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Dirty Water: Federal Deregulation and the Re-Polluting of America

… some core Republican principles, including free trade and fiscal responsibility. Environmental Protection Agency … plants. Detergent suds overflow from aeration tanks at the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant in Cuyahoga Heights, … it made no ecological sense. The Colorado River irrigates Southern California’s agricultural Imperial Valley in 2007 ( …

Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks

… there really was a "first" American Thanksgiving. But a handful of documents give us a hint at what might have been … in Uganda in 1999, has now spread across Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, and the Middle East. Scientists … The CGIAR gene banks are located primarily in the global South but their funding and guidance comes primarily from …
Banksy mural of worker chipping star off EU flag

Brexit: Dividing the United Kingdom

… voters in the United Kingdom stunned the British political and media establishment—and the entire world—by voting to … in which he says the winds of change are blowing through Africa, which is traditionally seen as marking the beginning … it possible to abolish the border between the North and the South and to create a situation where Northern Ireland could …
Emancipation Memorial Statue

Emancipation by What Means?

Review of The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom, by H.W. Brands (New York: Doubleday, 2020)
… H. W. Brand's new book The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, … who tried to tread a fine line by maintaining the rights of southern whites to own slaves while continuing to appeal to … Arguably this polarization led directly to the secession of southern states following Lincoln’s election as president. …
Women at desk marked "Learn to Vote"

So...what now? (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 4)

… 1920 ratification, women's suffrage was now the law of the land. Theoretically all women should have been able to vote … Amendment was ratified. Most American blacks lived in the south, and their voting was inhibited by all kinds of … after white women could vote, only 5% of all blacks in the south were able to cast a vote. Sarah Paxton Citizenship and
Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" Rally.

The “Modern” War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 1)

… idea of the "modern" War on Drugs waged by Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and 1980s.  As we will see, … heroin or later on Mexico or Afghanistan or cocaine from South America. I think that's one really big reason for an … communist or leftist insurgencies in places like Asia and Africa and Latin America—some of them do turn toward greater …
Cover of A Strange Stirring The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s by Stephanie Coontz.

A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

Review of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, by Stephanie Coontz (New York: Basic Books, 2011)
… lives of the "greatest generation" in two. On the one hand, American men were upset at Friedan's suggestion that … the experiences of working class women of any race, and African American women of any class. At the beginning of her … by dismissing the sixty-four percent of middle class African American women workers, "Friedan missed the …
A Hawaiian man employing the spearfishing techniques described by Fagan, circa 1890.

Built Upon Bounty

Review of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization, by Brian Fagan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
… a haphazard operation, but rather a skilled practice. A Neanderthal cave discovered above the Rhône River, for … evidence of Homo sapien s fishing comes from Central Africa where catfish were captured using barbed spears, a … takeaway. For instance, Fagan notes that “Central and southern China offer a great contrast to the experience of …
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"

The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now

… the long history of the ERA with hosts Jessica Blissit and Brenna Miller as they speak with three historians: … way of looking at it is also through the lens of race and African American support for the ERA. For a long time, in … or anti-lynching legislation, and actually allied with Southern senators who were white supremacists. And I think …
President George W. Bush talking on the phone the day of the September 11th terrorist attacks.

War May Raise Serious Issues at Home

… debates about how to achieve moral consistency in the fight and where to use federal government powers. A common myth … the Nazis raised questions about racial tensions and Southern segregation. How can we fight for democracy, it was … Sherman Dorn teaches history at the University of South Florida and is a writer for the History News Service. …
Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.

Ivy and Slavery

… by bringing to light Yale’s involvement with holding and trading slaves in the nineteenth century. Many of Yale’s … and Mary, proposed the gradual abolition of slavery in the South. The power of the idea of liberty was strong and could … required northerners to return fugitive slaves to their southern owners, orators at Yale, Harvard and Brown argued …
Two baseballs.

Why Dick Allen Never Reached the Hall

… Last week, Ryne Sandberg and Wade Boggs joined the more than 180 players who … to the minor leagues at Little Rock, making him the first African-American ballplayer in Arkansas history. There, … has become the convenient excuse for not promoting African Americans, whether in the ranks of the players or of …
A protest for nuclear disarmament

We Cannot Afford to Neglect Nuclear Disarmament

… Reagan’s great aspiration seems far off today. Both Russia and the United States hold thousands of nuclear weapons … Diplomacy among the United States, Russia, Japan, China, South Korea and North Korea is setting a path toward … it comes to dealing with Iran. Great danger also exists in South Asia with nuclear weapons owned by rivals India and
Stenciled graffiti of a priest pursuing two children

Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse

… Church has been buffeted by a series of sexual abuse scandals. High-profile investigative reports have uncovered … Zealand, Canada, and countries in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. What makes the Catholic Church such a rife … happened in Irish convents and monasteries you read about South America or Malta, Germany, it's always the same story …
Photo from 1890 of the first OSU football team

Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports

… Leticia Wiggins interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Taylor Branch on the contentious yet … college football and basketball are disproportionately African American, and so you do have an awful lot of African … was established, when it was in the constitutions of southern states, when there wasn't a single elected official …

The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq

… The Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq , centered in the central and northern part of the country, is a place where leaders … Islamic dynasty, one that would rule territories in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Shi'is continue to decry this Battle of … city. Map of Mesopotamia. Basra was in the coastal south, and this was where the population was—and still …
Collage: On the left, a group of men emptying liquor bottles during Prohibition. On the right, a field of marijuana plants

Hooked: Drugs, Prohibition, and American Cities

… interventions overseas, imprisoned millions of individuals, and stigmatized inner city communities--all without … alcohol that has been a part of Anglo-American culture and African culture and Latin-American culture, all, pretty … most people, although there was certainly some use in the Southwest. And also it was available through pharmacies, as …
Pullman Strike illustration

Top Ten Origins: American Workers and Strikes

… inflexibility put constant downward pressure on prices and wages, and the first large waves of immigrants from … Strike reached from coast to coast and moved even into the South. By the time the unrest cooled, at least 80,000 … immigrant workforce into a “company town” on Chicago’s south end. Pullman owned the houses, the opera house, the …
Communards with flags

The Socialist Legacy in France

… interviews historian Alice Conklin about the history and mass appeal of socialism in France . ( Image Source ) … … Civilize the Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa 1895 to 1930." Her new book is scheduled for release … about second generation workers who've come in from North Africa, former colonies often.   Patrick Potyondy   and
President Biden, standing in front of a blue flag with an eagle emblem

First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History

… Department of History Panelists: Maysan Haydar, Lecturer and Graduate Student, Department of History Treva Lindsey, … The migration is an effect. The processing at the southern border isn't enough to handle the thousands … is particularly against newly arrived immigrants and African Americans in particular, competing for jobs. There's …
1911 portrait of King George V, ruler of the British Empire.

The Risks of Unilateralism

… Britain. In the 19th century, Britain believed itself to be and acted as if it were the world's single great power and …   The British did not suffer reverses until the Boer War in South Africa between 1899 and 1902 when the descendants of Dutch …