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… the alternatives Dolley offered us at the dawn of the national experiment. In the early days of the nation, few of … of California, Riverside. She is the author of "A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American …

… would include women, Susan B. Anthony moved on to form the National Women's Suffrage Association. Kimberly Hamlin So … of their followers in the group they formed, called the National Women's Suffrage Association, started to say that … however, some of the women in what was again called the National Women's Suffrage Association made a novel argument, …

… As the international community struggles to respond effectively to the … with the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union each primarily responsible for peace and order within …

… for the revolt had been laid by liberal and radical nationalists based in the cities. Together they forged a … later showed no sign of tolerating Iraqi self-government. Nationalist leaders watched with increasing alarm as British … Baghdad and the southern port city of Basra convinced nationalists in the capital that the moment was ripe for …

… socialism and communism that they watched develop in the Soviet Union. This was the era of McCarthyism, after all, in the … very active in Republican policy, but mostly in terms of national defense. She felt that the United States wasn't …

… who, in the peak Cold War years, had allied Cuba with the Soviet Union. But the exiles' relationship with Washington began … Castro. The powerful and conservative Cuban-American National Foundation, the political heavyweight of the many …

… Control , Steffen Rimner examines how this revision of international thinking came to be. The shift, as Rimner charts … and non-governmental organizations. They created an international movement against the opium trade. By broadening the … actors as diverse as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Sharada Saran (a school for girls in Bombay …

… on the basis of sex. Now, in an atmosphere of renewed national attention on issues affecting women, this proposed … the years, thinking about work changed in the 1960s, when union and wage-earning women came on board, and they reached … groups, supported it: religious institutions, labor unions, black civil rights organizations. It was truly a …

… representatives began in Frankfurt on March 31, and the new National Assembly met for the first time in St. Paul’s … would set the Confederation on a path toward a more unified national future, perhaps with the King of Prussia as the head of state. In the end, though, the National Assembly did not achieve those long-term goals and …

… is that? Because states will resist. Setting the date of national elections is one of the few powers that the … over election rules allows state politicians to influence national politics indirectly. Examples from both the recent … election guidelines. The threat of terrorists disrupting a national election might overwhelm this constitutional custom …

… They gave new insight into the convergence of an international network of business interests and the political … the system of colonial companies. The best known was the Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK, Mining Union of Upper Katanga), which controlled copper mines in …

… and promoted in recent propaganda. Why and how do nationalists in Europe and the U.S. draw contemporary … existing culture for the worse is a common view among white nationalists in the US, and existential fears of losing what … and promoted and recent propaganda. Why and how do nationalists in Europe and the US draw connections to …

… second time at the end of September 2015. Does Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or “BJP,” also spell a … Cold War, that gave anxiety to the US at times and to the Soviet Union at times. So that's the history that we're that were …

… in the Cold War struggles between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Congo provides the most striking example of this … had the disease. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi at the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in …

… leadership in France, dedicated to a conservative “National Revolution”—were to blame for the attack was hardly … Georges Kubler of France’s investigative body, the Sûreté Nationale, were determined to find out. And so begins … 1940. Less than a month later, on July 10, 1940, the French National Assembly would vote to end the Third Republic and …

… with foreign countries, notably the “big five”: France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and United Kingdom, and China. … leads off Chapter 1, “Before we delve into the murky international dimensions of this machinery, we need to understand …

… and turn-of-the-century California. Ultimately, a international perspective helps us to understand why the world … is the real spurred to both an effort to create an international drug control regime, but also some of the kind of … that's where you start to get the development of this international movement. It's both a formal and an informal …

… in agriculture included several well-funded international programs to share technology with small farmers and … consortium known as PERU-Hub. Participants included Peru’s National Agrarian University-La Molina, the University of … Oklahoma (OU), Utah State University, Purdue, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in …

… touches on his acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention. The night before, at the Cow Palace, he … the streets of his community,” he said in his State of the Union Message. Pledging federal assistance to local police … exploit prison labor eroded wage levels and weakened trade unions in certain industries. Widespread felon …

… Stephen Douglas, both from Illinois. Douglas was already a nationally-prominent Democrat who tried to tread a fine line … the Civil War as a chance to obtain freedom by fleeing to Union lines. “Emancipation Memorial” (1876) by Thomas Ball, … shown as remaining subservient and lacking personal agency. Union generals such as Benjamin Butler and John C. Fremont …

… a sense of presidential invulnerability in the conduct of national security policy. That legacy deeply compromises our … authority if it is justified by even shaky claims of national security necessity. McCain is already asserting … interpretation of presidential authority in matters of national security began to be quietly constructed, though …

… Marine forces poised to launch strikes from the sea against Soviet and Cuban forces at the height of the Cuban Missile … for the United States. In 1962, America and the Soviet Union came as close as they ever would to nuclear war. The … McCain on the right in an effort to appear strong on national defense, Obama should make the case that McCain has …

… seen Erdoğan as a useful foil to Turkey’s “deep state”—a union of authoritarian generals, judges, and government … With Istanbul under Allied occupation in 1921, an ad hoc national assembly in Ankara—the inland city which became … stimulus for these amendments came in the form of European Union accession negotiations, which began to heat up in the …

… not include women’s suffrage, and in 1869 they formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) to advocate for a … remained separate until 1890, when they merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). … local elections beginning in 1869, and Wyoming entered the union in 1890 as the first state with female suffrage. …