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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 …
The Algerian flag.

Torture in Iraq: Lessons from Algeria

… The main opposition to French rule, the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), seized the initiative. But … Shawn McHale is an associate professor of history and international affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, and a writer …
American flag fluttering in the breeze.

War Without End Brings Endless Dangers

… efforts and foreign aid needed to solve complex international problems. During the Cold War, “mutually assured … acts by the United States. In Bush’s Jan. 29 State of the Union speech and since, several groups have been targeted … Diplomacy/International Relations …
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 … Global/Transnational …
The Dalai Lama during a visit to Boston, Massachusetts in 2017.

An Effective American Policy on Tibet?

… Party emerged victorious from their civil war against the Nationalists in 1949, they reasserted Chinese rule over … Diplomacy/International Relations …
An image of the castle in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando.

Banning Harry Potter

… Twain’s characters for using racist language.  With National Children’s Book Week just around the corner, even …
KKK Rally

From Dixie to the Third Reich

Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
… the first two Nuremburg Laws and the American policy on nationalism and citizenry. In chapter two, Whitman …
British Fleet Spanish Armada of 1588

1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses

… there, the French love holidays. May the first, International Labor Day, May 18, Ascension Day, May 29th, … on the market in 2020 and all 10 were purchased for the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth for 600,000 …