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… contempt, to cynicism, to gratitude. Chinese Dreams and The National Museum What is sometimes overlooked in discussions … is the context in which Xi gave the original speech—the National Museum of China. Xi Jinping (surrounded by other … Politburo members) giving his “China Dream” speech at the National Museum of China, Nov. 29, 2012.  Xi gave the speech …

… decision to abolish slavery moved from military strategy to national policy, and whether it was more his decision or … to avoid the competition of slave labor, it entered the union as a free state the following year. "The balance of … strengthened the influence of those who clamored for disunion." Showing how California's story both shaped and …

… No longer concerned about a clash of arms with the old Soviet Union, America today faces new challenges to its security. … Bush administration is now deciding America’s future international security strategy and the size and structure of the …

… d'analyser le parcours du pays depuis la chute de l'Union soviétique et de se souvenir qu'on ne revient jamais … paradoxalement pour le moment, par l'autoritarisme et le nationalisme. Il faut également rappeler à quel point la … qu'il s'agisse de l'espace anciennement soviétique, de l'Union européenne ou des pays émergents. Les raisons du …

… This dubious milestone deserves much more attention. The national debt exploded as the result of ongoing federal … programs led to creation of the European Payments Union (EPU) in 1950, which administered Marshall Plan funds … for Western Europe. Incidentally, the European Payments Union threw the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) a …

… the assumption that multiethnic nationhood, which African nationalists constructed from the inherited colonial … full-blown civil war between Biafra and the rest of the union. With its massive air power and large army, the … weighed in on the conflict: Great Britain and the Soviet Union openly sided with the Federal Government of …

… In July 1956, the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a … anti-Western nationalism across the region and give the Soviet Union an opportunity for political gain. President Dwight D. …

… is a key characteristic of how Americans view their national history and the evolution of U.S. society—an … histories, and continues to shape understandings of their national identities. And the idea of Hacer América —the … centuries, Latin America was a primary destination for international migrants from all over the world. With the dawning …

… in Nuremberg, Germany, was a hub of activity. The International Military Tribunal (IMT)—the first major effort to … from the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union—the four major Allied powers—had worked together, at …

… Wiggins  President Obama thrust Cuba-US relations into the national spotlight with the historic announcement in … spent time to write and fish, where the US and the Soviet Union perhaps came closest to nuclear warfare, and where a …

… participate in the 1980 Moscow Olympics in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; the Soviet bloc retaliated … joint talk show that “there is no sex in the Soviet Union. We are categorically against it!” Her reference was … to “the revision of norms of morality and ethics and erase national traditions.” Russia, Olympics, and Homosexuality …

… colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners … which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, … poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives …

… President Bush is responding to national disaster by assuming the mantle of Presidents … 11 was the clearest proof that, despite the fall of the Soviet Union, the Cold War gave us no real security. The Cold War …

… Dr. Aaron Retish, historian and expert in late Imperial and Soviet history at Wayne State University.   Dr. Aaron … French culture and the impact of war and personal and national identities.   Julie Powell    Hello.    Jessica … periphery, to the United States, and ultimately the Soviet Union, as a result of the First World War and also the shift …

… cultural heritage, check out Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum , A Postcard from Warsaw, …   Dr. Steven Conn:     If we were to look at what the Soviet Union took out of Eastern Europe during and in the wake of …

… connections to that time.” The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in 1987. Turning numbers … was no lasting legacy in Russia of the First World War. The Soviet state remembered the war as an “imperialist” conflict … effect on state politics in what would become the Soviet Union and its reverberations across the world. On August 1, …

… its ends. Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg to honor the Union dead after the battle near that small Pennsylvania town, a bloodbath that turned Civil War in the Union’s favor. In only 266 words, he redefined the Union … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… 14.80 percent in July of 2015 (according to the INDEC, the national statistics institute). And these official numbers … they were comparable to Western Europe. The increase in union jobs fostered the development of a robust middle class … numerous loans. Conditions worsened as the government began union-busting under the pretext that unions were housing …

… say the Games help create mutual understanding and international peace. Our willingness to accept this lofty … the wrong reason. Proponents say the Olympics create international harmony because the Games are apolitical. But the … observers thought that all those gold medals piled up by Soviet and East German athletes were a sign that the "Free …

… United States wasn’t the only nation that aspired to international leadership. The rise of the Soviet Union, in many ways the ideological & economic foil to the …