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… diseases permeated society at the time. Playwrights, poets and artists obsessed over venereal disease, she argues. … metaphors such as “the itch” (herpes), “clap” (gonorrhea), and “pox” (syphilis), artists explored social phenomena … racial politics, frequently attacking Jews and persons of African descent as bringers of venereal infection. Itch, …

… now live in an era of supranationalism. The United States stands poised between wanting to write its own ticket and wishing to speed efforts to solve the world’s problems. … Europe of its colonies, adding dozens of new nations in Africa and Asia. The Communist revolution in China turned …

… presidents have escaped with golf, beaches, travel and rest. During the 1870s, Ulysses Grant and his entourage repeatedly invaded the Jersey shore. In … of Washington neighborhoods that included everyone from Southern sympathizers to successful free black residents. In …

… drawing the parallel between the recent terrorist attacks and the Japanese air raid against the Pacific fleet nearly … its place next to December 7, 1941. Not only have thousands of lives been lost in a surprise attack, but Americans’ … of persecuted Muslims from Bosnia, the Middle East and South Asia. Gen. Boyd summed up the reality we face on …

… bloc. Now, as we wade through the 2020 election cycle and celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting … vote, it is the perfect time to re-evaluate the political and electoral history of women in the United States … Two on those veterans who are coming home, not only in the African American community but among Chicanos and Latinos as …

… a state-sponsored police outfit that fought tooth-and-nail for almost 20 years to block the enforcement of … sealed documents relating to the commission's long and sordid campaign against civil rights activists. Judge … Brown v. Board, the councils brought together many of the South's leading citizens, who proposed to fight tooth and …

… character?  Christopher Oldstone-Moore’s new book Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair argues that … for examining the ways in which cultures have defined and controlled images of masculinity. This lens has led … Beards and mustaches present throughout East Asian and African history remain largely unaddressed, as do ethnic …

… Somewhere between three million and eleven million people are in the United States … without government permission. The United States can handle the increased population; the United States needs more … then, new immigrants have come from Asia, Latin America and Africa. The United States is actually becoming home to …

… nations across the United States owned their reservation lands as a community: families could settle, plant their crops, and own any improvements they built, but the land itself belonged to the entire nation for future …

… that the best years in life fall between third grade and middle school, who currently spends much time going on picnics with a three-year-old son, and who tends to view the texting-‘liking’-gaming culture of … around horse carcasses, swimming in sewage, hostelling in southern Wisconsin, and adventuring in high-rise elevators, …

… (the sixth series will debut in 2017) hundreds of novels and comic books, and countless toys, games, uniforms and other merchandise. … Uhura, the Enterprise’s communications officer. Having an African American woman in a position of competence and …

… cataclysm often numbs. It renders the trembling disoriented and inert, unable to imagine how to act. Sometimes the … human hopes to overcome nature’s forces than the sudden and unpredicted strike of a giant asteroid. Dark objects … like twigs, and their tops hurled many meters away to the south. This belt of growth surrounds the burnt area…and …

… of a family’s experience that was purposefully silenced and erased from mainstream hegemonic nationalist narratives. … Jacob, PhD | Intercultural Specialist, Native American and Indigenous Student Initiatives, Office of Student Life … were many schools like this, that were also in Canada, South and Central America, New Zealand, Australia, so all …

… Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, more than 5,000 women—young and old, rich and poor, educated and non-educated, (though mostly … suffragists in the march. Publicly, they said they feared Southern delegations would pull out of an integrated parade; …

… Chinese general who authored the earliest known text on war and espionage, Ping-fa (The Art of War) observed that, “A … ounces of silver spent for information may save ten thousand spent on war.” Astute then, Sun-tzu’s words still … strait, or the black ocean, that separates Kyushu, Japan’s southernmost island, from Korea . The society strove to …

… Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo reached the Silk Road city of Samarkand. He had travelled over five thousand miles by foot, sail, horse and camel; passed through … that could threaten the settled, urbanized states of China, south Asia, the Arab world and Europe. By contrast, the …

… to reach Europe by embarking on flimsy boats in Turkey and Greece, crossing barbed wire fences in Bulgaria and Hungary, catching rides in overcrowded trains in … Bahrain. At the same time, you had large numbers of North African Arabs that were moving into Europe, part of labor …

… the allegations of wrongdoing leveled against her husband. The charge continually crops up in the defenses of the … funded the suit, they explain, while right-wing newspapers and periodicals publicized it. At least so say Mrs. Clinton … them. Dr. Kevin Smant teaches history at Indiana University South Bend and is a writer for the History News Service. … …

… with an ecumenical greeting of “happy holidays” and Jews to emulate Christians by stampeding to the shopping … in the second century B.C. against their Syrian oppressors and their refusal to assimilate into the prevailing … created in 1966, has returned many black Americans to their African heritage, so Hanukkah has helped tether Jews to …

… in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad between the Nazi and Soviet armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More … After two years of decisive victories over France, Poland and others, Hitler and the German High Command ( … 1.2 million men, or about a third of its strength, to the southern front. As the fighting reached its fevered peak in …

… decolonization , the Arab-Israeli conflict , the Cold War, and the growth of U.S. power. The emergency culminated in … nationalized the Suez Canal Company after the United States and Britain refused to provide his country economic aid. … states and hastened the pace of European decolonization in Africa and Asia. It also led to the resignation of Prime …

… during the fall of 1621, noble Pilgrims invited friendly and helpful Indians to a feast to celebrate a rich autumn … They ate stuffed turkeys, baked ham, cranberry sauce and baked yams, then finished the whole thing off with a big … and photographer based in Las Cruces, N.M., specializing in southwestern history and archaeology, is a writer for the …