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The Prairie Dog is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804.

Not American Enough? This Political Slur Has a Long History

…   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 …
Photo from 1890 of the first OSU football team

Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports

… history of the American university system and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In … to see an amateurish Rose Bowl or college football game on national television, they want to see high performance. On … time that recently you had an effort at Northwestern to unionize players, which is a truly bizarre concept, because …
Marina Silva (PSB)

10/21/2014: Top Ten Origins: Brazil's Presidential Elections

… $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 …
Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Olympics

Revival and Reinvention: the Olympic Games, Athens 1896

… of sporting excellence. Often motivated by a mix of nationalism and pedagogy, events appropriating the word … direct connection with the 1896 Games sponsored by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) under the leadership of … reformer who believed sport could be a vehicle serving both nationalist and internationalist goals, combining …
Official portrait of President Gerald R. Ford (February 25, 1976).

Will Vindication Elude Ford?

… of Ford’s good work in bringing what he called “our long national nightmare” to an end, the focus has always been on …
Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… 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 …
Voting booths

America's Post-Election Political Landscape

… the degree to which the Democrats rebuilt themselves as a national party in the 1860s and 1870s, on a quite explicitly … the Democrats noticed that they weren't going to carry a national election with that in mind. And so at that point, … recently based a great deal of its legitimacy on the internationalist nature of its foreign policy views. That was …

The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History

… began warning of a dire threat posed by narcotics to national survival and the national character. Newspapers and magazines published … The Committee for Economic Development and the Consumers Union agreed. The New York Times , Washington Post , and the …
Engraving of Robespierre.

The New Species of Terrorism

… to win attention. But it was Algeria’s Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN), seeking independence from France, that … in Spain, Quebecois in Canada, Palestinian and Irish nationalists, Marxist cabals in Africa and Latin America. By … peace agreement, the Iranian revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan — terrorists began hailing …
 Reagan in 1982.

Measuring Reagan for Greatness

… Although Reaganomics was not a complete success — the national debt soared — 20 million new jobs were created … Reagan’s vision for his foreign policy centered on the Soviet Union. In 1980, he took a hard line on the Cold War and …

Sudan in Crisis

… in April 2019. On February 22, al-Bashir had delivered a nationally broadcast response to the protests. He opened on … refugees reside in camps in neighboring Chad. The International Criminal Court has indicted al-Bashir for war … groups in Darfur, are under the control of the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), which …
The Romanov Family

The Romanov Tercentenary: Commemoration, History, and Power

… people. Nicholas—like his father—also embraced a variety of nationalism that stressed adherence to Orthodoxy and the … participation and social justice. In the aftermath of the Soviet experience, the Romanovs have enjoyed a renaissance … crypt in St. Petersburg. Far from the reactionary demons of Soviet historiography, the Romanovs have become saintly in …

Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population

… Beginning in the late nineteenth century, several Indian nationalist intellectuals began to develop a critique of … of underproduction." As a corollary to this thesis, Indian nationalists advanced the notion that famines were … development. For further proof of their argument, the nationalists looked to Europe itself. In England and France, …