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22 Aug 2016, 8:00 am
WORLD WAR II — President Roosevelt forces nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry — six in 10 of whom were U.S. citizens — to relocate to internment camps. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 6:00 am by Reproductive Rights
Blog (August 17, 2016): How Seven Words Deny Abortions to Women Raped in War, by Grant Shubin: In 1973, Congress passed the Helms Amendment which prohibits the use of U.S. foreign aid to "fund abortions as a method of... [read post]
16 Aug 2016, 10:58 am by Rishabh Bhandari, David Hopen
The report noted that the Somali-based insurgency is proving capable of recruiting young men and women from countries outside its primary power base. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Wilson’s strong performance as the head of a united Democratic government (for the first time since 1894), along with Americans’ uncertainty about the outbreak of war in Europe, led to victory.Along with the ins and outs of the race itself, Gould’s book explores the election’s broader meaning—as, for the first time, the popular election of the Senate coincided with a presidential election, and the women’s suffrage movement gathered steam. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 12:41 pm by Laura Dean
For women and children, in particular, the camp can be frightening. [read post]
14 Aug 2016, 10:01 pm by Barry Barnett
” Michael Grunwald, “Did Obama win the judicial wars? [read post]
14 Aug 2016, 7:23 am by Ariane Tabatabai, Dina Esfandiary
Today, two years after ISIS kidnapped 5,000 Yazidis, over half of them remain enslaved; many are women and children used as sex slaves. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 5:52 pm by Melissa Vo
Events Free Screening in the Global Women, War & Peace Series followed by a panel discussion at Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, 19 August 2016 Southern Cross University (Australia) is hosting a free public event in the Women, War & Peace series on Friday 19 August 2016. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 12:09 pm by Rishabh Bhandari, Quinta Jurecic
The Associated Press reports that Syrian government airstrikes hit the only hospital earmarked for women and children in rebel-occupied parts of Aleppo on Friday. [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 10:25 am by Rebecca Tushnet
If 20 people make a derivative Star Wars movie, but the crowd is good at finding the right one.Linford: if the crowd tells us the first Star Wars movie is good, 20 people rush to follow, and Lucas has to rush out his sequel. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 10:50 am by David Kris
An early morning jog took me past fishermen, runners, walkers, bikers, and a couple of middle-aged women performing Tai Chi in bright pink traditional Chinese clothing. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 3:00 am
It was only after the end of the Cold War that ‘human rights’ emerged as an explanatory framework for understanding what had just happened. [read post]
8 Aug 2016, 8:42 am by Eugene Volokh
Plaintiff offended by Glendale, Calif. monument to women pressed into sexual slavery by the Japanese during World War II (and who thus avoids the public park in which it resides) has standing to bring suit, says the Ninth Circuit. [read post]
7 Aug 2016, 3:43 am by SHG
After a thorough review of the record, it is clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context. [read post]
5 Aug 2016, 5:48 am by Michael O. Smith
The majority of the duck boats used for tours are World War II era reproduction vehicles that were not designed navigate busy city streets. [read post]
4 Aug 2016, 7:40 am by Kasey Tuttle
The Secretary-General proclaimed these crimes may constitute war crimes, crimes... [read post]
3 Aug 2016, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
”  Mike is doing a revisionist history of currency regulation during the Civil War and reconstruction. [read post]
3 Aug 2016, 7:12 am by Guest Blogger
Her personal leadership project aims to expand a leadership academy to empower the next generation of young leaders in South Sudan with tools to rebuild their country after decades of civil war. [read post]
3 Aug 2016, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
It explores an array of social, cultural, and legal arenas from the turn of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth centuries, including concepts of citizenship at the founding of the republic, the development of married women’s property laws, divorce, child custody, temperance, suffrage, domestic and racial violence before and after the Civil War, protective labor legislation, and the use of legal history testimony in legal disputes. [read post]