| 单词 | nation |
| 例句 | The radio broadcasters huddling under the shelter hesitated, then beamed the news out to the nation: “California Wins.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Other institutions—the nation’s political parties, the industries of mass entertainment and communications, the companies that employed them—have all treated my parents with condescension. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Woven into the national identity of the US is the idea that the nation was created to be unlike any other nation on earth. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In his speeches, Farmer liked to talk about “the nation of humanity,” as opposed to developed or undeveloped nations. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was as if someone had slipped into the Kremlin in 1950 and held Stalin at gunpoint, leaving the nation, accustomed to obeying a tyrant, utterly rudderless. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I am not now speaking of the popular idea of regimenting people’s thought; I’m speaking of the implicit, almost unconscious, or pre-conscious, assumptions and ideals upon which whole nations and races act and live. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The exodus from Germany allowed scientists to travel not just between nations, but also between disciplines. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The nation maintains its own elected government and has twenty thousand members. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The other said that to change anything in the sugar islands would invite slave revolts, help France’s rivals, and thus hurt the nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Two hundred and forty years as a nation, and this belief hasn’t changed. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z “I believed them when they said they would reunite the German nation.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was white men who dominated politics, controlled the nation’s wealth, and wrote the rules by which everyone else was forced to live. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To this day, Handel’s music is cherished with unqualified, familial warmth by all Western musicians, belonging not to one nation’s musical history but to all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The separate nations of Europe were linguistically and culturally different one from another; native societies were astonishingly diverse. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She cited the words of Martin Luther King, declaring that his legacy and the nation’s commitment to justice had been “disserved by today’s decision.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Anaheim soon became the fastest-growing city in the nation’s fastest-growing state. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Marriage promises to turn strangers into friendly relatives—a nation of siblings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z To resist occupation, whether you’re a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Based east of Lima in the Andes heights, it first became prominent in the sixth century a.d.—a bad time to be launching a nation on the Pacific side of South America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Neil replied that he was honored and privileged to be on the moon, representing the United States and men of peace from all nations. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Harriet sang: Of all the whole creation in the East or in the West, The glorious Yankee nation is the greatest and the best. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Malloy looks at me and says, “You know, there are junior members all over the nation, too.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He looked up, and it wasn’t so hard to see his nation there. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z As I listened to my president talk to the nation about segregation and its unfairness to black people, I thought, Here is a president who understands. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He and fifty others were to take an oath to swear allegiance to the United States, to become our nation’s newest citizens, when a suicide bomber cut that dream short. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Voice of America was reporting it, as was French radio, which Olanna translated: Tanzania was the first country to recognize the existence of the independent nation of Biafra. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Looks like it’s time for me to go on Barry Rex Live and break the news about your deaths to a frightened nation looking for guidance. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Racial confrontation was big news, the kind of news that made headlines in the Chicago Defender and would be read by the thousands of black subscribers in Chicago and around the nation. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The men had little commerce with local people, but being avid radio listeners they could report news and politics from all parts of the nation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There are pieces of public life, of giving up one’s privacy to become a walking, talking symbol of a nation, that can seem specifically designed to strip away part of your identity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Simple, direct, and transferable to all men, all women, all people of all nations of the earth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A dozen nations were using the new technology of aircraft for bombing, for taking photographs of enemy troops, for shooting at soldiers on the ground, and for aerial combat against enemy pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Many nations understand that the systematic murder of such intelligent creatures is monstrous, but the traffic continues, promoted chiefly by Japan, Norway and the Soviet Union. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting down to the level of quarks–the particles that make up particles–requires still more: trillions of volts of electricity and the budget of a small Central American nation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The general public seems to imagine that our prisons are filled with “rapists and murderers,” but they actually account for a small minority of our nation’s prison population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Initial allegiances shifted as the war went on, but in the end, all six of the Iroquois nations were seen as a threat to the separatists. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It is probably here that the word cosmopolitan realized its true meaning—citizen, not just of a nation, but of the Cosmos.* Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And the participation of Marina’s aviators in the war effort would help present a picture of the nation as equal in all ways. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Like so many workers in so many different crafts and industries throughout the country, the nation’s steel workers had expected that their wages and working conditions would improve once the Great War was over. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z At that meeting Tecumseh had delegates with him from several nations, including Kickapoos, Wyandots, Peorias, Ojibwas, Potawatomis, Winnebagos, and Shawnees. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In 1782 the governor of North Carolina sent five hundred mounted rangers to retaliate, with orders to “chastise that nation and reduce them to obedience.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z That same year Communists took power in China, the world’s most populous nation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The White House received thousands of letters and telegrams from every part of the nation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Tecumseh visited other nations, calling for unity in defiance of the squatter presence on their lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z At thirty-eight, Swann ranked as one of the nation’s leading experts in the theory of relativity, a subject on which he had maintained a lengthy personal correspondence with Einstein himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If the United States canceled the tests, it would lose technological ground to the Soviets; if it staged them, the nation would “lose the confidence of the Free World as the champion of peace.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “As a nation, we owe her gratitude for showing that talent and dignity can prevail and wrongs can be corrected.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Starting the previous year, the worst influenza epidemic in history had struck the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Madison wanted to take slavery off the national agenda because he believed that decisive action would result in the destruction of either the Virginia planter class or the nation itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z "What's happening here," I said, "a new birth of a nation?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z To create one nation has proved to be a hideously difficult task; there is certainly no need now to create two, one black and one white. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z It was a network of Indigenous nations, a network of peoples of the corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Of course, there would today be no nation of Colombia, or District of Columbia or Columbus, Ohio, or Columbia University in the Americas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They do not explain why the US military waged a ground war against Indigenous nations for more than a century after that, and why conflict continues today in the courts of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As James Madison put it, the nation ought to be constituted “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As a former educator, Garfield decried the nation's high rate of illiteracy, particularly in the South, revealed by questions in the 1880 census asking if a person could read and write. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Walter’s case taught me that fear and anger are a threat to justice; they can infect a community, a state, or a nation and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z This visit, the first by an American president, led to a thaw in the years of icy hostility between two of the world’s most powerful nations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In August 1989, President Bush characterized drug use as “the most pressing problem facing the nation.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Worries about the evils of alcohol were as old as the birth of the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z By virtue of its demographics, Levittown—older, whiter, less educated than the nation as a whole—is a late adapter, not an early one. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z When the newscaster gravely reminded us that this new tragedy sealed the final ending to “our nation’s Camelot story,” Big Ma said, “Yes, sir. It surely does.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The nation slid imperceptibly toward war, frightened and at the same time attracted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, that is number three. They think you represent a greedy nation.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Francis J. Bellamy, an editor of Youth's Companion, thought it would be a fine thing if on that day all the schoolchildren of America, in unison, offered something to their nation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Du Bois got it right a century ago: “the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The different European governments frequently pitted one Indigenous nation against another. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z For the truckers cruise over the surface of the nation without being a part of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Before 1919 was over, in an unprecedented demonstration of labor unrest, there would be thirty-six hundred work stoppages involving four million workers or one-fifth of the nation’s labor force. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They would dream of what it would be like to live in a country where they could forget their color and play a responsible role in the vital processes of the nation’s life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The mood of the nation during those days of voting was buoyant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Free of British domination, the nation has prospered and I along with it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z People of all nations came there to live, to trade, to learn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This confederacy incorporated six widely dispersed nations comprising thousands of agricultural villages and hunting grounds in what are currently known as New York, Pennsylvania, and Quebec. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As the year 1919 began, the United States was a nation filled with a spirit of relief and hope for the future. