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… 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 … fields in western North Dakota, to an oil storage center in South Central Illinois. The pipeline was approved several … fights. My goodness, you had the copper mining in on the southwest. And you have just recently you had up in 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… territory that included much of the Middle East, North Africa, and southeastern Europe were those brought on by pandemics . …

… 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 and … And because both Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas were both African Americans, I think there was a racial element about …