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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 … Between the East and the West …

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 …
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 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 … Foreign Assistance and Democratic Reform …
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 …

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 …
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 … But, while many are heralding the rise of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements as an opportunity for change, many of … have protested them in the past. So what’s different now? And how does contemporary activism fit into the longer …

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 …
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 … Afghanistan, Drugs, and the Cold War (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 4) … the world from Europe to East Asia and into Central and South America. Even as they're saying, we don't really like …
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 …
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, … Pandemics & COVID-19 …
soldiers at the battle of Lincoln

King Stephen and The Anarchy: A Reign Reconsidered

… Until recently, historians viewed King Stephen of England (1135-1154) as a failure, sandwiched between two quite … to Geoffrey of Anjou in 1128 created tensions, tying her to southern Norman and Angevin alliances and alienating many … or strategic calculation. Matilda joined her allies in the southwest.  The period known as “The Anarchy” had now …
Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist

(Bicycle) Wheels of Change

Review of The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s, by Evan Friss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)
… falling off my bicycle when I was trying to do tricks and breaking my hand. But our experiences are far from those … Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist near the end of the "cycling city." … white, young men. There were other cyclists too, such as African Americans, Chinese, Polish, elite classes, and