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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… boards. The records should then be turned over to the National Archives to ensure their preservation for … state of Florida to transfer the ballots voluntarily to the National Archives. This option is problematic because there … is likely to reflect a set political agenda. It is in the national interest to preserve the integrity of the …

… short of revolutionary, including the creation of the National Health Service and the granting of independence to … leader. He was neither a leftist ideologue nor a trade unionist. The Oxford-educated scion of a middle-class … as prime minister, Attlee was forced to respond to the international crises of the early Cold War years. He attempted to …

… during the war; and the ways in which Indian and Pakistani nationalists used their participation in the war for their … Britain’s unilateral declaration of war angered the Indian National Congress, and Alexander Linlithgow, Viceroy of … period of growth in output that matched even Britain. Labor unions also grew dramatically in these years (327). However, …

… completed a forty-two billion dollar agreement with the National Iranian Gas Export Company. Though European leaders … East … Iran … Economics/Business/Trade … Diplomacy/International Relations … South & Central America … Caribbean … …

… for the working class, and subsequently with a left-wing union publication. In both positions, she reported on the … domestic obligations with freelance writing for many national publications, especially women’s magazines. Drawn … different aspects of the women’s movement, such as labor union women, the black freedom struggle, the New Left, and …