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#1 The Iberian Peninsula was a center of selling of Irish and Flemish slaves from the eighth to the eleventh centuries, while in the ninth century, Vikings sold tens of thousands of Europeans to the Arabs of Spain.
#2 The Iberian Peninsula was a target-rich environment for the Muslims who invaded in the post-1492 era. The peninsula was sparsely defended, and churches...
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#1 Mama was a tall, long-waisted, young Black woman with the deep-set paisley eyes and high, full cheekbones of her Filipina and half-Cherokee grandmothers. She was a beautiful woman, but she took pride in controlling her own destiny.
#2 I was born in 1984 when my parents were still living with their parents. My mom was seventeen when she got pregnant with me, and my...
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#1 In August 1971, Henry Kissinger greeted Tokyo's ambassador to the United States, Nobuhiko Ushiba, in his office in the western White House in San Clemente. The meeting was to mend fences with the Japanese, but all of Kissinger's frustrations about dealing with Tokyo tumbled out anyway.
#2 The opening to China was a moment of rupture for the United States as well,...
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#1 The English Civil War was a conflict between the Parliamentarians and the Cavaliers. The Parliamentarians were loyal to King and Parliament, while the Cavaliers were loyal to Charles I. The conflict ended when Cromwell died in 1658, and a Parliament was created that restored Charles II to the throne.
#2 The English Civil War was the result of a system of government...
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#1 Raisuddin worked at a mini-mart in Dallas, selling Americans three tamales for a dollar. The economy around the store was desolate, and it wasn't the economy of the legendary firms where third-world boys like him fantasized about working.
#2 Raisuddin grew up with America on his television screen, and thought of the place as a land of opportunity. But when he first...
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#1 When I was 11, my father was forced to retire from the Navy after 25 years, and we moved to La Grange, North Carolina. My father began drinking heavily, and he took his rage and frustration out on my mother. We never knew when he was going to explode in anger and bitterness.
#2 I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, with my mother and two brothers after my father died....
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#1 In October 1978, I was an Intelligence Unit detective for the Colorado Springs Police Department. I was assigned to scan the two daily newspapers for any reports of information concerning any hint of subversive activity that might impact the safety and well-being of Colorado Springs.
#2 I answered an ad placed by the KKK, and two weeks later I spoke to Ken O'Dell,...
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#1 I was always trying to prove my national and cultural origins. When I told the kids at my public school that my family was from Palestine, the response was always the same: Palestine. Where's that.
#2 If you are Black in America, you visibly belong to a particular group. You can claim your culture with pride, and no one questions you. But me, I was so ambiguous that...
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#1 The United States was founded on the principle of diversity, but that has always been an uphill battle in America. Americans have always struggled with unity in diversity, and it is draining to constantly have to check your ego.
#2 In the future, white people will be a minority in America. This has many people worried, as they don't know how the country will handle...
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#1 The war against pandemics took a personal turn for me and my husband, Tom, when we were infected with the superbug Tomcat. We found out that there were no approved treatment options for the disease.
#2 Tom and I were globetrotting scientists who went looking for trouble in the world of infectious diseases. We had been planning our dream vacation, but after the attacks...
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#1 I was trying to be humane, by creating a different awful situation, by telling my new husband to divorce me. I didn't want to ruin his life.
#2 The wedding is often the most important thing in a woman's life, eclipsing all of her accomplishments. And while we've made great strides in America to not be obsessed with weddings, we're still a society that loves them.
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#1 The Nazis were not simple nationalists, and their nationalist propaganda was directed toward their fellow-travelers and not their convinced members. The Nazis had a genuine and never revoiced contempt for the narrowness of nationalism, the provincialism of the nation-state, and they repeated time and again that their movement was more important than any state.
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#1 President Lyndon B. Johnson gave the first known affirmative action speech for black students at Howard University in 1965. He stated that the country had overcome legal segregation, but that the disparity between white and black Americans had widened after the Second World War.
#2 By the start of 1965, the Selma voting rights campaign had already been going on for...
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#1 The fact that you are reading this book is an example of your will. You decided to read this book and begin reading. You consciously willed what you are doing. You have a profound sense that you consciously will much of what you do, and you experience yourself willing your actions many times a day.
#2 The idea of conscious will and the idea of psychological...
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#1 I recently gave a speech at the Aspen Institute in which I argued that white guilt has damaged the self-esteem, if not the souls, of minorities more than white racism ever did.
#2 I was used to being provocative, but my comments about race being rooted in classic Jeffersonian liberalism rather than white guilt was absolutely unpalatable to many.
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#1 In 1950, a teenager named Barbara Johns led a strike by her fellow high school students in Prince Edward County to demand a better school. The niece of the Reverend Vernon Johns, the radical minister who later mentored the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Barbara never consulted her Montgomery uncle about the strike.
#2 The seed was planted by Miss Davenport, who...
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#1 The rock art at Mulka's Cave is unique in the region for being so densely packed with images. It is difficult to date, but it is believed that the cave was created by indigenous Australians around 60,000 years ago.
#2 The world is not what it seems. It's a home that is more lived in than any other that I can imagine. Countless generations have absorbed and built upon...
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#1 The cost of street violence in America is staggering. It involves, for the most part, young men killing or wounding other young men in tragic and brutal cycles of retribution.
#2 Urban violence is best understood as a grievous injury, a gushing wound that demands immediate attention in order to preserve life and limb. The treatments I propose address urban violence...
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#1 There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. However, we don't have fully accurate information about the number or nature of homicides at the hands of police.
#2 Over-policing can lead to excessive force being used, which is just the tip of the iceberg of over-policing. There are currently more than...
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#1 I remember being seven years old, checking out books with my mother, and having the librarian ask me if my name was really Austin. I realized that white people thought my name was strange.
#2 I had gotten used to white people assuming that I was male. They would always call me by my male name, and when I answered the librarian's question about my little library card,...
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