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...Kathy M. Newman Copyright © 2000 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2000 The Forgotten Fifteen Million: Black Radio, the ”Negro Market” and the Civil Rights Movement Kathy M. Newman The forgotten 15,000,000: Ten billion...

... lands into privately owned parcels led to the loss of Native lands and obscured the colonial nature of federal power. Following the implementation of this late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century program, known as allotment, non-Indian people gained ownership of millions of acres of Indian territory...

... that would have produced sonic booms affecting many millions of people. This article explores the history of sonic booms, with special focus on the causes, contexts, and consequences of the Oklahoma City experiment. It argues that within the political economy of the Cold War, sonic booms became a new kind...

... of the war created shared meanings amongst soldiers, regardless of their origins. Second, it posits that the violent work soldiers performed in the name of empire was a formative experience for millions of men who fought, and suggests that a shift in vantage point for thinking about the war is constructive...

...Davorn Sisavath Abstract This article complicates and challenges the existing records on US-Lao relations during the Second Indochina War by examining military waste in Laos as an archive. Over two million tons of bombs were dropped during US bombing in Laos from 1964 to 1973. Today, Laos remains...

...Clare Corbould Abstract In 1925, African American newspapers began reporting on Maurice Hunter’s work as a model for prominent visual and commercial artists, illustrators, and art students. By the 1950s, Hunter’s image had appeared on millions of advertising billboards, in all the major magazines...

... Quartet.” Savor that word remarkable. What Kernan found most remarkable was Axelrod’s extraordinary generosity. The musical instruments he donated “have been appraised at $50 million, though Axelrod has turned down offers as high as $55 million...

... White Sox park.12 But reports of the 0 percent number missed some things. For example, the state kicked in at least $10 million for infrastructural improvements around the new arena. And in 1989, Charles Wheeler of the Chicago Sun-Times­ quietly reported on the Illinois General Assembly’s...

..., neighborhood, right next to huge oil refineries, is a reminder that millions of people around the world live daily with industrial pollution. Some, like the residents of Bhopal, were killed outright in accidents, but most are slowly poisoned or have restricted opportunities due to wage limits...

... polymer components, and lead. The phone in your possession could contain more than two hundred chemical compounds. None- theless, “more than a hundred and thirty million of these devices are trashed annu- ally in the United States alone, where people purchase replacements once a year, on average...

... than $1 million a year. Despite the widespread criticism, the school's trustees have decided to maintain their CIA ties, claiming they are consistent with "RlT's academic mission." The scandal has been the occasion for at least some soul searching on other campuses, though the introspection...

... interest in memorializing Ellis Island has been growing steadily. The main sticking point has been funding; even the most modest proposal-involving preservation of three of the island’s thirty- three buildings-would require an estimated $54 million. With federal funding for historic preservation...

... “undeveloped character” placed heavy requirements on US logistical troops. He noted they contributed labor and supplies representing “hundreds of millions of dollars in developing the logistical support system” employed by UN forces. 13 While highlighting the efforts of US soldiers, Taylor’s recollections...

... animals missing or fallen in action. Now Americans can visit the Bonheur Memorial Park cemetery, southeast of Bal- timore, and gaze upon the beautifully sculpted fountain that is the new Tomb of the Unknown Pet. Its plaque reads: “For the Millions of Lost and Abandoned Pets: A Final...

... MacArthur Genius grants. This fall, however, those same grumpy old men can look to a new opportunity for wealth and fame when the $1 million John W. Kluge Prize in the Human Sci- ences is to be awarded for the first time. Kluge is the seventeenth-richest man...

...,” Andrews wrote, noting the Moscow Times stock index had skyrocketed from 150 to 375 in a mere nine months. Western speculators had of course reaped the heaviest profits in this fevered market; shares in the Hermitage Fund, started in April 1996 with a $25 million stake from New York’s Republic...

... patrimony based on the mercantilization of people, from a decolonial perspective. The piece has fourteen silk cushions to approximate the millions of African women, children, and men who were traded as slaves in the Americas. All of them are set in a perfect line to simulate the movement of thousands...

... in Florida, the past is powerfully evoked for visitors-using music, movies, robots, and the latest in special effects. Thirty- three million people visited these attractions in 1983; it's possible that Walt Disney has taught people more history, in a more memorable way, than they ever...

... of forty-six thousand dead to Truman’s insistence that General Marshall calculated a half million American lives to Stimson’s 1947 claim of over one million to George Bush’s 1991 defense of Truman’s ”tough calculating decision, [which] spared millions of American lives” (182), to the 1995...