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… occupation or annexation. But there were movements for national independence in the region. And the ultimate goal … that's not just here in the Balkans, but also in the international media. And all of this has had been in the works … Serbs in the region view him even more now as a defender of national interest, and also a defender against foreign …

… war during the Cuban missile crisis. Fortunately, he and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev negotiated a solution to … the Vietnam War was a civil war, that “the most effective nationalist movement is communist-controlled,” and that the …

… megawatts, which is not even one-tenth of what the International Atomic Energy Agency forecast back in 1974.  … and central Europe and the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union in 1991 brought an end to the Cold War. And that …

… slave trade. As borders were redrawn and a new international order sewn, some fourteen million displaced … Briefly allies in the war, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for laborers and looked to eastern Europe, …

… case. Recent images from Abu Ghraib and Fallujah offend the national sense of decency. While there are always those who … only strengthen the insurgency and bring down more international outrage. The United States is faced with a … stronger and put the United States in violation of international law. Or the armed forces can continue to fight …

… The recent Republican National Convention presented George W. Bush’s presidency as … James Buchanan, who warmed the president’s chair while the Union disintegrated in his term (1857-61). The Civil War was … people. •  Insulted and ridiculed other nations and international organizations and then found it necessary to go, …

… who passes the case on to the American Civil Liberties Union. A founding member of the ACLU in Virginia, Cohen …

… significant share of the largest corporations at the time, national banks. They did so for two reasons. First, it was a … from bankers about government involvement in banks, early national banking corporations turned out to be hugely … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… limits, restrain our use of resources, and re-imagine our national aspirations so that they were more environmentally …

… in our previous podcast, “ Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum .” ( Image Source ) … Leticia …   In part two of the show, Dr. Kevin Boyle, author of the National Book Award winning "Arc of Justice" will join us to … conversation, as Stephanie and I were having about the National Civil Rights Museum. I mean, one of the things that …

… on the American frontier.   They also came to international attention at virtually the same moment. Darwin … slavery. As the war began, Lincoln believed that saving the Union, not abolishing slavery, was the cause worth fighting … to see that ending slavery was the only way to save the Union without making a mockery of the nation’s founding …

… protests against police violence once again to the national stage. In this event's, aftermath, questions … included political radicals, labor organizers, you know, Union advocates, those types of groups. In the early 20th …

… air crashes until the creation of the independent National Transportation Safety Board in 1967. 3. The … No cause was ever determined. Then on February 11, 1952, a National Airlines DC-6, crashed less than two minutes after … crash led to the temporary closure of Newark Airport. The National Airlines DC-6, 1952. Following the crash of a …

… rebuild it has become a rallying point for far-right Jewish nationalists, who are willing to desecrate the sacred … took on new meanings that reflected this tension between national solidarity and moral sensitivity. The Zionist … all Jewish holidays) as a way to reinforce sentiments of national solidarity. The religious meaning of the day became …

… Last June a caravan of cars pulled into the Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, S.D., to lay a legendary … lessons in early Indian history, arts and crafts, and the national tragedies of the 19th century. This is important …

… to social change, in the White House. Patterson finds the national mood upbeat as LBJ trounced Barry Goldwater in late … protestors attempting to march to the state capitol gained national media attention and galvanized Johnson’s push for a … agenda on race, distancing himself from Moynihan’s call for national action and turning his attention to an anticrime …

… II, the last Romanov tsar, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet General Secretary, both instituted dry laws and … or spent any time in Russia or its predecessor state, the Soviet Union, instinctively knows much of what Schrad details. I …

… health campaigns in addition to refugee programs), its international posturing often clashed with domestic political … often undercut American rhetoric and even played into Soviet propaganda. Porter demonstrates that the United … political refugees who arrived after a failed 1956 anti-Soviet uprising just in time for an economic recession. …

… Gustave Courbet pegged the reconstructed ornament as a “nationalistic symbol of tyranny and militarism.” When the … same to a statue of Christopher Columbus in 1986. 9. Post-Soviet Iconoclasm The Republic of Councils Monument in … statues from Hungary's communist period. Throughout the new Soviet Republics , more than 500 tsarist monuments were …

… as now, the sacrifice of a scapegoat may have served as a national catharsis, but it didn’t solve the underlying …

… was a war of thousands of guns, tanks, and planes—a “gross national product war” according to one historian.  It was a … seep into the basements of unsuspecting families, causing a national scandal. The 1941 dumping of  toxic substances into Love Canal turned into a national scandal in the 1970s after unsuspecting citizens …

… are women facing extra threats during warfare and international conflicts? But again, looking at this internationally, how have definitions of violence against women … what is the relationship of the police in the US or internationally to this topic? And maybe Peggy, if you'd like to …

… election of 1948, and it had a profound impact on the national conversation about race. It seems obvious today …