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… 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 …

… 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 …

… May 8, 1980, smallpox played another momentous role in the history of  public health , when the  World Health … eradicated. This was the first and only time in human history that a deadly  human disease was eradicated … free of one of the deadliest infectious diseases in human history. Learn more: Ian Glynn and Jenifer Glynn,  The Life …

… 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 …

… Ghebreyesus is correct. We can learn much from the history of the WHO about the importance of international … promotion of  public health . But the lesson of that recent history has  not been taken to heart in the United States.  … said in 2023. One important lesson we can learn from the history of the WHO is that while the roots of modern public …

… 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  …

… ending point, nor or even a beginning point, in the history of women’s political engagement. Years before …

… and Marina Raskova became the first women in Soviet history to be awarded Heroes of the Soviet Union, the … Macmillan, 2012 Krylova, Anna, Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front. Cambridge … “Rodina sets a nonstop record for the Motherland,” Aviation History 19, no. 2 (2008): 15. Shevchenko, Nikolay, “How …

… 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 …