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… differences? By 1912, Roosevelt was delineating his New Nationalism. He called for aggressive government action, … figures responding not only to private, but to local, national and global influences. The "American Experience" …

… South Africa, he claimed, Ottawa could maximize its international influence. Together, he argued, the Commonwealth …   Nonetheless, Halifax’s public comments ignited a national political crisis. Left-leaning Canadian nationalists, most of whom lived in French-speaking Quebec …

… the 150th anniversary of the state's secession from the Union.  Hundreds of people, many decked out in hoop skirts … raged in Charleston since 1865.   When the city fell to the Union army that year, local freedpeople staged public …  African Americans in Charleston also built a cemetery for Union soldiers who had died as prisoners of war, and they …

… the worst excesses of McCarthyism. De Klerk came from a National Party apparatus that had cracked down on … the Chinese (and pursue the subsequent detente with the Soviets) without such fears. His record as an ardent Cold … motives. Similarly, only a staunch member of South Africa’s National Party, the party that had implemented and perfected …

… to create of a Board of Agriculture including "one or more national agricultural schools upon the basis of the naval … is such that many jobs require advanced training. Wired and National Public Radio's "Planet Money" recently teamed up to …

… destiny, even at the risk of confrontation with the international community. In persuading the Iranian government to … Mohammad Mossadegh shocked the world when he moved to nationalize British oil assets. However, the American … Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1953, it was not a move toward Soviet communism, but rather an anti-colonial blow against …

… past: that underpinning slavery at the local, state, and national levels was the law, including the highest law of … the seeds of the Civil War.   For the abolition of slavery, Union victory in battle was crucial, of course. But it was …

… the Republican Party and, as it evolved during the war, the Union Party. Some simply disliked or distrusted one another. … more than a year into the war. In December 1862, after the Union’s embarrassing defeat at Fredericksburg, all but one … helped build the Republican Party in his state. He had no national ambitions and his management of the Navy Department …

… gun violence against children, a modern tragedy and an international embarrassment when one looks at gun deaths in the … conducted politics in the name of motherhood. The international peace movement of that era and the creation of a …

… 2017, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk … of the Cold War Space Race, leaders of the American and Soviet space programs envisioned Mars as humankind’s first … launched and landed Viking spacecraft on Mars, the Soviet Union developed and tested closed life-support systems …

… the dangers involved in allowing scientific knowledge and national security to justify what the New York Times  … when they were accidentally discovered in 2010. The U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Pan American Sanitary … need to be continually re-examined and enforced (even when national security is raised as the justification). Also, …

… many to enjoy and then crave chili.  Chili arrived on the national table at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago , which …

… America’s growing vulnerabilities. The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st century, a task force chaired by … were needed in intelligence methods, in the structure of national security agencies and in government preparation to … stressed that homeland  security is not peripheral to U.S. national security but central to it. Prophetically, the …

… Vietnam-era draft, which all would agree fell short as a national policy. The draft system of the 1960s and 1970s … connections, such as George W. Bush, snatched up scarce National Guard commissions that enabled them to avoid the … II, despite segregation. And Irish Americans served in the Union army in high numbers during theÝ Civil War, even …

… feuds culminate in a lone U.S. plane flying low over the Soviet countryside, determined to drop its nuclear payload onto a Soviet military base. They succeed, and in doing so set off … entendre “Merkin Muffley,” has a relationship with the Soviet Premier less befitting two world leaders and more …

… discussion is this: do huge bags of money really affect national politics as much as many fear? The answer is more … work on election day. We could say this one lasts until, national level 1880s, 90ish, local state level longer than … brief period of time, beginning in the mid-70s, when in the national level, there was a kind of a Rube Goldberg …

… convinced him that the United States should have a national museum to display the expanding government … y Caribeña  (Dec. 2015) Torcuato S. Di Tella,  National Popular Politics in Early Independent Mexico, … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… society. I just want to give you an example. In 2010, the National Assembly and the Senate of France passed an act … was prevented from taking her oath in the Turkish National Assembly, because she was wearing a headscarf and … a way to move forward after seeing that many of these Arab nationalism and many of these regimes have failed to provide …

… the 1950s. A 1958 editorial in William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review took former President Truman to task for his … of having used atomic weapons against civilians. As a 1959 National Review article matter-of-factly stated: "The … the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is becoming a part of the national conservative creed." But times change. In recent …

… before the war. Moreover, Western Europe remained safe from Soviet domination and was America’s best trading partner for … not poor. And while Peter Sellers in drag is a preposterous national leader, Saddam Hussein is a seriously murderous … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… 1949, adopted after Gandhi has been assassinated by a Hindu nationalist, enshrined the elements of secularism in law. … particular faith. When the University of Texas surveyed 195 national constitutions from around the world, researchers … are as unexpected as they are frightening. 70 out of 195 national constitutions might be seen as a glass half full, …

… which he said would usher in a new era of independence and national sovereignty for his country. The British occupation … almost entirely on their ability to assert Egypt’s national aspirations, so a changed relationship with Britain … and politics, but it also has had a long history of nationalism and anti-colonial activism. In early 1950’s, the …