In the first half of the 20th century some postmasters hired African Americans as letter carriers but refused to hire them as clerks. One commentator noted the tendency of local prejudices to crystallize into policy: If a policy of a particular post office is to bar Negroes from clerkships an...
Major architecture statement by one of the key American architects of the latter part of the 20th Century, still active in the 21st century. This large-scale project was critically acclaimed upon completion, located just north of LA. Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Washington State Design: Rem ...
Each is the author of a newish book about white evangelicals and colorblind rhetoric in the second half of the twentieth century. This essay considers both in light of the ongoing reappraisal of Christian history and race in America. In August of 2019, the New York Times Magazine published ...
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The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/world/asia/china-genocide-uighurs-explained.html Rasser M, Lamberth M, Riikonen A, Guo C, Horowitz M, Scharre P (2019) The American AI Century: a blueprint for action. Center for a New American Security. https://www.cnas.org...
Why do Western commentators look at China's Belt and Road Initiative with Cold War prejudice, calling it a modern-day version of the U.S.-led Marshall Plan for post-World War II reconstruction in Europe, or the 19th century Great Game, in which Britain and Russia battled for control in ...
“Father of Hollywood,” subsequently transformed Hollywood into a wealthy and popular residential area. At the turn of the 20th century, Whitley was responsible for bringing telephone, electric, and gas lines into the new suburb. In 1910, because of an inadequatewater supply, Hollywood residents ...
Edwin Booth was a renowned tragedian of the 19th-century American stage, best remembered as one of the greatest performers of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He was a member of a famous acting family; his brother was John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President A
“Father of Hollywood,” subsequently transformed Hollywood into a wealthy and popular residential area. At the turn of the 20th century, Whitley was responsible for bringing telephone, electric, and gas lines into the new suburb. In 1910, because of an inadequatewater supply, Hollywood residents ...
western, a genre of novels and short stories, motion pictures, and television and radio shows that are set in the American West, usually in the period from the 1850s to the end of the 19th century. Though basically an American creation, the western had its counterparts in the gaucho litera...