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… 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 ) … … 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… An eerie silence fell over the world’s cities and towns this spring, as governments ordered their citizens … have been invented and spread across the land. Throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America the old poison is still … which killed half the population of Eurasia and northern Africa. Ground zero back then was the city of …

… Reading the headlines over the past weeks and months, it seems like déjà vu all over again. The North … the larger role of the alliance created a sense of stasis. South Korean refugees, 1950 It was only after the outbreak … it expanded its membership, adding Greece and Turkey to its southeastern flank in 1952, West Germany in 1955, and Spain …

… Russia’s cooperation with the Kurds of Iraq and Syria in the fight against ISIL has been widely … with Christianity, Islam, and Zoroastrianism. Russia’s southern expansion (from the 18 th century on) in search of … occupying the northern half of the country and Britain the southern half. At the end of the war, Moscow refused to …

… have prohibited discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations based on a person’s sexual … racist assumptions of their suburban counterparts. Young African Americans congregating on street corners, … and design studio in Dayton, OH in 2008. Photo courtesy of Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education. No person in …

… history of mothers' activism on issues related to violence and children. Unfortunately, violence against children has … For example, the brutal murder in 1955 of the 14-year-old African-American boy, Emmett Till (for allegedly whistling … drawing public attention to the effects of racism on African-American children. Another often forgotten example …

… women's voting bloc in the aftermath of the 2016 election and during the 2020 election cycle. Then, to truly … daughters of a slave owning family. They grew up in the south and they spoke to other white Christian women of the … were about to be enfranchised along with the newly freed African American men. Most of these women had spent their …

… “sneak” underscores the duplicity of Japanese actions and portrays the Americans as victims of Japanese … Japanese aggression. In July, the Japanese then moved south into French Indochina. America and Britain responded … make Japan independent for its energy needs. But an attack south towards the East Indies required securing the sea …

… comes from the fact that never before have both the popular and electoral votes been close in the same election. When … Ohio, California and most of the states in the West and South had already formed majorities for one or the other … quarters of the states. Montana, Wyoming, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Alaska are unlikely to line up to give up …

… (PRI), which has ruled Mexico with authoritarian high-handedness for seven decades. The transition of power to the … out of Iraq, North Korea, Burma, China and the continent of Africa too often attests. Elsewhere, legitimately elected … in Mexico's history, not simply for what it means for our southern neighbor but for its echoes of a similar moment in …

… violence that had wracked the six counties of Northern Ireland since the preceding August. From modest beginnings, the … political and military influence in both the north and the south declined in the following decades. In Northern … that the IRA’s leadership, many of whom were from the south and based in Dublin, completely misread the political …

… the battlefields of Europe. Food supplies were devastated, and recovery would not come easily. The American Relief … conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan continue. In the Sahel of Africa, hundreds of thousand have been displaced by fighting …

… People understandably clamor for some response to the events of September … of four vessels to confront the Barbary states of north Africa. Jefferson calculated that this approach would be … excluding slavery from the new territories, while southerners overwhelmingly favored leaving the matter to the …

… much publicized lecture — “It Takes a Historian to Understand the Middle East…Doesn’t It?” —  Jane Hathaway  of Ohio … of Islam. And today the Shiites are concentrated in Iran, southern Iraq, and southern Lebanon. But there are … the Middle East, and actually, including Balkans and North Africa. I just read a survey and every three out of four …

… as measures to strengthen voting rights, equal opportunity, and the safety of persons and their rights of expression. … the overthrow of the Reconstruction governments in the South, reaction led to white-supremacy campaigns at the … black vote and made Jim Crow segregation universal in the South. Nor was it uncommon in the North. And each descent …