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… 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, …

… 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 …

… 19th Amendment the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences hosted a conversation with a panel of experts. … color; the ongoing gender disparity in elected officials; and how history informs the 2020 election. Panelists … Lindsey, associate professor, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Sarah Paxton, JD; PhD candidate, …

… the decades-long close alliance between the Christian Right and the Republican Party, it may not have been a surprise … Christians, including Scots-Irish Presbyterians on the southern and western frontier, Baptists who believed … Barack Obama wrote about his conversion experience in an African American church in Chicago, and he welcomed …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …