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… 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 …

… (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 …

… currents of activism around issues ranging from free speech and controversial speakers, to sexual assault and … of it was civil rights protected regarding the treatment of African Americans both on campus and countrywide. Second … been sporadic. One thinks of the anti-apartheid, boycott South Africa, campus protests in the ‘70s and ‘80s. And …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… its provisions to increase the number of immigration agents and judges at the border.  He also proposed deploying … which he claimed was responsible for the deaths of thousands of children. Biden said, “This bill would save lives … Act, among others, demonstrate the hardening of the U.S. southern border in the 20th century. The region has always …

… sits on Basin Street, within the Tremé neighborhood and about a block north of New Orleans’s famed French … along the river, lending French, Spanish, English, and African influences to the architecture, food, and music—all … city’s image, recognition of the slave trade that brought Africans to New Orleans is often relegated to the …

… In the past few months, extreme weather patterns and a staggering landmark in human population growth … monsoons bringing summer precipitation to Asia and much of Africa. Conversely, a cold North Hemisphere has been … climatic reversal brought the end of the Bronze Age in southwest Asia and Egypt, and the collapse of the Shang …

… the treat with his long tongue, pulled it into his mouth, and received a bullet in his brain. Then, before a crowd of … British traveling menagerie show that included a variety of African, Asian, and South American animals. In the late eighteenth and early …

… at the beginning of his splendid history of philanthropy and it serves as a double reminder: first, philanthropy in … this. "Philanthropists were allowed to finance schools for African-American children in the South," he writes at one point, "but were subject to a host …