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… improvements like an eight-hour shift, union men working the scales (miners were paid by tonnage), and welfare … “Mother” Jones ventured to Kanawha County to support striking miners. Her militant rhetoric urged miners to organize, … from destruction by surface mining to teachers striking for fair wages and adequate benefits, have adorned the …

… ghulāt (Shi’ite extremist) sects, permitting wine drinking, not requiring women to be veiled, holding ceremonies … I. After defeating and evicting the British-backed Syrian King Faysal in 1920, France, in a divide-and-rule strategy, …

… particularly in regards to D-Day. The Americans, despite lacking capability to do so, argued for an invasion in 1943. … visitors. Heads of state from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Germany have attended in order …

… their own space and identity through food. Borderlands Cooking: Tortillas, Chiles, and Chile Powder  The food … peoples pioneered the “nixtamalization” process of soaking corn kernels in an alkaline solution to make a workable … , which included a San Antonio chili tent. The meatpacking industry, which largely at this time operated out of …

… press for school desegregation, which the NAACP was also seeking in a case that it had brought before the U.S. District … dominated by the federal government, immigration policymaking and enforcement have witnessed an increasingly vigorous … to by some as the "corporate death penalty" for revoking business licenses of repeated offenders—should be known …

… the city’s grandeur defied language. He wrote that upon looking down into the Valley of Mexico, “some of our soldiers … 1609), John Carter Brown Library. Diego Javier Luis, “Rethinking the Battle of Otumba: Entangled Narrations and the Digitization of Colonial Violence,” Rethinking History 23:3 (2019). Eulalia Guzmán, Relaciones de …

… many international agreements ( left ). President Obama speaking to the people of Berlin in front of the Brandenburg … ( left ). The former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno speaking with supporters after Duterte ousted her from office in … campaign, billboards read “The Hungarian reforms are working!” In addition, the new election system created a pool …

… plant and animal species began returning to our cities, making a rather unfamiliar noise with their singing and honking. That clamor of geese, woodpeckers, and swans came from … The biologist and writer Rachel Carson opened her world-shaking 1962 book Silent Spring with “a fable for tomorrow”—a …

… can be taken back to antiquity, really, in terms of looking at it as a modern nation-state. I think it's most … the surrounding agricultural zones, pastoral zones so looking at like Herat in the northwest, Balkh and Mazar e … up to the north. It was a frontier zone. And I think, looking at the ways that Afghans themselves interacted with …

… 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 …

… there seemed to be issues with the radio navigation aid, making it impossible to find the field with instruments alone. … Report” called for a number of measures aimed at making aviation safer in the air and on the ground. The … in 1956. The tragedy came at a time when Americans were taking to the air in ever greater numbers. And they were …

… 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. …

… the Kenyan Parliament in early March, the army was cracking down on groups in the western Mount Elgon region who … the cost of a proper repair. Colonialism and the Making of "Tribes" The severe economic and social problems … the political scene and the source of some of the murders/assassinations. But hired thugs have been perpetually on the …

… 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 …