United States
azw3 |eng | 2020-05-18 | Author:Adams, Nick [Adams, Nick]

6 PRESCIENCE In order to be a defender of Western civilization, one must have prescience. One cannot always act against what one sees coming on the horizon right away; one ...
( Category: United States June 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Nichols

The Return of the Segregationists The Progressive Party actually outlasted Strom Thurmond’s Dixiecrat party, which dissolved shortly after the 1948 count was completed. But the Dixiecrats had a place to ...
( Category: History & Theory June 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-21 | Author:Yuval Levin [LEVIN, YUVAL]

THE SIMPLEST IRONY OF THE ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA IS THAT THE platforms intended to help people come together have often pulled us apart. If any single term can describe ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 31,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Stephen D. Krasner [Krasner, Stephen D.]

CHAPTER 8 Historical Examples of Forcing Your Neighbor’s Hand SHORTLY AFTER THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL IN 1989, I WAS teaching at Stanford University. One of my colleagues was ...
( Category: Diplomacy May 31,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-16 | Author:John R. Stilgoe

Six Enclosures EVERYWHERE THE EXPLORER MOVES, he or she discovers fences and slowly realizes that fences are the unmentioned high-tech device of the last years of the twentieth century. Fences ...
( Category: Social Theory May 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-14 | Author:Jessica Barbata Jackson

The Rollins v. State case from 1921 in Alabama presents the most infamous example of this liminal space and how Sicilians and other Italians complicated Jim Crow miscegenation laws.76 Edith ...
( Category: United States May 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-25 | Author:Jim Rasenberger

VI Three months after Walker’s death, on the morning of Monday, January 24, 1848, a millwright named James Marshall was walking along the raceway of a new sawmill on the ...
( Category: United States May 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-17 | Author:Kate Andersen Brower

OBAMA’S CONTROVERSIAL LIBRARY The reason Barack Obama spends a significant amount of time raising money for his library is simple: presidential libraries cost astronomical sums to build. But donors can ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-25 | Author:David Frum

Churchill, though, was speaking to and for a society whose unity had been forged in the hardships of war. The American spirit of unity is dissolving—and with it, the willingness ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 27,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-05-15 | Author:Judkin Browning

Painting of the Battle of Spotsylvania showing the fighting at the Bloody Angle on May 12, 1864. Courtesy Library of Congress. Even after three years of war, the most hardened ...
( Category: Environmental Science May 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hannah Brenner Johnson

It is significant to note that as impactful as women’s advocacy can be, whether formal or informal, not all of the women profiled in this book were active in promoting ...
( Category: United States May 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-14 | Author:Stephen H. Provost

Tommy’s Restaurant, with its huge sign just off the freeway, is impossible to miss at El Camino Real in San Clemente. THE SANTA ANA FREEWAY It’s hard to believe it ...
( Category: United States May 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-24 | Author:Amber Roessner

Frontline reporters situated at mainstream outlets, yearning to avoid accusations of bias, pursued audiences with a detached brand of horse race analysis, but as the candidates entered the “homestretch,” they ...
( Category: Elections May 25,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Yoshiko Uchida & Yoshiko Uchida [Uchida, Yoshiko]

Plate in hand, I stand in line, Losing my resolve To hide my tears. I see my mother In the aged woman who comes, And I yield to her My ...
( Category: Asian American Studies May 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-03 | Author:Bruce L. Brager

Some sources say that Lincoln had more details on Lee’s losses, and that this may have provoked his comment to William Stoddard about more such losses, which Stoddard remembered as ...
( Category: American Civil War May 22,2020 )