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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

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

… for maintaining society. The exiles led by the Iraqi National Congress simply do not have enough personnel at … 1067) as long as there was a very real threat from the Soviet Union. The United States did not want to see Saddam Hussein …

… failed to recognize that their assaults could ignite nationalist passions and create wider hostilities. … more likely to fan the flames of ethnic, religious, and national rivalries than to put them out. Clinton does have …

… Statement, Youth for Western Civilization, Tom Tancredo, national chair   Former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo … comparative politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. …

… Just a week after the terrorist attack on the United States, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice insisted that …

… bear on people’s lives in new and remarkable ways. When the Union Pacific met up with the Central Pacific at Promontory …

… the 1920s and 1930s. By allowing North Korea to flout international nuclear norms, permitting genocide in Darfur, and … proposed the League of Nations as a means to resolve international disputes. The UN was created in 1945 because the … the leadership of the United States created an international coalition that liberated Kuwait in 1991. Similarly, …