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… 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. …

… 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 … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… 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 …

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…   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 … 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 …

… $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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …