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Africans who were forcibly transported to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade introduced cultural institutions and intellectual traditions that have been overlooked in dominant narratives of American history, which overwhelmingly emphasize external influences from Europe.
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Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity, inequalities, and political baggage inherent in such systems.
Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa.
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President Donald Trump, it seems, has some sort of odd obsession with obtaining Greenland. On several occasions in the 2020s he has offered to buy the ice-covered island from Denmark, and also threatened to take it. But American interest in Greenland dates all the way back to the beginnings of the Cold War. . Camp … Continue reading America’s Cold War in Greenland →
The 1970s are often remembered for their distinctive fashion, colorful cars, changing city streets, and evolving American culture. But photographs from the decade reveal another side of the country, where industrial smokestacks towered over residential neighborhoods, chemical plants lined waterways, and pollution was part of everyday life for many communities. These scenes existed alongside ordinary […]
In the past, authorities have authorized censorship on the basis of claims of substantial chances of social disruption or collapse if people were free to hear about religious heresy, alternate ideologies, sexually permissive art, losses in ongoing wars, looming disasters, and pandemic details.
