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… was long remembered is as a conflict between Wilsonian internationalists and so-called “isolationists.” According to … deeper American participation in global affairs and international organizations. The latter desired to isolate the … Supposedly, the isolationists represented a deeply rooted national sentiment that went back to George Washington’s …

… to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and heightened international tensions. The Gaza imbroglio has been the latest … saying) complex, combining conflicting land claims of rival nationalist movements, religious emotion, international strategic factors, and basic disagreements over the …

… later, in 1792, Congress created what was then a huge new national program when it passed the Postal Act. The act … transportation network necessary for this, it chartered the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad corporations. The … large-scale transportation projects that started with the Union and Central Pacific railroads and also included …

… reelection campaign in 1864 because of uneven support for a Union effort that critics called “a rich man’s war, a poor man’s fight.” The Union had adopted a draft but allowed men to avoid the army … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… supplier in the early 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He acquired a fleet of Soviet military aircraft … the weapons’ sales are legal in the context of shifting national and international law. Bout also exemplifies the …

… political norms, permanently altered the composition of national political coalitions, or revealed structural … between Breckinridge and John Bell, of the Constitutional Union party. Although Bell earned some votes in the lower … to the emerging Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Republicans therefore thought their nominee, …

… 23, 2011, I arrived for a morning of research in Senegal's national archives, in the coastal African country's capital … from the presidential palace and around the corner from the National Assembly. The night before, there were disturbances … years old and already in office for 11 years, had asked the National Assembly to approve two major revisions to the …

… he was jogging in Brunswick, Georgia. The clip sparked national outrage, especially since the local police … White jockeys also excluded black riders from their union. In 1900, jockeys in New York conspired to exclude … Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand for the National Anthem in 1996 to protest America's racism. Yet the activism …

… aspect of English-style liberal economics for their own nationalist ends.  This is not to say that Bryan dismisses … statist economic institutions, restrictions on trade, and nationalist ideology united in pursuit of the of the … away from the silver based (and French-led) Latin Monetary Union.  In the United States, where coining silver halted in …

… is on our side, President Bush assures us. Speaking at the National Cathedral on September 14, 2001, he declared that … evil.” The service ended with the singing of the Civil War anthem, “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” To rid the world of … the presence of slave states such as Kentucky in the Union required that he temper his convictions with …

… the standard U.S. musket and decided there was “risk to the national safety by adopting new inventions without being … limit gun possession. 8. Early Federal Legislation The National Firearms Acts of 1934 and 1938 required … through the U.S. postal system, Congress passed the National Firearms Acts of 1934 and 1938. These laws required …

… So far the Bush administration has wisely allowed the international community to take the lead in responding to the … been halting but still hold promise. Recently, European Union officials discussed diplomatic and economic sanctions … but he also thought he had a better idea. He believed Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev could be persuaded to take …

… most popular social welfare programs." (p. 2). Indeed, the National School Lunch Program has been loved and hated by … II, Levine argues that nutrition was viewed as "a matter of national defense." National security during the war and postwar eras depended …

… articulated in a seminal Cold War document produced by the National Security Council in 1950, declared the importance of pushing the Soviet Union back from those territories conquered in the last …

… re-emerged in 1915 at Stone Mountain, GA and grew into a national organization in the 1920s. During the Civil Rights … Illustrated Newspaper ( right ). In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President … captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black …

… Europe and the Americas, Yehudai provides a fresh transnational perspective on the critical period surrounding the … and the Americas, Dr. Yehudai provides a fresh, transnational perspective on the critical period surrounding the … the boundaries may put themselves in conflict with the national project. And because of national anxieties, …

… reminder of the dynamics and consequences of extreme nationalism, the long legacies that acts of violence leave … Bosnia’s secession triggered a sharp intensification of nationalist rhetoric among the republic’s political … and rump Yugoslavia. As the conflict spread, divisive nationalist rhetoric and acts of mass violence escalated …

… Party, were two major organizations that were the earliest national organizations to support women's suffrage. So it … who initially worked with suffrage organizations like the National Association. So that was like Susan B, Anthony and … from the anti-slavery movement, the WCTU ... the Temperance Union. And it heightens the idea that women and women voters …

… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in Western allies and was potentially open to the Soviet Union. And also the wealth, the mining wealth in Congolese …

… established the secret service in London in 1573, the first national intelligence organization in England’s history. … a network that aided in the escape of hundreds of Union prisoners and Confederate deserters. The Richmond … President Harry S. Truman only shared the information with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, part of the wartime alliance, …

… So Indigenous Peoples Day marks that turn towards internationalism. But then, of course, it gets taken up in the … only provide an Indigenous perspective of, you know, the national holiday of Thanksgiving. But they really felt seen …

… harbor, past Confederate fortifications, and to the Union fleet blockading the city. The architect of this … and courage would go on to make him important to the Union war effort and, afterwards, one of the most … political career by serving as a delegate to the Republican National Convention . At the end of the conflict, thousands …

… rights movement, Governor Orval Faubus dispatched Arkansas National Guard troops to prevent black students from … recent nativist statute, after the American Civil Liberties Union, NAACP, Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund and others … about the optimal degree of local autonomy in a system of national immigration rules, date to the very beginnings of …

… since 1945: How that idea helped to construct the European Union; what its chief architects wanted the E.U. to be; what … twentieth century - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, … countries now includes 27 member states. The European Union's population stands at 500 million with a combined GDP …