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...Robin D. G. Kelley Copyright © 1995 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1995 A Lifelong Radical: Clyde L. Johnson, 1908-1994 Robin D. G. Kelley Clyde Johnson was one of the few people I’ve met who qualified to be a real...

...Marvette Pérez Interview with Bernice Johnson Reagon Conducted by Marvette P6rez Bernice Johnson Reagon is Distinguished Professor of History at American University and Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, National...

... American heavyweights like Sam McVea, Joe Jeannette, and world champion Jack Johnson ventured across the ocean in search of better opportunities for fame, fortune, and personal freedom. Their incredible commercial success bolstered the myths of French color blindness that had long circulated in black...

... to rewarding, controlling, or destroying their lives. This article examines how sports were used to determine the value of three young black men in Missouri, all named Michael (gay football player Michael Sam, HIV felon Michael “Tiger Mandingo” Johnson, and Michael Brown of Ferguson), with dramatic and even...

...Betsy A. Beasley Abstract In 1966, junior Republican congressional representative Donald Rumsfeld first cut his political teeth leading a campaign against the military-industrial complex. Rumsfeld criticized the impropriety of the relationship between President Johnson and Brown and Root...

...Carina L. Johnson; Catherine Molineux This essay argues for a new methodological approach to the study of early modern European history. We call for heightened attention to what we term the material trace of peoples born on other continents and islands who traversed this region. Neither uniformly...

...Susan Lee Johnson Copyright © 1994 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1994 Bulls, Bears, and Dancing Boys: Race, Gender, and Leisure in the California Gold Rush Susan Lee Johnson For a good many men who went...

...Lynn Johnson 1984 Ellis Island: Historic Preservation from The Supply Side Lynn Johnson Emblazoned across page twenty of the Wall Sfreef Journal on September 18, 1956, was a half-page advertisement announcing...

...David A. Johnson Built between 1911 and 1931 to serve as the new capital of Britain's Indian empire, New Delhi symbolically represented a modern colonial vision for British rule in India. This article examines the enclosure of lands and the removal of Indian communities for the building of New...

... of indecent exposure in presidential history when the anecdote appeared last April in the second volume of Robert Dallek’s biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Flawed Giant. ”During a private conversation with some reporters who pressed him to explain why we were in Vietnam,” Dallek wrote...

...,” before walking away. A league of their own, indeed. This article focuses on three of the “other” girls of summer who could have easily been that hard-­throwing bystander.2 Toni Stone, Connie Morgan, and Mamie “Peanut” Johnson were African American women who, after being turned away from...

...Marc Stein David K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004; Eithne Luibhéid, Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002...

...: Oxford University Press, 2012); xi+244 pp. ISBN 978-0­ -19­ -­ 985561-­2, cloth, US$45.00. The heart of Gordian Knot is Ryan M. Irwin’s analysis of the policies of John F. Kennedy’s and Lyndon B. Johnson’s administrations toward South Africa. When Kennedy addressed the nation on January 20...

... Johnson boarded a Port-­au-­Prince-­bound steamship at New York City on February 27, 1920, tasked by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to investigate conditions in Haiti under US military rule. He returned to the United States in May and in August and September published...

... segregation left most white businesspersons ill-equipped to understand African-American life. Consequently, many white companies had to rely upon the services of black con- sultants, the most influential being John H. Johnson, publisher of Ebony magazine, and D. Parke Gibson, president of D. Parke...

... families had settled before 1700-it was the social, political and economic preserve of Sir William Johnson, who administered relations between Britain and the northern Indians until his death in 1774. Sir William served the crown well, and his rewards were great: a baronetcy, vast tracts of land...

... brother Ben and the stamp had to be recalled. Then, it put the wrong birth date for Nat King Cole on another stamp. The biggest furor, however, accompanied the issuance last fall of a stamp honoring Robert Johnson-a fitting tribute, to be sure, to the legendary Delta blues singer who died...