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… in our previous podcast, “ Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum .” ( Image Source ) …   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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… the plaza and the avenue connecting the Casa Rosada and the national Congress marked a consequential moment in … refused to comply with Perón-era labor regulations. Unions across the country called for immediate mobilization … but rather in a military hospital in the capital, assuaged union leaders. Rank and file members, however, forced their …

… 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 …

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

… 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, …

… 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. …

… and the inequality it produced, caused of the riots. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner …

… the world have been falling as if stricken by an international disease. Some business leaders are now expressing fear that an international meltdown could create a Great Depression like the one that wrecked national economies in the 1930s. They observe that the …