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… see beyond fantasies about Greenland, one must look to its history and culture. Only then can we begin to understand … Norse and an implicit warning about the consequences.  The history of Greenland, told from an Inuit perspective, looks … comprising around 160,000 Inuit. From this viewpoint, the history of Greenland cannot be told separately from the …

… is Dr. Susan Hartmann, an expert on 20th century women's history and a professor emeritus of American history at The Ohio State University. For this episode, Dr. … Perspective , an online publication of the Public History Initiative, the Goldberg Center, and the history …

… defiance, and horror. The event resonates in the history of a city that has long sat at the crossroads of … American casualties. As stated in the  U.S. Army’s official history , the destruction was regrettable, but “American … tank enters Fort Santiago. Again, the Army’s official history : “That the artillery had almost razed the ancient …

… Global Drug War. You've got the laws that are all on the books at the beginning of the 20th century. But I think it's … States that reverberates throughout all aspects of its history that followed…including its trajectory on drug … drugs; it is a victim of drugs. Throughout this entire long history, the drug war has acted to reconcile these …

… Masters of the Middle Waters gives the early history of Middle America the treatment it deserves, placing … find its way into the essential canon of Native American history and Lee should be commended for it. … Review of …

… had attained a height of prosperity not surpassed in the history of European colonies. It contained 8,000 plantations … blossomed into the largest, bloodiest slave uprising in history. By the end of September, over a thousand … to become one of the most hated and persecuted countries in history. Immediately after Haiti's declaration of …

… by walking the reader through nearly 150 years of Italian history, beginning in the 1450s and ending just before the …

… the deadliest month of the greatest pandemic in recorded history: the “Spanish Flu.” Recent estimates suggest that … On its centennial anniversary, it is worth remembering the history of the “Spanish” flu and how it set us on the path … global influenza pandemic left an important legacy in the history of medicine. Beyond shocking tolls, the pandemic …

… the enemy during wartime. The most notorious leak in U.S. history came in the early 1970s, when Daniel Ellsberg—a … of bureaucratic power. So given this long leaky history, what makes the WikiLeaks material so interesting? … "influence" around the world seem not to understand this history. Today's world is interconnected in novel ways, and …

… income inequality has been a defining discourse in American history for more than a century and a half. Class Comes to … Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously wrote that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle." When The Communist Manifesto was …

… irreversible and untouchable welfare program in American history.” On August 14th, 1935, President Roosevelt signed … the correlations between poverty, chronic disease, family history, and psychology to determine that the onset of … to other groups. National health insurance, like the history of voting, would be incremental, bestowed to one …

… 657 CE.  Folio from a 14th century Tarikhnama (Book of history) by Balami.   The defining crisis stemmed from the … have experienced normalized relations at certain times in history and also moments when Sunnis and Shi'is found that …

… number of commercial varieties for our food supply. A Brief History of Seeds and Hybrids First as gatherers, then as … one continent to the other. Yet, for all humanity's long history with agriculture, the twentieth century witnessed … disease, pests, changing climate, and rising population. History warns us of the dangers of putting all our …

… The American people would do well to remember their own history when it comes to the just treatment of prisoners of … the Men Who Lived Through It (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2004) · Commander Melvyn McCoy, Lieutenant Colonel S. … Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986) · Edward S. Miller, War Plan Orange: The U.S. …

… is at the core of Boko Haram’s grievances. Inheriting This History Despite pledging its support for ISIS , Boko Haram …

… inconvenient historical truths.  The list of “dark Meiji” history is long: the settler colonization of the northern … of the indigenous Ainu people starting in 1869; a long history of industrial disease and environmental destruction … UNESCO as sites of World Heritage.  This is not to say that history should be easily bifurcated into simple binaries of …

… Economist   magazine accused the government of “cooking the books” and reported that “since 2007, when Guillermo Moreno, … Yet a look back into Argentina’s economic and social history reveals over-reliance on its agricultural economy, … The northwestern province of Tucumán, which has a long history of producing sugar, provides a case in point. In the …

… Death, AFRIN IS NOT ALONE.” Trump does not understand the history of the Kurds and Turks. Far from being mired in an … in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. And this history matters. Solving the uncertain fate of the Kurds and … Relations ; and The U.S. War in Iraq . Listen to these History Talk podcasts on Understanding the Middle East ; …

… labeled “populist” at one time or another in American history, the term functions more as a diagnosis than as a … pontificate about the role of this or that movement in the history of American politics spent the 2016 cycle reassuring … To understand Duterte’s connections to Philippine history, one can take up his pointed question: What had  …

… known for its bottled water than its role in diplomatic history: Evian-les-Bains. Known as the Evian Accords, this … between the two nations. Perhaps now more than ever, the history of the Evian Accords underscores the importance of …

… LSD experimentation. “Be Here Now,” along with other books, brought Eastern spiritual culture (yoga, meditation, …