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… Because of its indeterminacy?  No. Its singular distinction comes from the fact that never before have both the popular … of either the nation's informal popularity contest or its official Electoral College count. This disturbing outcome … thwart the popular will when one candidate garners the requisite number of electoral votes in states that are evenly …

… capabilities. And after he made a public attack on official air policies, he was court-martialed in 1925 and … to support their own operations, but Army Air Force commanders tried instead to amass all the planes they could … is that what we have seen in Yugoslavia is likely to become the pattern for future U.S. interventions. But there is …

… evening, his well-deserved vindication will probably never come. Thrust into a difficult situation — one he handled … Nixon would not be prosecuted for any crimes he might have committed. Forever afterward, Ford was dogged by charges … for Ford’s reputation to rebound. The rebound has never come. Invariably, in every poll and book and study, he is …

… drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout … emotional support of Virginia’s ban on cross-burning. The incoming governor of Georgia meanwhile ponders whether to … brought national largesse to Mississippi. In doing so, he compromised his own supposed aversion to the federal …

… Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of plutonium, visited Richland, Washington, and the adjacent Hanford Nuclear … attends Operation Plumbbob as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1968 (left). The nuclear reactors at the Hanford … to celebrate the bomb. As Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) throughout the 1960s, he was perhaps the …

… would help define American life for generations to come. In 1964, the relatively new musical genre of rock and … in race music and began to provide more of these records to complement the demand. Radio DJs like Alan Freed started … the opinions of the record executive, Mitch Miller, who complained in 1958, “Much of the juvenile stuff pumped over …

… The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in 1993, but encompasses a long history of African American and African … diaspora through technoculture and science fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared …

… dissent between Crimea's pro and anti-Russian populace is compounded by Russia's refusal to respect its border laws. … attention internationally, as European and American officials work together to decide what to make of Russian …

… law into the 21st century by lifting the ban. Behind the official ban on open gay military service lies a policy that … because of stereotypes of effeminacy. Military men caught committing sodomy faced courts-martial. During World War II, … carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex.” Gays were seen as vulnerable to blackmail and …

… spread to the Spanish conflict. Robles went to his death a committed Stalinist, but to shroud the reality of the purges, Stalinist officials declared that Robles had been shot as a fascist spy. Dos Passos was politically astute and a committed leftist though not a declared Stalinist. …

… condescending expletive phrases directed at U.S. government officials, Chávez is emblematic of a new type of leader in … Brazil and Chile, are not populists. Consequently, the most common definition of populism in political science today … to "the people." In other words, populism is a way of competing in elections and governing once in office that …

… Eric Michael Rhodes  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together … their military regimes, Brazil only established its own official truth commission in 2014 under Dilma Rousseff, who … Rhodes, song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website …

… hands in public, embracing at an airport, or from being comfortable in workplaces where heterosexual family photos … or real homosexuality has a long history. Much before the official terms and classifications of heterosexual and … signals of same-gender love. This culture has a deep and complicated history as the Freemasons engraving and poem …

… - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient … European Union's population stands at 500 million with a combined GDP of $16 trillion outpacing the U.S. by $2 … who held positions in the European Union were technocratic officials first and foremost and public figures almost …

… because they married in the 1790s before her divorce had officially become final. He won the election anyway, but she died of a … Washington boarding house and causing her first husband to commit suicide out of shame over her supposed blatant sexual …

… miles in a straight line).  Plans for the women’s flight commenced three months earlier in August 1938. Valeriy … date to late September. By the time she recovered, a state commission recommended canceling the flight due to poor … nighttime operations in low-flying planes.  Women could not officially enter other divisions of the military until April …

… bloody civil war that lasted almost 15 years, from 1965 to official independence in 1980.   Political factors complicated matters. Since the early 1960s, the British … rule, a move that was condemned by the international community. In response, members of the United Nations (UN) …

… about this theory. What is originalism? Where did it come from? Is it a good or workable theory of constitutional … two of the co-authors of The Federalist , the contemporary commentary on the Constitution they published, disagreed … Massachusetts put down the rebellion suggests that the Shaysites’ views were not universally admired or emulated, …

… atomic bombing of two Japanese cities. Most reporters and commentators who write about Hiroshima and Nagasaki … The claim of "military necessity," he argued, rang hollow. Official justifications would "never erase from our minds … A few months later, one of the most popular radio commentators during the war years, Raymond Swing, declared …

… our more prominent pundits have actually repeated, and thus compounded, the movie star’s error. The bogus quotation … collected works or certified recollected words. His official biographer called the statement, which began … Central Railroad, one of the largest and most “insolent” commercial interests of the era. As a devoted member of the …

… there’s something empty about such reverence if our elected officials ignore key grants of power. Take the case of the … 2, Section 2, couldn’t be clearer: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United … there any grant of the sweeping powers now claimed for the commander in chief. Indeed, the congressional power to …