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… 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 …

… 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, …

… state of emergency, placed Gorbachev under house arrest in Crimea , and sent tanks onto the streets of Moscow. But the … and defending Russia’s international interests. The End of History? The collapse of the Soviet Union was the world’s … commentator labelled the Soviet collapse the “end of history,” seeing the liberal democratic order as victorious …

… “Russian doping scandal” really such a big moment in the history of anti-doping? After all, as even casual observers … the last 35 years or so we get a distorted version of the history of doping and anti-doping. The “cops and robbers” … wrong, Indeed, the first lesson to be learned from the history of doping and anti-doping before 1967 is that …

… United States, where World War I is not written into family history in the same ways as World War II or Vietnam. Almost … from the war were traumatic. For the first time in modern history, death in combat reversed the normal succession of … World War in Russia. And they irrevocably changed world history, bringing to life the planet’s first officially …

… sources. The book restores the place of contingency in history and should serve a reminder that outcomes are never …

… an odd quality to an avowedly cultural approach to the history of the period. The relationship between culture and …

… and religious communities sharing space, culture, and history. Its profile today as a region torn "between Serbs … been a part of various states and empires throughout its history. As a vital part of the medieval kingdom of Serbia, … about and certainly the most notorious part of Kosovo's history. [For more on this topic, see the 1993 Origins print …

… the most dramatic and significant events in the long history of U.S. relations with Iraq. During the nine decades … physical artifacts that would corroborate Biblical history. U.S. oil corporations began probing Mesopotamia for … first century of the relationship. * * * For more on the history of U.S.-Iraq relations by Peter Hahn, see his …

… has largely taken over. Nizhnii Tagil also boasts a local history museum originally established at the unusually early … grant for the project “Exploring Russia's Environmental History and Natural Resources” … ww.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/features/russian-environmental-history/ and the Georgetown University Environment …

… ). The “storming of the Winter Palace” has gone down in history as the climactic moment of the October Revolution. … October Revolution still stands as a seminal event in world history. But no longer can it be seen in Marxist terms as … October Revolution did not, however, mark a new stage in history or humankind’s inevitable progression toward a …

… they must also be understood in the context of modern history and modern notions of borders, state sovereignty, … 8 million inhabitants are Sunni Muslims. Somalia's history goes a long way towards explaining the challenge … their efforts to build a stable state. [ For more on the history of Somalia, see this 1993 Origins article ] A …

… the Real's appreciation. [ Read here for more on the recent history of Brazil .] Appreciation and depreciation work a … economic policy changes in response to foreign pressure. History has taught the Chinese that it is more important … economic pliancy ultimately rested on the particular history of World War II, the U.S. Occupation, and Japan's …

… generated significant interest in Hellenic culture and history, leading to the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896 … a strong sense of civic identity. In this telling of Greek history, such amateur athletic activity was slowly corrupted …

… a supply network for the Contras that could operate off the books. Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva …

… occurred. Some seek its underlying causes in the long history of colonialism, which fractured the population along … more hopeful collective futures. To learn more about oral history stories from 1947, see the 1947 Partition Archive …

… older downtowns . During the 1950s and 1960s, queer bars, bookstores, and in some cases, local chapters of the … and helps mask other kinds of discrimination. This history, furthermore, reveals the ways that these … suburbanites in the U.S. have tried to reckon with the history of exclusion in their communities. Photo courtesy of …

… Fernandez is a professor of 20th century Latino and Chicano history at Rutgers University. He told me that not only were … from the last episode, a historian of 20th century women's history at The Ohio State University, Susan Hartmann Some …