Search Results

… Bush claimed that “state law reigns supreme when it comes to Indians, whether it be gambling or any other … Indigenous Communities …

… asked Big Foot, leader of the Minneconjou Teton Sioux, to come to Pine Ridge Reservation with his followers in hopes … east of Wounded Knee Creek. On the following morning the soldiers attempted to disarm the Indian camp. A shot rang out as one man refused to give up his gun and the edgy soldiers opened fire. At least 150 Sioux men, women, and …

… Spreading democracy has become the nation’s principal foreign policy goal. Yet there … one member said, should have nothing to do “with the wrongs committed by other Governments against those whom they …

… too crude for refined readers. Twenty years later, critics complained that the characters were poor role models. By the … evil. Harry’s true magic is that he is empowered by his compassion and tolerance of others.   Potter’s antagonists … Harry Potter may rival Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield to become one of America’s most banned boys. Elizabeth D. Schafer …

… in February 1989—twenty-five years ago—the Soviet Union completed withdrawal of its combat forces across the … society.” Kopp saw the Bolshevik Revolution as an event embodied in modernist architecture, but also facilitated and … and basements came to function as (civilian) bunkers. Cheap, but not always safe , traditional heating systems (or …

… To make the case that an election is momentous, you need to compare it with previous critical ones. The most important … elected.   In 1920, the incumbent party’s president had become very unpopular as a result of a war that had not … Herbert Hoover.   Next week’s election is shaping up as a combination of 1932 and 1920. The Panic of 2008 is having an …

… damaging sanctions against the Russian state, its companies, and its citizens. The sanctions were intended to … one of the most visible effects of sanctions to date, major companies left Russia. Multinational giants such as … armored vehicles. In another instance, the engines of Bombardier light off-road vehicles were found in the Iranian …

… tested and found to be full of typhoid bacilli.  Mallon had committed no crime. She had been unaware of her carrier … public support for Mallon’s plight.  When a new health commissioner took office in 1910, he decided to release her … Island, where she lived in a cottage with only a dog for a companion until her death in 1938. In the interim, …

… 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. …

… enslaved Africans generated tremendous wealth for an elite community of slave owners, slave traders, and political … enslaved individuals and their descendants petitioned for compensation, recognition, and material support, known today … for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History chronicles the history of the …

… strife between Sunnis and Shiites within your great community of Islam weakened the entire civic and social … and Methodists and nonbelievers in their midst, from becoming part of the federal Constitution. They firmly … the Americans was their capacity to unite in dealing with a common problem. The expectation that patriarchal authority …

… from new opportunities. But the patriotic fervor that accompanied wartime mobilization meant that unions were … who were a key part of the economy servicing this center of commerce. But, like the firefighters turned away from Ground …

… were torn as to how to gain acceptance from the straight community. Today’s emphases on gay pride and being openly … were nonexistent. Activists emphasized instead the commonalities between themselves and heterosexuals, … in 1965. In addition to demanding that the Civil Service Commission revise its policies to recognize the rights of …

… Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. If Vietnam fell to the Communists, they argued, so too would the rest of Asia. … and Russia. Afghanistan therefore demands a heavy American commitment, although the degree to which that commitment should be military is open to debate.   President …

… across the whole of the Old World. It also maintains a commitment to the study of the ancient world from the … (p. 20) The book is arranged as a series of thematic studies, each of which touches on a topic of central importance … at the many photos of these figurines in this chapter it is easy to understand why their function and meaning remain …

… the global economy. This conversation has raised uncomfortable questions about contemporary businesses and … came face to face with the ethical dilemmas of an Atlantic commercial system dependent on enslaved labor. An … created a government-sanctioned monopoly for the West-Indies and empowered slave-trading states in West Africa.” If …

… licenses to gay couples represents an example of the often complex relationship between government officials and … For example, Charles’s third chapter contains three case studies about prominent gay, or allegedly gay, individuals to … emerged during World War II. One of these case studies centers on Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, a …

… an unknown enemy, one whom many Americans believed had committed an act of war. And, like the destruction of the … Americans in 1920, the death toll from the blast seemed incomprehensible. “The horrible slaughter and maiming of men … focused on political radicals, mainly anarchists and communists. The condemnations were heated. “The bomb outrage …

… day in Dallas in 1963. In an inaugural address that has become a poignant reminder of the idealism of the 1960s, JFK … in a refreshing spirit of voluntarism by urging citizens to commit themselves to solving the problems of poverty and … the assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem in early November 1963 made JFK realize that the United …

… multi-cultural society. Ironically, re-segregation has become prevalent in some school districts while at the … have lowered admissions standards. Both developments are compromising the original intent of Brown. On May 17, 1954, … education for minorities in a system that was governed by competent teaching, adequate facilities and rigorous …

… the surrender of tens of thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers to the Japanese in the Philippines stunned the … the mercurial personality of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. and Filipino forces. Overconfident that the Filipino soldiers he had trained could stand up to Japanese regulars and …

… La juxtaposition du rire et de la tragédie dans les fusillades de Charlie Hebdo a suscité une recherche profonde pour découvrir comment les hommes armés sont venus à être si irrités par … était le chroniqueur Saïd Mekbel. Son esprit de comédie n’épargnait personne comme il s’en servait …

… right. However, even this discussion of pregnancy did not come close to the corporeal character of Kennedy’s language … the limits of what reasoned discourse can represent. An audience has to be brutally stimulated — shocked by savage … call one more akin to infanticide than the other. But the easy response to this objection is to propose a broader ban …