, adopting (1787) a new constitution that went into effect after 1789. The nation soon began to expand westward. Growing tensions over the issue of black slavery divided the country along geographic lines, sparking the secession of the South and the Civil War (1861-1865). The remainder of...
Springfield's State is an unspecified (and possibly fictional) US state where Springfield is located in The Simpsons. The state was founded by circus freaks and was assumed to be the location of New Sodom, due to misinterpreting a passage in the Bible.[1
Muller v. State of Oregon, U.S. Supreme Court case decided in 1908 that, although it appeared to promote the health and welfare of female workers, in fact led to additional protective legislation that was detrimental to equality in the workplace for year
which was called SB (Senate Bill) 54 before being signed by Governor Jerry Brown last October, showing a will to resist the White House's immigration policy, went into effect from the first day of this year.
1846The Beginning of the U.S.-Mexican War 1848The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the end of the war 1853The First Railroad in Texas is Established 1854First Telegraph Office Opened 1860 - 1865Texas joined Confederacy; Civil War began
…where Robert Day found some miscasting in a Civil War epic… …George Price’s floating man seemed to be coming back to earth… …Day again, with a sure-fire way to defend one’s goal… …Alan Dunn offered words of wisdom from the pulpit… …and we close with Barbara Shermund, an...
Just as wars, depressions, and other upheavals influence the arts when visited upon a country, so the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has profoundly shaped the art of politics in Mexico, according to several recent NAFTA, which took effect on...
1. The system fraught with deep-seated problems 1.美式民主沦为“金钱政治” (1) American-style democracy has become “a game of money politics” 2.名为“一人一票”,实为“少数精英统治” (2) “One person one vote” ...
Mumford noted Stieglitz’s “astringent quality” that rose above the philistine tastes and “stupidities” of American life. LIFE AND WORK INTERTWINED…Clockwise, from top left: Alfred Stieglitz’s famed 1930 image of Grand Central Terminal; one of the photographer’s many images of clouds under...
In 1819 the Adams-Onís Treaty with Spain defined Oklahoma as the southwestern boundary of the United States. After the War of 1812 the U.S. government invited the Cherokee of Georgia and Tennessee to move into the area, and a few had come to settle. Soon intense white pressure for their...