Sentences with phrase «american war history»

Digitize American war history documents for the Navy Historical Library at the Washington, DC Navy Yard.

Breathtaking Halong Bay; Bustling Saigon and the Mekong Delta; Ancient Hue and Hoi An; Vietnam - American War history; Rice paddies, hill tribes and sandy beaches.

After watching American Sniper, clinically directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American war history, you will think not only that war is hell, but that it is a cruel beast that devours its victims by inches and scars their families waiting fearfully across the water at home.

Not exact matches

The war in Afghanistan, going on 17 years now, is the longest - running war in US history and costs American taxpayers about $ 3.1 billion a month.

Chicago History Museum — Getty ImagesPortrait of the Morris family, who moved to Chicago during the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities around the time of World War I, ca. 1915.

In some cases, gun control polled better after Parkland than it did in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017, which killed 58 people, the deadliest mass shooting in post-World War II American history.

The main reason for the Niebuhr revival, as demonstrated by Charles Lemert's new book, Why Niebuhr Matters, is that liberals started rereading The Irony of American History during the Gulf Wars.

He offers a five - stage history of post-World War II American foreign policy, explaining the rationale for U.S. support of repressive military regimes, the shift toward advancing empire through globalized capitalist expansion, and the current drive for global military supremacy.

For their part, AHA inserted «a brief description of the history of the Pledge of Allegiance, including the information that «under God» was only added as recently as 1954 in response to the Cold War and that some Americans feel that the Pledge should focus on unity rather than religion.»

Members of the LCMS were overwhelmingly German - American, and the history of the United States in the twentieth century — particularly that of the First and Second World Wars — has made German - Americans culturally uneasy.

Each of the American histories I reviewed gave more space to the Watergate scandal than to all post — Civil War religion.

But what about the historical fact that you guys slaughtered each other during the American Civil War which was one of the most cruel wars of all history.

But the stage is set for the final end to war, for the definitive outlawing of violence in the settling of disputes between nations — and the opportunity for American pastors to tip the scales of history is tremendous.

What would the course of American history and the quality of our national life have been like over the past 110 years or so if the U.S. had not fought the Civil War?

In American history, this method was used by many of the colonies, by the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War, and by Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War.

There was a coherent argument to be made that opposition to the war in Iraq is not inconsistent with a vigorous defense of American interests, but the Democrats» uncertain history on national security since Vietnam hurt their credibility.

How about something from Texas history: before the Mexican War, Catholic Mexico was offering free land to North Americans on two conditions: 1) they get rid of their slaves, 2) become Catholic (we'd call this «naturalization»).

The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark A. Noll University of North Carolina Press, 216 pages, $ 29.95 Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry S. Stout Viking, 576 pages, $ 29.95 Nothing in American history» not the Revolution, not the Second WoHistory of the Civil War by Harry S. Stout Viking, 576 pages, $ 29.95 Nothing in American history» not the Revolution, not the Second Wohistory» not the Revolution, not the Second World....

Weigel contrasts Benedict XVI's insights with those of Tony Blair... well, it's an unequal contest, of course, but the way in which Weigel brings this out, with reference to various events in recent British history (Princess Diana's death, the Iraq wars, Anglo - American relations) makes for an exciting read.

Willy Brandt» s gesture of repentance before the monument to the Warsaw Uprising was such an accomplishment, as was Harry Truman» s laying of a wreath before the Mexico City monument to young Mexican soldiers killed in one of the most imperialistic wars in American history.

Let's point to some of the greatest conflicts in human history: WWI — not religious WWII — not religious American Revolution — not religious French Revolution — not religious 100 Years War — not religious Roman Conquest (s)-- not religious Greek Conquest (s)-- not religious

Last month I participated in a conversation with Andrew Bacevich, a professor of international relations and history at Boston University, and the author, most recently, of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (2010) and The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008).

Four recent major studies of human problems support a measure of optimism in human affairs: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crisis.

As far as I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil War.

Defeating War — A Creation of Death and the Leviathan and the Leviathan's master.Being a Partiotic American I have to slam those slamming Israel for their expansion here in America for the simple if we look at our American history America did the same to the American Indians that Israel is comptemplating on doing in Gaza.

This from his review of James Davison Hunter's Culture Wars: «What I find so remarkable about the history of American Protestantism in the twentieth century is that, despite all of the institutional contortions and the ebb and flow of ideology, the center has held.

Card's future history of the Second American Civil War will stay safely on the fiction shelves where it belongs.

