American History

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• President Obama Becomes George W. Bush Before Our Eyes

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 534
    President Harry S Truman casts his vote, Independence, Missouri, 1950 What part of change did you not understand? President Barack Obama plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan over six months, an accelerated timetable — with an endgame built in — that would have the first Marines there as ...
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• Mad Men: still aggressively anti-sexy

  
  Historiann — Authority: 512
  UPDATED BELOW Dr. Mister and I found episode 1 from the third Mad Men season for free on-line this weekend, and watched it together huddled up close to my computer screen.  (Did you know that we’re so cheap, we squeak?  It’s true.)  I stand by my claim of last month that Mad Men goes out of its way to ...
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• Lamenting Churches Labeled by Race

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 648
  So there is something on my mind, and I’m not quite sure how to approach the subject.  For a long time the church I pastor has been called a “white church.” We have had many people of color visit and…
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• Amen, Brother

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 534
  My symbol are these Little Green Bottles This says it pretty well: 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.) 2. Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann ...
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• Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 126
  Received my copy of William L. Shea’s Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign (Civil War America) . Publish date: November, 2009. Hardcover: 392 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807833150 From the publisher: “William Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events ...
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• Rebecca Solnit : Reflections on Fanaticism

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 559
  John Brown depicted in detail from a mural by John Steuart Curray titled "Tragic Prelude," in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.Todays fanatic, tomorrows saintIts popular to think that the world gets changed by nice people, but the lives of activists past and present tell us otherwiseBy Rebecca Solnit / November ...
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• A Trip to NYC and an Interview with Randall Balmer on Teaching American Religious History

  
  RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY — Authority: 126
  Randall Stephens So, I took the train down to NYC last week. Not to see Abraham Lincolns Big Gay Dance Party (which looks hilarious) , but rather to present my work to the Columbia University Seminar on Religion in America. (I love trains and seminars. Better than plains, rowboats, and/or webinars any day.) ...
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• Capitol Visitor Center Is About the History of Government, Not Religion

  
  Lynn v. Sekulow — Authority: 407
  Jay, Its a shame the Freedom From Religion Foundation had to file this lawsuit at all. This should never have been an issue in the first place. The Capitol Visitor Center is a building dedicated to the history and importance of the Capitol Building and the legislature. This isnt a historical church or a museum ...
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• The War on Welfare--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 128
  The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America Marisa Chappell 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4204-1 | $45.00 | £29.50 A volume in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series Focusing on the fate of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children ...
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• Visions of Progress--Now in Paperback

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 128
  Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America Doug Rossinow 336 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4049-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2095-7 | $24.95 | £16.50 A volume in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series Rossinow revisits the period between the 1880s and ...
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• Events: A National Zoo Electric Light Show, Holidays on Display, Celebrations of Winter Holidays

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 426
  Come celebrate the winter holidays at the Smithsonian! Seasons Greetings from Cavalry by Gerald T. Feathers. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives. Monday, November 30: Sorry kids, no special events today. But be sure to check  this Web site for a listing of regularly ...
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• Democracy & Elitism: an introduction to the American false consciousness

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 604
  Part one in a series. Is there a more radioactive word in American politics today than elitist ? Admit it – you saw the word and had an instinctive negative reaction, didn’t you? If not, then count yourself among the rarest minority in our culture, the fraction of a percent that has not yet had its ...
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• U.S.S. Maine Afro American Hero William Lambert lead pitcher on Champion Navy Baseball Squad

  
  Cuba Companioni — Authority: 118
  Via Cuba Libre Camp 172 "This is one of the few existing photos of African American Crew Man, William Lambert (of Hampton, Virginia), Fireman 2nd Class and lead pitcher, of the U.S.S. Maines Baseball Team. He is pictured, in the uniform of the Maines Baseball Team and is holding a baseball (left handed pitcher). ...
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• African American Archivists Dream Must Not Be Deferred

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 531
  Avery Clayton (1947-2009) Avery Clayton lived long enough to find a home for the largest collection of African American artifacts on the West Coast. But not long enough to see the treasure trove of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, feature films and ephemera, his mothers lifes work, made available to the ...
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• Unemployed U.S.-born workers seek day-labor jobs

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 137
    USA TODAY By Emily Baazar, USA TODAY Nov. 29, 2009 Growing ranks of U.S. citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal immigrants. The trend is most pronounced in regions where hot construction markets have collapsed, says ...
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• Ronald Reagan’s Reading* List

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 639
  While I have long compared Sarah Palin’s communication skills as well as her ability to connect with Americans to those of Ronald Reagan, I have also long noted that she lacks his (self-)education in the ideas of conservatism and free markets.  To achieve his status as a leader of the right, she needs study the ...
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• HEALTHCARE PLAN BLUES: An Interview

  
  Poetics and Ruminations — Authority: 124
        Sunday, November 29,2009. Special to the Dresden Mills Gazette . By Wesli Court, Blues Reporter. DMG. At the moment I amstanding in front of the candy counter of the Dresden Texaco and Take-Out inDresden, Maine, having a conversation with Republican Senator Gloria Monday.Good morning, Senator ...
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• “Flesh” trade

  
  Historiann — Authority: 512
  Photo by the Associated Press Via Corrente ,  Sociological Images notes the use of the word “flesh” to describe the color of the dress Michelle Obama wore to the State Dinner at the White House last week (at right.)  I guess someone didn’t get the memo that that old Crayola color was changed a long time ...
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• A Reader’s Guide to Bernanke’s Preemptive Attack

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 615
  Ben Bernanke is taking no chances. With his confirmation hearing for continuation as chairman of the Federal Reserve System only days away, he has written an op-ed for publication in Sunday’s Washington Post . We may interpret this article as a preemptive attack on his congressional critics, some of whom will no ...
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• The Washington Review Commentary: About That Presidential Security Breach

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 137
  Party Crashers Michaele And Tareq Salahi Shakes Hands With President Obama Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan is in the hot seat. As he should be. How could two complete strangers infiltrate a state event without the batting of an eyelash? Tareq and Michaele Salahi breezed into the state dinner given in the ...
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