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I did my best to remember who came from which nation and which spouse went with whom, careful not to say too much for fear of getting anything wrong. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z States all over the nation were relegalizing racing under the pari-mutuel system, resulting in a 70 percent increase in the number of tracks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It has boasted black mayors, black police chiefs, black legislators, and is home to the nation’s first black president. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Germany would present herself to the world as an unusually clean, efficient, modern, technologically savvy, cultured, vigorous, reasonable, and hospitable nation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z All hope that this was merely an anomaly disappeared the next day, when the forces that had been battering the nation’s economy erupted in a panic on Wall Street that caused stock prices to plummet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The homelands were, ostensibly, the original homes of South Africa’s tribes, sovereign and semi-sovereign “nations” where black people would be “free.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z All she had to do was rescue her friends and fight her way through an entire nation of highly trained warriors. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She inhabits her world, waiting for forgiveness, while her children are planted in or upon the four different nations that have claimed us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A nation that drew its audacity from the quintessentially American belief that success is open to anyone willing to work for it was disillusioned by seemingly intractable poverty. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The new nation brought together groups of people who had little in common. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In eight days the nation will elect Bill Clinton president. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Treaty of Greenville, signed in 1795, the nations of the alliance ceded a great deal of their Ohio territory to the US. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Aina, the cook, was delighted to discover another of the Benin nation among the visiting maids, both of them being marked on the face with the scars of their kingdom. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Now, throughout Russia, young women felt that they ought to be allowed to fight in World War I alongside the nation’s young men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Don’t you think the English nation perfect in every respect?” asked Sallie. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He expected all Americans to thank him for saving the nation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes men and nations, even when nonviolent, had to defend themselves when they were attacked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What we know today as Mexico and Central America are vast areas of land where many different nations of people lived, and have lived, for thousands of years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Many Americans say that they too have moved up the nation’s class ladder. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z During the war, workers throughout the nation, no matter how dissatisfied they had become, demonstrated their patriotism by staying on the job and working harder than ever. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z As historian Lerone Bennett Jr. eloquently reminds us, “a nation is a choice.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Anthony’s National Woman Suffrage Association responded to the insult by passing a resolution that said, in part, “One-half of the citizens of this nation, after a century of boasted liberty, are still political slaves.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Ending the war and healing the war-torn nation are Lincoln’s overriding ambitions. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Years before, the Supreme Court had issued a massive desegregation order for our nation, demanding all public facilities be opened up to everyone, black and white. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He went on, “On your return tell your people that I take them all by the hand; that I become their father hereafter, that they shall know our nation only as friends and benefactors.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Not a great thinker, not the mastermind of the rebellion, merely a face plucked from the rabble because I had caught the nation’s attention with my antics in the Games. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Speaking in the Ibadan University’s Trenchard Hall, I urged that Africa’s independent nations needed to see the necessity of helping to bring the Afro-American’s case before the United Nations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z To the nation’s horror, the evidence of outrageous abuses kept mounting. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Although I didn’t want to start before Labor Day, when the nation settles back to normal living, I did want to get used to my turtle shell, to equip it and learn it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the United States now boasts an incarceration rate that is six to ten times greater than that of other industrialized nations—a development directly traceable to the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But in a nation where the organized crime that impending Prohibition had spawned had inserted itself into almost every area of American life, even baseball would not be spared. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Here they were, gathered at one table, the nation’s foremost practitioners of what Goethe and Schelling called “frozen music.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She said that the Soviet Union was the best nation in the world, along with Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Walmart, which was then the nation’s largest grocery retailer, had joined our effort by pledging to cut the amount of sugar, salt, and fat in its food products and to reduce prices on produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z While a frustrated nation sought vengeance, Jones had sheltered and nourished the most hated man in America. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And the failure of Prohibition would provide the nation with a powerful lesson in the pitfalls of attempting to legislate morality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self- defeating path of hate. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Spaulding, like the majority of the black elite in Durham—and throughout the nation—didn’t challenge the system of white domination so much as attempt to work within it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z City and state dignitaries would be there to pair their images with the hottest celebrity in the nation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Pennsylvania ranks fourth in the nation in its percentage of residents who were born in the state and still live within its borders, often right on top of where they were born. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Aware of the racial violence taking place throughout the nation, the union had posted armed guards around the church to prevent the meeting from being disrupted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The North Korean missile detonates prematurely, but the aggressive act puts the world’s nations on high alert. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The United States of America has been Balkanized, has been divided into twenty petty nations so that it will never again be a threat to world peace. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In the press center at the Poughkeepsie railroad station, the nation’s sportswriters sat down to typewriters and began to pound out superlatives. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z By 1848, the year the canal was completed, the nation’s attention had turned to building railroads. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “One can imagine the consternation and admiration that would be felt here if the United States were to discover suddenly that some other nation had already put up a successful satellite.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “He is already serving our nation. We are only interested in idle civilians,” he called out to the other soldier, who nodded. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They recorded their first income three months before the Panic of 1873 snuffed the nation’s economy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The White House has had no involvement whatever in this particular incident,” Nixon told the nation at a press conference on June 22. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A number of modern-day nations, like Israel and Saudi Arabia, still use a modified lunar calendar, but 6,000 years ago the Egyptians came up with a better system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They traveled on overland and water routes the Indigenous peoples made, and ultimately, they used those routes to move their armies in wars against Indigenous nations and other European nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z For the other nations in the confederacy, the benefits of allying with either side were not clear-cut. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Particular places might hold spiritual or religious significance for any Indigenous nation, such as a place mentioned in an origin story or where ancestors are buried. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I really feel it in here, especially late at night, a current going among us, like an invisible needle stitching us together into the glorious, free nation we are becoming. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A man who lived to serve—initially a specific people, then a nation, and eventually all people of the world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Without credit, the new nation would remain a laughingstock in foreign eyes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Other nations, he wrote, had mounted exhibits of dignity and style, while American exhibitors erected a mélange of pavilions and kiosks with no artistic guidance and no uniform plan. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Marina Raskova's school years were bent and shaped by the harsh winds of change that swept her nation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Today in the United States there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations composed of nearly three million people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z A white man, full of prejudice and hate, came to our country and committed a deed so foul that our whole nation now teeters on the brink of disaster. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hoover's FBI men stealthily scoured the nation for Soviet spies; the FBI director was not eager to risk tipping off his suspects by exposing Bentley as a defector. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was the hottest name in the nation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mqhayi then began to recite his well-known poem in which he apportions the stars in the heavens to the various nations of the world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although demographic shifts were a normal part of life in America at the time, the population swell experienced by the North End made it one of the busiest and liveliest places in the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In which a wise man from Philadelphia goes to Paris and outfoxes spies of two nations. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Did those white bones lying on that table evoke the gasp of horror that went up from the nation? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then, in the universities and under the steeples of young nations, print culture. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of them already knew of Carey from his role as field secretary of the nation’s oldest and preeminent direct-action civil rights group: the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It may be analogous, in some respects, to the panic once experienced by poor and working-class whites faced with desegregation—the fear of a sudden demotion in the nation’s racial hierarchy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They ruled that moral laws came before duty to any nation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere Burnham turned there was someone—a friend, an editor, a fellow club member—telling him that the nation expected something tremendous out of this fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But, as Forbes magazine has stated, “America’s culture, which fosters entrepreneurship and risk-taking, is the key ingredient that allows it to be one of the most innovative nations on earth.