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… Nadler of New York warned that "if we don't want to become an empire instead of a republic," Congress must … 8, of the U.S. Constitution, which reserves to Congress the sole right to declare war.  The occasion was the debate over … continued funding wars because the safety of American soldiers is always at stake.   But why appeal to a law approved …

… the intellect with emotion and place. You can follow our common fight for independence and creating and keeping a … The family moved to the United States in 1923, and Eero studied architecture at Yale. In February 1948 Saarinen’s … an inverted weighted catenary: inverted, because the arch points upwards, and weighted so that it is thicker at the …

… about the historical context of climate change. ( Image Source ) … Hello, everyone and welcome from the College of Arts and Sciences. Thank you so much for joining us for climate change insights from … for their sponsorship. And again, thank you to the audience for joining us, for excellent questions and, you …

… only recently. His plan to win them back: Trot out some speakers of color, bandy about the word "inclusion" and … to give black men full citizenship. For that much, Bush and company can claim a worthy lineage. But as early as 1876 — … a vigorous civil rights bill, but the legislation almost died because of a Senate filibuster by Southern Democrats. …

… anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, two of the season’s Hollywood blockbusters, Quentin Tarantino’s “Django … in style, tone, and story, the two films are instructively complementary in reminding us of an uncomfortable truth … gave masters ownership and control over the labor and bodies of the men, women, and children who by law were their …

… the nation expressed shock at Republican Congressman Joe Wilson and his “You lie!” outburst at President Obama, South … standard-bearer for South Carolina. Among his many accomplishments, Thurmond holds the record for conducting the … one is hard pressed to think of another politician who combines self-indulgence with sanctimoniousness in such …

… Empire, Serhii Plokhy’s new history of the demise of the Soviet Union. Ultimately, the decision by Ukraine to declare independence ensured that the Soviet Union had become an irrelevancy and its dissolution had become an inevitability. Although questions of ethnicity did …

… structures made from this earthen material were common throughout the Andes, and they were generally … temperature swings. Focused on silver rather than safety, European mine owners and royal officials pushed not only … Espinosa, Antonio. Compendium and Description of the West Indies. trans. Charles Upton Clark. Washington, DC: …

… Throttlebottom, whose relationship with government was so tenuous that he saw the White House for the first time on … thus passed into the language to refer to someone with no competence or apparent purpose. It turns out, however, that … qualified to direct foreign policy if the president dies and to continue the basic policies in the next election …

… Few episodes of American religious history appear as unlikely as … to American historians, frequently recited in religious studies classes, and often skewered in popular culture, e.g., … and the Book of Mormon have captivated an American audience. There is little question that such interest will not …

… Some Americans recall the event with shame and express their … indefensibility of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is becoming a part of the national conservative creed." But times … and profoundly offensive to all Americans and Japanese who died in that war, and to those Americans who still possess …

… of Chinese defeat in the face of British imperial power and commercial interests. China wanted to stem the flow of opium … It was only in response to transnational pressure from bodies such as SSOT that the British government set up a Royal … events in order to build a narrative that pushes against a Eurocentric understanding of the anti-opium movement in …

… of Deng Xiaoping creates an opportunity by which China can solve one its most vexing problems: the status of Tibet.  … Both sides have long known that the solution lay in compromise and talks have endured intermittently, and … the far more difficult issue of Taiwan. Now that Deng has died, both sides now appear determined to find a solution. …

… In November 2009 that angry fragment of the party is embodied by Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Joe Wilson and their … their spittle-flecked vitriol and “death panel” talking points, the denialist “Birthers” with their tenuous grip on … They have shown no inclination toward the kind of compromise that characterized President Reagan on issues …

… the global war on terror is the central event of our time, comparable to the great struggles of the last century … confronted the challenges of Nazism and Stalinism, so destiny summons the present generation to confront and defeat global terror. This has become Americas mission to defend the peace through the …

… administration is poised to begin a war with Serbia over Kosovo in NATO’s name. These days we rarely fight in the name … United States. Sometimes, in fact, we try to hide our hand completely. For example, the administration frankly says it … U.S. money, supplies and advisers plus South Vietnamese soldiers was not a winning combination. Then Washington sent …

… On this episode of Prologued , we turn our attention back to the nation … Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3) … And they're going to create their own drug control bodies to kind of regulate and keep an eye on how much drugs … region into the Middle East and then into Western Europe and France. And from there, all throughout the world …

… Caster Semenya, the South African runner who won the women’s 800-meter race at … mortifying and disgusting imperfections.”   Intersex bodies have always aroused suspicion. But many people’s … go either way. All it took was the parents’ unwavering commitment toward raising either a boy or a girl, and this …

… poverty. Over the next five years the New Deal came to be associated with major regulatory reforms, labor laws and … upon when he won approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Social Security, unemployment insurance, a … flourished. Reagan and his supporters embraced the recommendations of the economist Milton Friedman that relied …

… for the sterilization of people deemed “feebleminded” or “socially inadequate”—two incredibly broad categories that … of rape. For Buck’s foster family and the doctors who recommended sterilization, a pregnancy out of wedlock was one … to disabled people’s right to make decisions about their bodies. It also contains the haunting revelation that Black …

… Second Inaugural Address that "all knew" that slavery "was somehow the cause of the war." Today, as the nation commemorates the war's sesquicentennial, the war's … the sacrifices and hardships of millions of Confederate soldiers and households, too often those solemn intentions get …