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… 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 …

… A great deal of ink—and much blood—has been spilled during the current “ refugee … To be sure, many people, particularly in the global South, who are not refugees suffer from poverty, … To this European total we should add at least 15 million in South Asia. One million Palestinians became refugees in 1948 …

… to the guidebook prepared for each passenger, Tim Bryars and Tom Harper’s A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 … and Palestine/ Israel , and completely ignore the rest of Africa and Southeast Asia. The book is surprisingly silent even on the … of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps , by Tim Bryars and Tom Harper (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, …

… the higher latitudes in substantial numbers around 1200 CE and who have left their imprint on the region ever since. … rather than simply foreshadowing weather patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect … de Man (1639). In the early 1600s, as ships from the south plied the Greenland and Barents seas in search of …

… forces, ostensibly annexed to the Russian Federation, and one epicenter of an international conflict over Ukraine … create a second warmer and sunnier climate zone along the south coast of the Black Sea, where lush tourist resorts … the city-state of Genoa) took control of trade along the south coast of Crimea for two hundred years. Crimean Tatars, …

… home was both my parents' largest financial burden and their greatest asset, as it is for so many Americans, … policies kept many potential homeowners, particularly African Americans, from being able to acquire one, … history." Put more simply, instead of creditors rejecting African-American and women borrowers because of race or …

… Join hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy for part one of a two-segment History … they interview Ohio State historians Stephanie Shaw and Hasan Jeffries about their work renovating the National … here at Ohio State. My research is primarily related to African American women. But I teach courses that sort of …

… Sept. 11, “terrorism” has become the new American watchword and scourge. Yet as George W. Bush declares a “war on … Palestinian and Irish nationalists, Marxist cabals in Africa and Latin America. By the 1960s, the killing of … Palestinian grievances. Like such contemporaneous groups as South Africa’s African National Congress, the PLO’s goals …

… conspiracy theories, rising from the strange circumstances and seemingly inexplicable actions surrounding it. Only one … the Soviet Union over Cuba, while his continued support of South Vietnam resulted in the initial American casualties in … unleashed on school children who voluntarily joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to protest …

… India and Pakistan. North Korea. Possibly Israel. And now Iran. … Sure enough, these predictions were realized, and now South Asia lives in constant danger of nuclear … officials are fearing a similar domino effect. South Korea, Japan or Taiwan could be forced to develop …

… completed, the United States now enters a more difficult and dangerous phase of combat. Repeatedly, President Bush … to the overthrow of the pro-United States government in South Vietnam. Bush has also asked the American people to … In 1965, Johnson made an open-ended commitment to support South Vietnam without a clear means to achieve victory or an …

… of the XXIX Olympiad. Olympic officials, on the other hand, speak piously of keeping politics out of sports … even helped them to formulate their complaint. Twenty-eight African teams refused to participate in Montreal's 1976 … the New Zealand Rugby team's earlier tour of apartheid South Africa, some walking out of Olympic housing after the …

… As the struggle between members of the Standing Rock Reservation and their allies against the Dakota Access Pipeline … relations with the U.S. government. Hosts Jessica Blissit and Brenna Miller and guests David Nichols ,  Christine … fields in western North Dakota, to an oil storage center in South Central Illinois. The pipeline was approved several …

… But does the presumed danger of smallpox justify the risks and costs of vaccination? It’s hard to tell. Because … worse severity.Ý An epidemic among the Griqua nation in South Africa in 1831 was reported to have caused mortality rates … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine …

… This is a book to argue with.  For political junkies and arm-chair pundits, this is the sort of book that you … worst – as when offering tortured condemnations of white Southern violence while simultaneously defending the notions … Federal authority seems only to come to a boil when African American civil rights are involved.  Goldwater …

… freeing slaves in rebellious regions of the Confederacy and authorizing the enlistment of black soldiers in the … The 14 th and 15 th Amendments of 1868 and 1870 gave African American men citizenship status and the right to vote, but African American women did not receive the vote until all …

… on such important ideas as justice, communal violence, and political legitimacy. Like any civil war, the conflict … codifying Creek law, building private plantations with African slave labor, and centralizing Creek leadership on a … could secure a future for Creek people in the American South. A Creek man named Little Warrior viewed change …

… On March 22, 2017, Nevada became the 36 th state and the first state in 40 years to ratify the Equal Rights … left ). Envoys of the National Woman’s Party in Rapid City, South Dakota traveling to a meeting with President Calvin … the ways that race and gender intersect—for example, were African American women to be considered as women, or as …

… it began the 20th, by revisiting the debate on immigration and its impact on American cultural identity. The general … large scale industrialization got underway, immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe provided cheap and abundant … American industrial machine. The numbers of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe pouring into Ellis Island were …