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… This April 15 — the day when individual federal tax return forms are due … will converge on county courthouses, state capitals and Washington, D.C., to protest the federal income tax. As …

… When Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping in May 1967 and … “Egypt’s Vietnam.” Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol, who was pushed from all sides to implement a preventative strike … regimes in an uneasy coalition against Israel in 1967 was the general realization of Israel’s military superiority …

… Listen to Origins author Mitchell Lerner  talk about the Korean War on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher . "By its … thousand five hundred American troops died fighting the three year war in Korea. Six thousand of them were lost in the first winter alone when Chinese troops outmaneuvered and out-manned the U.S. …

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary of the 1920 revolution. For many months … that they came as liberators from foreign oppression when they marched into Baghdad in March 1917, but three … Basra convinced nationalists in the capital that the moment was ripe for revolt. Oblivious to the seething rage in the …

… Appreciation for vintage fashion seems to have hit the military too. On November 11, 2018 ― Veterans Day ― the … proudly proclaim : “The Army wore the iconic Greens uniform when America was in the throes of World War II. We are still that Army, …

… President Obama’s plans for the future of America’s civilian space programs,, outlined … exploitation of space — the high cost of reaching orbit. When I fly domestically, I pay about $2 per pound of me for … making space affordable can prove far more important than was beating the Russians to the moon. Instead of twelve …

… During this election year, political polarization seems the rule rather than the exception. The Iraq war, Democrats’ … the divisions among Americans. Gerald Ford did the opposite when he became president after the Watergate scandal. Unless … distort American politics. In the early 1970s, the country was even more polarized than it is today. The deceptions of …

… When President Franklin D. Roosevelt was asked in 1935 to defend payroll contributions to Social Security, he said that he wanted “to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to …

… The campaign finance reform bill passed by Congress will … compromise even more difficult than it is today. In 1787, when James Madison, the Constitution’s greatest architect, was campaigning to get the Constitution ratified as the law …

… Within this lesson plan students work with the current Syrian Civil War crisis and look at the intricacies of the roles of government in foreign … historians who are familiar with the people and culture when making foreign policy decisions. Files for download: …

… Erich Ludendorff led an ill-fated attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government and establish a new nationalist … from economic turmoil to political unrest. The year 1923 was indeed a crucible for the fledgling German Republic. … of the republic proved itself at precisely this moment.  When all that remained of the Weimar democracy was the …

… What can the United States do about Iran and its nuclear ambitions? … little diplomatic contact since the 1979 hostage crisis, when Iranians seized the American embassy in Teheran. In the … Iran kept some of its nuclear development secret until it was uncovered in 2002. Iran’s suspicious nuclear activity …

… We are hearing lots about apologies for slavery these days. The Hartford Courant, one of the oldest … apologized for advertising for runaway slaves. That apology was inspired by a story about another great Connecticut … the law against lynchers, decided to take a stand. When black World War I veterans appeared that night to stop …

… research took me to a number of prominent cities in the former Yugoslavia: to Belgrade, Serbia, as well as Tuzla … of mountains, forests, fields, lakes, and rivers. The park was established in 1974, one of many founded during the socialist period of Yugoslavia. Djerdap is promoted as a …

… a major mistake by opposing filibuster reform. By opposing the proposal of Sen. Bill Frist, the Republican Senate … II period were even bolder in their aspiration. Their goal was to transform the Senate into a strictly majoritarian … as ending lynching. This struggle culminated in 1975 when Republican Vice President Nelson Rockefeller intervened …

… In the summer of 1968, rumors circulated that the Democrats … and Richard Nixon, his Republican opponent. This prospect was labeled the October Surprise. The Nixon team beseeched … initiate it? Such a political earthquake is likely only when the elections are close and contingent on defined …

… As China moves closer to the center of the world economy interest in China's future … Meanwhile, strong sense of commitment to their homeland was also prevalent among the Chinese diasporic communities.  … for foreign contact and capitalist modernity started cooled when the whole world was dragged into WWII. War experiences …

… met with Martin McGuiness, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland while touring Belfast as part of her Diamond … servant—would not be particularly noteworthy. However, this was not most cases, as McGuiness was not just any public … more and more as undemocratic, unfair, and anachronistic. When Catholics organized a civil rights protest movement …

… Summer’s heat brings with it, as it did last year, the threat of massive power outages. Everyone who’s suffered … distribution system, fought Westinghouse stubbornly. When it appeared he could no longer win by competing fairly, … Nth Power, a venture capital company in San Francisco, it wasn’t so much that Edison was wrong as that he was ahead of …

… They're the greatest show on earth, exciting the passions of … be transformed — tamed and pacified, at least in part — when expressed on the Olympic stage. For defenders of the … not as representatives of their nations. Coubertin was a fervent patriot who saw international sport as a way …

… Although Americans today may take the tactical and operational brilliance of their military … filled them with a burning desire for revenge. The result was what historian John Dower dubbed a “war without mercy” … march and Japanese mistreatment of U.S. prisoners of war. When U.S. troops returned to the Philippines, Gen. MacArthur …

… more than a decade after 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. … passengers on United Flight 93. The goal of the hijackings was to reprogram the guidance systems of the airliners so … with relatively long periods of cessation. In 2001, when the peace process collapsed entirely, a massive …

… make in a presidential primary campaign! Seven days before the Iowa caucuses, Howard Dean led the Democratic pack by at … of his rivals. This development caused pundits from the Washington Post, CNN, CNBC and the National Review to ask … considered a presidential run after the 1960 election, when John F. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard M. Nixon. …

… On April 14, 2015, we observed the 150 th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s death. … addresses nation on civil rights. June 11, 1963. Lincoln was the first American President to be killed in office. His … wage war against a determined foe who would not yield even when Lincoln offered the Confederacy gradual, compensated …