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… The Brazilians’ victory in this year’s World Cup in soccer … evident in the time of military dictatorship (1964-1985) when many forms of political expression were illegal. In …

… Before the selection of Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin, as the … a Christian nation. That hope, however, may be fleeting. When, last fall, Gov. Palin declared October 21-27 to be Alaska’s “Christian Heritage Week,” she was not merely issuing the kind of routine, pro-forma …

… January 24 th , 2014, is the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic … has remained oddly relevant to our modern day. In an era when the United States still has troops fighting all over … specific time and gained particular resonance because it was released so soon after the Cuban Missile crisis put the …

… on this current debate, and reminds us that we’ve had these fights before. Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy … 1924, coming largely from eastern and southern Europe. This was the population that came through Ellis Island and other … established their young son’s American identity. When World War I ended, concern over the loyalty of new …

… As Pope Leo XIV takes the helm over 1.4 billion  Catholics  worldwide, consider … his namesake Leo XIII. Reigning from 1878 to 1903, Leo XIII was renowned for his worldly activism.  The former Robert … Rerum novarum — On Capital and Labor —depicted society when “the enormous fortunes of some few individuals, and the …

… Trump made a set of disparaging comments about Puerto Rico. They underscored just how little many Americans understand … fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898. When the dust kicked up by Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders … Partido Popular Democrático (PPD, Popular Democratic Party) was founded in 1938. Though it grew out of earlier movements …

… Saving the Union by defeating the Confederate army and being … occupied the Oval Office since the first, Abraham Lincoln, was elected in 1860. Now, like the relatives nobody wants at … and “Uncle Warren” Harding, and “Rutherfraud” B. Hayes. But when was the last time you heard some Republican politician …

… than four languages. This multilingualism is reflected rather spectacularly in Indian filmmaking. Although the world … viewers to leave their proverbial thinking brain at home when they go to the movies, as some Bollywood movies do. So … is location shooting: not a single scene in this movie was shot on a set or in a studio, with several sequences — …

… Underlying the 2022 war in Ukraine is another conflict, this one over … Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991. The rest of the world was uninterested in Putin’s article and his view of history. … to the modern Russian state. Medieval history is popular when it is turned into shows such as “Game of Thrones” and …

… For the Bush administration, the road of public policy leads to … suffered: more enemies and more attacks upon our own soil. When the president declared war on terrorism a year ago, he … end, the so-called barbarians destroyed Rome. That, too, was inevitable. Empires gain and keep power by spreading …

… Under cover of the Second World War, the Nazi state systematically … her father's mysterious birth mother, who died tragically when he was very young. Levitt had not known of her biological …

… this political maelstrom is more bitterly contested than the Second Amendment. Although it is hard to imagine this … of the last century, the meaning of the Second Amendment was not particularly controversial: the courts, legal … started to gain some traction among prominent liberals. When Harvard Law School's Lawrence Tribe , a renowned …

… U.S. planners in Iraq have gained little inspiration from the past, especially from the shopworn Vietnam analogy. That … of the Iraqi war say the “liberation” of Iraq has helped Washington kick the “Vietnam syndrome,” the fear of sending … the strategy of the United States militarily was admirable. When violence erupted in Santo Domingo, hundreds of U.S. …

… The catastrophe in San Diego is not entirely a natural one. … Southern California has burned, especially in October when hot, dry Santa Ana winds blow out of the eastern … in a small fire. But when the October winds are howling, as was the case this past week, even a downed rural power line …

… POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Monument to the Ghetto … of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. At the time, Pawlak was the Director of … tells the full one thousand year history of Jews in Poland, when Poland was home to the largest Jewish community in the …

… While the rest of the nation expressed shock at Republican … South Carolinians doubtless recognized it for what it was: the latest in a long, distinguished history of … carry firearms: to prevent good Samaritans from intervening when your friend wants to beat someone up. Keitt was …

… “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Empire … Immerwahr establishes the foundation of his subject when he defines “territory” as America’s colonial unit, … and heroes of the American Revolution, such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, are shown as proponents and …

… In July 1956, the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a … hostilities on a global scale. The crisis began on July 26, when Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the …

… The period in Germany from the end of World War I to the … is known as the Weimar era, after the Weimar Republic that was set up to govern the country after the revolution at the … The relationship between culture and politics is explicit when Weitz examines political posters. Weitz's inclusion of …

… The recent publicity surrounding the U.S. Marine offensive … confinement, mostly from improper hygiene and medical care. When faced with an uprising in Kenya in the early 1950s, … establish the strategic hamlet program, the goal of which was to separate the Vietnamese people from the Communist …

… When Al Gore allegedly claimed he invented the Internet, comedians, political  pundits and Republicans … Like jet aircraft and interchangeable parts, the Internet was financed and promoted by the federal government. …

… In 1497, Venetian explorer John Cabot declared that the waters off the coast Newfoundland were so rich with cod … I know this because this story, in various forms, was relayed to me by everyone from a museum docent to a … and communal agriculture. A final blow came in July of 1992 when the Canadian government imposed a moratorium on the …

… freedom can be a blessed event, but it’s painful. In 1831, when Gustave de Beaumont and I left France to visit the United States to examine first hand this interesting … working democracy. One of the chief reasons Saddam Hussein was able to maintain his political and military tyranny over …

… The Opium Wars (1839-42; 1856-60) are generally seen as … by the First World War (1914-18), the idea that a nation was justified to go to war to protect trade in drugs had been discredited. When the League of Nations came into being in 1920, nations …