1828-1996,” political scientist John Gerring marks the beginning of the modern Republican Party as Herbert Hoover’s shifting campaign rhetoric in 1928 and 1932, when he talked more about the virtues of the American home and family than hard-tack economics...
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According to Harvey Levenstein, author of "Revolution at the Table," one of the unspoken early goals of public school lunches was to Americanize the tastes of immigrant youth.He writes: "[the immigrant children] were learning an important lesson: it was the food in their homes, not on the...
Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 novel—the last one he completed—depicts the final hours of Geoffrey Firmin’s alcohol-fueled life as a British consul in the shadow of two Mexican volcanoes. Full of literary references and allusions, Under the Volcano could serve as Exhibit A in my theory on Literary...
Public opinion, angry over the sinking of the Lusitania, began to sway in favor of entering the war. In January 1917, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare against their 19155 agreement with the U.S. The German Foreign minister, Arthur Zimmermann, invited revolution-torn Mexico to join ...
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Many Catholic Mexicans fled to America to escape the anti-Christian socialist Mexican Revolution of 1910-1911 and brought with them their practice of smoking cannabis recreationally.They called what was then known in American as “Indian Hemp,” by the Spanish word “marihuana.” ...
The article reports on the conduct of Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leader of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Lo´pez Obrador refuses to accept the election results in which the leader of PAN, Felipe Calderón, beat him by a narrow majority. Obrador declared ...