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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… As in the 2000 election, the Democratic candidate led the national popular balloting, with a 300,000-vote advantage. … in the balance. Now, as then, the Democratic candidate led nationally in the popular vote, as well as in the electoral …

… Service. … Paul Janson … History News Service … Global/Transnational … United States … United Kingdom … …

…   In the twentieth century, perceived sympathy for the Soviet Union was regarded as un-American. Those who disapproved of … him during his 1936 reelection campaign by calling him "the Soviet candidate." Anti-Roosevelt newspapers struck this …

… history of the American university system and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In … time that recently you had an effort at Northwestern to unionize players, which is a truly bizarre concept, because … by the NLRB to take a vote on whether they wanted to unionize and as soon as this happened, the whole apparatus …

… $105 billion, but by 2009 Brazil provided the International Monetary Fund with $10 billion in financing. … industrial working classes through state-controlled labor unions and social welfare programs. At the conclusion of … and helped create the state's first workers' union. She served in municipal and state legislatures in …

… organizational act together. Communicating via a federated national organization called the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and led … caused a schism with the NAWSA and led her to establish the National Woman’s Party. This fractured the women’s movement, …

… of Ford’s good work in bringing what he called “our long national nightmare” to an end, the focus has always been on …

… Perspective. Picturing Black History emerged in the wake of national and international Black Lives Matter protests … go up but they don't necessarily outnumber monuments to the Union, they just get more notice. The first image that … Black soldiers made up 200,000 soldiers for the Union. And by the war's end, their valuable contributions …