The Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Tracy, a fervent imperialist, stressed in his annual reports for 1889 and 1890 that the US as a matter of urgency must devote greatly increased resources to the navy, and he was successful in ...
Storti explores how people from all cultures have different values, beliefs, and ideas of good and evil, morality and immorality.
Tells the story of a large Jewish family, from the arrival of the immigrant generation at the turn of the century to the coming-of-age of the grandchildren in our own...
Vile,Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments,and Amending Issues, 1789–2002 (Santa Barbara, CA, 2003), 454– 55. Only W.H. Earle, in “The Phantom Amendment and the Duchess of Baltimore,”33, solidly identifies ...
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Our close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our shared language and heritage. But as distinguished historian Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, the close international relationship was...