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A red AIDS ribbon outlined in candles

The Global History of HIV

… of darkness of colonial exploitation of the Congo River watershed and movements in that area. A time when steamboats … and the rubber that were being taken from the Congo River watershed, but also meant greater mobility for African …
The Taras Shevchenko monument in Borodyanka, Ukraine damaged by the Russian attack, April 2022.

Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine

… bury me, then rise ye up, And break your heavy chains, And water with the tyrants' blood, The freedom you have gained.” …

A History of Stolen Citizenship

… region, but they still faced opposition and were often watered down. Pennsylvania rejected felon disfranchisement …

A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics

… resources . As a general rule it defines territorial waters as those within twelve nautical miles of a nation’s … nine-tenths of sovereignty over them and the surrounding waters. For the other tenth, they turn to history,  dueling … specific island groups and their corresponding territorial waters. Beijing has even organized the Spratlys and other …
Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in 2005.

Written With the Blood of Miners

… to a “safe room,” a sealed chamber with a cache of oxygen, water and food. ÊRescuers reached them 26 hours later, and …
Cover of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin.

Taking it on the Chin

Review of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, by Margot Mifflin (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009)
… time in a sanatorium following a regime of seclusion and water cures. Mifflin finds Olive's life was heavily …
Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Deng Xiaoping during the state dinner for the Vice Premier of China

The Nixon-Deng Comparison

… American press, would have been on the way a great mistake (Watergate and the June 4th Massacre, respectively) had …
President Clinton and Vice President Gore sitting in the Oval Office in 1996.

An October Surprise Again?

… Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as interior secretary? Rep. Maxine Waters for housing and urban development? Bill Bradley as …
The Dalai Lama waves to a crowd during a visit to the Netherlands in the 1980s.

Hong Kong and Tibet

… Lee Feigon is a professor of history at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.  He is the author of "Demystifying Tibet: …