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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 …
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 …
Saxonburg Memorial Church.

Does the First Amendment Separate Church and State?

… 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, …

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 …
a billboard with flags of many countries and the word Peace on it.

A Conscientious Objector Looks Back

… wall until he calmed down. of alternative service in the national interest. down. Edwards remembers certain … and threw glass IV bottles of "alternative service in the national intermilitary bureaucracy and the of a draft …
Veterans Day Poster 1980.

Keeping Veterans Day Alive

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

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 …
Cygnet, Ohio, in Wood County was a booming oil town with 13 saloons and many workers when this photo was taken in 1885.

An Energy Plan for You!

… 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 …
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz Book Cover

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

Review of Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2007)
… 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 …
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 …
Zbigniew Brzezinski at Camp David in 1978.

Meddlers Hamstring Iraq Policy

… 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 …

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, …
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916

The Amritsar Massacre

… 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 …