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… Like-minded conservatives invoke the name of Ronald Reagan as someone who truly represented … in office. They could learn much from him. He understood when to press his advantage when he had the votes. He also … concede when he didn’t have the votes. In other words, he was a skilled politician willing to compromise his …

… Over the last year or so, the world of sport in the United States … against black opponents. The “color line” in American sport was not a product of drift or negligence; it was drawn. 2. … black athletes might be asked to hold those players back when playing road games against segregated southern schools, …

… The joy of reading comes in all seasons, but many people … on a range of topics. Some of these books surprised me when I first read them, or I have taught them and have had … Brown tells the history of two of these places, Richland, Washington and Ozersk in the Russian Ural Mountains. Like …

… Twin headlines have repeated across the country over the last several months, warning of labor … rush the journey. They warned their clients that the border was about to open but would quickly “fill up” a quota and … Yet there have been very few moments in American history when migration has not been described in crisis language, …

… In Prague, the last hours of 2008 were crisp and clear, and in that … 181 miles to the southeast, a significantly different scene was unfolding in the Slovak capital of Bratislava. High … However, these plans fell out of favor among the Czechs when Great Britain and France supported projects centered in …

… Until 2014, Ukraine was a country little known and poorly-understood by many in the West. While the Ukrainian Revolution of February 2014 … range anywhere from seven cited sources to seventy. Even when citations are prevalent, they might make the academic …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …