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… to start with: What do Americans fund every year at levels comparable to annual budget of the Pentagon? Answer: the non-profit sector. Olivier … not just the super-rich, were encouraged in a variety of ways to cultivate the habits of generosity and they did so …

… his first venture to Spain. Dos Passos met Ernest Hemingway two years later. He would lose both friends during the … spread to the Spanish conflict. Robles went to his death a committed Stalinist, but to shroud the reality of the … developed enough to provide beneficial context. The reader gets better biographical information of the two writers …

… World War I, President Woodrow Wilson established the Committee on Public Information, led by journalist George … today. But with the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, budget cuts devastated the effort to tell the story of … a former advertising executive, to market such values in a way designed to counter the attacks of opponents abroad. …

… On April 24, 2015, much of the world will commemorate the centennial of one of the most highly … brought Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian, and other scholars together to discuss and write on the Genocide. Until recently, … as it was searching, unsuccessfully—flailing around—to find ways to maintain its empire. Deporting, killing, and …

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… evangelical Rev. Billy Graham rose to celebrity denouncing communism as a "satanic religion," while Secretary of State … — urging the addition of "under God" to the pledge as a way to distinguish the United States from the atheistic … highest form of patriotism. Historian David Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and …

… of personal virtue, but not a sufficient basis for a sound comprehensive energy policy,” he turned his back on a major … to Congress.  Pinchot and Roosevelt linked these concerns together and launched a national campaign to conserve … The conservation movement represented then a third way, a departure from both the previous century’s …

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… planners of the 1913 march had their organizational act together. Communicating via a federated national organization called … officials that women deserved the vote when the main way to influence office holders is through voting. In …

… split the party. In July, when the 186 members of the platform committee meet, they’ll have to write a plank on the war in … traditions of the past. They voted for Nixon as a symbolic way of resisting a tide of change that they saw as far too … History News Service …

… the Supreme Court and amidst growing public criticism. To compound the confusion, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, sitting … that the evolving scandals would help pave the party’s way into government. President Shimon Peres (left) and Lt. … and later to Israel, as those migrations brought together Jewish communities of diverse historical and cultural …

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… the country, his own books, articles, and op-ed pieces accomplished nothing. Yet his declaration denies the real … in Vietnam, ultimately rising to the rank of colonel before becoming an academic. A conservative, he nevertheless … fathers.” Professor Bacevich and his son, each in his own way, carried out their patriotic duty in the current war. …

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… It’s October, time for that great American pageant: The World Series. The … that are landmark moments in baseball’s evolution as a commercial enterprise and its adaptation to the significant … of their team’s success – to risk their reputations in this way. 3. 1921: New York Giants beat New York Yankees, 5 games …