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… economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the … played in McKinley's decision for war. The senator's visit and interventionist bent hardly made him distinct. … early post-Cold War world, America possessed a relatively free hand in global affairs. Not surprisingly, the 1990s …

… Both were born on February 12, 1809 — Darwin into a comfortable family in Shropshire, England, Lincoln into humble … when he promised that the war would bring “a new birth of freedom”; he was even more emphatic about it in his second … History News Service … Bicentennial for Two Great Emancipators …

… Doug Dangler  From the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing at The Ohio State … Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … enjoyed being here.   Doug Dangler  For more Writers Talk visit www.writers talk.org.   …

… a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed … Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that … in History Program, and President of the Association for Jewish Studies. Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator) is an …

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in Beijing’s … through the 1980s they had been calling for greater freedoms. These students followed in a long tradition of the … reported that only a few family members were allowed to visit the graves, and Zhang Xianling of the Tiananmen …

… of the other rankings in the top ten — Bill Clinton (3), for example, outpolled George Washington (7) — seem unlikely … immortality. A better approach than polling is to compare Reagan with past presidents who are now regarded as … attract voters and to secure support for his programs. He freely acknowledged his debt to television, remarking, “I’ve …

… advanced to the semifinals of the Men’s Cricket World Cup for the first time, winning a stunning victory over the 2021 … time that the United States hosted an international cricket competition. In fact, the first international cricket game … racially mixed teams from competing abroad and required visiting international teams to be composed of only white …

… Regime change is a trendy new term for an old and special kind of intervention, the kind … enormous social changes democracy requires: guarantees of free expression and individual rights, protection of private … property, the rule of law, a willingness to make political compromises and to accept the outcome of free elections. In …

… corruption scandals, doping controversies and rampant commercialism have done so little to dent the popularity of … up by Soviet and East German athletes were a sign that the "Free World" was in danger of losing to communism. This … to showcase the achievements of Nazism, and many foreign visitors were impressed by the gleaming new stadiums and the …

… about the dynamics of the debate over guns. Polling data for decades have shown that most Americans favor stronger … Amendment does not prohibit robust gun regulation, it compels it. Today’s gun rights ideology is antithetical to … much talked about recently in this debate: a right to be free from the fear of gun violence. What does all of this …

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … chaos. Second and more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of … Poles and Swedes. He imposed compulsory education in the latest military, naval, and administrative techniques upon …

… Quakers, led by Francis Daniel Pastorius, made the first efforts to discourage slavery. Those protests gathered … against slavery. But they found it difficult to break free from the constraints of their communities, for many churches, political parties and laws …

… This is a book to argue with.  For political junkies and arm-chair pundits, this is the … a table with friends and fight over.  I mean that as a high compliment, since there are far too many books out there, … book with Robert Taft – offered little more than an updated free-market fundamentalism; socially, they clung to notions …

… when asked about the U.S. administration’s vocal support for the beleaguered opposition to the Venezuelan government, … century, officials sometimes demonstrated a broad commitment to republican and democratic principles. For … Yet in other instances, policymakers’ professions of freedom and democracy were expedients to cover instances in …

… 300,000 Black people gathered in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park for the Harlem Cultural Festival, a series of concerts … Mongo Santamaría and Style in Harlem.   1969 was a complex moment. Even as the festival affirmed the victories … vision of a festival whose artists engaged with the Black freedom struggle in their performances. These included B.B. …

… new book Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam is primarily a political and diplomatic … Le Duan and Le Duc Tho, the police state they and their comrades built in the North to solidify their power and … during the mid- to late-1960s, Le Duan enjoyed a relatively free hand in expanding and prolonging the war against the …

… of Tibet. They demand that President Clinton act forcefully to compel China to change its policies toward Tibet. This … this compromise would be granting true autonomy to Tibet, freeing political prisoners, halting Chinese migration to … History News Service …

… was in a part an academic exercise, it was also an effort to reclaim pieces of a family’s experience that was … So they tended to do a lot of, you know, a lot of the free labor to keep the school running, so washing clothes, … programs all throughout the year so definitely make sure to visit our website mcc.osu.edu. And we have a whole calendar …

… of Ethiopia and Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 2019, for not only instigating the conflict but for stoking its … peace. At his inaugural ceremony in 2018, he counseled a complete break with the past forms of governance that were … within his own Oromo ethnic community. He has given free rein to ethnic separatist groups to run roughshod over …

… your hand if you watch the annual Oscar awards primarily for the fashion show, not for the movie prizes. If so, you … of widespread fashion magazines, which allowed styles to be communicated quickly to the masses. For example, Godey’s … to a stiff societal structure from which they had broken free, and that freedom was reflected in dress. Rigidly …