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… The movie centers on an M-4 Sherman tank nicknamed “Fury” and its crew of battle-hardened soldiers during the waning … driver; Trini “Gordo” Garcia, the Spanish-speaking gunner; and Grady “Coon-Ass” Travis, a bestial mechanic with a southern drawl. Their fifth crewmember, the assistant …

… from the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico migrated to southern California with four young daughters. The family caravanned up and down the state working the agricultural migrant circuit. That young mother was my grandmother, my abuelita.    My abuelita's stories about those …

… December 11, 2018, marked the one hundredth birthday of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. Born in southern Russia thirteen months after the Bolshevik Revolution , the only son of a mother whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, …

… a large portion of Ukraine's cultivated agricultural land in the south, as well as blockading ports on the Black Sea, a significant amount of grain for export is stranded in Ukraine. Written by Ian M. Sheldon. Narration by …

… the 20 th century borders have been fought over, drawn and redrawn, and today the “integrity” of those borders in the face of … when examining the American West, certain parts of Africa and other places where borders don’t function as a …

… as if apologies are becoming a regular part of business and politics. Pope John Paul II apologizes for the Crusades, the Inquisition and the long tradition of Roman Catholic anti-Semitism. … Insurance Company will not be paying reparations to the African-American community. But is it really possible for …

… long essay entitled, “ On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians .” It laid out historical claims to the … reading of history beginning with the medieval period and moving through the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991. … from the Baltic in the north to near the Black Sea in the south. It was centered on the Dnipro River and had its …

… invalidating school desegregation programs in Louisville and Seattle. In their five-to-four decision, the justices … public school where 80 percent of the student body is white and black students going to ones that are 70 percent black, … organizations, led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, argued that current textbooks, clean …

… from a flu microbe was as quaint as wind-up phonographs and rumble seats. In the 1960s the surgeon general's office … acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, has advanced out of southern China to menace Hong Kong, Toronto and, probably, the rest of the world.  Again a disease …

… 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 …

… Talk History , host Patrick Potyondy interviews historian and Origins editor Nicholas Breyfogle about the … race for the arctic . He tells us about the complex and perhaps explosive historical dimensions of climate … of "Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus" and is co editor of "Peopling the Russian …

… 1 of Prologued is hosted by Origins historian Sarah Paxton and analyzes the myth of the women's voting bloc. Now, as we wade through the 2020 election cycle and celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting … past. Guests: Dr. Joan Flores-Villalobos, the University of Southern California (formerly of The Ohio State University) …

… 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 …

… WWI , the Treaty of Lausanne was the only one negotiated and, perhaps more importantly, it is the only treaty of WWI still in force today. Lausanne marked the end of a long and devastating period in the  Middle East . Between 1911 … (1912-13), costing the empire its remaining  territories in Africa and most of Europe.  These provinces, home to nearly …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… is today lauded as an early food safety regulation. And, as beer-making elsewhere has taken off in all sorts of … shape new tastes and different interpretations of beer. In Africa, major beer brands like SABMiller and their … Zambia, and Zimbabwe . In countries such as Mozambique and Southern Sudan , adopting cassava in the brewing process …

… On Memorial Day, Americans pause during picnics, parades, and softball games to remember those who died fighting our … jeopardized our security, diminished our international standing, thrown Iraq into chaos, and, not incidentally, … at the Italian seaside town of Nettuno, which lies just south of the Anzio beachhead. Anzio was a poorly planned and …

… Its route crosses the Missouri River directly adjacent to and upstream of the Standing Rock Reservation, one of … late 1820s, the Potawatomis and Ho-Chunks (Winnebagos) of southern Michigan and Wisconsin awarded dozens of land … obliged them in their peace treaties to emancipate their African-American slaves and grant the freedpeople …

… Tirana is Albania’s capital and, with a population of nearly 1 million, over one-third … past that began under the oppressive rule of Enver Hoxha and continued into the post-socialist era with political … in 1920, replacing Vlora in the country’s still-turbulent south. In 1939 the city succumbed to fascist forces and …

… We take off our shoes and coats and send them through the X-ray machine with our … a bright and sunny day while flying over the desert of the Southwest. Neither aircraft’s crew were in contact with air … Security measures at Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina in the early 1970s. King Hussain of Jordan, …