Julia Rodriguez

World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Julia Rodriguez, Associate Professor of History, Education: B.A., New School for Social Research, 1989, M.A., ibid., 1992, M.Phil., Columbia University, 1995, Ph.D., ibid., 2000. Courses Taught: HIST 427: Crime and Punishment in Modern Society, HIST 531: Modern Latin America, HIST 532: The Americas, HIST 600: Women and Gender in Latin America HIST 797: Senior Colloquium: Race, Gender, and Nation. Fields of Research: Latin America, history of science and medicine, women and gender, Atlantic history.

Civilizing Argentina

November 21, 2012

http://www.unh.edu/history/index.cfm?id=B6CEA200-07EA-CEBE-4C9607680336C585&startrow=36 Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State by Julia Rodriguez, University of North Carolina Press,…

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