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “We shall be ranked among those nations who have shown themselves careless of appearances,” wrote the Chicago Tribune's Paris correspondent on May 13, 1889. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Its mandate was to manage and protect these resources for the nation. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We were at the Santelli Tournament, the largest high school fencing competition in the nation, where all of the state’s teams competed for a chance at the coveted championship title. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The nation was ready to look for peace. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Alger Hiss was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, the nation's most prestigious research institute. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She may have been anxious to perform bravely and to prove herself both to her aviators and to her nation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z This is precisely the way groups of one size or another, ranging from committees to nations, behave. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite his many contributions as a congressman, Garfield never accomplished his goals for the nation or himself. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He stood proudly, extravagantly praising our nation's army. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Napoleon quickly recognized how important sugar was to his nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones — and South Africa treated its imprisoned African citizens like animals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The accomplishments of the town's black population were, he wrote, “more striking than that of any similar group in the nation.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z San Bernardino in 1948 supplied the nation with a new yin and yang, new models of conformity and rebellion. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z “I believe he’s upstairs, ma’am,” he said, “getting ready to address the nation.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He laughs into Henry’s mouth, instantly caught up in his own dramatic mental portrait of the two them painted in oils, young icons of their nations, naked and shining wet in the lamplight. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Marina and Polina were each presented with a second Order of Lenin award, and they and Valentina were all given the Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union— the nation’s highest honor. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Walter Cronkite, anchor of the nation’s most watched TV news program, summed up the mood of the country. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Leaders of Lawrences Berkeley and Livermore empire during the postwar bonanza, which enriched the university and secured the Rad Lab’s position as the preeminent center of high-energy physics in the nation, perhaps the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Articles referred to treaty making with Indigenous nations, and “Indians” were mentioned twice. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It was necessary for Romulus not to stay in Alba, and that he be exposed at birth, so that he might become king of Rome and founder of that nation. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z At both the social and verbal levels, in short, an American nation remained a precarious and highly problematic project—at best a work in progress. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Chile finally returned most of Peru’s territory in 1929 but never gave back any land to Bolivia—an outcome that nation has never accepted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The nation could hardly bury its martyred Father Abraham with a lead ball lodged in his brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite America's preeminent status among developed nations, we have always struggled with high rates of infant mortality—much higher than in most developed countries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Other attacks on American soil were by nations; this is the first transnational terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z You will also read of the many ways in which Native nations and communities have fought for their survival. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z South Africa was now deprived of one of its greatest sons, a man who would have been invaluable in transforming the country into a new nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Europe’s invaded countries set up governments in exile in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, to make war plans as a group of “Allied” nations fighting together against German aggression. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Throughout the nation, the press left no doubt that they agreed with Wilson and Coolidge. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z But the nations of Europe that were occupied by the Germans were still fully under their military control. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “There will be wonderful traffic in knowledge between our two nations now. We will understand each other’s histories.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “I’m glad that Mr. Sayle has such happy memories of our school days together and I’m glad that the two of us, together, today, can make such a vital difference to our nation’s schools.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z But it was to Father the crowning touch in Mrs. Gandhi’s dictatorial takeover of the nation. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Nazi propaganda portrayed America as racially impure, a nation of mongrels, The Land Without a Heart. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When the nation split during the Civil War, Northerners could no longer get cane from those plantations along the Mississippi, so they had to go across the ocean—to paradise: Hawaii. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This left Japan—a nation with few natural resources—with barely enough fuel to survive another year. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Governor Wallace’s hard face and tightly knit brows, plastered on the front of Time magazine some twelve days later, covered the nation’s coffee tables and city newsstands. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Several Indigenous nations formed alliances in the heart of the Ohio Country. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Should we not then be willing to explore vigorously, in every nation, major changes in the traditional ways of doing things, a fundamental redesign of economic, political, social and religious institutions? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the fastest boys are greyhounds, harvested from all over the nation for their speed and eagerness to obey, and they seem to Werner to be running more fervently, more conclusively, than they have before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z "The stallion who mounts the world will bum no cities now. His khalasai shall trample no nations into dust." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Whether even a heroic level of leadership stood any chance was uncertain because—and here was the cruelest irony—the effort to make the Revolution truly complete seemed diametrically opposed to remaining a united nation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The belief was that a nation could deter a "first strike," in the parlance of nuclear strategists, by making sure that the enemy understood that their strike would never succeed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The two men were parts of the same system, serving a nation rising to its destiny. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His angle of vision for the new American nation was decidedly western. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His opening line was this one: America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Washington administration gave the appearance of wanting to treat tribal nations fairly, but its actions spoke otherwise. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Many will wonder how a nation that just elected its first black president could possibly have a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He then discussed Africa and separated the continent into different nations, giving specific constellations to different tribes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She taught us all the different nations of Africa and the periods of African history. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z This was the first definitive film stock collection of the life of Malcolm X and it traveled extensively throughout the nation’s university circuit as well as to civil rights and Afro-American nationalist events. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z These paradoxes hint that China too was once diverse, as all other populous nations still are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Matters affecting the nation’s health have long been a most vital area in which legislation has been passed in the interest of serving the public good. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z His central theme was that no new African nation, trying to decolonize itself, needed any political system that would permit division and bickering. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only do I have the only perfect score in the nation—I’m probably also the only kid who has ever taken the Trial twice. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z His unpaid labor made cotton “King” and established America as a significant nation in international commerce. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z This is like so many regimes in which, to this day, a tyrant claims he is helping the people while he jails his opponents and robs his nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As more and more African nations achieved independence, the United States government was compelled to defend racial equality here at home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “North America is exactly like that. There are countless tribal nations throughout this land. In Washington State alone, there are more than thirty tribes.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “If there’s only one nation in the sky, shouldn’t all passports be valid for it?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Winning the vote for settler women in the West was one thing; winning it for women in the rest of the nation was something else again. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z By the time Werfel got to the bottom of the mountain, Spurge had joyously greeted his nation’s army. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z She’d liked the map of Kerch best, a whimsical drawing of their island nation, surrounded by mermaids swimming in the True Sea and ships blown along by winds depicted as fat-cheeked men. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The litigation that swept the nation in the 1990s challenging racial profiling practices has nearly vanished. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He sings along, stuff about fighting nations, and guns, and ammunition. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Speaking of promises, a “sacred compact had been made when the nation was founded in 1787, compact which brought us together mutually to relinquish a share of our interests to preserve the remainder.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Her logic was a combination of half-truths and cliches, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Never again will I be silent on an issue that is destroying the soul of our nation and destroying thousands and thousands of little children in Vietnam.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z And it had only made their story more compelling for the nation at large. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Peck tells us, “Yes, we’re all over the nation and still growing strong, ladies.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In some town or city somewhere their wives and children live while the husbands traverse the nation carrying every kind of food and product and machine. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Though Nixon was angrily convinced that this was the work of “crooks and communists” out to smear him, the scandal got a grip on the nation at large. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Plucky sailing vessels from half a dozen European nations dispersed to every ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All but one of the world’s six most populous nations are melting pots that achieved political unification recently, and that still support hundreds of languages and ethnic groups. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were determined to fight for their homelands, their communities, and their nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Any connection between American art and American nature is purely coincidental, but this is only because the nation as a whole has no contact with reality. