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… It therefore paved the way for legal recognition of gay and lesbian marriages there. The decision has already … had committed at least to eventual emancipation, slavery’s Southern supporters clung tenaciously to their “peculiar … forced many states to eliminate laws that essentially made African Americans second-class citizens. While the debate …

… Memories of the Vietnam War of the 1960s and 1970s hover over our occupation of Iraq like sullen … administration statements, shows no signs of abating. As in Southeast Asia decades ago, the casualty lists lengthen, and … as liberators and reformers any more than they were in Southeast Asia all those years ago. Instead, they have …

… experts from past administrations, Republicans and Democrats alike, who think they deserve deference. … to inform the naive, idealistic newcomers from the South about national interests and international relations. … civil and political rights in countries such as Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey. As a result, Carter lost his …

… “A Republic, Not an Empire,” Buchanan suggests that Britain and France should not have declared war against Germany in … “Western interests.” Support of the apartheid regime in South Africa was justified in terms of Cold War logic: the …

… Agency for International Development (USAID) to 15 people and move it fully under the control of the State … the hemisphere and to advance relations with  Central and South American countries .  But why stop there?  When … the new nations struggling for freedom across  Asia  and  Africa . They all wanted development, and Moscow promised …

… The Black Death was the second pandemic of bubonic plague and the most devastating pandemic … along trade routes throughout Eurasia and into sub-Saharan Africa. At the time, people thought that the plague came … a search for new ways to the East, making their way south along the African coast, launching an economic …

… As a result, after seven years, Canada’s military is tired and damaged, and the Canadian public is divided over whether … governments in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, he claimed, Ottawa could maximize its international …

… Saving the Union by defeating the Confederate army and being elected twice to the presidency is no longer good … represents a symbolic piece of the Republican Party’s “southern strategy,” using race as a wedge issue to attract … Nixon was the first Republican to capitalize on the southern strategy, but not the last. Reagan sneered at the …

… national convention. Five were nominated as third-party candidates, and two were eventually chosen as major-party … ratified 14 th and 15 th Amendments, which enfranchised African American men but not women (of any race or … of child care centers. In 1968, Chisholm became the first African American woman elected to Congress (and she hired an …

… nationally celebrated as heroes to listen to his authority and go home, the message is clear. Those with power will … those at home who had been barred from steady employment. African Americans, other racial minorities, and women … States became increasingly involved in an undeclared war in Southeast Asia, escalating military spending undermined …

… elections has been that conservatives are angry, motivated and poised for a major electoral triumph. Fuming, they … to vote. See how that one goes over!   Fifty years ago African Americans were routinely denied the right to vote … and were refused service in hotels and restaurants) by Southern states ruled by conservatives. That changed only …

… through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona. The provisions of … and removing the Acadians to the American colonies to the south. The response of the colonies to this early refugee … British delivered many of the most dangerous Acadians to South Carolina, for instance, where at first local …

… of 1812. Like all wars, this was a war filled with ironies and unintended consequences. It’s also a war that’s hard to … so did a great slave power. The Cotton Kingdom of the lower South was secured by Jackson’s victory. As slavery followed Americans southward and westward into new territory, the conditions …

… blockbusters, Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” and Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” are about, respectively, … some one million slaves were forcibly moved from the Upper South to the Deep South, 60 per cent of them through sale to traders. Like … The Law of Slavery Lies at the Heart of the Movies “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained” …

… On September 10, Indiana University President Myles Brand dismissed Indiana University's men's basketball coach … Communist North Korean troops launched a surprise attack on South Korea. There he devised a daring amphibious assault … Chinese intervention forced an ignominious retreat to the south, MacArthur tried to widen the war, pleading for …

… art form, combining spoken dialogue with music, song, and dance. For many, musical theater provides an escape from … Evangeline and Gabriel everywhere from the American West to Africa and adding in a dancing cow for good measure. … a critique of northern hypocrisy about slavery from South Carolina representative John Rutledge; and “Momma, …

… brought to the western hemisphere by European explorers and settlers. They quickly became incorporated into Native … pelts, like sea otter in the Northwest and deerskin in the Southeast, as well as slaves. Although the body of the book … historians have come to call “play-off diplomacy” in the Southeast to seek favorable trade negotiations and gifts …

… Greece embrace the enigmatic White Tower as their city’s landmark. Seventy-five feet in diameter, the earth-colored … provides a gathering place for Thessalonians on sunny days. African and Greek traders lay down blankets brimming with … in 1912, when troops from Athens and other areas of the south beat the Bulgarians to Thessaloniki by one day and …

… the Tea Party populists are claiming victory.  Their anger and insurgency fired up the conservative base, and the base … 19th century began in farm country, in the west and in the south, in the 1870s and '80s.  Farmers saw their livelihoods …  The Democratic Party, seeing some of its base in the South and West leaving for the Populists, decided that the …

… known, noncitizen voting is as old as the Republic itself and as American as apple pie and baseball. Noncitizens voted … intrinsically tied to citizenship, which is why women and African Americans — who were citizens — were widely denied … disenfranchisement associated with women prior to 1920 and African Americans before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. …

… a massive opportunity to reform one of the most outdated and anti-majoritarian practices in American politics. And, … a filibuster is ended). Opponents, such as the conservative southerner James Allen, warned that the change would bring … Senate. In his first year as a senator, Humphrey enraged southern conservatives by championing civil rights and …