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U.S. soldiers walking across a field during the Vietnam War.

A New War Like — Vietnam?

… 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 …

Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present

… 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 …
President Barack Obama signed the ARRA into law on February 17, 2009. Vice President Joe Biden stood directly behind him.

A New New Deal Must Be For All

… 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 …
Immunization poster from the early 1940s that says, " Immunization: Saves Lives," and shows a child receiving a vaccination.

Voluntary Vaccination: Deciding the Risk of Unknowable Danger

… 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 …
Cover of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History by David Farber.

The Far Right Stuff

Review of The Rise and Fall of Modern Conservatism, by David Farber (Princeton University Press, 2010)
… 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 …
Former President Jimmy Carter

Putting Ex-Presidents Back to Work

… 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 …
emancipation illustration from Harper's Weekly

President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 150 years ago

… 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 …

Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now

… 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 …
Immigrants on ocean steamer passing the Statue of Liberty, New York City, 1887.

Strangers in the Land: An Old Theme Replayed

… 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 …
President bush delivers remarks in 2008

President Bush at His — and Our — Crossroads

… 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, …
Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.

President’s Commission on Race a Failure

… it success. They had hoped that commission members’ resolve and wisdom would move attention away from white and black … John Hope Franklin, the nation’s most distinguished African-American historian. Even he became trapped in old … been aroused by an escalation of racial violence in the South. And in both cases a strong president, committed to …
Cover of Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith.

Between the East and the West

Review of Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present, by Christopher I. Beckwith (Princeton University Press 2009)
… Though Eurasia is the world's largest unified landmass, Eurasian history has traditionally been marked by … had long coexisted, but after de Gama's circumnavigation of southern Africa, the littoral system developed into an independent …

Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future

… as an affirmation of the right to self-determination, and sparked massive celebrations by Kosovan Albanians. On … disputes across the globe in places like Kashmir, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Kurdistan, and Taiwan. [For … please see the recent Origins articles on Taiwan and South Ossetia/Georgia .] Other analysts turned to the past …

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville

… aware that American Neo-Nazis, white supremacists , and others affiliated with the so-called “alt-right” are … virtuous of Americans, dressed in a Roman toga. In 1867, African American sculptor Edmonia Lewis used neoclassical … a classical education was not limited to white Americans. African Americans made their own use of the classical past. …
male nurse holding syringe over small baby

Feast and Famine: Exploring Differences in Global Food Cultures

… North to famine that is prevalent in parts of the Global South. It begins with an images activity meant to juxtapose … the grim reality of famine that can exist in the Global South. This is done through contrasting cartoons satirizing … bulk of the learning in this lesson plan is inquiry based and comes from students analyzing sources and answering …
The logo of the United States Agency for International Development. It has been in use since 2004.

Foreign Assistance and Democratic Reform

… In the weeks leading up to South Africa’s first democratic presidential election, … greater decision-making authority to local communities, and the Paraguayan government opened budget hearings to the …
Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Mother of Rock and Roll

… The familiar, yet superficial history of rock and roll begins in the early 1950s with Cleveland disc … age of six she was touring with her mother throughout the South, singing and playing guitar, not just as an … She was raised in the Church of God In Christ, an African-American Pentecostal denomination that saw gospel …

The Ukrainian Crisis: In Russia's Long Shadow

… as demonstrators took over Kyiv’s Independence Square and forced Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from office … territories of “New Russia,” a tsarist-era name for southern and southeastern Ukraine dating from the 18 th century. At the …

Tradition vs Charisma: The Sunni-Shi'i Divide in the Muslim World

… level but nonetheless murderous civil war between Sunnis and Shi'is has highlighted the principal sectarian divide in … 1979 Shi'is founded dynasties. The Fatimids of Yemen, North Africa, Egypt and Syria (r. 909-1171 CE) were the most … to try to counteract growing Shi'i prosperity and power in southern Iraq, but these attempts of a disintegrating empire …