In post-Civil War America, a burgeoning black church played a key role strengthening African American communities and in providing key support to the civil rights movement. . ..…

Supporters for bill that would restore voting rights to convicted felons upon their release from prison hold up signs supporting the bill during news conference Thursday, Feb 9, 2006, in front of State House Montgomery, Ala. ..…

King insisted the war wasn't a mistake, but 'a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit.' He fused the issues of civil rights, poverty and the U.S. war in Vietnam in a way that terrified the political establishment. . ..…

Miller's appointment may have been shrewd politics and it hollowed out Civil War's crowning achievement, the abolition of slavery and constitutional protections for African American citizenship, including protection of the laws and the right to vote.. ..…

This half-century period encompassed Civil War, Indian Wars in American West, and Spanish- American War, when United States became empire. ..…

Maybe not since the American Civil War has so much been at stake, and put at risk. . ..…

Some parts of the Republican Party have even openly challenged the connection between racism and American history, buying into a nostalgic and ahistoric view of the Civil War. . ..…

“A comprehensive and decisive approach is required to dismantle these organized crime syndicates and restore safety for the American people.” . Law enforcement and civil rights experts say the executive orders are consistent with the goals of the Fraternal Order of Police, which..…

Children of Whitney by Woodrow Nash, in front of one of the slave cabins at Whitney Plantation Edgard, La. ..…

Exclusive Obama, eager to assuage Saudi Arabia's over Iran nuclear and the failure to achieve regime change Syria, has turned blind eye to Riyadh's savaging of Yemen, writes Jonathan Marshall... ..…

Brennan cited five historic cases to make his point Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 Lincoln's of the writ of habeas corpus during Civil War Wilson's Espionage Act of 1917 the internment of 120,00 Japanese- American citizens World War II and Communist witch hunts of McCarthy era.. ..…

But threats to national security historically have prompted sharp restrictions on personal freedoms -- the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the Red Scare after the war, or the wiretapping of civil rights leaders and government critics in the Vietnam era. . ... Murphy,..…

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Hours Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told Iraqi that security has improved in the capital and that Iraq is moving away from civil war.. U.S military officials, meanwhile, announced yesterday the deaths of nine American soldiers, including seven in accident..…

More recently, Marrow of Tragedy The Health Crisis of American Civil War, Margaret Humphreys shows how fast and far the new technologies of killing outstripped the science of healing at time when anesthesia was primitive and antisepsis almost unknown. ..…

Exclusive In the early months of Syrian, West's mainstream media presented the conflict but the conflict was more complicated than that and the one-sided made matters worse, writes Jonathan Marshall.. ..…

There is something troubling even a bit scary to watch the mainstream U.S. media in a full stampede as we’re now seeing over the issue of the Syrian civil war and against Russian attempts to find a diplomatic way to steer the American pack from rushing over the cliff into another..…

A review of 'The Next American Civil War' by Lee Harris. . Tea and Sympathy (The American Spectator, June) . ..…

While there was never perfect harmony, there was also no history of civil war between Sunnis and Shiites until the American invasion of Iraq, nor anything reassembling the international mobilization of sectarianism through media and statements of politicians and clerics. But since..…

In the course of Civil War the revolutionary actions of the masses of Negroes in South played in the winning of Northern victory... ..…

Mahin, One War at Time The International Dimensions of American Civil War, p 139  ↩. ..…

Referred to by Hamas as Dayton forces, Palestinian security services are formally under the authority of Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian and chairman of Hamas's, Fatah and they are, in practice, controlled by Salam Fayyad, the unelected prime minister, diminutive, mild-mannered technocrat. ..…

The latest national survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Sept 6-10 among 1,507 adults finds that recent developments related to terrorism including Bush's series of speeches on the subject have raised the profile of the issue with the public. ..…

The whole point of Amendment, enacted after Civil War, was to guarantee every American due process and protection under the law.. ..…

It was not accidental that the greatest advances in American civil rights occurred in the decades after World War II. ..…

General Arnold Argues for Building of B-36. ..…

., the writer and former National Security Council staffer Samantha Power), but advocates of greater American involvement in the Syrian civil war, the most acute problem Rice will face in her new position, will be disappointed to learn that she isn't particularly optimistic about..…