It is his future history of the Second American Civil War.

But for those who fought in World War II or know the history of that encounter, the sight of an American flag at a shrine so closely associated with the adversary calls forth a whole complex of reactions.

War and the memory of war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civiliaWar and the memory of war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civiliawar do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civiliawar is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilians.

Justice Antonin Scalia declares in Stenberg v. Carhart that he is «optimistic enough to believe» that the decision constitutionally protecting partial «birth abortion will «one day... be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court's jurisprudence beside Korematsu [validating internment of Japanese «Americans during World War II] and Dred Scott [holding white supremacy and racial slavery as fundamental tenets of American constitutionalism].»

While most of his books since his move to that liberal aerie have dealt with American history, he has also joined the culture wars now raging inside the Catholic Church, and very much on the liberal side.

History's first Latin American pope knows well the history of the time, since he was a young Jesuit superior next door during Argentina's «Dirty War,» during which thousands of suspected leftists were killed, imprisoned or disappeared at the hands of the militaryHistory's first Latin American pope knows well the history of the time, since he was a young Jesuit superior next door during Argentina's «Dirty War,» during which thousands of suspected leftists were killed, imprisoned or disappeared at the hands of the militaryhistory of the time, since he was a young Jesuit superior next door during Argentina's «Dirty War,» during which thousands of suspected leftists were killed, imprisoned or disappeared at the hands of the military junta.

In the history of U.S. Catholic higher education since World War II, three seminal moments stand out: Msgr. John Tracy Ellis's 1955 article, «American Catholics and the Intellectual Life»; the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, «The Idea of a Catholic University»; and the day Don J. Briel began the Catholic Studies Program — and the Catholic Studies movement — at the University of St. Thomas in the Twin Cities.

For just as revisionist historiographers of the Cold War reread the history of the Truman administration through the lens of their own Vietnam passions, the new American Catholic revisionists view the episcopate of John Carroll — the paradigm in the classic story line — through the prism of their own agenda for Catholicism in the 1990s.

Ackerman identifies three republics in American history, before and after the civil war and in the modern regulatory social welfare state initiated in the 1930s by the New Deal.

History's first Latin American pope was in charge of the Argentine Jesuits during the «Dirty War,» when thousands of suspected leftists were killed or «disappeared» at the hands of Argentina's military junta.

If the Civil War is the most important event in the history of American constitutional interpretation, then President Abraham Lincoln was the Constitution's most important interpreter — its preserver, protector, and defender.

I am not Native American, but as the typical white American, I can look back in my family tree and see the history of breastfeeding is much the same as it was for my white American friends: After World War II, formula really took hold as the «best» way to feed babies, so much that the medical community was recommending formula over breastfeeding.

The American journalist Bob Woodward has been given unique access to President George W Bush and his latest book The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006 - 2008 (Simon Schuster, # 18.99), uses interviews with Bush and leading members of the administration to examine the debates over the Iraq War from 2006 to the summer of 2008.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

The write - up titled, «The case for Biafra», credited to an American former government official, Bruce Fein, is most probably written by a young Igbo guy who never experienced the civil war and never read Nigerian pre-Independence history.

As a military history nerd, I'm reminded of the tanks of World War 2 — the Russians built a standard model (the T - 34) that was good enough, easy to manufacture in huge numbers and easy for draftee farmboys to learn to use (the Americans solved the same problem with the Sherman).

From Fishkill's Revolutionary War depot to the great homes along the Hudson to the Shaker industries in Chatham and New Lebanon, the region is fantastically rich in American history.

Society was changing as well: the census of 1920 found more Americans living in cities than in small towns for the first time in our history, drawn there by war - industry jobs or driven by postwar restlessness.

While it remains to be seen which candidates will prevail at the polls — and, ostensibly, whether or not their placards could be judged as effective or not — political yard signs have had a place in American history since the years immediately following World War II, said Stanley Klein, professor of political science at C.W. Post Long Island University in Brookville.

The family tree they assembled shows the darker moments in recent human history; for example the massive waves of death during the American Civil War, World War I and World War II.

Golden's memoranda from this period reflect an important episode in the history of American science policy after the second world war.

For a longer look at the history of electricity in war and peace, you can peruse the Scientific American Archive at ScientificAmerican.com/magazine/sa.

More than half of Americans (59 percent) said they consider this the lowest point in U.S. history that they can remember — a figure spanning every generation, including those who lived through World War II and Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.