“We talk the irrepressible conflict, and practically give the lie to our talk. We wage war against slaveholding rebels, and yet protect and augment the motive which has moved the slaveholders to rebellion…. Fire will not burn it out of us–water cannot wash it out of us, that this wa...
48. “America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression, and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights, and the brink of a nuclear crisis.”― Barrack Obama 49. “Let me assure my countrymen of...
Ken Burns: The Civil War was about ‘slavery, slavery, slavery’. Ken Burns is right here to hammer home the point that the Civil War was about slavery. If you understand history then you know how central the issues of slavery and race are to our history despite all the other factors. ...
, the exact facts, the exact form of mere speech, mere talk, does not really matter. Now, it will be said that not all populisms pursue this kind of discursive logic. This—and the outright, barefaced lie, memorably invoked by Theodor Adorno with regard to national socialism—is ...
Established as a War on Poverty, it greatly expanded welfare programs. One goal of the Great Society was to help realize some of the intentions of civil rights legislation. This could only be done by opening up opportunities for African Americans in schooling, housing, and the labor force. ...
When it went into effect on October 1, 1993, the policy theoretically lifted a ban on homosexual service that had been instituted during World War II, though in effect it continued a statutory ban. Under the terms of the law, homosexuals serving in the military were not allowed to talk ...
King - Man of Peace in a Time of War The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most important and inspirational figures in U.S. – and World – History. He spoke of peace at a time when there was great conflict between black and white America, divisiveness within the c...
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It would be unlikely he could have been there while on active duty in the French army, especially in the middle of the 30 Years War. Stevensons’ use of a letter sent by Moray to the Earl of Kincardine where he states he never went to university makes it very difficult to support his...
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