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… 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 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …