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Lacking staff, Ukraine’s rural communities are missing out on crucial reconstruction funding.
The men responsible for the bloodshed 150 years ago were never prosecuted; instead, they rose to South Carolina’s highest offices.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that a Black-majority voting district in Louisiana is unconstitutional adds to a long and dismal history of government attempts to limit the power of minority voters.
History teaches us that Gaza’s reconstruction will only be successful if its people actively participate in shaping a safe, peaceful and prosperous future for themselves.
New research shows VR can produce immersive digital environments that provide a space where people can mourn, reflect, reconnect and share.
The leaked redevelopment plan pays homage to mega projects in the Gulf.
It’s time to rethink how Africa’s public spaces are defined and designed – by listening to how people already make cities public.
Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.
It’s not yet clear whether Trump’s pardons will herald a period of national harmony – as past presidents hoped for – or more incidents of violence, as actually resulted.
Post-war reconstruction must be multi-dimensional and based on a clear understanding of local conditions and careful consultation with the affected people.
Donald Trump’s measures ending government diversity efforts are part of a much broader effort to reverse civil rights gains for all Americans. It’s not the first time such a backlash has happened.
On the second anniversary of devastating earthquakes in Turkey, politics, land expropriation and broken promises define the country’s recovery.
A history course created amid the upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement invites students to have honest conversations about race. Now in its seventh year, it uses music to build bridges.
The vast majority of damage to residential buildings during flooding occurs in basements. Rather than rebuilding identically after a disaster, we need to build better.
A stained-glass window, which shows Jesus as a Black man for the first time, tells a story not only of race but of gender, class and ethnicity.
As Turkey is recovering from the most devastating earthquake in its recent history, a timely opportunity emerges to change how to reconstruct housing.
The first shoe has dropped in the Supreme Court’s process of considering whether Donald Trump is eligible to be president.
A historian and legal scholar of a key part of the US Constitution explains what happens now that the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled Trump cannot be on the state’s presidential ballots.
Colorado’s Supreme Court has removed Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot. A scholar of constitutional law explains why.
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Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston
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Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
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Associate Professor of History, College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
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University System of Maryland Regents Professor of Law, University of Maryland
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Professor of History, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Senior Lecturer in Spatial Planning, Queen's University Belfast
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