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo had no idea what a nation was, but she listened politely. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At last, she opened the door and crossed the threshold—into the hands of the nation's top law-enforcement agency. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Also, we worked on reports and materials that seek to deepen the national conversation about the legacy of slavery and lynching and our nation's history of racial injustice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Justice Department and several of the nation’s leading foundations, published in 2007, found that the impact of the biased treatment is magnified with each additional step into the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z More slaves from Africa had been shipped by the British than by any other nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In March, the Red Army began fighting in Crimea, a huge peninsula in the Black Sea on the southern edge of Ukraine, the Soviet state that produced most of the nation’s food. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It seems as though everything tied together; the Jews and a little girl, both victims of a hate crime, and now the graffiti we saw in the nation’s capital. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “How many nations are there in the sky?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the greatest lesson to be learned from all these issues is that as a nation we must make certain that in our desire for progress, personal rights and liberties are not denied. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z What seemed perfectly normal to white Birmingham residents proved a genuine contradiction of our nation’s democratic ideals to outsiders such as Salisbury. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The revelations of the arrests and the horror of the crimes held the nation in their grip. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Though the Puritans’ slaughter of the Pequots was devastating, they continued to fear retaliation by the surviving Pequots who had sought refuge among neighboring nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In all ages, rich, energetic, and successful nations, when they have carved their place in the world, have felt hunger for art, for culture, even for learning and beauty. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a half hour of the president's death, reporters began telegraphing the breaking news to the rest of the nation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was his first bill for the cost of turning Berkeley into the nation’s pioneering institution of Big Science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The message suited Farmer temperamentally, because for all his scholarly understanding of developing nations’ problems, his strongest impulses were pragmatic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Their battle to rid the nation of alcohol launched women into politics and, importantly, aided them in their fight for the right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He wanted to guide great vessels around the world, to speak a dozen languages, to know the people of every nation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Each wheel was to be separate yet united, in accordance with the young nation’s federalism, as well as classically symmetrical, in accordance with Jeffersonian aesthetics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The lessons learned from the Great Molasses Flood give it an importance that goes well beyond its mark as a strange beginning to one of the most momentous years in the nation’s history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “It’s pride in your country, but with the belief that it is better than other nations,” Grandpa explains. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The parents—ardent Nazis—hoped to service their nation by eliminating their child from the nation’s genetic heritage. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Dubbed the nation’s most eligible bachelor, Vanderbilt eschewed the debauchery that would have tempted other men fresh out of their teens and into a bottomless bank account. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He was careful to be realistic but also to sound notes of hope, reminding his listeners of our resilience as a nation, our ability to rebound after tough times. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Most civilized nations compensate for the inadequacy of wages by providing relatively generous public services such as health insurance, free or subsidized child care, subsidized housing, and effective public transportation. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She knew he was the one who had made the radio announcement to all of Japan declaring that the nation was surrendering to the Allied forces. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z This fact alone would make the nation choose Aeneas’ side in the war, so intense was the hatred felt for their former ruler. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This became the nation’s first “summer White House,” and presidents ever since have followed the tradition by establishing their own warm-weather residences. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z How else would a whole nation fall prey to this little man? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The newsmen peppered the nation’s papers with stories about the slow workouts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Muscogee, or Creek, Confederacy included a number of Indigenous nations with homelands that covered much of present-day Georgia, Alabama, and parts of northern Florida. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z And Kappe himself planned on returning to America to oversee his budding Nazi nation. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The unprecedented price demanded—and at this embattled hour of the world’s history—is the transcendence of the realities of color, of nations, and of altars. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Across the nation families were eating dinner in the dark, the way we used to do on Seminole under one lightbulb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Jack Neylan was concerned that the demands of Washington service would expose Berkeley’s faculty star to the no-win politics of the nation’s capital. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I watched him on TV as he addressed the nation and Jackie Kennedy as she gave a White House tour. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Today we are seeing this revolution of the non-white peoples, who just a few years ago would have frozen in horror if the mighty white nations so much as lifted an eyebrow. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Reyburn and the rest of Garfield's medical team felt uncomfortable lying to the nation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Instead, under that dizzying socialist impulse that marked the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, the land was bought for the nation. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Some years later when the colonies began fighting to separate from Britain, the Cherokee again found themselves in the middle of warring nations seeking to enlist them as allies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But what of the vaster machines that will be giving instructions to cities, to nations? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As the nation became more racially and politically polarized, did I really want to take a stand at the risk of my own safety? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Barack and the girls and I were back in Chicago, at home on Greenwood Avenue, caught in the purgatory of waiting for an entire nation to accept or reject us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “If you want to see what this nation is all about, I always say, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you’ll find the true face of America.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Which made it that much easier for someone with bad intentions to use a nation’s fear for his gain. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At last, three long days after the assassination, he could read about his history-making actions and how they were reported to the nation. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the nation said they believed it was wrong for unions and churches to refuse black people membership and for employers to refuse to hire African-Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The highest fatality count from any non-war event in the history of the nation. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He was after something surer, the sure, quick, and lasting way to make people into a nation: war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Members of both parties cast their votes at precinct-level meetings—caucuses—in the middle of winter, and the whole nation paid attention. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Even the boring Witness songs sound good to me, the words telling us how God wants us to behave, what he wants us to do, Be glad you nations with his people! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Jamaica is like Cuba; both are Caribbean island nations. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It says that Congress shall have the power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But when it comes to uncertainty avoidance, the two nations could not be further apart. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Because TB was largely concentrated in poor countries, the industrial nations and pharmaceutical companies had all but abandoned the search for new technologies to fight MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Today’s ephemeral wealth of some of the region’s nations, based on the single nonrenewable resource of oil, conceals the region’s long-standing fundamental poverty and difficulty in feeding itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z People in prison are literally erased from the nation’s economic picture, leading standard estimates to underestimate the true jobless rate by as much as 24 percentage points for less-educated black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’d clap my hand over my heart and tell them about “one nation indivisible.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In July 1986, the nation’s rig count hit an all-time low of 663, some 85 percent fewer than the high it had hit less than five years earlier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it is precisely because we know that black and brown people are far more likely to be imprisoned that we, as a nation, have not cared too much about it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Because of the Treaty of Paris, Washington believed the US had sovereignty over the Ohio Country, a belief that was not shared by the people of the Indigenous nations who lived there. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Indigenous nations did not consent to a basic assumption of the Treaty of Paris: that they and their homelands were part of this “United States.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Well, are you going to motivate people to bring peace to war- torn nations, or are you going to motivate people to join a cult and drink the Kool-Aid?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z For William, and for the nation, Pearl Harbor was a painful lesson in human error—and the limits of even the most brilliant cryptanalytic machinery. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Bush’s appointment as the nation’s science czar would soon give Ernest Lawrence entree to the highest councils of government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Our city is not governed by a mob which twists this way and that, but by one man. How can the ignorant crowd wisely direct a nation’s course?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the rowing event that nations boasted about more than any other, the ultimate test of young men’s ability to pull together, the greatest display of power, grace, and guts on water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As in many neighborhoods throughout the nation, North Enders were divided in their support of what now seemed to be the inevitable development. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z As part of her campaign, Alice Paul wanted to organize a parade in the nation’s capital. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z What would happen to Kievan Rus’ as a nation if only the tsar and his henchmen could use magic? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The violence and bombings ceased, and it was as if we were a nation reborn. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the many colorful and unique characters associated with the era of Prohibition, few were more charismatic or more unforgettable than Billy Sunday—one of the nation’s most passionate champions of the temperance movement. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z With the nation’s economic depression growing ever more profound—banks failing, suicides multiplying—it seemed an impossibility. