The idea that Americans—indeed, people in general—have fundamental rights and liberties was at the core of the arguments in favor of their independence. In writing theDeclaration of Independencein 1776, ThomasJeffersondrew on the ideas of JohnLocketo express the colonists’ belief that they had ...
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has avirtual book chatwith Leslie Alexander and Millery Polyné. The event is organized in partnership with the Van Hunnick History Department, the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, and the USC Black Studies Initiative.
A Russian Orthodox church dedicated to Saint Alexander Nevsky is beautiful but small and surrounded by blank Soviet walls. Markučiai wooden manor, once owned by the family of famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, is also in Rasos. A Pushkin museum once operated inside (as Lithuanian philo...
intended—in the sense that it helped to integrate non-Russian peoples into the evolving Soviet state, society, economy and culture,” she says. “But it also relentlessly demanded that Soviet people think about themselves in national terms, and it placed ethnicity at the center of Soviet ...
No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy. —Fred Korematsu ...
One enormous problem with DEI is that it subjugates or abolishesmerit ormeritocracyin favor ofdiscrimination based upon race, ethnicity, or gender, all in the name of something made up called “inclusion” and something damaging called “equity” – not equality before the law or equality of op...
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Further, they found that the pattern was consistent across different identity groups (race, ethnicity, urban-rural location, sex). The mortality gap between Republican and Democratic counties grew six-fold from 2001 to 2019, mostly due to changes in deaths due to “heart disease, cancer, lower...