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Somaliland: Democracy Growing in Barren Land
Somaliland Construction Located southwest of Ethiopia, off the coast of the Gulf of Aden, lies an unrecognized yet autonomous state known...
Isabel Mathews
Apr 2, 2024


The Undying Dream of Freedom: How Black America Once Imagined Reconstruction in Savannah
Aftermath of Sherman’s Campaign in Atlanta, Library of Congress, Hosted digitally by Wikimedia Commons Atlanta was a smoldering ruin....
Gavin Neubauer
Feb 27, 2024


El Pacto del Olvido: The Spanish Repression of Memory
Adolfo Suárez swears in as el Presidente del Gobierno in 1976. King Juan Carlos (center) watches on, while Francoist officials surround...
Alex Horn
Dec 28, 2023


Highway Havoc: How the US Highway System Connects The Country but Divides The People
Image of a US highway On a warm summer morning in 1919, 79 U.S. Army vehicles left Washington D.C. and headed west towards San Francisco....
Alex Obolensky
Dec 28, 2023


Haiti and the Case for Reparations
Image depicting plantations burning during the first ever successful slave revolt. In 1803, modern-day Haiti completed the unimaginable:...
Hazel Montgomery-Walsh
Dec 28, 2023


The Last Execution in Maryland
Common Lethal Injection Gurney from Las Vegas Review Journal On December 30, 1637, a warrant for the arrest of Thomas Smith and Edward...
Gavin Neubauer
Dec 28, 2023


From Burials to Boulevards: The Women Who Sculpted the Lost Cause
The Frank Bennett Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Wadesboro, NC The American Civil War ended not quite with a bang,...
Nicholas Gerakis
Nov 20, 2023


Woodrow Wilson’s Racist Domestic Policy Cutting Into International Leadership
Woodrow Wilson The 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, is most notable for his strong diplomacy during World War I,...
Isabel Mathews
Oct 24, 2023


Why Unions Matter: A Brief History of Their Impact
The Writers Guild of America members picket outside of Warner Brothers on the first day of strikes, May 2nd, 2023. Unions are so back....
Kyra Freeman
Oct 24, 2023


Indigenous Perspectives on Gender: How the Gender Binary is Rooted in Colonialism
In the US, there has been a massive conservative backlash and moral panic in response to transgender visibility. In 2023 alone, 576...
Traci Holmer
Oct 24, 2023


Protection and Prevention: Title IX’s Role in Supporting Victims of Sexual Assault at Universities
Student-run organizations at the University of Lynchburg protesting against the poor response of reported sexual assault cases, November...
Kayla Arch
Sep 27, 2023


Colonization and Ethnic Violence - What Happens When the West Leaves
https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar/296-long-haul-ahead-myanmars-rohingya-refugee-crisis On January 4, 1948, while...
Maria Johnsonbough
Sep 27, 2023


Srebrenica: More Than Just a Failure
Gravestones at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Centre Following the aftermath of World War I, the country of Yugoslavia was created. The...
Adam Ghannoum
Aug 13, 2023


A History of Climate Denial: How Big Oil Fooled Generations of Americans
Participant in the climate strikes of 2019 addresses climate denial in government. What is Climate Change? Climate change describes...
Traci Holmer
Aug 13, 2023


Could the U.S. Have Prevented Death during the Rwandan Genocide?
Snapshot of Victims of the Rwandan Genocide What should we have done differently? In the months and years leading up to the Rwandan...
Hazel Montgomery-Walsh
May 15, 2023


The Weaponization of "Parents' Rights" in the Right's War Against Public Education
Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters After losing the House in 2018, and the presidency and Senate in 2020, the Republican Party sought a change in...
Alex Horn
May 15, 2023


From Ivy League to Inequality: The Eugenics Movement in American Academia
The Greek word eugenes means “well-born” or “born from noble beginnings”. This archaic word which one would think should be left in the...
Siddharth Jasti
Apr 24, 2023


The Importance of Inclusion: The Role of LGBTQ+ in Public Education
When going through public elementary, middle, and even high school, I never questioned the education I received, whether the information...
Kayla Arch
Apr 24, 2023


“Go back to your country!”: A Brief Study of Asian America
College of Lake County APIDA Month What is it about Asia? A massive continent, it plagues us, confuses us, and is a deep mystery that the...
Jahnavi Kirkire
Apr 24, 2023


The Iraq War: A Mere Blunder?
Encyclopedia Brittanica The US-led invasion of Iraq began on March 19, 2003. Twenty years later, public discourse surrounding the war...
Adam Ghannoum
Mar 22, 2023
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