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The year 1808 is often overlooked when historians and commentators discuss key moments in American history. Why was 1808 a pivotal year in American history? Its significance has little to do with the fact that J (Read More)
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Cambridge University is one of the oldest and greatest educational and research institutions in the world. Founded by teachers from Oxford University, who had fled the wrath of the townsmen of Oxford after a murder, or so (Read More)
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Oct 26, 2009
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Addressing a U.N. Security Council Summit on September 24, 2009, President Barack Obama observed that the resolution unanimously adopted by the Security Council earlier that day "enshrines our shared commitment to the goal of (Read More)
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News leaked recently that President Obama had called a group of historians to the White House a few months ago to educate him on the thinking of President Lyndon Johnson in late 1964 as Johnson weighed the possibility of orde (Read More)
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On September 14, President Barack Obama rejected comparisons between Afghanistan and Vietnam. He staked out his position even while considering whether, at the behest of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, to increase both U.S. troop (Read More)
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Oct 12, 2009
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At first I thought the NY Times website must have been hacked. They idea of President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize seemed too far-fetched to believe. But when I clicked back a few minutes later the headline was even bi (Read More)
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Reluctant as he may be, President Barack Obama faces a defining moment in the Afghan war. General Stanley McChrystal’s call for more troops, as much as it is a bid to change the course of the conflict, hits Obama at a moment (Read More)
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Caster Semenya, the South African runner who won the women's 800-meter race at the World Track Championships in Berlin last month, has been unofficially declared intersexed. If she is, it means that she was born with some dis (Read More)
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Sep 24, 2009
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The Tucson School board is calling for a two-tiered form of student discipline. One for Black and Hispanic students; one for everyone else.With the goal of creating a "restorative school culture and climate" that conveys a "s (Read More)
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Fifty-four years ago this month, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Chicago boy visiting family in Mississippi, was abducted, mutilated and murdered. Several days later, his horribly disfigured body was fished out of the Tallah (Read More)
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This is part of an ongoing project to track the ideological shifts of the Obama administration. Click here to read the initial installment. August 18, 2009: WHITE HOUSE SUGGESTS DEMOCRATS MAY GO IT ALONE ON (Read More)
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Like other members of academic communities, I am anxiously waiting to see what will happen with the swine flu epidemic once students return to campus in the fall. Since I am a historian of medicine, and my most recent work is (Read More)
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Aug 19, 2009
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BENTONVILLE, Ark., August 18, 2009 – Following a successful May pilot launch in Michigan Walmart announced that throughout states in the Midwest and Northeast, it is offering its most recent program to drive costs out of heal (Read More)
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THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY:IN FOCUS: STATSPresident Barack Obama's approval rating down to 50 percent: poll: Exactly half of registered voters surveyed by Quinnipiac University said they approve of the job Obama is doing, compared (Read More)
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Throughout the presidential campaign, both supporters and opponents of Barack Obama wondered if he was as centrist as he sounded when he called for bipartisanship, or as liberal as some of his close friends and c (Read More)
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Aug 03, 2009
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One of the peculiarities of modern war is the fascination it holds for intellectuals. Since the 1890s, in the United States as in Europe, the loudest yelps for blood have been heard some distance from the battlefield. Profes (Read More)
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Response to this article by the Wilson CenterD.D. Guttenplan's Response to the Wilson Center Okay, so maybe I shouldn’t have used the word “McCarthyism.” At the invitation of the Woodrow Wilson Center I flew to Washington (Read More)
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The University of Oregon (UO), where I study journalism, invested millions annually in a diversity program that explicitly included "political affiliation" as a component. Yet, out of the 111 registered Oregon voters in the d (Read More)
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants the new Congress to impose billions of dollars in additional taxes on oil and natural gas companies. Others are calling for a windfall oil-profits tax.Never mind that the top 27 U.S. oil compa (Read More)
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Today I'm happy to report we've taken a giant step in bringing public transit information to Google Maps. We've just added comprehensive transit info for the entire New York metro region, encompassing subway, commuter rail, b (Read More)
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