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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 …
In this 1805 painting, the artist imagines American planter and Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins teaching Creeks to use a plow on his Georgia plantation.

Reflecting on Justice 200 Years after the Creek Civil War

… 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 …

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 …

WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations

… On April 5, 2008, a small coterie of Republican senators and diplomats— John Barrasso, Saxby Chambliss, Mitch … underpinnings of the global Cold War, particularly in Southeast Asia. Controversies from the nineteenth and early … situations elsewhere in the Middle East and throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Small states, or at least …

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 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 …
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 …
Women at the Women's March in DC with signs: "Can't Believe We STILL Have to Protest", "Keep your Hands and Laws Off my Body", "RAPE CULTURE" with a line through it

The Long History of #MeToo

… the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, sexual harassment and sexual violence seem to have suddenly burst into the … and Sexuality Studies Department, where she specializes in African American women's history, black popular andAnd because both Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas were both African Americans, I think there was a racial element about …

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 …
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.

The Justinianic Plague

… The “Justinianic Plague” is the popular name for a pandemic of bubonic plague in the Late Roman or Byzantine … originated. Our literary sources place its origins in Africa, but other evidence suggests that it likely came from … BCE). We know that the plague first hit cities in the southeastern Mediterranean, and moved swiftly through the …
John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams: An Example for Our Times

… History can be instructive and often inspiring. Take, for example, the case of the … outrage over slavery and his related conviction that the South’s “peculiar institution” threatened national progress, … indignation against slavery and the political power of southern slaveholders. Adams persisted bravely in the face …
Cover of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome by Brian Campbell

Rome's Wondrous Rivers

Review of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, by Brian Campbell (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
… at the very core of Roman life: their religious worldviews and understandings of divinity, economic practices, legal … most remarkable rivers in the European, Middle Eastern, and African worlds: from the Nile , Tigris, and Euphrates, to … the Pont du Gard aqueduct crosses the Gardon River in Southern France. Who, Roman jurists and surveyors asked …
King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan, Drugs, and the Cold War (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 4)

… Opium has played a significant role in its history and, as we discuss, shaped how Afghan policymakers have … the world from Europe to East Asia and into Central and South America. Even as they're saying, we don't really like … on the Afghan drug trade and U.S. foreign policy in South Asia. I have a sort of keen interest in the global …
An engraving of Earl Cornwallis's surrender to George Washington during the American Revolution.

Hollywood’s American Revolution

… regulars being routed by American Continental soldiers and a band of South Carolina militiamen led by Gibson’s fictional … professional British soldiers in and around the swamps of South Carolina where the film is set. We see as well the …
Image of a junior high school classroom from Harris & Ewing Photographs.

An Historic Opportunity in Education

… the Title I program will have to test their students and show the federal government that they are improving. If … to education. In the 1870s and 1880s, Democrats, especially Southerners, fought proposals that would have given federal … the next 60 years they and their conservative allies in the South vigorously fought nearly every effort to expand
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation

Top Ten Origins: Vaccination

… more than 22,000 cases of measles have appeared in Europe and the World Health Organization recently called for … parts of the world from the early modern period: China, Africa, the Near East and South Asia. It was introduced into Europe by Lady Montagu, …