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… a different result. So take the following history test and find out if your ideas about our kids and what they know about history are crazy or not. Identify … fine. But those with specialties in medieval, European and African history failed miserably when confronted by items …

… podcast shorts on key events in history, described first-hand by the individuals who lived through them. Each episode … moment, person, or topic in history, using interviews and audio from the BBC archive and readings of historical … podcast episodes and videos on particular themes such as African history, science, music, and war. The podcast is …

… Playmobil figures of Luther, Luther Christmas ornaments, and tote bags decorated with his image all focus attention … for 25 years. Vasco da Gama and his crew had reached south Asia nearly two decades earlier. Within two years, … Walter Raleigh assured local people in sixteenth-century South America that the Protestant English were far better, …

… Their stunning victory in August 2021 over American and allied forces—arguably the most powerful military … of veterans of the jihad gathered in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. These men had spent their lives … forceful implementation of religious orthodoxy and gender apartheid. … Who are the Taliban? … Robert Crews … Features …

… a scary disease that is particularly dangerous to infants and children under 5. Its symptoms include high fever, cough, runny nose, and watery eyes. The characteristic rash appears a few days … including a 150% increase in cases in Europe and 900% in Africa over 2018. The efficacy of vaccination as a tool of …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Across human history and throughout this very diverse planet, water has defined … Nile, Mesopotamia, around the Tigris-Euphrates, the kind of South Asia around the Indus and Ganges, and the Yellow River … of the Roman Empire, the Pont du Gaud in Avignon in southern France, and amazing engineering to be able to move …

… 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 …