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… for the whole twentieth century in collaboration with transnational corporations. Honduras was historically known, … United States. And that's just like the Cold War with the Soviet Union. It becomes a pretext for repression of any kind, of …

… importance of unified command and control in response to national disasters. Unfortunately, no one has stepped … to find someone of the caliber of these two men to lead a national relief campaign. The consequence of poor crisis … to a wide range of disasters. In addition to finding a national leader for relief efforts, we also need leadership …

… of the NAACP), and Whitney Young (president of the National Urban League) organized the 1963 march and it was … Executive Order 8802 banning racial discrimination in the national defense industry and establishing the short-lived … countercultural decade rather than as a labor-civil rights union. More than half a century later, African Americans are …

… contractors. They’re the new mercenaries. They wear no national uniform; they’re not subject to traditional …

… the current regime's behavior and that of the despised Nationalist Party of Chiang Kai-shek? How can it be when it … used against Falun Gong members resemble the ones that the Nationalists employed in the 1940s against recent converts … complained that the regime made it too hard for laborers to unionize and fight for better working conditions. Then, as …

… After World War I , developments both in India and internationally sparked calls for changes to India’s public … to all Indians. Looking to continental Europe and the Soviet Union as models, they envisioned an India where healthcare …

… the prime minister and the central government. Amnesty International released a report in April 2021 maintaining that … of Christians equals the number of Muslims there. Ethiopian nationalism has its foundations in cultural and political … 1930, including the first female head of state of an internationally known African country , the Empress Zewditu (r. …

… set of legacies for how we think about Cold War international relations, twentieth-century genocidal and sexual violence , and the limits of international law in post-conflict societies. Map of the 1947 … War. Fearing that an Indian victory would pave the way for Soviet domination in the region, the United States did what …

… principal champion of freedom in a global struggle with the Soviet Union and its Communist allies. Both the Soviet Union and … … Ottoman Empire … Greece … United States … Diplomacy/International Relations … An Historic Question: Over There or …

… The next morning, small groups of students at Chonnam National University in Gwangju awoke to a severe military … widely available through major streaming platforms for international audiences.  Works like these reenact “what … to erase and distort Gwangju’s history in the name of national unity. Right-wing media and their powerful …

… As national governments and the global scientific community … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … Cameron Givens … …

… and sought terms with the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale (National Liberation Front [FLN]). In their eyes, peace was … of their ability to win support among the masses to a nationalist movement that had succeeded not only in gaining …

… issue seldom garners such rapt attention. As members of national health insurance plans, most Western European women … in the interwar years due in part to American fears of Soviet communism. While the Soviets had been the first in the world to legalize abortion …

… the broadcast industry was dominated by four networks: the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the Columbia … model served as a cautionary tale of what not to do. The National Broadcasting Corporation's first logo in 1943 ( top … media reform movement as coalitions composed of labor unions, civil rights organizers, civil libertarians, …

… differences? By 1912, Roosevelt was delineating his New Nationalism. He called for aggressive government action, … figures responding not only to private, but to local, national and global influences. The "American Experience" …

… South Africa, he claimed, Ottawa could maximize its international influence. Together, he argued, the Commonwealth …   Nonetheless, Halifax’s public comments ignited a national political crisis. Left-leaning Canadian nationalists, most of whom lived in French-speaking Quebec …

… the 150th anniversary of the state's secession from the Union.  Hundreds of people, many decked out in hoop skirts … raged in Charleston since 1865.   When the city fell to the Union army that year, local freedpeople staged public …  African Americans in Charleston also built a cemetery for Union soldiers who had died as prisoners of war, and they …

… the worst excesses of McCarthyism. De Klerk came from a National Party apparatus that had cracked down on … the Chinese (and pursue the subsequent detente with the Soviets) without such fears. His record as an ardent Cold … motives. Similarly, only a staunch member of South Africa’s National Party, the party that had implemented and perfected …

… to create of a Board of Agriculture including "one or more national agricultural schools upon the basis of the naval … is such that many jobs require advanced training. Wired and National Public Radio's "Planet Money" recently teamed up to …

… destiny, even at the risk of confrontation with the international community. In persuading the Iranian government to … Mohammad Mossadegh shocked the world when he moved to nationalize British oil assets. However, the American … Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1953, it was not a move toward Soviet communism, but rather an anti-colonial blow against …

… past: that underpinning slavery at the local, state, and national levels was the law, including the highest law of … the seeds of the Civil War.   For the abolition of slavery, Union victory in battle was crucial, of course. But it was …

… the Republican Party and, as it evolved during the war, the Union Party. Some simply disliked or distrusted one another. … more than a year into the war. In December 1862, after the Union’s embarrassing defeat at Fredericksburg, all but one … helped build the Republican Party in his state. He had no national ambitions and his management of the Navy Department …

… gun violence against children, a modern tragedy and an international embarrassment when one looks at gun deaths in the … conducted politics in the name of motherhood. The international peace movement of that era and the creation of a …

… 2017, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk … of the Cold War Space Race, leaders of the American and Soviet space programs envisioned Mars as humankind’s first … launched and landed Viking spacecraft on Mars, the Soviet Union developed and tested closed life-support systems …