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Today they speak back, as individuals and as sovereign nations, against ongoing trauma and the consequences of conquest and terminal narratives. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They conversed of things I had never heard of; of nations and times past; of countries far away; of secrets of nature discovered or guessed at: they spoke of books: how many they had read! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They were addressed to government officials: the attorney general and the secretary of labor of the United States; a Supreme Court justice; and two of the nation’s leading financiers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z As one of the nation’s foremost experts on restorative justice, she was the one people turned to in situations like this, situations where healing seemed possible. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Modern Indigenous nations and communities are societies shaped by their resistance to colonialism. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We, who were oudaws not so long ago, have today been given the rare privilege to be host to the nations of the world on our own soil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the case of the national university, it was the recognition that the United States was still very much a nation in the making because its population was still a people in the making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “It is my guilt, which I will have to carry before God and the German nation,” he told the court. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The Santa Anita Handicap, with its giant purse and world-class athletes, competing in what was rapidly becoming the nation’s most heavily attended sport, became one of the premier radio events of the year. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a principal source of information, especially if the nation was ever attacked by an enemy. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Roosevelt, who was only forty-two years old, became the youngest president in the nation’s history. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Throughout the spring of 1893 the streets of Chicago filled with unemployed men from elsewhere, but otherwise the city seemed immune to the nation’s financial troubles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My face reflected the seriousness of what I believed was at stake, how important the choice that lay before our nation really was. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Here were two artists, one black and one Puerto Rican, standing beneath a 115-year-old chandelier, bracketed by towering antique portraits of George and Martha Washington, singing about feeling “at home in this nation we’ve made.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Its jurisdiction was strictly limited to relations among the nations and outside groups; internal affairs were the province of the individual nations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It stated that these nations would hand over their land in what is now southern Indiana in exchange for a yearly payment. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It is no accident that Thomas More, writing Utopia in 1615, situated his exemplary nation in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It still belonged to Indigenous nations, many of which had allied with the British in order to protect their homelands from land-hungry Americans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z There is no such thing as affection between nations, and certainly no nation ever loved another. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I shivered when I envisioned the hate-filled Klan on the loose, posing a real threat against the nation’s homes, churches, and neighborhoods. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Increasingly, the nation’s richest are spending their money on personal services or exclusive experiences and isolating themselves from the masses in ways that go beyond building gated walls. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Washington’s report on the French plans helped convince England to fight France for control of the territory both nations claimed. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Sir Charles has graciously agreed to allow the citizens of Chatham, Buxton, and nearby environs to witness for themselves what they have only read about in the nation’s finest newspapers. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Even with recent improvements, infant mortality rates continue to be an embarrassment for a nation that spends more on health care than any other country in the world. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Elijah’s mission is to return “the so-called Negro” to Islam, to separate the chosen of Allah from this doomed nation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z And while the content of the secret study was certainly interesting, what was really sparking the nation’s interest was the mystery—where did the Times get this explosive document? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Each of these women, on her own, gauged the wind of her nation and used it to help her sister pilots get off the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Yet our nation’s public defender system is woefully inadequate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Lembede gave a lecture on the history of nations, a tour of the horizon from ancient Greece to medieval Europe to the age of colonization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But no Indigenous nations were represented at the treaty negotiations in Paris; they were not invited or consulted. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z So far she is the only woman to have received the nation’s highest decoration for valor. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The real power in Japan during World War Two was held by the Supreme Military Council, who assured the emperor that their decisions were best for their nation. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z This man, this store might have been anywhere in the nation, but actually it was back in Minnesota. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Numerous paths were available to our nation in the wake of the crack crisis, yet for reasons traceable largely to racial politics and fear mongering, we chose war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Vonetta, Fern, and me: “Hear the reverberation of a stolen black nation forever lost to foreign shores where thieves do not atone and Mother Africa cannot be consoled.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton believed—and he had a good deal of evidence to support his belief—that the very survival of the infant American nation was at stake. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Faced with ongoing Indigenous resistance and continuous pressure from settlers, Washington’s administration negotiated the first of many treaties it would make with Indigenous nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z According to tradition, the Thembu people lived in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains and migrated toward the coast in the sixteenth century, where they were incorporated into the Xhosa nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly and inevitably the troubles of the nation began to move into the crowded little kitchen. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They came at him from four sides and they came at him with teeth and nails and tears and the fury of four small nations who have nothing left to lose. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z News of Booth’s death traveled across the nation by telegraph, and newspapers rushed to print stories filled with the details of the manhunt’s climax at Garrett’s farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Lumbly’s words returned to her: If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Different nations had different numbers of sachems, but the inequality meant little because all decisions had to be unanimous; the Five Nations regarded consensus as a social ideal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “The British were in Africa, along with the Germans and French. The Dutch were in Asia, and nobody was in South America,” because most of its nations were independent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even in powerful nations like the United States and the United Kingdom, only the very elite—or the incredibly determined—could learn to fly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “The Motherland” was a nation of ideals and contradictions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Although the council negotiated peace treaties, it could not declare war—that was left to the initiative of the leaders of each of Haudenosaunee’s constituent nations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But democracy is a forgiving God and America’s heresies—torture, theft, enslavement—are so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Or we could choose to be a nation that shames and blames its most vulnerable, affixes badges of dishonor upon them at young ages, and then relegates them to a permanent second-class status for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The color of zombies, a nation of zombies. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z In effect, the political institutions and the very authority of the federal government were too new and ill-formed to cope effectively with the foreign and domestic challenges facing the new nation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As the nation’s chief law official and legal counsel of the United States, Randolph was someone whose opinion held great weight. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z These sixteen dedicated souls were determined to walk all the way from New York to the nation’s capital, and that is exactly what they did, picking up many other hikers along the way. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Ho sent a series of messages to President Harry Truman, asking the United States to recognize the independent nation of Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Our nation declared a war on people trapped in racially segregated ghettos—just at the moment their economies had collapsed—rather than providing community investment, quality education, and job training when work disappeared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They, like, provided Internet services to basically the entire nation. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The villages are the prettiest, I guess, in the whole nation, neat and white- painted, and—not counting the motels and tourist courts—unchanged for a hundred years except for traffic and paved streets. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonial governments, and later the United States, frequently deployed rangers to quash Indigenous resistance and displace Indigenous nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The United States has always been a multicultural nation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z We could choose to be a nation that extends care, compassion, and concern to those who are locked up and locked out or headed for prison before they are old enough to vote. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hanson spoke eloquently, saying that a nation’s grievances cannot be suppressed, that people will always find a way to give voice to those grievances. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z DC’s black community was the largest and wealthiest in the nation and included businessmen, lawyers, teachers, and ministers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z We know that a nation so conceived and so dedicated could and did endure, indeed flourish, to become the longest-lived republic in world history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He crawled under the fence and wandered around without ever being challenged, thereby exposing an enormous hole in the security fabric of the nation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The people called their nation Nippon, which meant “land of the rising sun.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then President Roosevelt surprised the nation by picking Truman to be his running mate in the 1944 election. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I was in my fifteenth year; in terms of schooling I was far behind the average youth of the nation, but I did not know that. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z African nationalism was our battle cry, and our creed was the creation of one nation out of many tribes, the overthrow of white supremacy, and the establishment of a truly democratic form of government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas his concerns focused on his own tribe, I had become involved with those who thought in terms of the entire nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With the approval of the Continental Congress, three armies were mustered to launch an offensive against the Seneca and any other Indigenous nation that opposed the separatists. