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… 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 …

… 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 …

… Global/Transnational …

…   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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …