One of the most callous and tragic aspects of slavery in the United States was the slave owners’ practice of dividing families: children were taken from …
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Episode 87: Nigeria’s Civil War & The Origins of American Humanitarian Interventions
Humanitarian intervention has become such an accepted part of international relations, and our news headlines are full of stories about humanitarian efforts …
Episode 86: Rethinking the Agricultural “Revolution”
Thousands of years before recorded human history, anthropologists have traced the evolution of human society from a nomadic hunter-gatherer phase to the rise of …
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