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… like Obama, had only brief political experience at the national level but considerable skills as an orator. In the late 1850s Lincoln suddenly attracted national attention when he called for a new direction in … the Republican presidential race before he gave the Cooper Union speech in February 1860 in New York City. The prairie …

… the ways in which Ho Chi Minh engaged groups of communists, nationalists, socialists, and liberal democrats during his travels in France, the Soviet Union, China, and Vietnam. The result is a measured portrait … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… the region. Examples of these projects can be found in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. At the top … by the Aztecs, colonizers, and contemporary people. The National Palace is situated to the left of and to the right … temples the Aztecs had used to worship their gods. Mexico’s National Palace is another structure that surrounds the …

… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … pandemic. And at Ohio State we are lucky to have a leading national program in the history of health, environment, …

… 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 …

… report is likely to have little impact. There is no national urgency to confront issues of race, at least on 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 …

… control of the Pacific trade routes, and the demarcation of national borders. Previous military conflicts in the region … making it one of the most coveted products in international trade and industry.  This economic activity caused … Quechua to the linguistic diversity of the area. The international economic recession of the 1870s hit the region hard …

… tells us that white supremacy was a southern problem, not a national one. And when it finally turns north—to places like … Free State Built on Exclusion (1803–1830s) Ohio entered the Union in 1803 as a free state. Its constitution prohibited … recruited in Ohio.  These men were not simply fighting for Union victory; they were fighting to destroy slavery itself. …