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General Gourard proclaims the creation of the State of Greater Lebanon
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France’s League of Nations Mandate in Syria and Lebanon

In 1919, the idealistic American President Woodrow Wilson brought with him to the Paris Peace Conference his 14 Points. Among these points were the doctrine of self-determination (the idea that all peoples have the right to determine the nature of their own governance) and an idea for a coalition that Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 12 months8 months ago
LULAC members
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LULAC, Adela Sloss-Vento, and the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

Historian Cynthia Orozco has a new book out titled Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican-American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist, which excavates the importance of a feminist figure of the Mexican American Civil Rights movement, adding to the scholarship that unearths the “forgotten” history of women’s importance in major Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 1 year8 months ago
Jean-Martin Charcot demonstrating hysteria in a hypnotised patient at the Salpêtrière. Etching by A. Lurat, 1888, after P.A.A. Brouillet, 1887
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Gender, Psychiatry, and Borderline Personality Disorder

In popular media, borderline personality disorder has become linked in particular to beautiful, unstable, and ultimately dangerous white women, most famously Glenn Close’s character in the 1987 movie Fatal Attraction. As a diagnosis, borderline personality disorder went through various iterations before being declared a personality disorder enshrined in the DSM-III Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 1 year8 months ago
Map of the Spanish province of "La Florida," which included most of the southeastern United States.
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Lost! Cabeza de Vaca Stumbles Through Southwestern North America in the “Age of Exploration”

Like many of the Spanish conquistadors who made their way to the Americas, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca joined an expedition to explore “Florida” in search of glory and, ideally, an encomienda of his own. (“Florida” is what the Spanish called all of the land around the Gulf of Mexico, Read more…

By Averill Earls, 1 year8 months ago
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