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… States seems poised to begin peace talks with the Taliban, and that worries Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Last week … these secret negotiations, President Richard Nixon promised South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu that he would … not accept proposals offered from the North and would keep South Vietnamese officials updated on major developments.   …

… After being out of power for 13 years, 7 months, and 21 days, Nawaz Sharif was reelected prime minister of … Ali Jinnah. Gandhi and the Congress argued that despite South Asia’s complicated mosaic of ethnicities, languages, … while they may live side by side, the Hindus and Muslims of South Asia constituted two separate nations. In a single …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …