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… of violence and instability until 1922. Multiple communities of former tsarist imperial subjects imagined the … policies Union-wide promoting non-Russian nationalities. No one knew, however, what might be too Ukrainian, and … what precisely “Ukrainian” included, in the Soviet context. One arena these debates played out in was the arts. In very …

… No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation into law in 2002, one thing was strikingly clear: politicians loved it almost … of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Weingarten complains that the administration's plans "put 100 percent … but they have also come to loggerheads—as they have done most recently. Understanding that history helps explain …

… to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … the dangers of a permanent state of wartime readiness – one, it must be said, that he himself had helped to create – … institutions of government: a chapter on the presidency, one on Congress, and one looking at the expansion of the …

… not experience "unemployment" in the same way as industrial ones do. As the nation's first factories developed, … public entities to address mass joblessness. From early on, one of their leading strategies was increasing public … Accurate employment statistics for the period are hard to come by, but according to some accounts, the national …

… accepting Nazi anti Semitism and racial ideology required one to overcome a number of intellectual hurdles. How could one accept Nazi claims of Jewish inferiority if Jesus …

… On May 23, 2013, one day after acknowledging that U.S. drone strikes had killed four Americans during his tenure, … us from the ravages of modern warfare, or if they will become the appliances of Orwellian control. What is remarkable … Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones …

… what they believe, they ought at least be faithful to one of the Framers’ core principles. But they aren’t doing … a different approach to representative democracy from the one the Framers embraced. The men who gathered in … needed for decisions we’re stuck with. The Framers weren’t comfortable with slender majorities when the nation’s …

… of 2013. Thanks to the explosion of electronic forms of communication, even since the election of Benedict in 2005, … of medieval ritual and pageantry with flashing cell phones and papal tweets provided the backdrop for Francis’s … in Cairo, a blindfolded boy, dressed in white, chose one of the three names from a chalice. It was Tawadros (the …

… then turned to Lt. Col. Oliver North. North is one of the most colorful characters in this narrative: … could operate off the books. Photo of FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas in the Nueva Guinea zone of Southeast Nicaragua, 1987 U.S. relations with Iran …

… democracies, and political experiments such as Bolshevik communism. Much of Europe lay in tatters and virtually an … the left shows Europe at the start of World War I while the one on the right shows it afterward. The 20 th century began … would spend a week carving a regimental badge onto a headstone ( right ). In Great Britain, 30% of men who were between …

… my guests are historians. We look back and study what has come before and  this …this is a decidedly forward looking … of in the, I think was like in the late 90s. Like you saw one of these. And then 20 years later, now, you see another one that's even larger. So really, it's become very easy for …

… this law and demand that the government repeal it. As one protester lamented to a New York Times reporter: … men, they exclaimed "We want our rights! We want equality!" One is left to wonder how a protest against a law that … had very recently joined forces with the celebrated Tajik commander Ahmad Shah Massoud to establish the "Northern …

… on Prologued...   Alexander Aviña  So it's a really, like, complex, messy matrix, right? So I don't want to say that …   Brionna Mendoza  We examined how policymakers and practitioners entangled fighting the drug war with fighting the Cold … clear themes and connections that arise from these stories, ones that all point to the importance of approaching the …

… United States. In this country, the mortgage market is prone to greater growth than in the rest of the world because other countries require more money up front and require repayment more quickly. Recently, … lucky. Their ability to afford their monthly payments was compromised first by the falling market, then by mortgages …

… of the sort espoused by Richard Rorty. The maneuver is a common one from the perspective of positivism. In The Demon-Haunted … we can do is build rhetorical arguments that overlap with one another to give us a reliable sense of what is and is … Media/Journalism/Communications …

… Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone to extraordinary lengths to commemorate the Second World War. Even though the war ended … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Hello, and welcome to World War II Memory in Putin's Russia, brought to … and I'll be your host and moderator today. Welcome to everyone. And thank you so much for joining us. Russian President …

… American colonists and British authorities, and provided one of the sparks that would ignite the American Revolution … to enforce these taxes and keep the peace, the more than one thousand soldiers were heavily resented by Bostonians as … soldiers and townspeople and by early 1770, fights had become commonplace. The death of a young man, Christopher …

… taken seriously, now seem self-serving and misguided.   Opponents of gay marriage can easily find Bible verses to …   Among the many Bible passages cited by Dew was this one from Leviticus 25:44-46: “Both thy bondmen, and thy … and equality. For them, slavery and Christianity were incompatible. These contrasting approaches parallel the …

… and what it can tell us about  changing conceptions of the common good. In addition, host Patrick Potyondy interviews … Mark Sokolsky  Welcome to History Talk , where we bring together a panel of … This is Patrick Potyondy. And I'm speaking over the phone with Tom Smith, Executive Director of the American …

… I’ve read about it, 1968 was quite a year. Writers have compared it to the most dramatic moments in modern history— … Between these came the abdication of Lyndon Johnson and not one but two major assassinations. Martin Luther King, Jr. … though they ought to be memorable but don’t show up on anyone’s lists. Who remembers the assassination of John Gordon …

… an emblem of the very apartheid regime that had imprisoned him—and also of the re-admittance of South Africa to the international community. To many, winning a rugby tournament might seem to … have little diplomatic or social importance. But sport was one of the most visible avenues through which the …

… with a column praising the strategic savvy and tactical competence of abdicated Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Broder … by her recent address to the National Tea Party Convention, one of the sundry right-wing "tea party" groups to spring up … policy demands were statist. They demanded 1) inflationary monetary policy, 2) state-run, state-subsidized systems of …