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… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … lives, such as equality, freedom, limited government, community, dignity, and the distribution of resources. … as Sands sees it, religion-talk does not provide a common language with which to agree on visions, solutions, …

… immortality. A better approach than polling is to compare Reagan with past presidents who are now regarded as … Reagan left office. Great presidents are also effective communicators. Lincoln was the finest speechmaker in … support for New Deal legislation. Reagan, dubbed the “Great Communicator,” was an enormously successful speaker. A …

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… cautious, thoughtful Obama was just plain weak, or worse: incompetent. Well, health care legislation has passed, the … and permanent. Everyone’s attention span is short. But the complex job of the president adheres to a different time … are now of Polk and Wilson. These presidents had in common the setting of a few clear goals and great …

… Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … seen whether George W. will allow his administration to be completely captured by his fossil fuel buddies. Eisenhower, … the environmental movement proved to be a formidable competitor for legislators’ attention into the early 1990s. …

… WWII, the United States began to boldly pursue a global community modeled upon American political, economic, and … menace seeking to snuff out America’s light. The godless Communists, American logic went, would stop at nothing to … Today, we delve into how and why t he Cold War, drugs, and communism became inextricably linked in the minds of …

… nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature. Title page of the … shortly after being born and her half-sister Fanny Godwin committed suicide, a couple of months later Percy’s wife committed suicide, and just before the publication of the …

… most valuable colonial possessions in an era of uncertain communications and increased European competition. It also details the diplomatic problems faced … of bad luck, unbelievable incompetence, and the daring ingenuity of Henry Morgan, however, led to the complete …

… the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has conveyed “water, … limited sources of water that face “constant threats.”  The company employs dams and other barrages, pumps, irrigation … dedicated to agriculture. The environmental Nakba that accompanied the 1948 conquest destroyed both lives and the …

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of … to the West for the technologies and ideologies needed to compete in European international politics. In the usual …

… legacy with which Americans will sooner or later have to come to terms: today we live in a society of greater … critically weakened the one entity best equipped to combat growing income inequality in the United States: organized labor. …

… at … well, any number of things. Lumping them together, the commentariat called all these angry voters “populists” and … ( bottom right ). Whatever else they may or may not have in common ideologically, these populists share an antipathy … as a snob and elitist ( right ). But “elite” has become an epithet lately in our political discourse. The …

… of Qing laws prohibiting the drug. After one Chinese trade commissioner captured and publicly destroyed British opium … ship seized by China on suspicion of piracy—reducing its complex causes to only its precipitating event. … events entirely. In the 1950s, for example, observers of communist China described Chairman Mao Zedong ’s campaign to …

… Moon, el presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, y el comandante supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de … ahora estarían listos para formalmente firmar el acuerdo completo el 26 de septiembre de 2016 en Cartagena que seria … durante su existencia, pero ninguno ha llegado tan lejos como el proceso actual. A pesar de que haya obstáculos …

… But how does political engagement on campuses today compare to the history of American campus activism, … protests can teach campus activists, administrators, and communities today. For more on OSU campus protests in the … Brenna Miller    Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a …

… new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the … Jessica Vinas-Nelson   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … men seem to emerge almost every day, as more and more women come forward, and many are heralding this as a new era and a …

… been lifted, and negotiations for a new constitution had commenced. While political violence between the ANC and … governance, and hold together the ANC when it seems to be coming apart at the seams. Some of these problems go back to … Africa in 1652 under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company to set up a station for passing ships at the Cape of …

… by the specter of our nuclear past. And given Japan's complicated past with nuclear issues, it is especially … for energy to power Japan's rapid economic growth and the complexities of post-World War II international relations … and Three Mile Island (1979). Regardless of the outcome of the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear issues …

… the Axis, operation Torch constituted the biggest and most complex amphibious landing to that point in world history.  … Africa, however, was never a foregone conclusion. America’s commitment to the Allied war effort after Pearl Harbor … to Tunis necessitated its own complex support effort contingent on the success of the amphibious landings.   Allied …

… Brenna Miller     Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … in environmental history, and recent author of "A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North … don't have a fossil record of today. So it gets a lot more complicated when we look at present day extinction rates. …