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… $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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… the First Amendment meant only to prohibit establishing a national church, while permitting government to pursue other … specifically rejected narrow language merely forbidding a national church.   In June 1789 Congress declined a proposal … amendment about religion that said, "nor shall any national religion be established." In September 1789, …

… War. Closely connected, when the Civil War ended and the Union had won. Many female abolitionists believed that women … were being drafted, many of the male abolitionists and Union elected officials begin to balk at the idea of … The most notorious one was the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the WCTU. And it was founded in Hillsboro, Ohio, in …

… of academia or stripped of his many honors–which include a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize–is the question …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… day of observance in the United States in 1926 and a national holiday in 1938. For decades, American school …

… 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 …

… America. The movement brought us not only Earth Day but the National Environmental Protection Act, clean air … the development of alternative energy resources; it raised national consciousness about pipelines in Alaska, strip … Gas and oil prospectors may soon be drilling wells in national wilderness preserves, and nobody in the Bush …

… high points of the Weimar period from the shadows of National Socialism mostly succeed in capturing the … population. The difference between the conservative German National People's Party and the Communist parties is … evident in the contrast between the posters: the Nationalist advertisement uses an image of traditional …

… 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 …

… used the same techniques he honed during his term as the national security adviser in the Carter administration to … inform the naive, idealistic newcomers from the South about national interests and international relations. He did this by sabotaging Carter’s focus …

… a way to distinguish the United States from the atheistic Soviet Union. Congress took up the bill again. The one-sided …

… 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, …

… in October of 1986 President Ronald Reagan was meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, to … to ratify two treaties that had been negotiated with the Soviets: the Threshold Test Ban, which limited the size of … at the time of Reykjavik. For example, the CTBT’s international monitoring system detected both of North Korea’s …

… at the Somme in 1916. The Rowlatt Acts outraged the Indian National Congress, the leading nationalist party whose members included Muhammad Ali … Jawaharlal Nehru were prominent members of the early Indian National Congress; the Amritsar Massacre radicalized …