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… in the Ba'th Party and armed forces, particularly high-ranking 'Alawis. But through the 1970s, violence broadened to … the Ba'thi order with a liberal democratic system. In taking this step, the Brotherhood openly allied itself with … moves. Cadres opposed to negotiating with the regime and working with Khaddam resorted to armed struggle in an attempt …

… known interracial marriages between abolitionists—William King and Marry Allen (1853)—resulted in their fleeing the … masse to ferret out “passers.” A certificate from 1924 mockingly “guaranteeing” a person’s racial “purity." … a Polish American from marrying. Sheet music from 1897 mocking African Americans and Chinese Americans ( left ). “The …

… North Korean diplomats in Africa became infamous for trafficking ivory and arms. The North Korean government, committed … their authoritarianism and the surveillance state by invoking the North Korean threat. North Korean guerillas …

… open things up for discussion. If you're interested in asking a question, please write it in the Q&A function just at … with the focus on the 20th century. She's currently working on a transnational history of French anti-racism … were wrong. In so doing, these experts gave the backing, the prestige, the authority of science, to the most …

… the eastern borderlands against the Armenian “threat.” Taking full advantage of their commissions, these Kurdish … the territorial integrity of what remained of the shrinking empire, but embraced different tactics. The governor of … approach to suppress communities he believed to be working with Europeans to threaten Ottoman territorial …

… use for the next 50 years—the mass petition, public speaking, and the boycott. Transatlantic networks of … for overstepping boundaries of female propriety by speaking out in public threw into sharp relief that, as … suffrage from British Chartists, the first mass working-class movement in England, directly inspired Stanton’s …

… Russian history is replete with stories of enemies seeking to undermine the state: conspiracy theories, as many … hands of the West stretched to all corners of the earth, working behind the scenes to prevent Soviet achievements. As we … they confirmed that the CIA had played a role in Lumumba’s assassination. The Office of the Historian has stated …

… Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) is nonetheless working to revive the Jordan River, restoring the basin as a … “which she received with joy and gratitude, drinking it and spreading it over her body to wash away the sins … by 19 th -century Russian travelers described pilgrims taking bottles of holy water and burial shrouds dipped in the …

… of mass mobilization, the use of the media, arms control, taking a small country and making a regional conflict into a global one that these are … the war are told over and over again. We all know about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand on the streets of Sarajevo. …

… to the west of the Philippines. While not explicitly backing Manila, Obama stressed his commitment to preserving … Pacific coincided roughly with that of Japan, perhaps making a fight over the Philippines inevitable. To  … rights. Nonetheless, Washington remained steadfast in backing the Marcos regime. Playing to nationalist sentiment, …

… team's earlier tour of apartheid South Africa, some walking out of Olympic housing after the Games had already … stage: basketball constitutes a powerful instrument for making the world aware of Lithuania's existence. In my … That story must await the completion of the Games. Looking further into the future, we now see considerable …

… responsible for security at the House of Commons, with taking down the gunman. Commentators not completely caught up … were supposed to be “the nation’s bulwark” slouching, slacking, or sticking their hands down their pants. Militias in … who was shot in the head during John Hinkley, Jr.’s assassination attempt on the President—as well as the …

… museums like to avoid it. Because restitution implies making up for a past wrong and that past wrong and a lot of … But I think for our purposes, what we're really talking about, and you said this, you hinted at this at the, in … about statues, textiles, what sort of objects are we talking about when we have these debates? And are there …

… we see signs everywhere of what some observers call the sinking ark of agricultural biodiversity (agrobiodiversity). As … agricultural research centers beginning in the 1970s. Working in collaboration with hundreds of governments, civil … on CGIAR's gene banks to improve their agriculture, taking advantage of the CGIAR's open access to resources for …

… had nothing to do with firearms. Jefferson was actually talking metaphorically, about having all of the facts one … from the 18th to the 21st centuries is crucial to making sense of the 2nd Amendment today. Consider the language … the modern individual nor collective rights models, making it hard to interpret. The best way to describe the …

… and "Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class". During this presidential race, Donald Trump and … the foundation of that idealized past that there are talking about. What were the core characteristics of the New … in 1972 when Wallace, there's an attempted says there's an assassination attempt on his wife in Maryland and at that …

… governments to change laws to reflect their new way of thinking. By 1900, Western European countries and the United … had been culturally and politically redefined as the taking of a human life—an immoral and illegal act. The shift …

… water, head-butting water tanks, trampling fences, and licking water from air conditioning units. If the urban areas … Australia were wetland people, and they had a hard time making sense of Australia's particular climate and hydrology. … turned to the Botany swamps, with similar results. The taking of these waters worsened already tense relations with …

… From 2011 to 2014, breathtaking political changes transformed the lives of men and … of women’s rights activism emerged during the revolution, taking the debate over gender relations in new directions and … rights, and offered extended legal protections for working women (such as paid maternity leave, accessible …

… to “normal” habits. In many cases, these habits included working. Most institutions were attached to farms, partly to … in hospitals. Patients performed manual tasks like shoe-making at the Willard Asylum for the Insane in New York ( left … increasingly serving as custodial institutions. Doctors working with patients suffering from dementia or late-stage …

… Doping scandals have been shaking the world of sport for almost a half century. However, … technological “race” to test athletes who are supposedly taking increasingly sophisticated substances. But that analogy … events such as long distance running, pedestrian walking, and cycling . Such usage was common in these sports …

… also queued up at ATMs to withdraw fresh new currency marking Slovakia's latest move toward an integrated European … also appealed to Western statesmen more concerned with mapmaking than understanding the realities on the ground in East … that Slovakia was losing out as its neighbors were basking in the warmth of a new-found European identity, …

… are distinctive as well. Japan prohibited the speaking of Korean in schools and forced Koreans to adopt … to reunify the country. The United States, with the backing of the United Nations, launched a counter-attack. The … called Dokdo. In February, Japan’s Shimane Prefecture, invoking the decision a hundred years earlier placing …