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… example of politically motivated historical revisionism completes the task begun by John Ashcroft in 2001 in his … process of amending the Constitution. Distorting the past for ideological reasons is unacceptable, in the cause … gun control.  Saul Cornell, a writer for the History News Service, is an associate professor of history and director …

… Since the economic crisis we’re now in is being compared to the Great Depression, the solutions being … Deal made to the structure of our economy brought the cycles of the economy under better control; and, finally, the … created as part of the New Deal. Most important, with the passage of Social Security in 1935 future generations of …

… recede. In their place emerged a fierce brand of political combat that regarded private life as a legitimate field of … and Woodrow Wilson  escaped from the sort of humiliation visited on Grover Cleveland. Neither did insiders remark … Blackout History Project , is a writer for the History News Service. …

… advertising–presumably this would apply to businesses now competing the have the biggest flag in the neighborhood. One … to think about a new flag code to replace the one they once passed and promptly forgot. They could review existing rules … Carolina at Chapel Hill and a writer for the History News Service. …

… it. Halfway through his first term, he secretly decided to complete American troop withdrawals around election time. … for the president and his party, continuing the war posed less risk politically than ending it. We can't know Bush's … edu , and is a writer for the History News Service. …

… After all, American society is now among the world's most complex. In a nation of such diverse origins, practices and … were imposed by the abhorrent Sedition Act of 1798. It was passed during the republic's infancy, when foreign threats … in Washington, D.C., was co-founder of the History News Service. He is most recently the editor of A Century of …

… This past summer the American public awoke to the spectacle of … while other jurisdictions declared these children unwelcome. A U.S. Border Patrol poster placed around the border … was contributed by unauthorized residents, has been deposited into the “Earnings Suspense File” of the Social …

… as the old age pension program), became untouchable. Their commitments were sacred. Their recipients were unequivocally … to the political and fiscal appeal of social insurance. The passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 replicated the … at the University of Iowa and a writer for the History News Service. He is the author of "Dead on Arrival: The Politics …

… of personal virtue, but not a sufficient basis for a sound comprehensive energy policy,” he turned his back on a major … seem to overlook is its critique of Americans’ past environmental conduct. Conservationists abhorred the … College in Los Angeles and a writer for the History News Service. …

… never set. How did these backward ninth-century Europeans accomplish all this? The obvious answer is "science and … divided space into numbers. The maps overflowed with compass bearings, depth measurements, tide tables and even the … at Urbana-Champaign and a writer for the History News Service. His radio commentaries on "Engineering & Life" are …

… The numbers of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe pouring into Ellis Island were the largest the United States … United States, built on its Anglo-Saxon heritage, could accommodate large numbers of Slavs and Italians whose … demagogues. Dino E. Buenviaje writes for the History News Service and is a graduate student at the University of …

… magazine and talking about upholding the law against lynchers, decided to take a stand. When black World War I … a history that had been consigned to oblivion for the past 75 years," according to the distinguished historian … survivors from Swiss banks, which had retained money deposited before the war by the survivors' families; and the two …

… "more faithful" to Israel than the United States. But these comments have drawn a negative reaction from the most blacks … mentions God, and do George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and to a lesser extent Al Gore. In fact, as far as a sizable portion … University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, …

… to the world that people of any religious faith would be welcome. To Penn we owe our freedom of religion. Penn was a … was upheld. Since then, Mormons have managed an uneasy compromise with the rest of the nation. In return for … the state. The sect has grown and expanded as a result. The lesson of Mormon history would seem to be clear: keep the …

… is likely to run again. So relevant "experience" is hard to come by.This presidential season, everybody is talking about … Lincoln. As a one-term backbench congressman, Lincoln had less relevant experience than Obama or Palin. Lack of … historian in Houston and a writer for the History News Service. …

… a national security threat. While the order legally encompassed Germans and Italians, in practice only the … there are large clusters of Arab-Americans in Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and Brooklyn, they live in all states. … History News Service …

… Delaware Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell's recent comment–wondering whether “separation of church and state” … in 1784, but which the Virginia legislature rejected before passing Jefferson's broadly tolerant Statute for Religious … "the free exercise thereof."   No other nation, much less a new one, had ever dared divorce religion from …

… to resolve the issue in 1876 through a special Electoral Commission and a resulting complex set of commitments that … the so-called "butterfly ballot," in which punch holes for the voting machines ran down the middle of the … University-Billings, and a writer for the History News Service. …

… Both sides have long known that the solution lay in compromise and talks have endured intermittently, and … will also have to give up the idea of a greater Tibet encompassing the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai and … (2nd edition, 1996), and a writer for the History News Service. …

… Now Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., who chairs the Senate committee looking into Clinton’s fund-raising, has joined … attempt to introduce a bill. Congress did not get around to passing a disclosure bill until after Roosevelt had left … historian in Washington, D.C., writes for the History News Service. …

… that Eisenhower did the responsible thing when he quickly completed the truce negotiations that ended the fighting in … border of the People’s Republic of China at the Yalu River, communist China entered the war and almost drove the UN … Did Ronald Reagan “cut and run” in 1983 after 241 American servicemen died in Beirut in the suicide bombing of the …

… children. What is different today is the often fatal outcomes of children's brutality towards one another, owing to … limitations of that perspective, too. Though the march's website invites "mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, … violence, protect children and offer a vision of a more compassionate and just social order. Jodi Vandenberg-Daves is …

… the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. The comparison is appropriate. In both cases an attack without … the recent hijackers. He did not concentrate on the mass butchery of innocents or on destroying symbols of American … in Greeley, and he is a writer for the History News Service. …

… urbanization in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific states had passed that in the older parts of the nation.   Even Sarah … sprawling suburbs on the Colorado plains, and multi-ethnic communities in Los Angeles, perhaps ending up with a latte … State University, Ore., and a writer for the History News Service. …