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… economic growth in 2007, its highest level in recent history. From 2000 to 2009, China also forgave poor African … “The Chinese are doing more than the G8 to make poverty history … If a country wanted to rebuild the stadium, we’d …

… , for example). Finally, I have focused on films that “do” history well; that is, offer meaningful interpretations … just a son.” During the so-called Thaw (a period in Soviet history of relative political and cultural openness after …

… since 1971. How Desmond became the first woman in Canadian history to grace the $10 bill, a Black woman no less, … positively to the United States, pointing to the latter’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), and …

… the violence, but curing the cause of the symptoms—a long history of sectarian mistrust—is a much more challenging … with a recognizable political agenda are a product of the history of British settlement on the island of Ireland. This … came to be characterized by an appreciation of Gaelic history, culture, and language. The Green Harp flag, the …

… getting elected to public office. Today, we turn to the history of women running for public office and how the … her bid for President of the United States, again making history as the first woman to vie for the Democratic Party's …

… views, Oaxaca City also offers vistas of Mexico's complex history. In 1521, Hernán Cortés sent Captain José Francisco … Further Reading: Buchenau, Jürgen. Mexican Mosaic: A Brief History of Mexico . Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, …

… Always Political Boycotts are more a part of the Games' history than most commentators seem to realize. There are … the IOC calculates its income in billions of dollars. The history of the relations between the Games and business is …

… the West’s good graces. Since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea , the United States and European Union have also … international order during its 2014 annexation of Crimea stymied but did not sever the connections with the …

… attack on Pearl Harbor. Few place names in American history produce such a visceral response as the Hawaiian bay … American manpower and resources stands unparalleled in U.S. history. The attack on Pearl Harbor was not an entirely …

… . Broken From the Beginning What is remarkable about the history of intercollegiate sports is how little has changed. … Americans and women out of intercollegiate sports.  The history of college sports shows that its discrimination …

… carved-stone lions, early twentieth-century East Asian history itself is segmented by events termed “incidents” … de Ven, eds. The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. Stanford: …

… scientists have dug into its past to determine the history of the disease. The archive of this history turned out to be two previously forgotten samples … was the virus they contracted. We now understand this pre-history of AIDS. Looking back, doctors can see that a small …

… his revolutionary vision at a crucial point in Nicaragua’s history. Since the late 19th century, Central American and … 1974. Sierakowski, Robert J. Sandinistas: A Moral History . Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame …

… with Kurds both inside and outside of its borders. This history forms an important part of Russia’s relationship … the newspaper Riya Taze (New Path) and several children’s books . The first Kurdish novel, written by Soviet Yazidi …

… political dynamics of the war, we need to understand the history of these Arabs, who began to migrate to the Sahel in … well into the  post-Independence period of African history . The various countries struggle to control their …

… or sustained during the apartheid era. Understanding this history clarifies the situation in which South Africa finds … area in which South Africa has a profoundly complicated history. To undergird apartheid, white South Africans … unclean behavior. A ray of hope in South Africa’s recent history is its progress against HIV/AIDS . Thanks to …

… mental health care occupies a paradoxical place in the history of social welfare in the United States, where aid is … additional appropriations for mental health care. The long history of American approaches to mental illness should …

… ethnic communities, but all suffer from the common history of an economic situation created by colonialism and … of today's "tribes" are to be found in Kenya's colonial history. In Kenya, a British colony from about 1898 to 1962, … Kikuyu were not. It was an odd designation given the actual history of Maasai capitulation to the imposition of …

… Juche These crises serve as revealing snapshots of the long history of U.S.-DPRK relations. By Western standards, the … of course not uncommon, but in Korea, a country with a long history of colonial occupation and resistance, a common … decades would be striking. A Pattern Emerges Tracing the history of DPRK-American relations based on the new records …