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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… in October 2019 with an astonishing display of ignorance and callousness. He dismissed objections to abandoning them … with a population of some 35-40 million people centered in southeastern Turkey, western Iran , northern Iraq , and … Inside The Forgotten War ; Women in the Mideast and North Africa ; and the Syrian Civil War and Arab Spring . … Janet …

… boards in 33 states oversaw the sterilization of thousands of people between 1907 and 1977. Nearly all were classified as “feebleminded” and … rates than white women. For example, in North Carolina, African American women accounted for 64.8% of those …

… the United States experienced a wave of wartime tensions and explosions of violence from New York City to Detroit to … the suit, the historian must move past the quintessential African and Mexican American wearers to examine the youths … which is the premise of chapter six. From Mexico to Canada, Africa and the Caribbean, the zoot suit quickly appeared …

… Bart Elmore takes us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came … book tentatively entitled, Country Capitalism: The American South, and Global Ecological Change. With that introduction, … can use its phosphate, that it's mining by the way out in southeast Idaho at great expense and at great capital cost …

… , three environmental historians, Sam White , John Brooke , and Nicholas Breyfogle , discuss past patterns of climate … and stress and a brown Earth. We are the children of East Africa. We didn't really face the glaciers. But we are the … time. It's a disastrous series of occurrences in the U.S. south, what is now the U.S., in the North American …

… global war on terror, that now reaches 76 countries and seems far from over. Although American thought on … American, a guy who went into a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot and killed nine worshippers in the … as eventually the government of Nicaragua, but of course, Africa and so forth. As it carried on, the idea that Cuba …

… February 24, 2022, international agencies such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations … portion of Ukraine’s cultivated agricultural land in the south, as well as blockading ports on the Black Sea, a … of poverty.  Countries in the Middle East and North Africa such as Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia are very …

… how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and children?” “How are we supposed to peacefully resolve … might of the United States be applied in Kosovo and not in Africa? The answer seems to be that the United States has … commitments and economic interests in Europe than in Africa. But such a rationalization made me feel like Henry …

… In Prague, the last hours of 2008 were crisp and clear, and in that sharp winter chill the flood-lit … very same clear and crisp New Year's Eve, 181 miles to the southeast, a significantly different scene was unfolding in … Austro-Hungarian Empire covered much of East Central and Southeastern Europe. The present-day Czech Republic was …

… things to know about his presidency, his assassination, and his legacy. 1. Presidents Killed in Office President … to serve in the White House; and a native of the Upper South who ended slavery. 6. Lincoln as a Politician Orville … level. That meant a hundred years of discrimination against African-Americans and the most blatant violations of …

… the best thing a historian can do is drill down into and fully decipher a particular historical moment. We tend … survival had he chosen to walk away from supporting South Vietnam, making his decisions appear that much more … American troop levels to 175,000 to prevent the collapse of South Vietnam. Some members of Congress and the American …

… elite glacier-goggled “ski troops” rock climbing, skiing, and snowshoeing Colorado’s snow-capped peaks under heavy … fought as joint-combatants with an unlikely set of allies—South American soldiers of the  Força Expedicionária … “We had contact with Americans, British, and South Africans,” one Brazilian veteran wrote after the war, “and …