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… history. Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, complained that the CBS script contains language … very nature, interpretive. Dramatic representations of the past always contain inventions, because the creators of … culture and politics, and is a writer for the History News Service. …

… so that all Jews could go back to biblical ways. The Ten Commandments are mute about gay marriage. Males in a homosexual union are at least less likely than … Massachusetts ruling, that might ultimately lower current passions. It would completely remove the state from the …

… Adams’s hunger for posterity’s approval, he would doubtless be pleased, if also appalled that history is now more … all, to effect mental, moral, and national improvement. Commitment to improvement of self and nation motivated … in the House of Representatives from 1831 until his death, service that began shortly after his unsuccessful one-term …

… are uncertain. The only documentary evidence of the event comes from the journal of Plymouth Colony’s governor, Edward … for a feast that lasted four days. No one worried about cholesterol or obesity in 1621! Though they don’t have much … as the myth has it, sit down at tables, bless their food or pass the serving dishes. It’s more likely that food was set …

… enact this substantial change to Title I. This 35-year-old compensatory education legislation has failed to reach its … effect, it will destroy the liberty of the people.” This past decade has been anomalous. Both presidents Bush (the … and the editor of the Federal Education Policy History website. He is the author of "Failing Grades: The Federal …

… had done as First Lady. This impressive list of projects encompasses domestic causes from historic preservation to Katrina … policy. Catherine Allgor, a writer for the History News Service, is a professor of history and a Presidential Chair … History News Service …

… had done as First Lady. This impressive list of projects encompasses domestic causes from historic preservation to Katrina … policy. Catherine Allgor, a writer for the History News Service, is a professor of history and a Presidential Chair … History News Service …

… atmosphere. The second fact will be relearned in the coming weeks as we emerge from our shock at this tragedy and … than have died in shuttle accidents. One reason for the lesser mortality among astronauts is that the very high cost … cost will, again, be in the billions. For comparison, a 747 passenger plane costs about $150 million. The annual budgets …

… not only for preserving government records of the past, but also for making them available to the public. This … Assassination Records, and now the files of the 9-11 commission. Decisions about access to these materials should … the Ivory Tower (2005), and a writer for the History News Service. He is also a professor of history at the University …

… President Obama went to Egypt ten days ago to create common ground between America and Islam. In the process he … and respect.” But, along with this plea to rectify a past filled with violence and intolerance, he rewrote early American-Islamic history to create a mythic past of friendship and tolerance.   The president no doubt …

… to expand NATO is based on an outdated crusade against communism, a crusade launched against the Soviet Union in … of NATO is not only unnecessary, it is based on devotion to past anti-communist cliches. In addition, based on the … University (Athens, Ohio) and a writer for the History News Service. …

… is long gone. He’s rolled the dice on an ambitious but treacherous health care agenda whose passage is far from certain. He operates within a poisonous … They have shown no inclination toward the kind of compromise that characterized President Reagan on issues …

… Hiroshima, the personal pilot of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, recorded in his … weapons to end World War II cannot easily be defended. The passage of time has done nothing to alter these considered … judgments. Uday Hohan, a writer for the History News Service, is a graduate student at American University who is …

… by hostile states or require an open-ended U.S. military commitment to Iraq. In short, this issue is of crucial … to what this country has maintained in South Korea for the past 50 years. Either situation would be more expensive than … and Balancing" (2003) and is a writer for History News Service. …

… year of anticipating “Y2K” has served to remind us that the computers we call “personal” actually answer to specialized … these two famous blackouts. Yet large-scale power failures, past and present, also have something in common: they reveal … Blackout History Project , is a writer for the History News Service. …

… evening, his well-deserved vindication will probably never come. Thrust into a difficult situation — one he handled … was the best one available. But more than 30 years have passed since Gerald Ford left the White House. The anger of … University, Pomona, and a writer for the History News Service. …

… Congressman Dennis Kucinich has presented 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush to the House of … or the Republican who aspires to succeed him. If so, the outcome will reinforce conclusions previously drawn from the … or more precisely non-impeachments. The legacy of the past 40 years has, ironically and alarmingly, been a sense …

… several TR quotations — in Osawatomie, Kansas, the site of Roosevelt’s 1910 “New Nationalism Address.” … today might be explained, not by his policies, but by his passionate political style.  TR held strongly felt beliefs, … a Milwaukee auditorium to deliver a speech. True to his combative reputation, he insisted on speaking before going …

… Carter. By giving him this honor at this time, the Nobel Committee seized the opportunity to express its concern over … initiated toward Iraq. Both the timing and the citation accompanying the prize hinted at more than Carter's undisputed … Wilson got his for displaying leadership at the 1919 Versailles Conference after World War I. These awards came at the …

… the need for savings versus the need for resources for the common good.  For many of today's issues — such as Internet … question of how much property the dead should be allowed to pass on to their children.  For us, it is partly a fiscal … farmers and landless men on whom it depended for military service, Virginia banned primogeniture and entail in 1777. …

… his party's $12.6 million, thanks to the Federal Election Commission, which ruled in a recent 5-1 decision that … but historical parallels suggest that their time has passed. In criticizing the International Monetary Fund, for … University South Bend and is a writer for the History News Service. …

… and state corrupted both institutions. The state risked becoming subject to religious controversies that would … church to a "civil master." In the Revolutionary era the lessons of history, the ideals of the Revolution, the … University in Bellingham and a writer for the History News Service. …

… part of government in a deliberative republic, in which dispassionate, informed, independent Electors — members of a … called the Electoral College, not average people given to passionate opinions — would be the final decision makers. … With charges of fraud flying, Congress set up an electoral commission to settle the issue of who would be the next …