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… the Spanish port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda sailing west — and kept going. Led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the … two halves: Portugal could colonize and develop trade with Africa, Asia, and the East Indies, while Spain controlled … arrived on the coast of what is now Brazil to wait out the Southern Hemisphere winter, many aboard were suffering from …

… “Divide and Rule” was the motto of British colonialism in India . … K. Gandhi. In 1919, Gandhi was fresh from his sojourn in South Africa and hoping to demonstrate India’s readiness for …

… by the U.S.-Soviet rivalry shaped the decolonization and radicalization processes in the Global South, including Afghanistan , Vietnam , and Algeria , to … the transnational networks mobilized by Haitians and African Americans to oppose U.S. occupation of the island …

… importance of strong, centralized public health responses and the debate over economic restrictions and disease … disease united the globe more than cholera . Originating in South Asia, the disease spread through the linkages of trade … the disease remains endemic in South Asia, areas of Africa, and, most recently, Haiti . When cholera raged in …

… known in the West, the Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707) stands out as one of South Asia’s most controversial historical figures. … monuments and temples, and committing genocide.  To some South Asian Muslims, he was an exemplary orthodox ruler, …

… Bartolomé de las Casas, sickened by the exploitation and physical degradation of the indigenous peoples in the … Lutherans, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Slavs, non-Catholic Africans, and native peoples of the New World. In addition, … Anthony … Milestones … Indigenous Communities … Caribbean … South & Central America … Spain … Genocide … …

… the Nayaka ruler to acquire three square kilometers of land, bounded by the Adyar river and the Buckingham canal in the south and north respectively, on the beach overlooking the … from Madras did not have to travel to Europe or North Africa to get embroiled into World War I – it was right in …

… Egypt ten days ago to create common ground between America and Islam. In the process he whitewashed America’s early, … understanding on the part of Americans and Islamic North Africans. Although it may have diplomatic uses, this tale … humanism. Rather, it was a strategy to dissuade North Africans from attacking American ships. Under the …

… a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In this talk about her new book, … Studies at Ohio State trained as a historian of modern South Asia. She teaches courses in South Asian and world history on transnational feminism, and …

… Andrés Manuel López Obrador (a.k.a.AMLO) rode to the … had come from Zacatecas, indigenous groups came up from the south and from the coast. Barefoot people were coming … two prior elections, I believe, AMLO did quite well, in the south. I wondered if there was a historical component to …

… Already, the unrest has left over 1,000 Kenyans dead and more than 300,000 displaced. The results of the … recently been a one-party state dominated by the Kenyan African National Union (KANU) party founded by Kenyatta. … head taxes, price controls that dictated lower prices for African-produced than white-supervised agricultural …

… nuclear weapons technology. As a result, the United States and China are trying to force North Korea to abandon plans … would force the United States to leave Japan to expand into Southeast Asia, the North Korean leadership might delude … Asian security and millions of lives. Our allies Japan and South Korea, as well as China and Russia, are directly …

… of smoke from Amazon forest fires, a weather front, and pollution caused skies to darken in the middle of the … and climate concerns. A NASA map showing active fires in South America from August 15-22, 2019. The fires are shown … and lack of capital made the importation of enslaved Africans prohibitively expensive. Early Portuguese …

… Images   … Why did the Cuban government sympathize with African Americans in the mid-late 1900s? … Kyle Michl … US History since 1877 … African American History … Black Activism, Cuba, and Anti-Racism …

… How have African Americans faced and overcome medical oppression? … Ryan Rosenbeck … Public … Health, Disease, and Medicine … US History since 1877 … African American History … The Evolution of Medicine in the …

… by Mark Dery in 1993, but encompasses a long history of African American and African diaspora intellectual and creative work. According …

… Photo by  Archive Photos/Stringer/Getty Images   … How did African Americans protest the laws that prevented their formal education at mainstream white institutions and intended toto keep prove their inferiority in the time … before the 1950s? … Emma Baker … US History to 1877 … African American History … Black Americans and Education …

… Brown v. Board of Education impact school segregation among African Americans and across American society? … Maggie Zaretz … African American History … US History since 1877 … Continued …

… Collection/Getty Images   … What is the motivation for African American Uprisings? … Charles Bell … US History since 1877 … African American History … Don't Call it a Riot …

… led by Dr. Robert Laws, who was inspired by the speeches and writings of Dr. David Livingstone, the most famous missionary to have traveled across the African continent. Map of Malawi showing Livingstonia as … The church still exists, operated by the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian denomination in Mzuzu City. A large …

… arms trader in the world, was convicted in a New York court and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Bout, a … in operations to deliver weapons to various combatants in Africa. By his own admission, he had flown weapons to … of traffic, another route flowed from the Persian Gulf into South and Central Asia beginning in the second half of the …

… Karl Rove’s recent “cut and run” accusations against the Bush administration’s … September 1950, three months after the initial invasion of South Korea, had he accepted the status quo ante bellum … entered the war and almost drove the UN forces off the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. Had Truman been …

… Map of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. This year marks the 70 th anniversary … a wave of decolonization that spread across Asia and Africa. Yet alongside the victories of independence came the … of violence that shaped the origins of both nations, the South Asian subcontinent remains marked by that fateful …

… to news accounts, Jason Kessler, a former journalist and current member of the ultra-nationalist group the Proud … when Confederate monuments began popping up all over the South in the early decades of the 20 th  century. Many … Crow, a legal, political, and cultural system that denied African Americans their place in the American polity. In the …