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They were a nation of women, all warriors. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In essence, the OSS was the nation’s spy program—the forerunner of the CIA. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z True, the lengths to which powerful corporations have been willing to go to protect their profits highlights an unbroken trail of shame running through our nation's history. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z What kicked off the Rum War was Prohibition, America’s ban on alcohol, which cut off the nation’s supply of wine, beer, and spirits. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was rumored that he had abandoned power and fortune in his distant nation, although his origins were actually never known. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Between 1780 and 1815 the leaders of the new nation tried to go forward as “United” states but encountered resistance from settlers and from state governments. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The newspaperman was daring the black bourgeoisie in Durham and across the nation to join in a new and more aggressive struggle. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They took him immediately to Thysville, which is about a hundred kilometers south of Léopoldville over the best road in this nation, repaved recently with a grant of foreign aid. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He then said to Princess Noreena of Guilder the five words that brought the nations to the brink. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Under that nation’s politics and parades and passions runs an old darkness, passive, anarchic, silent, the fecund darkness of the Handdara. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The Dutch, whose economy was based on private profit, nevertheless understood that the unrestrained pursuit of profit posed a threat to the nation’s soul. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Okay, we need to remember that America is the nation of freedom, and that freedom, my friends, freedom does not lesions make. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All morning long, automobiles and special trains disgorged thousands and thousands of passengers from every corner of the nation and the world; the assembly of foreign dignitaries alone equaled a normal day’s attendance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1987, the ANC celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary and held a conference at the end of the year in Tanzania attended by delegates from more than fifty nations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As a nation, we recognized the power of women, but in the home they were expected to submit and obey. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Many argued that nations whose resources weren’t just limited but scarce had to make the best possible use of the little they had. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Americans obtained the middle part of what would become their nation because the Haitians achieved their freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The sheriff in one Arizona county found himself in the same situation as his counterparts across the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Do you know what Native nation it belongs to? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As a nation, though, we had a choice about how to respond. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Throughout the huge nation, members of the Osoaviakhim and civil air clubs had received the same order, and were sending their women aviators to Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Education, Gaur argued, was essential to our advancement, but he pointed out that no people or nation had ever freed itself through education alone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t preoccupied, as part of our nation seemed to be, with race and skin color. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The United States and other Western nations demanded the abolishing of South Africa’s Draconian security laws, which allowed for detention without trial. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been taught since childhood that retreating, surrendering, or being captured in war was a great shame to your nation and family. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He also often spent up to twelve hours a day in his third-floor office constantly telephoning various parts of the town, county, state, and nation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The nation needed an opportunity to top the French, in particular to “out-Eiffel Eiffel.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Turmoil and questions about John E Kennedy’s killer kept the nation in a state of unrest. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Even though Cambodia was a neutral nation, to him the end justified the means. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Montaigne had already asked, ‘How many things are there which we call miraculous or contrary to Nature? All men and nations do that according to the measure of their ignorance.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Across the nation in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon two policemen discovered a fire beginning in the San Francisco Black Muslim Mosque, and quickly extinguished it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Fitzsimmons soon established himself as the most successful conditioner of Thoroughbreds in the nation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z New York was the nation’s capital of cultural and social refinement, and its leading citizens and newspapers never let Chicago forget it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In his words, “One of the great tragedies of man’s long trek along the highway of history has been the limiting of neighborly concern to tribe, race, class or nation.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held August 28, 1963, attracting as many as three hundred thousand people to the nations capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z E.J. answers, “Basically, we’re sitting here feasting and celebrating that our nation was stolen from indigenous people. Columbus didn’t discover nothing.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Abandoning agriculture in favor of manufacturing, he forced many of the nation’s rural dwellers into unheated apartment buildings. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Later that month, President Kennedy had announced to the nation that the United States would have a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Behind them were seventeen of the best horses in the nation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Nineteenth- century writers attributed the mound complexes to, among others, the Chinese, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the lost nation of Atlantis, and various biblical personages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To make matters worse, riots erupted in the summer of 1964 in Harlem and Rochester, followed by a series of uprisings that swept the nation following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The nation’s corner theaters hosted 85 million people a week for 25-cent viewings of an endless array of cheery musicals and screwball comedies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “If it is now a spawning ground for Communism, the nation needs to know it.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Their fears that they would not have enough to survive as a nation had led them to war so they would be able to control those things they needed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z To my dismay, things in the island nation began to change in an unexpected way. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I was like a nation of one in the cafeteria with no one to help defend the territory. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “Do you hear me? D-o-o-m-e-d. You know nothing about politics and voter persuasion. You will not carry a single ward in the nation. You won’t even carry the Quarter!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Many members of Parliament recognized the same change in the “sense of the nation.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Well, thanks to the Freedom Writers, I got to go to the nation’s capital. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z At every opportunity, I said all South Africans must now unite and join hands and say we are one country, one nation, one people, marching together into the future. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was part of the identity of a tribe or a nation. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A city which has become the pivot of the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern poles of the nation. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z We call ourselves the United Nations, because Isabella is Puerto Rican and Julia is Japanese American, and then there’s me—and yes, we know Black isn’t a nation, but we also know we are united. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z He asked me—no, he ordered me—to show up at the cathedral at eleven the next morning to attend the Te Deum with which the nation would express its victory over Communism. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So they took up arms again: on the battlefields, in the classrooms and voting booths, in the nation’s capital—and in the offices of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Garfield promised prosperity for working people and a peaceful nation in which they could raise and educate their children. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Chess Federation rating calculated after the event was astronomically high—2375—confirming his status as a master and ranking him number twenty-five in the nation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A foreign diplomat told a reporter, “You can’t believe it’s possible that human beings can be so regimented or that, in such a short time, an entire nation could have become so war-minded.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z What with our nation involved in a great war and our young men leaving our sweet land of liberty, we must be vigilant on the home front. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z And when the same provocations are applied to nation states, they too sometimes fly into murderous rages, egged on often enough by those seeking personal power or profit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In Salinas we were aware that the United States was the greatest and most powerful nation in the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It is a world in which there is extraordinary racial and ethnic inequality, and our nation has porous boundaries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This time Esteban Trueba did not attempt to hold him back, because he thought a trip through that distant nation of starving people and nomadic cows would do his son a lot of good. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I have a husband who no longer carries the weight of the nation on his shoulders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Cloaking his savagery under the banner of civilization, Hale portrayed himself as an American pioneer who had helped forge a nation out of the raw wilderness. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This event proved a pivotal point in my life and in my church, and in the nation as well. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As the Ulster Scots arrived in the British colonies, they settled in Pennsylvania and in other British-held areas on the homelands of several Indigenous nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But then I wake up in our nation of two, enclosed in our mosquito tent’s slanted planes lit silver by moonlight, and always think of Bulungu, where we first lay together like this. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The great mass of American citizens estimates us as being a characterless and purposeless people; and hence we hold up our heads, if at all, against the withering influence of a nation’s scorn and contempt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Fighting for freedom, the former slaves defeated the armies of first England, then France: Europe's two most powerful nations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The direction of the nation was one matter; the future of the farm, another. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She often imagined him standing in the middle of a gathering of rapt villagers, talking in that sonorous voice about the great nation that Biafra would be. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At the time he declared this new war, less than 2 percent of the American public viewed drugs as the most important issue facing the nation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Vonetta: “I birthed a black nation. From my womb black creation spilled forth to be stolen shackled dispersed.