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Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture. By Karen L. Cox. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. x, 210. $34.95.)Ranch houseguidelines for National Register evaluationmid-century Georgia...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZECun3NjMbw Teos Abadía is a Colombian-American freelance author and developer working with Wizards of the Coast, Penny Arcade, MCDM, Hasbro, and several organized play programs. Teos was a primary author on the Acquisitions Incorporated D&D book and on the ...
Instead of reflecting on those problems facing its own democracy, the United Statescontinues to export American democratic values to other countries, and use democracy as a tool to serve its own agenda, which has created divisions and chaos worldwide. The recently-concluded second "Summit for Demo...
As many as one in 17 American children enter foster care. Dan Stephens, a senior partner in ourWashington, DC, office, didn’t know about the far-reaching impact the foster-care system has on society until he learned of Sherry’s vision for Foster America. “It wa...
The American Revolution had tremendous consequences, and was not simply a victory of arms on the battlefield, but also a feat of economic and political ideals, and vital societal changes. This huge period of history set into motion greater changes in American life and created a country, ...
The aim was to break away from the rule of Great Britain that governed the colonies of America and to form their own independent nation. The Puritans Arrived 400 Years Ago But, this means that the basis of an American nation began much earlier than 1776. It must have been, as for those...
How were the Townshend Acts created?The Townshend Acts:The Townshend Acts are generally defined as five laws passed by Parliament and the British government in order to raise revenue from the American colonies. The Townshend Acts were passed as a replacement for the Stamp Act and built upon ...
The idea of the American dream has much deeper roots. Its tenets can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among thes...
However, this first attempt at an American central bank was short-lived, and its charter was not renewed (it was re-established later for another short period of years, as the second Bank of the United States, which was even shorter-lived).2 Hamilton proposed the Bank of the United States...