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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

They also said our government was two-faced: Talking about soldiers working together against the common enemy but having segregated quarters for the Black and white soldiers. They were angry that the government took four months to identify and give Miller a medal for being a hero, when white soldiers received recognition right away.

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

million words to Wikipedia, worked on over 4,200 different entries, and created 531 entirely new articles in a range of topics related to Political Science. In a course on African Politics , students created new articles on Voting rights in Nigeria as well as Child soldiers in Uganda.

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Anthropology against Behavioral Science

Anthropology News

While these trends have been underway in the subfields of global health and economic development for some time, increasingly similar demands are being made for the incorporation of SBS into the fields of democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG). In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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Congratulations to the 2024 APSA Award Winners

Political Science Now

White Award for the best dissertation in the field of public administration Recipient: Sarah Rozenblum, Cornell University Title: “Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts? Lerner, University of Massachusetts Lowell Title: “Blurring the Boundaries of War: PTSD in American Foreign Policy Discourse.”

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Civics U: What Form is Best, and What’s the Difference? Part 2 – Comparing Countries

Civics U

Preface Part I briefly summarized democracy and capitalism, socialism, and communism as major and currently familiar forms of government and economy, and the predominant systems in the United States, Russia, and China respectively. The country has a wealth of oil and gas reserves, and the government has control over major economic activities.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

In 2016, as a master’s student, I published an article in Boston University’s Pardee Periodical (now The Pardee Atlas: Journal of Global Affairs ) about a new initiative at the ASDC to support their students. Many of the people I know through my research in Jordan are Palestinian, have family in Palestine, and/or are of Palestinian descent.

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Teach About Toxins and Organizing for Environmental Justice

Zinn Education Project

Learn More Fight for Life in Cancer Alley New Human Rights Watch Report Human Rights Watch released a devastating new report called, “We’re Dying Here”: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone. Download the lesson for free.