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… fund offers unexpected opportunities to address pressing national educational and economic needs, if the president … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… White House records soon will be transferred from the National Archives to a library associated with the Nixon … to raise money for libraries to house their records. The National Archives runs the libraries but the foundations … out his records, but they lost in court. The law handed the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) a clear …

… concluded that the United States should focus on the Soviet Union’s capabilities, not its intentions. He argued that … Acheson had adopted a hard-headed attitude recognizing international relations as power politics. Acheson’s sage advice … Global/Transnational …

… Marxism-Leninism. Nixon never wavered in believing that the Soviet Union was the major Communist state to be feared and a great … an outgrowth of his attachment to a particular vision of nationalistic Leninism. Deng was convinced that the main … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… the biggest questions facing American society and the international community in these uncertain times. ( Image Source ) … now in History Talk is John Mueller, Woody Hayes, chair of national security studies at the Mershon Center for … his initiation of support for Afghan militants, resisting Soviet pressure and presence in Afghanistan, that …

… and easily accessible. Thomas J. Watson’s company, the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), was eager to … up with a solution: Congress should fund the creation of a National Data Center that would centralize all the … whether it wanted to admit it or not, now had a de facto national database, the thing Congress had rejected twenty …

… administration announced a plan to limit the reach of the National Environmental Policy Act, which has required … and others in 1964 raft down the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Burning River: The Cuyahoga … water sources declined. Brandywine Falls in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio, in 2014. While the benefits of the …

… the Indians, antagonized the Mexicans, ran up a huge national debt, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt that … the real Republic of Texas, said, as he ordered the Texas national flag lowered over the capital and the U.S. flag …

… affairs. As Russian leaders assert the rights of their co-nationals abroad, they have also looked to strengthen ties … up the vast, diverse world of the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union, but few have produced works as engaging and … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… figure in the most powerful party. One of the nation’s two nationally elected officials thus became far less … to generate many unintended consequences. Refusing gay unions legal sanction will certainly not prevent the …

… both suffers from the same fatal flaw. The publication of National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley’s Nov. 8 memorandum … which he has failed to do towards the Shiite militias. The national security adviser barely considers the more likely …

… didn’t simply see slavery as a source of increasing national division, but as he grew old he defended the need …

… could command those structures. A button for the Youth International Party, a radical, youth-oriented, countercultural … students, parents, government officials, police officers, union organizers, bystanders, and other witnesses to the … by weakening the iron grip that the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) had held on the government. Federal Chancellor …

… John Siegfried have called the “accidental industry”—the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)’s … had passed in the mid-sixties in part because of Soviet criticism of Jim Crow, Title IX was driven by Soviet propaganda about the equal legal rights enjoyed by …

… of private sexual behavior. We’re in the midst of a national discussion about where to draw the line. What most … marriage and monogamy. A few commentators will question our national stance on sex work. Prostitution is not illegal in … always arouse great excitement. Setting aside the true national sex scandals — skyrocketing rates of HIV and STD …

… and mis-use, of history. Pressing to lift the ban on gay unions, proponents correctly note that interracial marriages … So, advocates argue, history "proves" that bans on same-sex unions are just as bigoted and misguided as the racial … I am personally and profoundly repulsed by bans on same-sex unions. But I don't think that I as an historian can …

… eager to paint all opposition as cowardly and a danger to national security. In contrast with his support of …

… Taliban and al-Qaida. Aiding the refugees is clearly in the national interest of the United States.   The United States … be key allies in the Cold War struggle against the Soviet Union. As Secretary of State George C. Marshall said in … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… to broker an agreement between warring political factions. Nationalist Augusto Sandino and his followers rejected the … the country in 1933, Sandino was still at large, but the national guard had come under the control of Anastasio … will be defeated any time soon. At the same time, the national armies we are training could end up being used to …

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