This put a strain on the Southern economy. While the men went off to fight, women were left to run the farms, handle all the businesses, and oversee the large slave population. The impact of the Civil War in the South soon became clear in the economy. Much of the Sout...
However, there is somewhat less of a history of research and discourse on the impact that military service and war have had on the lives of those Latinos that have served in the military, particularly the impact on health. Research which examines the aspects of the Vietnam War experience ...
The first will be the effect on the Democratic party itself, now riding high in its antiwar invective. Yet for a quarter century after Vietnam its antiwar hysteria warped its stance on issues such as the military, retaliation abroad for attacks on America, and the use of force in general. ...
1. Daniel Ellsberg: The Pentagon PapersIn the early 1970s, Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst, shocked the nation by leaking the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study revealing the U.S. government's misleading statements about the Vietnam War. Despite facing a potential 115-year sentence...
Johnson lied to the American public about how the war in Vietnam was going in order to preserve public morale. In 1967, he painted the picture like everything was going according to plan and the fighting would soon end. The truth was quite different. Once the Tet Offensive took place ...
, Vietnam, and Chicago 7, just to name a few. It turns out that no country is perfect and neither is my beloved US. While living in Russia I learned, then later forgot, and then again remembered that one needs to question what the government, any government is doing to and for its...
This N = 173,426 social science dataset was collected through the collaborative COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey – an open science effort to improve understanding of the human experiences of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic between 30th March and 30th May, 20
supportedBay of Pigs invasionof Cuba in 1961, U.S. military intervention in theDominican Republicin 1965, U.S. actions in Vietnam, North Vietnamese actions in South Vietnam and elsewhere in Indochina, and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by the Soviet Union and its eastern European ...
Hispanic voters, it's a dead heat, 46-46. The proposition leads among black voters, but only by 5%, 45-40. But it's getting clobbered among Latino voters, 35-55, and even more so among the three Asian subgroups listed, with 40%+ margins for Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese ...
For the countries of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, the importance of migration continues to be significant for livelihoods. Migration governance, therefore, is a critical priority (well-established). This chapter focuses on labour migration in the eight HKH countries. It explores the countr...