bleak portrait of modern South Asian history presented throughout the book, Keay …
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Book Cover.

Hanoi Central

Review of Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012
… of the War for Peace in Vietnam is primarily a political and diplomatic history of the Vietnam War, centered on Hanoi … has spun a diplomatic web that includes North Vietnam, South Vietnam, China, the Soviet Union, the United States, … France, and the Provisional Revolutionary Government in South Vietnam (PRG). Hanoi was at the center of that web. …

A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics

… In early 2013 I took a tour of Corregidor Island, at the mouth of Manila Bay. Our guide ushered us … provide a strategic vantage point over the entrance to the South China Sea. The conversation paused. “Sir,” he said … stressed his commitment to preserving stability in  the South China Sea . Somewhere, I assume, my tour guide …
A photograph of Dr. David Livingstone from 1857.

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire

Review of Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire, by Clare Pettitt (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007)
… During the European exploration and colonization of Africa during the 19th century many … with the intrepid individual braving the wilds of Africa to bring European civilization to the benighted "dark …
Robert F Williams and Mao Zedong

China and the Black Liberation Struggle in America

… From Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., China has a long and complex history of interaction with African American movements for equal rights. Please join … as they discuss Barnes’ research on the history of Chinese-African American interactions from the Civil Rights Movement …
A group of boys at Chirec International School in India playing Cricket, 2015.

Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game

… In June 2024, thousands of people throughout  Afghanistan  took to the streets … billions of fans from nations as diverse as  India ,  South Africa ,  Afghanistan , and Australia.  As much as the 2024 …
Nigerians use phone booth under a poster against Biafran separatists and their leader, General C. Odumegwu Ojuku. 1967.

“No Victor and No Vanquished” - The Biafran War

Barely three years after independence from British colonial rule, Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, collapsed into a civil war.
… the most divisive wars in the history of post-independence Africa. Its traumatic effects, evident in persistent ethnic animosities and distrust, continues to shape the narrative of Nigerian … British colonial rule, Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, collapsed into a civil war. … Ousman Murzik Kobo … …
Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon walking on White House grounds.

Don’t Believe “Peace Is at Hand”

… "Peace is at hand." Americans longed to hear this 35 years ago, when … between the final American troop withdrawal and the final South Vietnamese collapse. Still, his announcement worked. … and govern itself." Nixon defined "peace with honor" as South Vietnam's ability to defend and govern itself. …

All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram

… . . . to break down infidels, practitioners of democracy and constitutionalism, voodoo and those that are doing … of the 19 th century that took place in West and Central Africa, the changes wrought by the British colonial presence … as the Sudanic Belt, encompasses the bio-geographic zone south of the Sahara, stretching from the west Atlantic coast …
 Pinterest Hien Luong Bridge - Ben Hai River, Quang Tri, Vietnam

Vietnam Revisited: Forty Years after the Paris Peace Accord

… commonly dated as beginning in 1965 with American bombing and ground-troop campaigns, U.S. involvement in Viet Nam … leaders who formed the Republic of Viet Nam in the South. This financial and military commitment led to covert … Nam in the North and the National Liberation Front in the South. The Vietnamese call it the U.S. War in Viet Nam or …

Pirates of Puntland, Somalia

… many Americans had heard of Somali pirates, their activity and audacity has been growing for some years. By 2008--after … state of Puntland is located at the very tip of the Horn of Africa, between Somalia to the south and the Somaliland Republic (formerly British …
Zombie scene from the 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead.

Top Ten Origins: Zombies: The Undead Shuffle

… Zombies are everywhere these days—in movies and books; on stage and television. They lurk in the shadows … of our contemporary fascination with zombies begins in Africa and continues through Haiti and Hollywood. Here are … Africa. There is also a strong connection to West and South African cultural traditions that included zombie-like …