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… the seeds for the Boxer Rebellion by impinging on China’s national sovereignty. One reason all this matters now is … Now, as a century ago, competing visions of Chinese national sovereignty have been exposed, and radically … of Chinese who were not Boxers. They looted Chinese national treasures. They raped Chinese women. American …

… Israel's commitment to the settlements also angers international friends whose sympathy and moral support were … Politics, including the kind associated with international negotiations, is the art of the possible. Robert …

… Russian Orthodoxy for centuries, the islands are a Russian national park and have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site … of the darkest stories of the 20th century: the GULAG–the Soviet prison system. Today it is a working monastery once … history of the GULAG—the forced prison system of the Soviet Union—for many years now. And as many of my students will …

… for disaster to the letter. After Jackson’s killing of the national bank, many state banks were free to claim much … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… facilities, plenty of workers who weren't steeped in the union tradition, and plenty of ways to improve profit … the labor laws that gave our fathers the ability to earn union wages; the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) mortgages … whole sections of New Orleans remain in ruins. The current national economic meltdown is making the situation even more …

… ethos flouted more than over the question of labor unions and strikes. During the 1890s, as the Supreme Court … it used the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act to undermine many union activities, ruling that unions constituted illegal "cartels."  When workers went on …

… ethos flouted more than over the question of labor unions and strikes. During the 1890s, as the Supreme Court … it used the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act to undermine many union activities, ruling that unions constituted illegal "cartels."  When workers went on …

… scene is part of the American origin story, central to our national creed. Except that it isn’t. As Daniel Rodgers …

… democracy. There were political parties, independent trade unions, human rights organizations, independent newspapers, … backed down from his promises to disavow Shari’a Laws. The National Islamic Front (NIF) and its leader Dr. Hassan … occasioned by fighting among Arabs. (UNAMID is the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, inaugurated …

… governor of the nation’s most populous state and as an internationally famous actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger is the most … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… and 107 Ethiopians were killed. Even though an international team had established that Walwal was in fact 150 … populations. This use of chemicals violated the international treaty of Montreux, which Italy had signed in 1928, …

… If it's not possible, how long, for example, does the international community accept this sort of loosely guided … a softening of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, led by Gorbachev, the Reagan administration … Global/Transnational …

… Erecting a monument for Martin Luther King, Jr. on the National Mall in Washington will honor a great American. … and his fellow civil rights workers intentionally created national discomfort in cities, north as well as south, … be like for all Americans and people around the world if national leaders and common citizens alike exercised our …

… to apply those legal rules. Even though there had been a nationally visible civil rights movement since the … exciting, off-year contests. The decline of private-sector unions since the mid-1960s across the North has contributed … the Democrats since the 1930s have relied heavily on unions to turn out their voters. And so when state …

… from the outset.   When Texans decided to secede from the Union, for example, they did so, according to their official … which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union, because "the destruction of the existing relations …

… war on terror? The question answers itself.  Dedicating the National World War II Memorial last month, President Bush … of our democracy.  Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University and writes for the …

… Africa’s nonwhite population worsened in 1948, when the National Party narrowly won the (white-only) elections and … the most well-known of these groups was the African National Congress (ANC) . However, by the mid-1960s, fierce … elected President eventually designated June 16 as a national holiday. Known as Youth Day, it honors all young …

… outages caused by natural disasters. In the 1970s, the national energy crisis struck California. It most visibly …

… principle might trump skin color as the basis of American nationality. A freed slave, James Mars, exuded confidence in … attractive in the North. Reintegrating the South into the union came at the cost of any serious study of its peculiar …

… notion that American “socialism” can be equated with the Soviet Union, Stalin, the Cold War, atomic spies, and almost any …

… fissure, a system of craters near present-day Vatnajökull National Park. That eruption lasted ten months, led to the … appear even in Benjamin Franklin’s diary. Þingvellir national park, just east of Reykjavik. And, in our age of …