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Robert Smalls and C.S.S. Planter

The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls

Robert Smalls' leadership and courage made him important to the Union war effort and, afterwards, one of the most influential Black political leaders of the 19th century.
… harbor, past Confederate fortifications, and to the Union fleet blockading the city. The architect of this … and courage would go on to make him important to the Union war effort and, afterwards, one of the most … Smalls' leadership and courage made him important to the Union war effort and, afterwards, one of the most …
Painting depicting the razing of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica

Jamaican Independence

On August 6, 1962, the island of Jamaica became an independent nation, making it the first sovereign English-speaking country in the Caribbean. The tremendous victory of this likkle but tallawah island (“small but mighty” in Jamaican) was one triumph in t
… one triumph in the long history of Black sovereignty and nationalism that led to the disintegration of the British …
lab tech with vaccine

Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood

Review of Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization, by Elena Conis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)
… health (20). Vaccination also played into concerns about national security : improving the health of American … Global/Transnational

A New World Order? Africa and China

… the starting point. Many attendees were young African nationalists whose core agenda was eradicating colonialism … world. Although a communist nation, China declared both the Soviet Union and the U.S.-led Western powers neo-colonialists. … Diplomacy/International Relations …
President Carter shakes hands with General Torrijos of Panama after signing the Panama Canal Treaty

The Missing "Third" of the Third World

Review of Latin America and the Global Cold War, by Thomas C. Field, Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
… of how the geopolitical atmosphere dominated by the U.S.-Soviet rivalry shaped the decolonization and radicalization … and the Global Cold War (2020). The “fruit of a multinational, multilingual effort by fifteen scholars,” this … and 1970s while also seeking economic ties with the Soviet Union. Part I, entitled “Third World Nationalism,” focuses …
Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India,

The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster

… have persisted with their fight to hold a U.S. corporation—Union Carbide—guilty for killing and maiming thousands of … Happened in Bhopal? On the night of 2-3 December 1984, a Union Carbide chemical facility at Bhopal leaked over 27 … inputs , the period often termed as “green revolution,” the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) was eager to reap profit …
1942 photo of an American flag.

The Changing Symbolism of Old Glory

… States be thirteen stripes alternate red and white and the union be thirteen stars in a blue field, representing a new … to replace the first American flag, known as the Great Union Flag (seven red and six white stripes with the British … and South America. There, the United States impeded nationalist movements and established lucrative markets …
President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.

Marking a Tragic Anniversary

… PATCO debacle, for President Reagan’s unprecedented act of union-busting critically weakened the one entity best … inequality in the United States: organized labor. American unions have endured many heartbreaking losses in their … But not since the infamous 1892 Homestead strike undermined unionism in the emerging mass production industries has any …
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller

Kent State after Fifty Years

… Just past noon on Monday May 4, 1970, a squadron of Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire at a loose collection of … body of Jeffrey Miller moments after he was shot by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. … effort to impose rules for their own sake. Because of the national uproar over Cambodia—hundreds of college campuses …
Voting booth exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Library.

God in the Voting Booth: How Religion Shapes the Politics of Both Republicans and Democrats

… Bryan’s “cross of gold” speech at the 1896 Democratic national convention to President Joe Biden’s frequent … prosperity,” and that there was no reason to believe that “national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious … brow of labor this crown of thorns,” he told the Democratic national convention in an invocation of the images of …
National Memorial for Peace and Justice exhibit, Montgomery AL

Confederates and Lynching in American Public Memory

… This year, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice—the nation’s first … they actually went against...they tried to break up the Union, right? That, in and of itself, is enough and ought to … couple of places in Eastern Europe and what used to be the Soviet Union, where all of these statues of Lenin, Marx, …
India and Pakistan highlighted on a map.

“Open Skies” for India and Pakistan?

… President Eisenhower presented a diplomatic surprise to the Soviet Union. Why not allow both the Americans and Soviets to fly … Osama bin Laden himself, are in that area. For the international community to finish off al-Qaida, uninterrupted … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Image reading "there is no news tonight"

“No News Day” at the BBC

… an uneventful day. Most serious for the British, Indian nationalist rebels , led by Surya Sen, had attacked the … of the BBC. Reith believed broadcasting could contribute to national unity and cultural uplift. Pivotal to this … service and wanted to transform the BBC into a respected national institution. This meant emphasizing quality over …
Hitler with politicians

The Nazis Take Poland and the Start of World War II

… especially after the rise to power of Adolph Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers Party, the Nazis, in 1932. … Pact, between Germany and its ideological arch-nemesis, the Soviet Union, on August 23, 1939. In a secret annex to the treaty, …
Advertisement of an upcoming land sale by the United States Department of the Interior in 1911. The Interior Department published many similar advertisements to encourage white settlers to purchase "excess" reservation lands.

The Dawes Act

… United States had been admitted as states into the Union. Tribal governments had been diminished. Boarding …

Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present

… that the Games in many ways have always been a major international political playground, and the events of 2008 simply … many to demonstrate their objections to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan), and Los Angeles in 1984 (when the Soviet Union and 14 other countries, mostly its eastern bloc …
Women at desk marked "Learn to Vote"

So...what now? (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 4)

… August of 1920, the 19th Amendment marked victory from the National American Woman's Suffrage Association and the … worker, and then a factory worker, and finally a trade union leader before being appointed as the first director of … sex discrimination. However, like many of the women's labor unions, they were immediately concerned with preserving …
The logo of Solidarność painted on an overturned Soviet era T-55 in Prague in 1990

Poland Takes Charge of Its Own Revolution

Review of Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War, by Gregory F. Domber (The University of North Carolina Press, 2014)
… countries to forge ahead with their efforts to remove their Soviet-led communist parties from power, a process that … decade of tireless work by the opposition, led by the labor union Solidarność (Solidarity) and its chairman, Lech … they vote against—or decline to vote for in the case of the National Party lists—the Communist Party. Prior to that, …
President Kennedy surrounded by cameramen after signing the Cuba Quarantine Order on October 23, 1962.

How Bush Might Have Profited from Kennedy’s Example

… As we’ve learned in the global age, international crises threaten the United States with … of their homes, their workplaces and their lives. In 1962, Soviet nuclear missiles had been placed in Cuba, just 90 … partisan politicians might send mixed signals to the Soviet Union, and he feared that Latin America might take a divided …

Making Sense of the 'Hermit Kingdom': North Korea in the Nuclear Age

… into the country. In September the government expelled international inspectors from Yongbyon and removed the seals and … Critical to this interpretation was the collapse of the Soviet Union, which for the first time allowed scholars access to … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Cover of Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Hanioğlu.

Kemalism: "The Religion of the Turk"

Review of Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography, by M. Sukru Hanioglu (Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2011)
… history as a political leader, who is still revered both nationally and internationally. The policies of transformation that he … created a fertile ground for different ideologies such as nationalism and socialism (13-15, 25).Ataturk also benefited …