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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… States remained neutral while World War II raged in Europe and Asia , but the country was inching toward war. … Captain America born out of experiments on hundreds of African Americans. Promotional image from Marvel.com (left) … black Captain America by experimenting on hundreds of African Americans. Even as the subject matter of Captain …

… where we’ve been in our past can direct us in our present and future. … The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, … marijuana with the influx of Mexican immigrants into the southwest and California. And so prejudice against Mexican …

… tape, released last week through Al-Jazeera, blew both hot and cold. He threatened the United States and its allies yet hinted at conciliation. Which part of his … thousands were injured, the overwhelming majority of them Africans. Then there were the never-to-be forgotten attacks …

… founded the First Albanian Republic on January 31, 1925, and elected Ahmet Zog to the position of President to govern over parliament and uphold the newly crafted constitution.  It was a … throughout the duration of WWI. Italy occupied the south, France the east, and Austria the north.  Once WWI …

… representative government. Democracy will replace tyranny, and freedom will rise from the ashes of brutality. That … this country,” he declared, “which are infinitely precious and especially American — a love of freedom, a feeling for … suppressed democracy. Choosing to back dictators such as South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem, Nicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza, …