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… The roots of the WHO can be traced back to the 19th century and the first European International Sanitary Conference in … ideally with the support of the WHO. Nevertheless, the  African  regional office of the WHO was the slowest to … through public-private partnerships. Her successor, the South Korean physician Jong-wook Lee, continued to call on …

… 1920 ratification, women's suffrage was now the law of the land. Theoretically all women should have been able to vote and that massive organizing power that brought the 19th … that many women in the US were still barred from voting and that what is, and is not, a "women's issue" varied …

… idea of the "modern" War on Drugs waged by Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and 1980s.  As we will see, the development of the US drug war was deeply informed by experiences abroad...and to understand why the War on Drugs drags on, we have to …

… 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 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 …

… the long history of the ERA with hosts Jessica Blissit and Brenna Miller as they speak with three historians: Kimberly Hamlin , Susan Hartmann , and Katherine Marino . Find out why it stalled and how for nearly a century the ERA has garnered both … or anti-lynching legislation, and actually allied with Southern senators who were white supremacists. And I think …

… by Colin Woodard, David Cordingly's Under the Black Flag and Ed Kritzler's Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean have all … instead of the Muslim Barbary pirates of North Africa famous to students of American history from the … of Portugal actually led Crusader-style campaigns to North Africa. That being said this was also a century which saw …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… Perry recently denied any interest in being vice president, and that’s understandable.  To be taken seriously, a … projects, and bilateral commissions with Russia, Egypt and South Africa.   Perry's own predecessor as Texas governor, George …

… 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 …

… On August 6, 1962, the island of Jamaica became an independent nation, making it the … intensified in the 1900s. Notably, Jamaican-born Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey appealed for improved living … the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and African Communities League in Kingston in 1914. Though …

… 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 …

… Church has been buffeted by a series of sexual abuse scandals. High-profile investigative reports have uncovered cases of sexual abuse of minors, both boys and girls, as well as nuns and adult women, by Catholic priests, bishops, and members … happened in Irish convents and monasteries you read about South America or Malta, Germany, it's always the same story …

… Leticia Wiggins interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Taylor Branch on the contentious yet interlinked history of the American university system and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. … Trilogy , Branch has published  The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA . He has also been featured in …

… 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 …

… interventions overseas, imprisoned millions of individuals, and stigmatized inner city communities--all without … In this episode of History Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Mark Sokolsky interview three experts on the history of drug and alcohol regulation in America: Scott Martin on 19th …

… 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 …

… interviews historian Alice Conklin about the history and mass appeal of socialism in France . ( Image Source ) … Doug Dangler  From the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing at The Ohio State University, this … Civilize the Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa 1895 to 1930." Her new book is scheduled for release …

… Department of History Panelists: Maysan Haydar, Lecturer and Graduate Student, Department of History Treva Lindsey, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Peter Mansoor, Professor and General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History, …

… 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 …

…   Why the fuss about 1862? Because the 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act, signed by Lincoln in the midst of the Civil … not an admissions factor. Because 1890 was the peak of the South’s post-Civil War Jim Crow segregation, a substitute … (1886), Savannah (Georgia) State University (1890), and Southern (Louisiana) University (1881).   It is commonly …

… to Mecca, is a central ritual of the Muslim faith and one of the largest and oldest gatherings of people in … and refugees  from  Afghanistan ,  the Middle East , and  Africa . In response to their integration into global hajj … powers had colonized much of Asia and almost all of Africa, and brought most of the world’s Muslims under …

… battled over the party’s stance on the Vietnam War. And in 1980, the Republicans, for the first time, inserted … State colleague Albert Gore, Sr., perhaps the last great Southern populist; and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy, … Kennedy’s 1960 selection of Lyndon Johnson, a moderate Southern Protestant, is the classic example. The last two …