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… attends Operation Plumbbob as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1968 (left). The nuclear reactors at the Hanford … disaster. Protests in the United States and Western Europe made it difficult for the industry to achieve its … but in reality private firms came to rely on federal subsidies while they complained about excessive regulation. The …

… search for clean and affordable alternate energies has become an increasing priority in the twenty-first century. … most efficient biofuel on the global fuel market, and the South American nation is the largest biofuel exporter in the … Center Co-sponsors: The Center for Latin American Studies, https://clas.osu.edu/ The Sustainability Institute, …

… Since Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947, Major League Baseball … jeopardize the process of integration. He was, by nature, a combative individual, so he had to struggle to restrain … "Then I could walk away from baseball and never become a star. But my son could tell his son what his daddy …

… (Madras) in India. Madras was born in 1636, when East India Company official Francis Day signed a treaty with the Nayaka … city. Today, Chennai’s landscape reflects a number of European influences. The architecture of empire is still … when England went to war, so did her colonies. Indian soldiers became an integral part of the Allied war effort in …

… In October 2021, South Dakota—long discounted as “fly-over country”—had a … a million people. South Dakota, the stories revealed, had become the “Cayman Islands of the Heartland.” As unlikely as … influence and 78 for drug-related offenses. Eleven people died; two were murdered. In response Sturgis residents …

… not been much better. Police stations—“convenience security points”— sit on every other street corner and in all … By then, the Qing were a beleaguered empire, pressed by European powers externally and beset with revolts at home. … the number is closer to 45%. In the 1950s, demobilized soldiers were settled on the land, and during the Cultural …

… understand why there is all this noise in the international community. If anyone wants to plant a flag down there, … latter across Canada's north coast) to transport goods from Europe to Asia through the Arctic Ocean had tantalized … that the Arctic holds in the Russian heart and spirit. Adieu Polar Bears: Climate Change and the Arctic's …

… and a staggering landmark in human population growth combined to give new urgency to the existential question of … by a Canadian magazine, and the unusual cold and snow in Europe coincided with an October 2011 announcement that the … warm Classical antiquity, a cold Dark Ages, a warm Medieval Regime, and a cold Hallstatt- driven Little Ice …

… Sonia Sotomayor is too liberal to serve on the Supreme Court … process. What’s unusual is that conservatives are complaining about the Court at the same time they’re … the presidents who appointed them are gone, the Court’s composition frequently lags behind the country’s political …

… the amendment restored voting rights to ex-felons who had completed their prison sentence and been released from parole or probation, … Greece and Rome and have antecedents in early modern European law as well as in English common law. By the 1830s, …

… of the Turkish Republic since its founding in 1923: the uncompromising secularism of the first Turkish president, … Fundamental Organization Law of 1921 was a temporary expedient intended to facilitate military resistance against the … A major stimulus for these amendments came in the form of European Union accession negotiations, which began to heat …

… in recent memory. But with these changes have come many questions and tensions. Is the focus on the … in Modern Family , crime procedurals, or even Levi’s jeans commercials changed the public’s perceptions, and has it … (often termed “gentrification”)? In this month’s episode of History Talk there’s something for everyone as hosts …

… Kentucky school, 1946 Common Core is a set of voluntary standards in the United … guidelines were released in the summer of 2010 and soon forty-four states adopted the shared curriculum. … a national curriculum should cover—not Latin, not too European, educate for Democracy, separate women’s training. …

… colonial era has been relegated to the periphery of most studies of this period. In African Dominion: A New History of … how interconnected each empire was and how intricate and complex politics were in West Africa during this period. He … how these empires affected other centres of power such as European and the Islamic civilizations. In other words, …

… surreptitiously acquired from Stratfor, the Texas security company, revealing Egyptian and Sudanese plans to build an … navigated until 1968 by a team of British and Ethiopian soldiers and civilians equipped by the Royal Military College … Ethiopia’s power over the Nile inspired the 14th century European legend of Prester John, a wealthy Christian …

… returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … not find elsewhere. Unfortunately for the British and other European traders, foreign merchants possessed little that … its window to the outside world. Cover of Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial magazine in 1970, during the Great …

… On this episode of Prologued, we discuss 19th-century antecedents to … “A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2) … ago, across the Pacific Ocean in China during the era of European colonial domination. Miriam Kingsberg Kadia I would … and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs , Dr. Campos studies how Mexico’s anti-drug attitudes, in many ways, predate …

… Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children features a memorable … of waterways serves as a metaphor for the subcontinent’s complicated post-colonial coming of age. Favoring academic … Calcutta, and Karachi far beyond their capacity. Keay points out that India enjoyed certain immediate advantages …

… alike, the image of unexpected, violent resistance to European rule on the part of heroic mounted warriors … several strategically situated southern towns. Captured soldiers were treated leniently, even as retreating British … along sectarian lines. The legacy of the 1920 revolution points toward an Iraq that transcends external constraints …

… 2018, President Donald Trump made a set of disparaging comments about Puerto Rico. They underscored just how little … political status as a commonwealth, with questions about sovereignty, and with a culture that is both different and … December 10, 1898—officially rid the Western Hemisphere of European powers and firmly established the United States as …

… result will be increasing unrest, civil disturbances and disorders.” The United States and its allies provided food for … and preposition food for this emergency, all the while combating the Nazi war machine. None of the allies’ heroics … hunger in the aftermath of World War II. Food aid to Europe strengthened those nations that were threatened with …

… victory signals that the ERA has a renewed chance to become the 28 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To be … conditions, and physical tasks too arduous for pregnant bodies. In the years leading up to the introduction of the … and Reproductive Justice ; Same-Sex Marriage; Abortion in Europe and America ; and Women in the Mideast and North …

… Richard Nixon’s White House records soon will be transferred from the National Archives to a … staff, I am alarmed by this news. As their administrations come to a close, presidents establish foundations to raise … didn’t open those tapes until 1996, two years after Nixon died. Taylor sneered, “The archivists have done their …