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Rhode Island's Referendum on its Forgotten History
The history of slavery in Rhode Island had been forgotten or overlooked for many years, even though its legacies remain very much with us. In this clip, Professor Joanne Pope Melish examines an...
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Zimbabwe "for Dummies"
Africa remains the continent of mystery for most of the world. It holds the fascination of nature and the thrill of danger for the western adventurer, but seems to be a continent free of politics, or...
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A Soviet View of the Missile Crisis
There's a scene in the movie Thirteen Days when the actor playing Bobby Kennedy shouts, "No! No! No! There’s more than one option here."The film isn’t perfect, but it really does capture a sense of the...
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Why I chose to go to Palestine/Israel. Part 1 of 3: Music and Communication
I will use my first three Global Conversation posts to give some background into my "Humanity through Music" Project. Here is the first aspect which led me to music education in Palestine/Israel:My...
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A Bomb in the Ethical Jungle
Nuon Chea, the mass murderer, told the court he needed a hat. The air conditioning was making his head cold. After a five minute deliberation, permission to retrieve the hat was granted. Hundreds of...
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Beginnings
Just hours shy of arriving in Colombia and I can feel the excitement and buzz humming around my ears. In some strange way, I can already hear the rhythms popping from the interactions between hand and...
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Thought on NY Review of Books: Islamic Regimes & Human Rights VS. Dome of the...
I recommend taking a moment to read through this exchange between a coalition of women's rights groups and the Human Rights Campaign Team led by Kenneth Roth. The reader-submitted responses are also...
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Carthage: Where the Queen Resides
"Remeeeember me!" she sings with resounding echo. Yes, Dido, I will remember you. She is the Queen of Carthage, and she is featured in the world's first opera: Dido and Aeneas. Today, I head to what is...
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Growth by Daylight: Gurcharan Das on awakening the Indian State
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