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… 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 understand the truth of the women's bloc, we take you back--all the way back to the American Revolution--and learn that women in America have never been completely …

… “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 …

… 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 …

… but acceptance had not, a disconnect that reflected a deep and long-standing resistance to the political and moral … insistence that racial injustice extended far beyond the South.  Resistance to a King holiday was ideological—a … restraint. What he feared instead was alienating the white southern voters he had drawn to his coalition by appealing …

… 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 …

… Today, urban and rural areas seem more distant than ever. Pitted against one another on a range of economic, political and social issues, many attributed the outcome of the 2016 … is the divide that clear? Are the differences that stark? And are conflicts between rural and urban areas a new …

… much publicized lecture — “It Takes a Historian to Understand the Middle East…Doesn’t It?” —  Jane Hathaway  of Ohio … State's History Department offered a challenge to pundits and policymakers who seem unable to offer sound strategies … for the Mideast. In this episode, hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy ask three historians —  Ayse …

… 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 …

… currents of activism around issues ranging from free speech and controversial speakers, to sexual assault and campus-corporate partnerships. But how does political … the 1960s? What sparks campus protests? How do they grow? And what can they achieve? On this episode of History Talk, …

… 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 …

… As we near the centennial of the 19 th Amendment—and with the possibility of America’s first female president … politics.  Guests Kimberly Hamlin , Susan Hartmann , and David Steigerwald discuss the impact of women’s suffrage … the twentieth century, the emergence of female political candidates, and the cultural and institutional hurdles faced …

… 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 …

… Talk , hosts Jessica Blissit  (Jessica Vinas-Nelson) and Brenna Miller interview three experts on American politics— Kimberly Hamlin , Marc Horger , and Paula Baker —in the wake of the 2016 presidential … the nature of political campaigns, the role of race, class, and gender in American politics, and what has caused and …