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Banning of hijab as an example of cultural-colonization

  Almost six months before Reza Khan Pahlavi banned hijab for Iranian women on January 8 1936, an important and related event took place in Iran known as the "Goharshad Mosque uprising" on July 13 1935.

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A group of South Vietnamese army soldiers and an American soldier with two captured Vietcong suspects, in Plaines des Joncs, South Vietnam.Credit...Tim Page/Corbis, via Getty Images

Was America’s war in Vietnam a noble struggle against Communist aggression, a tragic intervention in a civil conflict, or an imperialist counterrevolution to crush a movement of national liberation?

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