On the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, an encyclical released by Pope Paul VI calling for prohibition on contraceptive use, a scholar describes the struggles of Catholic women, as well as their activism.
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Over the last 50 years, Americans have steadily gotten older, more bicoastal and less likely to move to a new city.
The Atelier Populaire produced many of the iconic images of the student and worker movement that gripped France 50 years ago.
The 50th anniversary of major student unrest was perhaps not the ideal moment to propose controversial higher education reforms.
The anti-Vietnam War efforts of Yale University chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. and other church leaders alienated many Protestant Americans – with lasting repercussions.
Where people live in the US is still often influenced by racial discrimination. Is the federal government doing enough to carry out the vision of the civil rights era legislation?
Emmanuel Macron is driving through his neoliberal agenda by relying on French police forces renowned for their violence against ethnic minority citizens, protestors and migrants.
King argued for a national guaranteed income that would keep people out of poverty. Fifty years later, the Poor People’s Campaign still resonates.
Young activists are using journalism to advance their cause. Though their work echoes student activists and journalists of the 1960s, they use new tools not available to the activists of that era.
A minority politics scholar assesses black progress 52 years after MLK’s death based on poverty, jobs and wealth. ‘In some ways,’ she concludes, ‘we’ve barely budged as a people.’
In what came to be known as the Thule incident, an American bomber crashed in Greenland, spreading radioactive wreckage across 3 square miles of a frozen fjord. Denmark was not happy.
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Professor of Black Studies and History, Amherst College
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Professor of History, University of Washington
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Professor, Roanoke College
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Senior Lecturer in Media Production, University of Stirling
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Chair of Music Department, UMass Lowell
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Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Bizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis
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Professor of Geography, University at Buffalo
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Assistant Professor in Memory Studies, Coventry University
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Professor of History, Arizona State University
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of History and Gender Studies, Boise State University