As the role of government has expanded, so too has the role of the nation's attorney general. Moreover, though the attorney general's role continues to grow and evolve, the basic duties of the office and the structure of its supporting organization have been in place since the Civil War....
After the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), didn’t Pope Pius XII himself, staunch (if silent) supporter of Franco throughout the war, bless Franco as Defender of the Catholic Faith? In so doing, the Pope managed to overlook the 100,000 Republicans executed by Franco’s Fascist Nationalists...
“It was closest thing I’ve seen around here to mass civil unrest as a member of Congress,” one person in the roomtoldCNN. And after theattack on the Capitolon January 6, 2021, Gaetz blamedantifa, saying that its members had marched on the building while “masquerading as Trump ...
Many of both the Arabic and Chinese classical encyclopaedias were compiled with the object of helping civil service candidates in their studies and of providing administrators with the cultural background needed for their work. Their interest to historians of the two cultures can well be understood,...
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could tell where the border was — Pakistani frontier troops,” DeLong said. “The reason we couldn’t put Pakistani troops up in the mountains was [that] the…villagers would have killed them. We blocked the area up there the best way we could without having a civil war in the area....
J. Bowdle; Richard T. Kerr. Missouri cont. Box 2 0659 Folder 1, Eastern District, U.S. Attorney, May 5, 1866–December 11, 1868. 78pp. Major Topics: Cooperation of civil and military authorities; resignations; appointments and oaths of office; Fenians prosecution; Civil War era conspiracy...
1861. With the beginning of theCivil War, Grant aided in recruiting a company of volunteers and led it to Springfield, IL. Once there, Governor Richard Yates seized on Grant's military experience and set him to training newly