Search Results

… a break from Belgrade for a weekend vacation to Djerdap National Park. As one park guide put it, Djerdap proved to … a place of conquest and conflict, trade and industry, international cooperation and borders, and leisure and fun. … while even becoming a part of it themselves. The Djerdap National Park is located roughly a 4-hour drive from …

… about an October Surprise resurfaced in 1980 in another national security setting. The Iran hostage crisis had … to defuse accusations that he is beholden to the National Rifle Association or to polluters. In 2000, no national security crisis similar to either 1968 or 1980 is …

… billion dollars). President George W. Bush outlining the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … Jim Harris … …

… Howard Dean’s current bid to chair the Democratic National Committee is a test case of his political … finishing third in the Iowa caucuses is so engraved in the national consciousness that there is no chance of Dean’s … that the president had caused serious damage to either international relations or his own reputation, however, did not …

… beginning with the medieval period and moving through the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991. The rest of the world was …

… Anti-Semitic caricature of Alfred Dreyfus in the French nationalist series “Museum of Horrors.” But the Tour also … Much like France through its participation in the European Union has tied itself closer to other European states, the Tour de France also moved beyond its national borders to celebrate French identity as part of a …

… proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and woman. Their impulse to protect … Texas. Bastions of conservative opinion from the Vatican to National Review and the Family Research Council have joined … the Constitution with a definition of marriage as the union of a man and woman is a vote of no confidence in a …

… tariff enforcement, civil disturbance riot control, national disasters and crowd control, as in the deployment … not the full- time military. When the militia, later the National Guard, served as a posse comitatus it was under … II), and the Reserves. The Coast Guard is exempt, as is the National Guard. The Coast Guard is not under the Department …

… and attorneys before issuing statements, the CEOs of transnational firms such as Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossings … the people. His New Deal supported the growth of trade unions to balance employers’ power and established old age … solution, in maintaining a healthy and stable economy.  A national energy policy, based on regional versions of the …

… they have transformed evangelicalism, making it more international, more racially diverse, and more attentive to … revival in Los Angeles. That Old Time Religion Goes International Born in 1918, Graham was a man of his moment. Lanky … President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1981 ( left top ), with …

… whose work was pivotal in the creation of many of the National Parks. Born in the same year that the National Park Service was created, Halprin worked primarily … Kearns Goodwin claimed it was her “favorite spot on the National Mall.” Before he died in 2009, Halprin explained …

… withdrawal allowed U.S. officials to adapt to an international environment that had changed substantially since … Ending the war in Vietnam helped produce detente with the Soviet Union and China, facilitated the restoration of a world …

… selection of their running mates. America’s expanded international posture magnified the importance of the national-security credentials of the person first in line of … considered. As time passed, air travel made campaigning a national, not regional, activity, and the technology of the …

… State. He is a specialist in the history of Russia, the Soviet Union, and in Global, Environmental, and Water history as … in the environment now that are being pushed by by big multinational firms, specifically, pesticides and herbicides …

… Amendment set the terms for the restoration of the Union of the states after the Civil War . The second section … States Constitution including the Fourteenth Amendment. (National Archives of the United States) Second, the Amendment for the first time set general national standards that the states had to meet when …

… to the First World War and its effects on domestic and international politics. The next three chapters are dedicated to … a small sailors' mutiny in Kiel to a full-blown national revolution, including the abdication of Kaiser … Gerwarth positions the German Revolution in an international context noting that the revolution was “remarkably …

… local trade while silver was used in interregional and international trade.) The Qing monetary system, from the … United States took the first steps toward becoming an international economic power. ( Left ) An 1898 French cartoon … States government wanted American bankers to join the international consortium. At the time, President William Howard …

… feminist communities, beginning with the Lesbian Mothers Union, founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971. … a larger umbrella group called Gay Parents Coalition International (GPCI), an organization that itself evolved from … itself as “dedicated specifically to advocating at a national level for equality for families headed by queer …

… with U.S. coalition partners and allies. In the 2006 National Security Strategy, George Bush stated that confronting the "challenges of our time" through multinational efforts with other democracies is one of the … and "wartime alliances" are two types of what we call "multinational operations," which may also include other forms of …

… of a Giant Sequoia trunk from Tuolumne Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, showing AD dates of fires (photo … sampled giant sequoias from five groves between Yosemite National Park and Sequoia National Park, far enough apart that individual fires could …

… herald the latest revolutionary cycle, defining the transnational twenty-first century. Although the heralds of the … First, the Combination Acts (1799 and 1800) outlawed unionization, branding organized labor as sedition. The 1812 … Chartist reform, while encouraging the foundation of trade unionism. Of course, we can easily overstate the ideology of …

… alliance railway, the United States, and our nemesis, the Soviet Union , this train continues its ascent to the peak of … Press, 2014) … Keshia Lai … Reviews … Europe … Global/Transnational … Infrastructure/Transportation … Cities/Urban & …