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… 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 …

… 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. …

… from 1776. Nothing could be further from the truth. National identity is often constructed through the selective … of Ghent, and the War of 1812 which it ended, American national identity was created through forgetting the whole …

… In his  2024 State of the Union Address , President Joe Biden championed  a bipartisan … Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, deploying the Texas National Guard to apprehend migrants while restricting the … “illegals” to describe immigrants during the State of the Union Address, they should avoid depicting the region solely …

… with the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, made the future of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) … Vogel presents a Deng best described by three adjectives: nationalistic, pragmatic, and authoritarian. The China of …

… sphere. Early nineteenth-century British and American nationalists fancied their countries world liberators in the … 1921, Herbert Hoover organized a massive food drive for the Soviet Union, honoring the sacred-secular mission even as pacifism …

… brass plaques that provide minor details about victims of National Socialism are scattered around Berlin and are … the two world superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, was centered in Berlin. The country was famously …

… Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian-American relations, if not close, … and ideologies needed to compete in European international politics. In the usual course of events, the …

… Who are the Taliban? The question has confounded international society for more than a quarter century. Their … forged during a pivotal moment of Afghan history, the anti-Soviet jihad . A leftist coup in April 1978, known as the … When PDPA revolutionaries appeared to falter, the Soviet Union invaded in December 1979 to support them. However, the …

… clues to understanding us. In the first, on April 16, labor unions and environmentalists marched on Washington to protest the policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Environmentalists … In the spring of 1894, Jacob S. Coxey tried to arouse the national government to act against unemployment in the midst …

… allies and anti-Bolshevik forces in a series of schemes. Soviet secret agents lured him back in 1924, where he was … from the early 20th century. Boris Savinkov on trial in the Soviet Union, 1924. Vladimir Alexandrov, Emeritus Professor of …

… Cup in soccer was their fifth, well ahead of any other national team. In view of the tremendous competition … forms of political expression were illegal. In those days, national leaders promoted soccer as a healthy diversion for … and Euro-Brazilians — all rally around the banner of the national team. The shared obsession with soccer helps to …

… territorial concessions and recognition of Palestinian national claims to the land. A 1947 map illustrates the … the Zionist movement arose in Europe. The most influential nationalist movement of the Jewish people, Zionism based its … Zionist delegation in Jerusalem, 1900. Aspiring to create a national home for the Jews in their ancestral homeland, …