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Black Woodstock: The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

… Simone performed the rueful “Backlash Blues,” her affirming anthem “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” and a version of …

Kagan, Obama, and Roberts before her investiture ceremony, October 1, 2010.

How Empathy Makes Superior Judges – and Justice

… saw the decision as lawless. And imagine the national embarrassment America would have been spared in …

The Works Progress Administration employed some Spanish-Americans from New Mexico, as seen here, to work in road gangs.

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

Review of When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America , by Ira Katznelson (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2005), preface, appendix, index, 238 pp.

… the natural direction of worker reform. Positioning the National Labor Relations Act (1935) and the Fair Labor …

What Bill Ford Is Learning from Great-Grandpa

… an easy – if misguided – target as being simply anti-union. By contrast, Bill has recognized labor’s critical …

Antichristus, a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder: the pope depicted as the Antichrist, using his temporal power to grant authority to a generously contributing ruler.

The Bible as a Political Tool

… Abolitionist crusade against slavery, which inspired the Union’s forces during the Civil War, drew upon the Hebrew …

President Clinton and President-Elect Bush in December 2000.

Leadership and the New Bush Administration

The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love

… at Haight ( right ). However, psychedelia emerged internationally, too, and London was another major center of this … million people around the globe. That song served as an anthem for the Summer of Love and love itself became the …

A Postcard from Brazil: The Old Struggle for a Better Future

… until 2014, a much-enlarged social safety net, and two international milestones: the 2014 Soccer World Cup and the 2016 … corruption back when she had been the president of Brazil’s national petroleum company. Selfie of the author at the …

STS-116 mission specialists, NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam and ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang perform extravehicular activity (EVA) during construction of the International Space Station.

Facing Opportunities and Obstacles in Space

Person holding sign that reads "Stop Voter Suppression"

From Poll Taxes to Partisan Gerrymandering: Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States

… of American history, at every level, from the local to the national, there have been efforts, successful efforts, to …

The signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede, as represented in a nineteenth-century engraving

The Magna Carta and Its Legacy

Highclere Castle, the main setting for Downton Abbey.

At the Movies: Downton Abbey

… shut down the country for nine days after an alliance of unions that included railway and transport workers, miners, …

What Victory in Yugoslavia May Mean for Future Wars

… … Europe … Former Yugoslavia … Military/War/Peace … International Organizations … What Victory in Yugoslavia May Mean …

The view of Dresden and the Elbe River from the very top of the Frauenkirche.

A Postcard from Dresden, Germany: Living in the Shadow of World War II

… graffiti and street art condemning fascism, racism, sexism, nationalism, and Nazism. Typical example of anti-Nazi …

General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.

The Collapse of Ottoman Power

Review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan (New York: Basic Books, 2015)

… Sharif of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali. Tapping into Arab nationalist dissatisfaction with Turkish rule, the British … East … Ottoman Empire … World War I / WWI … Diplomacy/International Relations … The Collapse of Ottoman Power …

150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois

… he was a major voice in most of the progressive, international movements at the turn of the 20 th century against … and starved.” Du Bois was among the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People … people at least. Du Bois' also paid close attention to international affairs, and was a participant at the Pan African …

Hiroshima atomic bomb crew before the flight of Enola Gay.

Not Everyone Wanted to Bomb Hiroshima

Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics

… organizations has now declared a cease-fire. An international decommissioning body has been appointed to help … … Military/War/Peace … Guns/Weapons … Diplomacy/International Relations … Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics …

Cover of Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad.

Putting the Middle Kingdom in the Middle

Review of Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750, by Odd Arne Westad (New York: Basic Books, 2012)

… world economy interest in China's future place in the international community has grown. Odd Arne Westad explores … Such attitudes, to certain degree, could explain why the nationalism embraced by oversea Chinese did not prevent them … by foreign powers. Thus, Westad proposes China's international future depends on not only itself, but also on how …

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