Tag: history
group name: politicsjustice
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May 19, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
For many years, and especially in the 1600's, the Irish were the main source of slaves sent from England to America and the West Indies. Did you know that?
I am Irish by heritage, and until recently, . . . more
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October 08, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Although we remember Rome more as an empire, for almost half her history she was in fact a republic, and like us, an altogether imperfect, yet earnest, democracy. This now rather obscure fact was . . . more
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October 07, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, and the author of “American Gospel” and “Franklin and Winston,” writes in the New York Times:
[....The only acknowledgment . . . more
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June 18, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
Kenneth Davis knows that history is complicated.
American history textbooks and oral history give us perfect role models in our historical figures and an unfolding story in which we were always . . . more
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January 29, 2007 07:54 PM EST --
As a high school teacher one day in history class I asked the students why are we the world police? I got a lot of blank looks back, one student said "the constitution?" I ask you on what basis . . . more
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February 18, 2007 05:46 PM EST --
Did you know…
That in Brazil there are over 130 words used to describe skin color?
That the sickle cell . . . more
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January 18, 2007 01:51 AM EST --
President Bush’s recent decision to increase the number of troops we’ve got on the ground in Iraq, against what poles show to be over whelming opposition from the American people, brings up . . . more
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July 11, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, has approved the release of an document that states that all other Christian denomination are either defective or not . . . more
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May 26, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I was born in late 1940, almost a year to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, marking our entry into WWII. I contracted measles and chickenpox before . . . more
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October 28, 2007 12:28 PM EDT --
So...when Islamic fundamentalist Al Qaeda attacked us we did the obvious thing...and attacked secular Arab nationalist Iraq (deadly enemy of those who attacked us).
Brilliant!
. . . more
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December 21, 2005 05:46 PM EST --
This was posted 2 years ago, before groups existed on Gather
Several times in the recent past I have heard the term "fascist" applied pejoratively . . . more
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February 20, 2007 01:53 PM EST --
As another Black History Month winds down, I started wondering if it is really even necessary anymore.
I’ll be honest, I’m torn on this issue.
On the one hand I thought, . . . more
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March 26, 2007 02:51 AM EDT --
The development of the international trading and monetary systems since World War II began with the inception of the Bretton Woods Monetary System known as the Liberal International Economic Order (LIEO). . . . more
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February 20, 2007 11:35 PM EST --
"With more than 2,500,000 U.S. personnel serving across the planet and military bases spread across each continent, it's time to face up to the fact that our American democracy has spawned a global . . . more
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March 22, 2007 12:38 PM EDT --
Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy by Andrew Cockburn. Scribner, New York, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-3574-4. Price: US$25, 247 pages.
A fine review of Cockburn's well-informed study . . . more
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April 19, 2007 08:30 PM EDT --
Russia Plans World's Longest Tunnel, a Link to Alaska
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=home&sid=a0bsMii8oKXw
Russia announced plans to . . . more
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January 16, 2007 02:09 PM EST --
The story of a fugitive slave and bounty hunter is one of betrayal and trust—and the deepest of all emotions, the love a parent has for a child
As a writer of non-fiction with a special interest . . . more
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February 09, 2007 04:07 PM EST --
With a name like Valentine, you'd better be planning something extra special for the big red-letter day. Especially if you're deploying to Iraq before the next one rolls around.
For Lieutenant . . . more
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April 28, 2008 01:55 PM EDT --
"Motor grader operators work with loaded carbines at their sides; ... scrapers cut roads across the shadows of hastily prepared gun emplacements; a lean, tanned construction superintendent . . . more
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January 11, 2008 11:25 PM EST --
In the United States, anyone can grow up to be President--even the son and the grandson of a man who did business with the Nazis during WWII--and who planned to overthrow the government in a coup in . . . more
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