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I had tremendous respect for the nations of Norway and Sweden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The new proslavery argument, then, drew on assumptions about the white Anglo-Saxon character of the emerging American nation that were latent but long-standing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I understood better, I think, than others serving with me a great many things that motivated the hopes and pleas and demands of the little nations, particularly those whose people are dark-skinned.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z And when the nation was formed into a more unified whole in 1787, “the Union had received them with all the ill habits about them.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Then I’m staring directly into President Snow’s snake eyes as he greets the nation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z To be honest, I can’t understand how the Dutch, a nation of good, honest, upright people, can sit in judgment on us the way they do. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And finally, the nation’s most staunchly anti-Lincoln paper, the National Intelligencer, is now crying out that Lincoln was a true American hero. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He was the kind of man who subscribed to that old-fashioned idea of nation as personal test—and by extension, a test of family—and not only because he was an immigrant. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In this instance, it was the ANC, not the government, that sought to calm the nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the country expanded westward, the argument intensified: When new states and territories were added to the nation, should slavery be permitted in them? Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And then that megawatt smile that belonged on cereal boxes across the nation reappeared. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z As crews from other nations arrived at Griinau, he and George Pocock were spending a lot of time down by the water, quietly studying the competition. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Praised throughout the country, particularly in the nation’s newspapers, his approval rating reached an all-time high. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In the month of May alone, unions across the nation battled with employers in 413 strikes and lockouts. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That is not what one would guess, however, when entering our nation’s prisons and jails, which are overflowing with black and brown people convicted of drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The mood in the nation’s capital has turned festive since the fall of Richmond. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Years later, the bureau would release several of its files on the Osage investigation in order to preserve the case in the nation’s memory. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We understood that we represented the nation and were obligated to step forward and be present when there was tragedy, or hardship, or confusion. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On Tuesday, June 22, the Boston Globe stunned the nation by becoming the third newspaper to print the now-notorious Pentagon Papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Supreme Court ruled unanimously that segregation of the nation’s public schools violated the constitutional rights of black students—a landmark decision that would affect race relations across America. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z My dear countrymen, the aim of the Revolutionary Council is to establish a nation free from corruption and internal strife. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z To the nation, Black Easter dawned as a day of great mourning; to John Wilkes Booth, it began as a day of salvation. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Through his steel-inspection company he knew most of the nation’s steel executives and the products they made. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Similarly, if and when crime rates rise—which seems likely if the nation’s economy continues to sour—nothing would deter politicians from making black and brown men, once again, their favorite whipping boys. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But President Eisenhower had insisted that the nation’s first foray into space be presented as a peaceful effort, rather than an explicitly military operation that risked triggering a dangerous retaliation by the Soviet Union. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On what, then, will the economy of this separate nation be based? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z He was reassured whenever the president addressed the nation to let them know the government was working hard to solve all the problems. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Even though Wilson had spoken out in favor of suffrage, the National Woman’s Party continued to hold him, as the nation’s leader, responsible for the failure of the measure. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It will be her face America sees reassuring the nation in time of crisis, promising vengeance on the shores of the ROC. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Among other tendencies to be noted, Texas is a military nation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When it dived back into my flowers, I finally threw the bouquet on the ground, hoping I wasn’t insulting our host nation. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and of our civilization. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It made her feel like being here in this bombed-out, impoverished nation was the best experience she would ever have in her life and like her hungry stomach was just an adventure. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z This dramatic change in the roster of nations making up the new America is yet another stage in the saga of this country as a melting pot of cultures and experience. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In 1991, Fuller received national attention when he was named superintendent of the Milwaukee school system, the nation’s seventeenth largest—despite a lack of elementary or secondary teaching experience. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A conviction that never came into dispute was the universally held belief that the saloon was at the root of the nation’s serious drinking problem. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I thanked the assembled nations for exerting pressure on South Africa, citing in particular Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanganyika, who spearheaded the successful drive to oust South Africa from the British Commonwealth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty Important and Interesting Facts About the Civil War A One of the reasons the Civil War continues to have an impact on the nation is that so many people died during the war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As one black minister commented, “It is not simply the shame of Chicago, but of the nation.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z An Incan princess felt the tenderest of passions for a Conquistador who had arrived with horses to subdue her nation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Racetracks all over the nation began bidding for the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For more than two weeks he held a customs post on the border and from there sent the nation a call to general war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Native peoples also left an indelible imprint on the land with systems of roads that tied their nations and communities together across the entire landmass of the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z From some of the nation’s leading scientists would come denunciations of Oppenheimer, veiled and overt, among them Edward Teller’s assertion that “I personally would feel more secure if public matters would rest in other hands.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lands have been robbed, men slain, nations humiliated. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z More than half of the nation thought black people wanted to take over white jobs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Pete had won a scholarship to the University of Southern California, where he had become one of the nation’s top ten college milers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z That’s almost 120 times the amount of electricity the nation currently uses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z White Americans have thought of it as their shame, and have envied those more civilized and elegant European nations that were untroubled by the presence of black men on their shores. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Other nations rush to pass mandatory Mind’s Eye legislation, and in a matter of months every person on Earth is living in a fantasy world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Washington was then president of the United States, and Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the young nation and the center of its federal government. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z How strange, I thought, to be involved in something that the whole nation considers among its ten most important stories. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But when the Supreme Court overturned those dumb laws across the nation? Don’t think I’d ever been so happy.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Never before had a private individual made so generous a gift to the nation. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Most of the police cadets who ordinarily inhabited it had been moved out to make room for the American rowers as well as oarsmen from several other nations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was also the case that Jamaica’s English elite, unlike their counterparts in the United States, had little interest in the grand project of nation building. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Was that President Franklin Roosevelt urging the nation to stay calm? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But if the planets could determine the destinies of nations, how could they avoid influencing what will happen to me tomorrow? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All the pent-up emotions of a nation weary from four years of war exploded in a paroxysm, nowhere as much as in the war communities leading the home-front effort. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But with the strike now the nation’s biggest story, things were not turning the policemen’s way. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He was living the great paradox of the early American republic: What was politically essential for the survival of the infant nation was ideologically at odds with what it claimed to stand for. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Yes, I grew up and live in one of the most liberal states in the nation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In the days, weeks, months, and even years that followed, millions of words would be written about the causes of Prohibition, the reasons for its failure, and its effects on the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In light of our nation’s racial history, that seems profoundly unfair. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One day, Farmer promised himself, attached to the clinic would be a legitimate hospital, with equipment as good as anything found in a developed nation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The multicultural perspective tends to cast Indigenous peoples in general as an oppressed racial group without considering important political differences between the Native nations and other oppressed populations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She stood upright with her feet firmly planted as if she were going to deliver a fiery speech that would change the course of the nation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z TB programs in developing nations are generally underfunded, resulting in weak delivery systems for treatment and prevention. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Reporters for Time and for CBS informed the nation that a new mood of careerism had seized the campus. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When this man died the nation rang with praise and, just beneath, with gladness that he was dead. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If we could break the back of segregation in our city, it would send a strong message to the rest of the nation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “This is the thirty-seventh time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shaped the history of this nation.