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Monica Lewinsky's official government ID photo from 1997.

Another Watergate?

… went far beyond the break-in and bugging at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An …

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

… from the Garden of Eden. The 14th century C.E. myth of national origins connected Ethiopia’s rulers to the Old … He then began plans for the Grand Renaissance Dam. International water law has not resolved differences about … Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. A proposal for “equitable shares” was …

Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence

… women who belonged to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), one of the largest women’s reform … In the ten years after these two lawsuits were filed, the National Coalition against Domestic Violence recorded at … were dismissed. Domestic violence advocacy groups, like the National Coalition against Domestic Violence, have been …
First Lady Michelle Obama reading a Dr. Seuss book to children at the White House.

Celebrating the “Seussentennial”

… values. During World War II, well before Dr. Seuss became a national icon, Geisel was producing editorial cartoons for … while “The Cat in the Hat,” the book that won Geisel international fame, challenges the conformist tendencies of …
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

… Under British rule Hong Kong becomes a link in an international trade. It's an entrepôt. It becomes a manufacturing … especially after the war. It becomes the center of international banking. And all of these economic systems require … to earlier, was 2003, in which people came out to protest national security legislation. In 2012, there was a protest …
Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Mother of Rock and Roll

… played amplified electric guitar in the Washington Nationals’ stadium, to a crowd of twenty thousand, complete …
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.

After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807

Review of After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807, by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
… … Racism & Racial Ideas … United States … Global/Transnational … After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade …
President Richard Nixon in 1969.

The Broken Scandal-Reform Cycle

… of political funds, and it sparked the formation of a national reform movement. Congress responded by prohibiting …
From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.

Top Ten Origins: Climate Change

… Climate change gradually gained attention as a major international issue. Since 1988, an Intergovernmental Panel on … climate change. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol set the first international greenhouse gas targets, but the United States … refugees. … Sam White … Top Ten Origins … Global/Transnational … Climate Change … Environment … Science & …