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… a professor of economics at University College Dublin and the author of Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish … India, Korea, Russia, Ireland, Western Europe, Ethiopia, South Africa, and the New World, among countless others, to …

… issues of our time. On this episode, Patrick Potyondy and Mark Sokolsky sit down with  Mytheli Sreenivas ,  Alison … supported by national governments in various parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America, that have aims to curtail women's … development of the pill were population control in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. So those politics have very much …

… basic problem? Why have they adopted certain solutions, and then abandoned them almost immediately? And what has … was racially segregated, with the Pruitt Homes intended for African Americans and the Igoe Apartments for white … the Cold War was fought, from Taiwan to Rhodesia, from South Korea to Peru. 9. The Market is the Answer: Section 8 …

… Both politically and culturally, Romania and the Republic of Moldova have … The Dacians, a Thracian people who inhabited what is today southern and eastern Romania, were conquered by the Roman … Moldova—particularly in Gagauzia and Transnistria.  The southern Gagauzia region is home to the Gagauz people, a …

… told from the perspective of Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel. In this presentation, Ori Yehudai turns this … numbers emigrated to countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Emigration to Europe, and to the Middle East, and North Africa was mainly return migration of people who would come …

… Halprin (1916-2009), one of the most celebrated American landscape architects, would have turned 100 years old this month. Born to a Jewish family in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn, with an upbringing he referred to as … and Levenworth streets  would  have intersected, just South of the Tenderloin District. The “TL” as the Tenderloin …

… “You have created a new Taliban and a new al-Qaeda in Egypt,” a protestor shook with fury as … saved the country from the Ikhwān ’s clutches, some North African analysts are wondering out loud whether the Egyptian … Algeria—the first then-legal Islamist association in North Africa to assume widespread control of a nation, even if …

… the Mediterranean Sea to the remote northern reach of Finland in the Arctic Circle and from Ireland’s emerald perch on the Atlantic wall to the … Greece’s financial meltdown, stagnating economies in southern and western Europe, and the United Kingdom’s …

… For the first time, Latinos and Latinas were adequately represented on the national … parties. At their recent national conventions, Democrats and Republicans finally acknowledged that Hispanics are … does the good-old-boy network today. In recent decades, the Southwest Voter Registration Project, founded in San …

… than actual, it has mobilized important religious leaders and politicians to question the separation of church and state. In a recent debate in Delaware, Christine … of state-supported churches in New England and the South, every colony had multiple denominations. In …

… John F. Kennedy, our boundless fascination with his life and death remains as strong as ever. And the way that Jackie and Jack continue to captivate … Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013), a historical drama about an African American butler working in the White House, and the …

… Saddam Husseins conventional military forces, but a slow and agonizing struggle to return peace to a tyrannized and traumatized people. This experiment, with little or no … attack against North Korea in 1950; North Korea attacked South Korea, and America reacted to overt aggression, as did …

… role in determining Native American political status and personhood. Blood discourse can be added to the long … put alongside boarding schools, forbidden language and culture, land loss, and poverty. During the assimilation … their authenticity as a Native American. that Indians with African American heritage constitute the third trope which …

… facing our digitally-driven world is identity theft and the mounting costs it inflicts.  If new in its scope, … she had, in short, was a "sprawling saga of opportunism and imposture which reached right across the British empire … sentence and, after his 1832 release, moved to New South Wales and resumed his swindling.  In addition to …

… increasingly viewed as politically necessary as political candidates strive to forge constituencies in preparation for … Catholic backlash. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's refusal and subsequent capitulation over the appointment of the … the institution or its positions until after he had won the South Carolina primary.   Such a double standard by the …

… the United States. Learn with us how, during the 1930s and 1940s, the U.S. began to establish a global model for … force for the richest man in town. The police in the South used to be called in to assist with lynching.  And … if you look at the State Department and its personnel in Africa, almost three quarters of that personnel are deployed …

… but a truly universal draft — without college exemptions and, yes, with a provision for drafting young women as well … short as a national policy. The draft system of the 1960s and 1970s failed because it was not universal. Women, of … rights. This is why we have seen high service rates by African Americans, from the Buffalo Soldiers of the …

… the U.S. Supreme Court struck down desegregation in the landmark decision Brown v. Board of Education, America’s schools and universities are struggling with the challenge of … heard in Alabama, where disproportionately high numbers of African- American students are placed in special education …

… of Ukraine has been described as a “a crime against peace” and “Europe’s Darkest Hour” since World War II. It is an … strike. We were talking about the East of Ukraine or southeast of Ukraine. Last Thursday, multiple locations in … gained its independence, Protestantism, especially in southern and eastern Ukraine, has really thrived. And just …

… In March 2022, the EU and the U.S. unilaterally condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and voiced strong support of Ukrainian independence in the … the Whites, and Nestor Makhno’s anarchists in the east and south. The ZUNR fought a Polish invasion in the west until …

… authority offers a president considerable running room, and the 535 members of Congress find it exceedingly … policy, sending military expeditions to Mexico in 1916 and Russia in 1918, and leading a reluctant United States … midst of the Civil Rights Movement and an expanding war in southeast Asia. Johnson also had an extremely ambitious …