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… Kent attempts to fix that and introduce Crimea to a wider audience with his new book Crimea: A History . Kent, who is … the Greeks, the Romans, and the Goths, among others. This comprises the first chapter of Kent’s history. The next … are prevalent, they might make the academic reader a bit uneasy. In the third chapter, fifteen out of thirty-two …

… Guernica was not the first strategically insignificant, non-combatant town ever to be targeted for aerial bombardment, … in collaboration with the Spanish Nationalists under the command of General Francisco Franco , left little doubt that … dramatically from the darker earth tones of the rest of the composition. It therefore seems right to say that the …

… the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a complicated imbroglio marked by the intersection of European … Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company after the United States and Britain refused to … effect on November 7, tensions gradually eased. UNEF soldiers arrived in Egypt on November 15 and were positioned …

… Do the police reify inequality by targeting low-income communities of color or are they the “thin blue line” … Fifty years ago, those urban riots resulted in the Kerner Commission Report. The Kerner Report pointed the finger at … Review of Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism , by …

… the holiday or diminished it by linking it to Confederate commemorations.  Federal recognition had finally arrived, … emerged—unpaid holidays, ceremonial proclamations, or commemorations folded into existing calendars. These efforts … a federal holiday was the one the nation already felt comfortable claiming: the dreamer at the Lincoln Memorial, …

… at the fringes of European and Asian societies, Ho's complex experiences have been canonized at home and abroad, with records from former communist territories off-limits, and formal writings from … the ways in which Ho Chi Minh engaged groups of communists, nationalists, socialists, and liberal democrats …

… on brains. Undead and not quite living, where do zombies come from and why are they here? The story of our … macoutes “behaved with the complete immorality and obedience of the undead, and were sometimes assumed to be … (right). Zombies arrived in North America as U.S. soldiers returned from the military’s occupation of Haiti that …

… On August 28th, America will commemorate the anniversary of the March on Washington for … John Lewis (chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Martin Luther King, Jr. (president of the … the discrepancy in both sides’ historical reading of the outcomes of the civil rights movement. The Supreme Court is …

… by the U.S. Socialist Party, it brought together an audience of 1,500 women who demanded economic and political … break with socialist tradition. Though ideologically committed to human equality, socialists had long argued that … On March 18, 1911, the fortieth anniversary of the Paris Commune, International Women’s Day was marked for the first …

… knocked out an exhausted Foreman with a series of powerful combination punches. George Foreman vs Muhammad Ali, October … documentary of the fight, When We Were Kings , wasn’t completed until 1996, by which time both Ali and Foreman … America: A Tribute to Heroes as an explicit example of the compatibility of Islam with American culture. …

… When Affirmative Action Was White concludes with the recommendation that contemporary American policymakers deal … action. Relying heavily on Johnson's 1965 Howard University Commencement Address, the author posits that the 37th … the author's mind, would end the need for state-sponsored compensation within a generation and create a truly …