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… A familiar scene plays out again and again in American public life in the 21 st century. In … of color, the poor, unmarried mothers, and the disabled. Southern asylums in the Jim Crow era were segregated and ones for African Americans received far less funding and accordingly …

… necessary. It’s a proposition that deserves some thought, and we’re fortunate that in 1824 the House of … how best to serve democracy worldwide. Considering the pros and cons of this thorny issue would demonstrate how a … hated evil and loved virtue. Congressman Joel Poinsett of South Carolina insisted that the bravery and enterprise of …

… 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the … around Scotland and Ireland instead of the shorter route south?" Second asked "did the Dutch fleet play any role in … pleasant guy. But he's busy trading slaves from Africa and the Caribbean. And there's a big port, there is …

… of social justice, personal witness to God’s saving grace and the vision of a new world. Today’s black leaders have … parties because of the risk of alienation. “Popularity” and “political correctness” have replaced the independence, … Similarly, Secretary of State Colin Powell, a leading African-American officeholder, finds himself hostage to the …

… that he wanted “to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and benefits.” “With those taxes in there,” he tartly … for 20 percent of the elderly and for 38 percent of the African American and Hispanic elderly. Together with …

… Spend a few minutes browsing news websites or blogs and you will see a barrage of infographics and informational maps used to prop up tendentious … Olmstead and Edward Atkinson used mapping to critique the southern assertion that slavery was the best labor system …

… to get the Constitution ratified as the law of the land, he argued that competition among many interest groups … of slavery. Today, interest groups compete with Democratic and Republican parties to influence public policy. The … American institutions. But in the late 1850s, the mostly southern Democrats  supported slavery’s geographical …

… on the basis of identity, with pride in their heritage and their history, and counter radical multiculturalism on campus."       – … the Naturalization Act of 1790 was made meaningless for African Americans by its reference to "free white persons." …

… the NBA. Or the NFL. This is politics, where getting tough and acting tough matters not because it has to matter, but because people say it matters. But maybe it doesn’t. And maybe that’s the new politics that you are talking … Grossman is the author of 'Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration' (1989) and a writer …

… or the “New Right.” Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus , the first in … won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history, and The New York Times named the second book Nixonland: The … some ways, a similar messiah complex. The Democrat from the South mastered what Perlstein calls “the signature Carter …

… 15 miles from the Hungarian border. He had a sunken face and dark circles under his eyes. “If you saw my picture on … told me. For three months he had been stuck in Serbia, and after nine failed attempts to enter Hungary, he was … border crossing, most refugees can be found 125 miles south in Belgrade. In February 2017, there were over 600 new …

… there have been scores of foreign policy intellectuals and experts whose theories competed for the attention of … from a public faith in learned knowledge. To understand American foreign policy, according to Kuklick, requires … Kennedy in his criticism, because the president saw South Vietnam in terms of "abstract Communism" rather than …

… for being all word, no act. Yet that's wrong on the facts, and the implication is unfair. Obama's oratory has carried … of hope but a platitude." Yet throughout U.S. history candidates have excited constituents with their words and, … not simply because of his experience as governor of a small southern state. In his acceptance speech at the Democratic …

… the Thirteen Colonies, Montesquieu insisted, factionalism and self-interest would destroy any democratic system.   To … that harnessed factionalism to a system of checks and balances. That humans pursue their own selfish interests … Only when politicians violated the rule of law — as did Southern Democrats did when they seceded from the Union in …

… Rights struggle. Her story reminds us not only of the past—and present—of anti-Black racism in Canada, but also of the heroism and dignity with which Black Canadians stood up to racial … millionaire who manufactured and sold beauty products to African Americans. Desmond often travelled for business. On …

… World? Proponents say the Games help create mutual understanding and international peace. Our willingness to accept this … gold medals — and the admiration of German spectators. The African-American track star vividly disproved Nazi claims of …

… including a small number of Americans. Dozens of militants and hostages, including at least one American, were killed during a series of attacks by the Algerian military. And you may very well have missed it; in most American news … helped to end (at least temporarily) the Algerian and North African practice of taking European and American captives.   …

… One damp and chilly January night in northern Italy—in what was then … Cisalpine Gaul, or today’s Emilia Romagna—the statesman and accomplished general Julius Caesar crossed the little … of Pompey’s unpreparedness. As Caesar and his forces moved south, Pompey and much of the Senate fled Rome completely. …

… little attempt by to explain to Americans what NATO was and is all about. Perhaps history from the early cold war and before can be a guide. Established in 1949 as a military … became known in the 1950s as the “Third World,” the Asian, African, Latin American majority of the world’s people that …

… demonstrations that began in Tunisia in late 2010 and swept across Libya and Egypt—finally reached Syria, people from various … Alawite population who live between northern Lebanon and southern-central Turkey. While not doctrinally Shi'ite, …

… Ohio State University experts Melissa Beard Jacob, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Daniel Rivers discuss Indigenous … to what we see happening in the two regions of the American Southeast, what is modern day, Tennessee, Mississippi, … where my Tribe and the Cherokee and others from the southeast already were. But there was deep resistance in the …

… In a 1973 football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Denver Broncos, a pass was intercepted by the … lucrative of college sports, football and basketball. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) was the first conference to … Atlantic Monthly , David Berri, professor of economics at Southern Utah University, offered some calculations for the …

… A growing plurality of Americans accepts gay unions, and approval is strongest among the young. So, changes in … on scripture should have a deeper cause for concern. Time and again, history has shown that people who cite the Bible … of the strongest resistance to gay marriage has come from African American ministers who quote scripture as literally …