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… ticket, join us as we trace the bumpy road of women running for elected office.  … in Episode 3, prominent feminists believed that the only way to enact real change for women was to increase the … of NOW, including Bella Abzug, offered tepid support at best and minimal financial backing. Ultimately losing the …

… over Enron’s collapse will revitalize campaign finance reform and deliver gains in the fall elections. Shredded … public interest. Neither did Whitewater in the 1990s. Commentators can’t decide whether Americans are too … of John Adams (who is so popular now among hardcover book buyers), tar and feathers, burned effigies and demolished …

… civilians in Punjab were shot by British soldiers under the command of the now infamous “Butcher of Amritsar.” British … , and enforce prohibitions on public gatherings. In this way, the British Raj could take credit for bringing … I am dying for my country. What greater honor could be bestowed on me than death for the sake of my motherland?” …

… since the 1970s, shaping the long transition in new ways.”  Windpower, like the windfarm above, has the … over the last four years.  The reasons for that are many, complex, and subject to change in the near and far future.  … innovation.  Others are not so sure this is the best approach , given the long-term aspects of such …

… the DPP for decades. The presidential election, held as always on a Saturday to encourage widespread voter … Taiwan (where Ma grew up and went to college), Ma has never visited the Chinese mainland. After graduating at the top of … and a historical legacy that involves patronage of Taiwan's best and brightest, the "old but new" KMT has learned how to …

… testifies to this fascination. William Shakespeare has become more than a brilliant playwright from … commuters themselves. Wells believes Shakespeare to be the best and most deservedly renowned of writers. For Wells … spread across Europe. Nineteenth-century romanticism gave way to Victorianism. Victorian scholarship brought more …

… 2000 and Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 2007, has come to the end of his legal term limit and must step down. … degraded image on the international stage. In this way, he remains a genuinely popular President. Even if he is … War, thought that a very strong Presidency would be the best means to prevent the Communists from taking power …

… liberation of Iraq, the White House tells us, is well under way. With Saddam Hussein’s regime destroyed, American forces will install a new representative government. … of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz dared to undertake a comprehensive land reform campaign, nationalize corporate …

… sides their full due, we will be honoring only a bloodless, comforting reflection of the whole troubling man.  Most … as two branches of the same root problem: the American way of life had become “thing-oriented” rather than … History News Service …

… Who is responsible for the plight of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez? Fidel Castro? … and poverty, Elian would almost certainly be on his way to U.S. citizenship today.   Before 1994, Cuban … fair to most Americans. After all, Fidel Castro was a Communist dictator. The United States had to open its doors …

… President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives — created to give religious groups tax … on Feb. 20. Behind the administration’s stated pious hopes for this project lies an unspoken fear that respect for … have a crisis of authority, this may prove a dangerous way to resolve it. The link between “faith-based …

… Hurricane Elena was responsible for the best meal I had as a college freshman. The 1985 hurricane … A local grocery store lost power and had to give away the stock of meat it couldn’t refrigerate. So my friends … . Young Hamilton survived this encounter and went on to become the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United …

… of their military forces for granted, such has not always been the case. Perhaps no historical event illustrates … successful defense of the Philippines was problematic at best. With the exception of one division of American … the mercurial personality of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. and Filipino forces. Overconfident …

… major headlines. China-watchers, journalists, and academics commemorated June 4—as the event is called for short—with articles and books, and with lectures and … times in unison to a monument for the martyred. In many ways, this year the Tiananmen vigil followed similar …

… Secessionist cause as just—a noble defense of the Southern way of life. For that he got a street named for him. … the place where they were located. The Army needed local “buy in” to build sprawling bases on large swaths of land to … moves from the Jim Crow era. The opportunity to change our common legacy rests fully in our hands. Renaming these bases …

… invaded the Jersey shore. In the summer of 1903, the always energetic Teddy Roosevelt rowed his wife around Oyster … view of wartime Washington. On most mornings, Lincoln commuted into the city, but during hot summer months his … president shut the doors of his cottage to uninvited visitors. Lincoln met with antiwar politicians while at the …

… shooting up, prices and the official record have parted ways.” Real inflation might be two to three times higher … where tourists and porteños (inhabitants of Buenos Aires) come to exchange currency. As one walks the streets, the … and market. Indeed, China has been more than willing to buy Argentine debt. In 2014 Argentina and China signed an …

… or paying $350 — big money back then. The wealthy could buy their way out of service while others marched off to risk death, a … draft exemption for college students. At the time, family income was the largest single determinant of who attended … History News Service …

… in the beginning of 2025, still working in the name of the commitment that President John F. Kennedy had made in 1961 … study of development. In doing so, they pulled the field away from economists, bringing in anthropologists, … promised that its economic and political model was the best path forward.  Kennedy warned that the United States …

… also proposed deploying advanced drug detection machines to combat the influx of fentanyl, which he claimed was … federal border patrol’s access. The seizure was Abbott’s way of taking control of border crossings, which he framed … under specific provisions. These cards enable Mexican visitors to stay in the United States up to 72 hours for …

… Three years ago, the Northridge earthquake showed us Californians that we live in a dangerous place. The quake took … and, most emblematic of all, toppled many of our freeways. As citizens of the Golden State, we live with the … and undervalued, the seismic program was still incomplete almost two decades later when Loma Prieta struck …

… North to share collections. Ironically, it was the shortcomings of a UNESCO convention that brought M’Bow to this … “pacification” of colonies by European military forces. The best known example is the plunder of the capital of the … as heritage. Although certain African objects always had an aesthetic appeal for western audiences, the …

… number of letters that prove he was no dummy. A historian’s complaint, however, is larger than chagrin at the number of … in America” on which it rested. When he began his run for the presidency in the late 1970s Americans could be said … its perceptions, values and policies. The comfortable old ways will no longer do. Reagan had an exemplar of this sort …

… their hometown. After being arrested again in 1963 while visiting relatives in Virginia, Mildred Loving wrote … Grey proved incorrect in the end; state governments found ways to define race. He was right, however, that the … Get Out  features white liberals with seemingly the best of intentions (“If I could, I would have voted for …