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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… in the wake of several social upheavals – both at home and abroad – President Nixon reflected to a group of … encouraging. The author argues, in short, that the American South has successfully repositioned itself at the cultural … in the wake of the 1960s. Drawing its strength from Southern Baptist preachers like Billy Graham, this emotional …

… 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 …

… There is perhaps no greater challenge facing humanity (and all species on the planet) than climate change . Yet, … From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. Climate change gradually gained attention as a major …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… to the political convictions of our founders. “No standing armies” was one of the rallying cries of the American … served as a peacekeeping force in both the West and the South. The West was short of law enforcers but well stocked … anti-Confederate, pro-black laws in the Reconstruction South was offensive to Southerners who had just lost a war …

… the 71st birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., on Jan. 15 and Congress considers a Library of Congress proposal to … recall some of the obscure people, particularly hardworking African-American women, who saved the church that nurtured … bus boycott gave working men and women of Montgomery and African Americans across the land a sense that together they …