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… Trump held up Carrier, an air conditioning and heating company, as a symbol of the plight of American … by free trade deals that hurt American workers. The company had planned to close an Indiana plant that makes … Trans-Pacific Partnership ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to the state for a fundraiser. The figures depicted …

… of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere—organizations that had come out of gay-father activism of the 1980s—wrote a brief … from their ex-spouses in order to keep their children or visitation rights. There were still dangers involved in … courts, judges’ rationale for denying custody and even visitation rights to lesbian mothers and gay fathers was …

… devoid of animal or plant life. This initial isolation, combined with its location at the confluence of three … that strikes me with wonder.” Even before Darwin’s visit, however, human beings had begun to shape the … as many as 200,000 tortoises may have been killed. On his visit, Darwin reported that two or three hundred people …

… storm which these swells...told us in unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather … , while railroads brought the Texas cotton crop and summer visitors alike. But the city was built on a barrier island … may have been even higher. Many families, some of them visitors, completely vanished. At St. Mary’s Orphanage, 90 …

… is not quite as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. It is also the second-most densely populated … Taiwan (where Ma grew up and went to college), Ma has never visited the Chinese mainland. After graduating at the top of … running mate Vice President-Elect Vincent Siew Wan-chang visited China in mid-April for an "unofficial" meeting with …

… (Madras) in India. Madras was born in 1636, when East India Company official Francis Day signed a treaty with the Nayaka … he chose to settle the EIC where he could be near her and visit her frequently. Nearly four centuries later, the EIC … system in India in the eighteenth century – after all, visitors to the Raj were keen to write home - the latter …

… history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and comparatively modern city of about 150,000 people. Exiting … fourth century B.C.E. Khorezmians were minting their early coins by the second century B.C.E. A century later the … Heritage City. Arabkhan madrasa, 1616. (Photo by author) Visitors are greeted with comfortable hotels, restaurants …

… On one hand, huge new markets have opened to American companies; on the other, Chinese producers have created … parts of northern and eastern African coasts. And the visit of the Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta to China in the … relations with the United States after President Nixon’s visit to Beijing in 1972, and as a consequence found itself …

… to honor a German naturalist who made exactly one brief visit to the United States early in the nineteenth century, but whose adventures and accomplishments were so much admired they made him an … impact on, and in turn depend on the environment. How many visitors, for example, fail to see the irony of driving an …

… Korean President Moon Jae-in on August 2, 2019. “We have come this far today by overcoming countless hardships. Just … Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. For a Japanese prime minister to visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 … control. Lee was the first South Korean head of state to visit the disputed territory. “Dokdo is truly our territory, …

… been a minor Jewish festival. Yet this holiday — which commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second … including the newly secularized Christmas. “Santa Claus visited the East Side last night,” the New York Tribune … doing Judah Maccabee proud. Historian David Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and …

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … “Cincinnati is the city of pigs,” wrote English visitor Isabella Lucy Bird. “[S]wine lean, gaunt, and … English travel writer Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) who visited Cincinnati in the 1850s. After Cincinnati’s initial …

… Eric Michael Rhodes   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together … pharmacology and public health impacts of HIV. Thanks for coming, Jesse.   Dr. Jesse Kwiek   Happy to be here.   Eric … and the Secretary General of the UN died when trying to go visit in a mysterious plane crash and lots of Belgian troops …

… one day after the author's arrival. ( United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees ) We came to Greece with only a … We found people sleeping in tents underneath shipping compartments or on meager strips of grass, a mere stone's … Hisham, for example, were two Iraqi boys who often came to visit us while we were serving tea. Both fourteen, they had …

… fight racial prejudice through a celebration of multiracial community. The event takes its name from the 1967 Supreme … as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth,” they were offered one year imprisonment or a … their hometown. After being arrested again in 1963 while visiting relatives in Virginia, Mildred Loving wrote …

… a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the … that we ritualized in our home in that when we used to visit my grandmother, she would take us to a visit with her …

… recreational use. Across the state, celebratory stoners welcomed the New Year by lining up at licensed retailers to buy … punitive drug laws, announced that he too would pursue accommodation for medical marijuana; and recreational … purchasing medical marijuana requires a perfunctory visit to a “pot doc”—licensed physicians who specialize in …

… time that the United States hosted an international cricket competition. In fact, the first international cricket game … racially mixed teams from competing abroad and required visiting international teams to be composed of only white … pursued a mission of “Cricket for Peace” in 1987, visiting India to watch a match between the two countries …

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to The Global War on Drugs brought to you by the … holds a PhD in history from Ohio State and is currently visiting assistant professor at the Moritz College of Law in … are 50 years old. President Nixon had created a national commission to study marijuana and he even chose the nine of …

… forces, however, the South Korean military repelled the Communist attack and eventually pushed them north of the … all its successes, still sees itself under threat from a communist menace.  The Legacy of the War on North Korea  … the other. Sometimes diplomats from the two Koreas would visit the same head of state within the same day.  Seoul …

… Zoos are some of the world’s most visited attractions. Yet they often make headlines for … Jessica Blissit   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … to think with, you know. Over 600 million people a year visit a zoo. So they're, you know, significant institutions …

… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs perspective, not … the foundations of today’s events, and explore the often complicated nature of a particular current event. Our …

… for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … soldiers in 2001 during U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf’s visit ( left ). Former child soldiers in Congo in the early … between the regime and the opposition. Recently, after a visit by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki …

… It is possible that in choosing to volunteer in the Black community, Francis was aware of its marginalization. Being … parents. The club members volunteered its members as visiting nurses and nurses’ aides. The CWCM also maintained … workers’ residences mirrored their employment. Had Francis visited any of the men’s homes, he would have noticed how …