Conservatives who insist that King's primary aim was to change people, not laws, don't understand King or American history, others say.
If you have an interest in spirits or American history, check it out, but be forewarned, it will make you want to drink rum.
If you write or study the history of American foreign policy in the nineteenth century or the the twentieth century, there is surely a role for the U.S. relationship with India.
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Footnote No. 1: Either Mr. Obama inherited the largest deficit in American history or he won the 1944 election, but both can't be true.
The Tea Party is having a significant impact on the nation and stands at a point where their influence can either dissipate and become a footnote in American history or move forward as a real force.
In the History Department, no course is devoted to American political, military, diplomatic or intellectual history the only ones available are organized around some aspect of race, class, gender or sexuality.
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Either 1933-37 was not the greatest peacetime four-year run of growth in American economic history, or the issue is unsettled, for lack of canonical sources.
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The generation of students and entrepreneurs emerging today is perhaps as, or better, prepared as any in American history.
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And at a university like Duke, you've got students who may or may not know a lot about American history, who come from all over the world.
Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History honors a new play or musical that explores the United States' past and deals with great issues of the day.
And part of the size of the record -- and voters will judge it and historians will judge it in terms of where it fits in terms of American history and its relative success or greatness.
Or does OWS emerge from a different tradition in American history, closer to abolitionists like Douglass?
Visit the Yale University Art Gallery, which houses more than 185, 000 pieces of international and American art, or the Peabody Museum of Natural History, which displays mounted apatosaurus and stegosaurus dinosaur bones in its great hall.
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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Once the House passes his plan, the president can either persuade Senate Democrats to accept it or "be responsible for the largest tax increase in American history, " Boehner said before walking off without answering shouted questions.
Every important chapter of American history has played out, in one fashion or another, on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Whereas Bush couldn't name a single mistake -- not, say, letting Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora, or refusing to allow weapons inspectors to ascertain that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, or backing economic policies that took the greatest budget surplus in American history and turned it into the biggest deficit in history -- Obama has stepped up.
And secondly, I'd ask him for his honest views on whether, at this time in American history, we should be repealing the estate tax or whether he thinks that great wealth should not pass from generation to generation without some piece of it being nicked for the public treasury.
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With every passing day the 1992 Cable Act becomes more of a rabbit-ear relic of a bygone one-way communication era, something that more appropriately should be part of a museum exhibit or a history book not permanently driving the current and future trajectory of American video competition, technology and innovation.
There have been moments in our history when others have counted us out or predicted the demise of our improbable American experiment.
While Chrysler would never be the Ford Motor Company or General Motors, both man and company were to occupy a prime position in American motor history.
The point is the key developments in American history resulted from technology and not from who lived in the White House or which party ran Congress.
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The notion that somehow military commissions, again, were created by the previous administration in 2001 or 2002 to deal with people that were picked up on the battlefield, again, simply ignores American history.
It reported that the terrorists had recruited two "lily whites" -- individuals with no criminal history or obvious connections to the perpetrating organization -- to carry out the bombing of an American federal building.
But the Obama administration would like it sooner, certainly before the 2012 elections so it could declare it made a profit on the AIG bailout or at a minimum it will make a profit when all the shares are sold in the biggest bailout in American history.
American intelligence, unlike that of other countries, has a history of spectacular failures in misreading events, or being surprised by unexpected events.
Innocence, freedom, individualism, mobility the belief that you can leave a constricting or violent history behind and remake yourself in a new form of your choosing all are part of the American dream of moving west, first from the old country to America, then from the crowded cities of the East Coast to the open central plains and on to the Pacific.
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