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… 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 …

… 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 …

… worse now. Nearly half of America's wage-earners are female and they're suffering proportionately from the economic … Women made up only one-sixth of WPA workers. The African-American and Mexican-American women who received … Women, they believed, merely earned "pin money," while African-American and Mexican-American families could make do …

… 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 …

… of our electoral system,” he told the Washington Post, “and believe we need to improve it.” With former Secretary of … awareness and raise funds for the nations devastated by the Southeast Asia tsunami. Roles for former presidents are not … public awareness of critical issues such as starvation in Africa or head up commissions on, say, the future of Social …

… in response to changing political circumstances, but Andrew Johnson, who followed Lincoln in the White House, was … Tennessee in the Congress, showed too much sympathy for southern interests. They complained that he would not … vetoes and enacted their own plan for reconstruction of the South. Andrew Johnson’s obstinacy had weakened him greatly, …