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… Talk , hosts Jessica Blissit  (Jessica Vinas-Nelson) and Brenna Miller interview three experts on American … of these darker areas of our culture. I drove to work in southwest Ohio behind bumper stickers that say, "Trump that … more uniform nationally, and regional differences, North/South, going away a little bit too. So to take some specific …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… On February 1, 2013, a suicide bomber killed himself and a security guard at America’s embassy in Ankara, Turkey. … example the bombings of American embassies in East Africa in 1998 and the attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Yet … Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon. The Shiites of south Lebanon, already reeling from civil war, were caught …

… sidewalks, selling tomatoes, cucumbers, apricots, peaches, and berries of all kinds. Before the locavore, organic food … border of Ukraine, where the smoldering reactor was, south towards Kyiv, home to millions of people. They watched … tons of radioactive meat that had been rolling around the southwest railroad for four years. No one wanted the hot …

… of Americans facing unemployment, losing their homes, and racking up student loan debt, the idea of a struggling … to a handful of businessmen to connect the West and the South to the heart of the Union by rail. Oil and steel … people." Hayes campaigned for economic development of the South and currency stabilization, both of which he argued …

… If he were alive today, William McKinley would understand Barack Obama's 2011 humanitarian intervention in Libya. … Like Obama, McKinley confronted geopolitical disorder and economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. … denomination had established a parish on Chicago's south side in the late 1960s. Derided as a "white church in …

… to sour with remarkable regularity: in 1914, 1920, and, of course, during the Great Depression. A long stretch … lured more and more Americans off the farm. By the time the South fired on Fort Sumter, cities like New York, … transcribing the life stories of ex-slaves in the rural South. It is crucial to underscore, however, that Franklin …

… Map of the Old City in Jersualem. As it has for thousands of years, Jerusalem remains a place of where many … “The Cardo,” Jerusalem’s ancient main street, runs north-south, typical of ancient Roman cities, and now traverses … remind passersby of the Armenian genocide. Nestled in the southwest quarter of the Old City, the Armenian Quarter has …

… popular anger against elites perceived as distant from and antagonistic to the struggles of ordinary Americans—more … rural and small-town areas voted more like the white south, and major southern metros like Atlanta and Houston shifted blue. The …

… Pilot whales stranded on Farewell Spit, 2015. On 13 February 2015,  198 pilot whales stranded  in Golden Bay on the northern coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Hundreds of volunteers were mobilized by New …

… States began its war against Iraq with a campaign of "shock and awe." An overwhelming demonstration of American airpower … designed to persuade the Iraqis to throw down their arms and surrender even while rising in revolt against Saddam … victory. His confidence cost Ferguson his life in the South Carolina forests at King's Mountain, where American …

… the historic election of 2008, a small group of historians and journalists was invited to the White House to chat and lunch with First Lady Laura Bush. Organized by the … the United Nations Literacy Decade, fighting AIDS in Africa, and bringing breast care awareness to the Middle …