Even with price shocks due to technological changes and rapid globalization, prices in the short-term and long-run were more stable than at any other time in American history.
Yet the debate over guns, as is the case with many other contentious issues in American history, cannot be intelligently pursued without recognizing its constitutional dimensions.
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They profited greatly and saw their standard of living increase faster than any other accurately recorded time in American history.
What has made us uniquely American is our history of embracing people from other nations who have something to contribute to making this country successful.
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In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became hinges on which American history swung in dramatically new directions.
But Mr Michener brought a believable version of other people's history to many American readers who were not by inclination curious about foreign parts.
"Rising Up" will be at the High through Sept. 2, 2012, after which it will travel to the 80WSE Gallery at New York University, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American Culture and History in Washington, and four other museums.
But that's gone and that was actually only for about one-tenth of black American history, and we've coped in other ways.
American intelligence, unlike that of other countries, has a history of spectacular failures in misreading events, or being surprised by unexpected events.
Judging history or even other countries with 21st century American ideals does not give an accurate picture of events or attitudes of those actually involved.
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And from now until November, the other side will spend more money than at any time in American history.
Perhaps this explains (with a few other intervening bits of history) why even today it is principally American companies that have developed and derived benefit from the Alberta tar sands.
Throughout his noble career, Robert Lee Bernside, much like Alvin Lee, Jerry Lee, John Lee and all the other great boogiemen, unlocked the not-so-secret history of American roots music.
The great scholar of American politics, Judith Shklar, estimated to her graduate students that through the long run of American history, more elections at more levels of government have turned on alcohol than any other issue, including slavery.
The late night talk show host cruises through suburban malls and other Southern California sites that attract tourists from around the nation, posing simple questions from American history to his victims.
The Chinese and American people cherish deep friendship towards each other, and they fought side by side at defining moments in history when the future and the destiny of mankind were at stake.
The poorer countries are doing well compared to each other, and compared to their economic history, but their spending power is generations behind their European, American, and Japanese counterparts.
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The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.
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