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… European Languages and Cultures and Director of the Center for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies. This lecture is a part of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies' … this involves replacing a state run planned economy with a free market economy. The transition was very difficult. It …

… resentment of the Northern occupiers, brutally suppressed freedmen’s rights and eventually overthrew Northern-imposed … In Iraq today, humiliation under the coalition forces sparks a mounting hatred of their presence and a … hospitality shown to his relatives — with tacit American compliance. Or Osama bin Laden’s operatives could have been …

… over Enron’s collapse will revitalize campaign finance reform and deliver gains in the fall elections. Shredded … public interest. Neither did Whitewater in the 1990s. Commentators can’t decide whether Americans are too … end of Adams’s life in 1826, politicians and judges were freeing incorporated businesses from their obligations under …

… suffering a "bad case of footnote paranoia" (291).  While completing a last minute source review before sending her previous book 1 to the press, she … about the Australian countryside, obtaining free room and board from the landowners unlucky enough to …

… the violence had already begun. But the worst was yet to come. Saturday’s rally was scheduled to start at noon, but … in Georgia. A view of the carvings on Stone Mountain, the visitor center, and the surrounding park ( left ). A … of violence had circulated for weeks before the massacre. Freedmen occupied the Colfax Courthouse, using it as a …

… columnist David Brooks called the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh a “nadir” in … John Marshall’s seat, he was able at long last to overcome the strong objection of the Whigs during his third, and … Scott v. Sanford  (1857) decision, which held that neither free nor enslaved African Americans were U.S. citizens, and …

… world watched in amazement as events in Eastern Europe transformed the planet. Socialist states that had looked a … Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora … were serious demonstrations on formerly Lenin square, now Freedom Square. And there were people who were dying, not …

… Yet there's every reason to believe that the president's visit, even coupled with European sanctions, will not … With Bush's presidency close to an end, time is running out for concrete agreements between his administration and … to Iran in 2007. Switzerland's Swiss EGL energy trading company recently completed a forty-two billion dollar …

… Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to … and significant aspects: its promotion of film as a vehicle for raising the people’s consciousness, inspiring their efforts at social transformation, and articulating a new …

… WWII, the United States began to boldly pursue a global community modeled upon American political, economic, and … a claim to international prestige by encouraging a drug-free nation, much like Japan did in the aftermath of the … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… th century—the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism throughout Eastern Europe . The opening of the … as East Berliners were able to travel to West Berlin for the first time since the Wall was constructed in 1961. … many, the demise of communism confirmed the superiority of free-market capitalism over the command economies of Eastern …

… plans to reduce the staff of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to 15 people and move … in the beginning of 2025, still working in the name of the commitment that President John F. Kennedy had made in 1961 … to build “a world in which all nations and all peoples are free to govern themselves as they see fit, and to achieve a …

… 29, 2012, newly appointed General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping gave a speech that would … to Western “neoliberal” economies with their deregulation, free trade, marketization, privatization, free flow of … if couched in the language of censure—could prompt visitors to the exhibit today to reflect on the injustice …

… opposite sides of the battle between the Hong Kong Police Force and the criminal Triads. For the movie’s two leads, … that has rocked Hong Kong in recent weeks. On World Press Freedom Day in April 2019, members of the Hong Kong … returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He …

… Humans weren’t around when volcanoes formed Iceland’s unique island landscapes some 20 million … been interwoven with human history. Although the data are incomplete, over 170 volcanic eruptions have been recorded in … of almost 10% per year since 2000. The number of annual visitors doubled between 2000 and 2010, when half a million …

… the “uncivil” nature of our recent political debates. For Carter and others, attacks on the personal character of … recede. In their place emerged a fierce brand of political combat that regarded private life as a legitimate field of … and Woodrow Wilson  escaped from the sort of humiliation visited on Grover Cleveland. Neither did insiders remark …

… ancient Greece and Rome? What are the consequences of this for our understandings of the ancient era? And what should … Eileen McCoskey , Donna Zuckerberg , and Curtis Dozier . For more on this topic, see: Denise Eileen McCoskey - … really interrogating these complicated ideas. I mean, freedom is a great one. You know, we, the Greeks, and many …

… Republic of China and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin's recent visit to New York triggered a new rendition of a familiar … abysmal human rights record. Jiang and other Chinese Communist Party officials countered that Americans are too … sect, they typically present it is an issue of religious freedom. This plays well in Peoria but not so well in …

… , and Katherine Marino . Find out why it stalled and how for nearly a century the ERA has garnered both passionate … aspect of it, I think, and other panelists, feel free to chime in, but from my understanding, the Equal … happen legislatively and congressionally if we do have to revisit this 35 state versus 38 state timeframe. I agree, of …

… U.S. military interventions, the PRI, the Spanish acronym for the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party, has … of the end of the PRI domination. The North American Free Trade Agreement came into effect and transformed … as the sole arbiter of labor and political issues. The concomitant opening of the markets hurt several domestic giants …

… it mildly. Socialism, at least in the United States, has become a byword among Republicans for fiscally irresponsible … social security system that remains the envy of most visitors—and the pride of most French citizens. It … providing generous state subsidies, maternity leave, and free infant healthcare to poor mothers. In every other …

… Revolution--and learn that women in America have never been completely united.  … this political engagement, this active participation in freeing the New America from England, women expected some … to Seneca Falls, lived on the Seneca reservation. She was visiting the Seneca reservation in early summer and was …

… so doing he has tilted against the Constitution.  During a visit to Syracuse, N.Y., late in October, Bush claimed that “state law reigns supreme when it comes to Indians, whether it be gambling or any other … by a group calling itself the “United States National Freedom Fighters.”  Gov. Bush could have lent his support to …

… hard to fit into the nation’s triumphalist mythology. For one thing, it was a misbegotten war. Lacking today’s fast communications, Washington didn’t learn until after the … States entered a major new phase in its history: It was now free to spread westward, unmolested. That, however, proved a …