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… During the vice-presidential debate of 1988, Republican nominee Dan … evenly, “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy!”   When Republicans singled out Barack Obama’s income-tax …

… with two planners, were hanged.  One of those executed was Aleksandr Ulyanov.  Conspirator:  Lenin in Exile , by Helen Rappaport, describes the personal … in the south of Paris.  Then, in the summer of 1912, when an upsurge in workers' protests led to a momentary …

… It can occasionally be a difficult issue to finesse. I was presiding over a classroom of about twenty undergraduate … students, trying desperately to moderate a discussion on the legacies of the civil rights movement. It started the … extensively on urban politics and liberalism, his new book, When Affirmative Action Was White (2005), jumps into the …

… Patrick Potyondy interviews historian Alice Conklin about the history and mass appeal of socialism in France . ( Image … France. But you argue for a sense of historical perspective when it comes to evaluating the election. What is France's … So at the moment of liberation in France in 1946, there was a real commitment on the part of people who'd been in …

… At a time when the president of the United States has the nation involved … a trial now underway in Mississippi takes us back to a time when state-sponsored terrorism existed in the United States. … had been tried a century before, in the 1860s. The result was more than a half million people killed. Slavery ended, …

… Jason Kessler, a former journalist and current member of the ultra-nationalist group the Proud Boys, planned a “Unite … face down the hundreds of torchbearers,” according to the  Washington Post . The white nationalists circled the counter … of a covered Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, VA. When police finally arrived, the violence had already begun. …

… Although polls show that two-thirds of the American public thinks that the war in Iraq is a … president wishes to continue. This institutional limitation was demonstrated thirty-five years ago when Congress tried to stop President Nixon’s bombing of …

… By a lopsided margin, the U.S. House has approved a bill to prevent the Supreme … involving the Pledge attracted much attention two years ago when a federal appeals court ruled that the phrase "under … The most explicit exercise of such congressional authority was at the end of the Civil War. Then, the clash between …

… Many Democrats are wringing their hands over the defeat of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, whose … with the enemy and even with betrayal is hardly new. When Wisconsin’s Republican Sen. Robert La Follette blocked … his own party. During the peak of the pro-war frenzy he was spat upon in public and burned in effigy. But even …

… up to Western culture. The 1957 Moscow Youth Festival was a revelation for citizens of a country with sealed … and creativity” to places far beyond Moscow and Leningrad via radio and print. While cultural works traveled … Diplomacy/International Relations … Intellectual History … When the Soviets Domesticated the West …

… This lesson plan helps students recognize how the government affects their everyday lives and ponder what … while showing them the differences between a capitalist and socialist economy. They experience first-hand the … you can add the  presentation  to your library. … Big-time Bureaucratic Brouhaha …

… sensitive” war on terrorism. Cheney told a Dayton, Ohio, gathering on Aug. 12 that none of America’s victories in war … MacArthur. It turns out that Cheney is dead wrong. It was their very sensitivity in conducting war that made … record also reveals the baseless nature of Cheney’s claim. When Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia surrendered …

… California has something to offer the nation as it comes to terms with last month’s Supreme … the class-action suit claimed that the State of California was denying thousands of California students their … right to a meaningful education. Ever since the 1840s, when the United States began building public education …

… President Bush’s widely publicized reference in his State of the Union address to an “axis of evil” has frightened and … … Diplomacy/International Relations … World War II / WWII … When the Axis Was Truly Evil …

… In all the heated words about the Iraq war, we’ve heard little or … although the number of people earning $2 million then was minuscule. To pay for World War II, Congress expanded … the Vietnam war. The most impressive wartime financing ever was by President Bush’s father, George H. W. Bush, in the … … U.S. Laws and Legislation … Who Will Pay for Iraq and When? …

… -who Should You Thank -when You Zip It Up? It wa~ ~ late Augus:, 1893 that American inventor Whitcomb Judson first received the patent for hls clasp-locker. Today, after years of … your sleeping bag without it. In its beginning, the zipper was conceived as a replacement for the long button-hooked …

… This is the story of a world turned upside down. So begins The … at Yorktown. As much as the victory by the colonials was a rebuke to conventional wisdom so the battle of Adwa was to European attitudes towards Africans during the Age of … … Italy … Military/War/Peace … Ethiopia … When Ethiopia Stunned the World …

… Because we forget that the United States was once considered a rogue nation … … Nicaragua … Terrorism … Middle East … Saudi Arabia … When America Was Considered a Rogue Nation …

… seeking to alter course, Americans may wonder why the president remains so determined. They should look to the … consider the case of Cuba. From 1898 to 1959, America was steadfast in Cuba – and the result was disastrous. Much … … Military/War/Peace … What Happened When We Stayed the Course in Cuba …

… 2019 was an important anniversary year, not only in the history of the United States but also for the genesis of … … Economics/Business/Trade … Early Modern … Slavery … When Free Trade Meant Something Else …

… Two minutes after the polling stations closed, we knew the winner. France has … top of the head appeared on the screen, the people's choice was instantly recognizable: in a record voter turnout (80%), … rival. And another victory quickly followed a month later when the Socialists and their allies also won an absolute …

… months later in October, Bolshevik forces led by Vladimir Lenin seized power, establishing the world's first state … for other revolutionary movements in the world. It was the first attempt to build socialism and the Marxist … of vision for how the modern world could be created. And when that became tremendously popular mean, by the time we …

… his new book, "Silent Spring Revolution," which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties … in the Nevada desert and the Marshall Islands. Not only was nuclear fallout a public health menace, but entire … for me to be in this building. And I've had flashbacks when I'm in Dulles of conversations with Warren Van Tyne and …

… make headlines for controversial reasons such as in 2016 when the Cincinnati Zoo shot and killed a gorilla after a … And the purpose of these menageries at its very origin was to display not only animals, but power and wealth with … interesting history and trajectory. The history of the Leningrad and Moscow Zoos and World War Two is particularly …