Search Results

…   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 …

… products sold in foreign markets. Central banks in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan had recently intervened in currency markets to … low-wage China, they are more likely to go to lower wage Southeast Asia than they are to return the United States. …

… 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 …

… Today, urban and rural areas seem more distant than ever. Pitted against … as like car manufacturers moved to places like Kentucky and South Carolina and Oklahoma. And if I haven't done like a … European immigrants of one kind, and another, and then African Americans second. So the system of boundary drawing …

… 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 …

… is very much in the news today: strife between Taliban and authorities in Afghanistan; the horrors of the Saudi … advantage of the great material wealth of their squabbling southern neighbors. Iberian disarray led to the emergence of … opposition, brought in their own new factions from northern Africa, some less open to dhimma protections than previous …

… Or, All is True. A volatile combination of a cheap roof and pyrotechnic effects could have doomed the Globe forever. … and during spring 1599, reassembled the playhouse in Southwark. This new building was christened the Globe … before being paved over again (now under Anchor Terrace on Southwark Bridge Road). This discovery of the dimensions and …

… On October 22, 2014, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot and killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo, part of the honor guard … And it only increased with the Boer War (1899-1902) in South Africa, which saw Canada’s first official dispatch of troops …

… As we near the centennial of the 19 th Amendment—and with the possibility of America’s first female president … do think there's a larger historical precedent, though, for African American males receiving rights before females, … over the 14th and 15th Amendments, which enfranchised African American men, but not women, and how reformers, you …