Vince Warren to deliver keynote address at Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) is hosting this event at the...
Updated: November 21, 2008
January 2015A spray of leaves from a metal vase is set against a rich blue wall. In the reflection of the vase, we see hints of windows overlooking greenery and the sea: it is a still life that also contains a...
July 28, 2015A complaint lodged with the Pentagon has prompted the U.S. Navy to look into the possible presence of anything that may cause cancer in a section of the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a military...
July 12, 2015Even as it prepares for a courtroom showdown over the use of prolonged solitary confinement to keep order in its prisons, California has adopted emergency rules to dial down such isolation. Inmates...
August 7, 2015The chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), who was involved in firing Professor Steven Salaita over tweets he sent about Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza, has announced her...
August 17, 2015An Afghan man described as “one of the most compliant detainees at Guantánamo” goes before a national security parole board Tuesday seeking repatriation. Mohammed Kamin, about 37, got to the U.S...
September 1, 2015Thousands of California prison inmates who have been in solitary confinement – some for more than 30 years – will be released into the general prison population under a legal settlement announced...
September 10, 2015George Ruiz, a seventy-two-year-old inmate in California, has spent the last thirty-one years in solitary confinement, most of it in Pelican Bay State Prison. He has been held in a windowless cell,...
December 28, 2015In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country. If they...
President Obama has submitted a plan to Congress to close Guantánamo Bay military prison. Despite Obama’s pledge to close the facility as one of his first acts...
Updated: February 24, 2016
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