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Outraged Northerners mourn his loss and openly pledge revenge, while Southerners rejoice in the death of the man who wouldn’t give them the freedom to form their own nation. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Virginia, a state with one of the highest concentrations of scientific talent in the world, led the nation in denying education to its youth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Kennedy told the nation that segregation was a moral issue—“as old as the Scriptures and ... as clear as the American Constitution.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Other nations in the world who are interested in the plight of our race and who would like to see the United States divided would come to our aid. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Two Serbs who have never met might risk their lives to save one another because both believe in the existence of the Serbian nation, the Serbian homeland and the Serbian flag. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Just two years prior, with the storm clouds gathering, President Roosevelt challenged the nation to ramp up its production of airplanes to fifty thousand per year. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When I was little, Chairman Mao had challenged the nation to catch up with England and America in steel production. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Undoubtedly, good institutions are indeed part of the answer to the different wealths of nations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z No. Studies consistently indicate that drug markets, like American society generally, reflect our nation’s racial and socioeconomic boundaries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This fervor was also brought about by the many labor strikes that were taking place throughout the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She performed as a soloist with many of the nation’s leading orchestras and became immensely popular with radio audiences, appearing regularly on The Bell Telephone Hour, a classical program broadcast weekly over the NBC network. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z But in fewer than ten years, California’s juvenile facilities went from being some of the worst in the nation to some of the best. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z If either of the two giant white nations pushes the button, white civilization will die! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But in their hearts and souls, they dwell in the geek nation. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is not a poor nation,” I remind my sons till they hear it in their sleep. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In many respects, the Mutual was the closest thing to a government that the nation of black Americans had at that time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “We are not going to stop demonstrations in this nation until we have good housing and political power. There is something about demonstrating that does something for you, for your dignity; it tells the truth.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Interstate Highway Act brought autobahns to the United States and became the largest public works project in the nation’s history, building 46,000 miles of road with more than $130 billion of federal money. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Some people feel that their attempt to preserve segregation is best for themselves, their children, and their nation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For him, the world—and by that I must mean this very land, his chosen nation—operated on a determined set of procedures, certain rules of engagement. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead our nation declared a War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Why did women in the West win the vote so far in advance of those in the rest of the nation? 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Because of this, factory wages in the Tarheel State vied with Mississippi’s for last place in the nation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z If they say we live in the shadow of the nation’s capital, then how could one missing girl flip it inside out? Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z When the American colonists declared independence the following year, it would be hailed as a victory for an entire nation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Would she be able to answer correctly should her prospective employers quiz her on, say, the capital cities of midsized European nations? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z There are nations that develop and stockpile bacteriological weapons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Boston Police Strike caused shock waves across the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “That’s one for the Midwest, America’s heartland, home of all this great nation’s Valentine’s Day decorations. Well done!” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Led by South Carolina, a total of eleven slaveholding states in the South have left the Union and formed a separate nation, the Confederate States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Or if one wished to think biologically rather than architecturally, the body politic had yet to develop its immunities to the political diseases afflicting all new nations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In this one, the focus was on American history—for a young nation, there was so much to educate the public about. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Before Prohibition, the nation’s main drinking places, the saloons, had been almost exclusively a male domain. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z First of all, they had to check for violations of the nation’s Neutrality Acts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Dr. Zamborska says that the chemicals it takes to keep the pool, golf course, and grounds lovely would fertilize the wheat fields of a small nation. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I appreciated the media interest in my story, because our nation desperately needed to see that Muslims were just as American as anyone else. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I sat on the carpet for a while as Radar read to me more about New York, about the Catskill Mountains, about the nation’s capital, about the concert at Woodstock in 1969. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Vonetta, Fern, and me: “Hear the reverberation of a stolen black nation forever lost to foreign shores where thieves do not atone and Mother Africa cannot be consoled.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow medicine, for all the $80-odd billion that it is said to cost the nation, has not yet come in for much of this analytical treatment. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening, hoping to counter the massive protests of October 15, President Nixon spoke to the nation about the war in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Burnham hoped for an early cure to the nation’s financial malaise, but the economy did not oblige. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “What? People all over this nation listen to us.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Many people had driven across the nation to see the race; virtually every state in the union was represented by a license plate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Eastern private schools, modeling themselves after elite British institutions like Eton, taught rowing as a gentleman’s sport and fed their young-gentlemen oarsmen into the nation’s most prestigious universities, places like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer was the leading theoretician in the nation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The battle was reported over the radio throughout the nation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Best of all, he informed them, the nation’s capital was healthy enough for Congress to meet there in December, as planned. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Just ninety miles off the coast of Florida, the island nation of Cuba was fast becoming a flash point in the global Cold War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It is our duty as Americans, and as a nation dedicated to freedom and free commerce, to stand behind our fellow Americans and not cast.. . things at them. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The nation’s entire nuclear arsenal was dependent on only two sources: a single rapidly depleting mine in the Belgian Congo and another in Canada, near the Arctic Circle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The hungry wolf would always attack the fat reindeer, the poor man would rob the banker, the serf would make revolutions against the higher class, and the lack-penny nation would fight the rich. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We did not want to destroy the country before we freed it, and to drive the whites away would devastate the nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In its own way this correspondence would fulfill his dream, of serving as an interpreter between nations. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z As indicated earlier, any effort to downsize dramatically our nation’s prisons would inspire fierce resistance by those faced with losing jobs, investments, and other benefits provided by the current system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Mary Lou closed one eye and tried to imagine Annie singing from the passenger seat of that Impala as they traveled the asphalt arteries of the nation. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The Brooklyn Chess Club, established just after the Civil War, was one of the most prestigious in the nation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Soon his ingenious criminal methods, coupled with his singular love of fair play, found him a warm place in the nation’s heart. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z No; a bigger and better organization must be launched, one in which the leading writers of the nation could be included, they said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet the laws and customs governing segregation in the nation’s capital weren’t nearly as strict as those in the cities of the Deep South. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The political empowerment of the working class, Galton believed, would just provoke their genetic empowerment: they would produce bushels of children, dominate the gene pool, and drag the nation toward profound mediocrity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “The incredible sense of community—of communing—was overwhelming. We felt bonded with one another, with the people we passed, with the entire nation.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted the nation’s attention on his sweeping plans for his Great Society initiatives: a series of economic and social reforms to eliminate poverty and social injustice. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He was going to make us a nation proud of ourselves, not run by the Yanqui imperialists. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In a time when kings and emperors ruled much of the world, the Dutch Republic was governed, more than any other nation, by the people. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So what is to be demanded in this moment in our nation’s racial history? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Each member nation had its own specific interests because each had had different experiences in the previous 150 years of British and French intrusion, including the French and Indian War. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In the 1930s and early 1940s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began to roll out the New Deal—a massive public works and investment program designed to lift the nation out of a severe depression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the late fifteenth century, as European explorers sailed to unfamiliar places, their actions and beliefs were guided by the Doctrine of Discovery—the idea that European nations could claim the foreign lands they “discovered.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Elypnotized by mutual mistrust, almost never concerned for the species or the planet, the nations prepare for death. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her own daughter planning to move to a communistic nation where the roads are practically made of wall-to-wall land mines? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even more pertinent to my condition, the Twin Cities region “is posting one of the lowest vacancy rates in the nation— possibly the lowest.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The safety of this nation,” he insisted, “cannot lie wholly or even primarily in its scientific or technical prowess. It can be based only on making future wars impossible.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, the presence of more than five hundred federally recognized nations is evidence of the successes Native peoples had as they fought to protect their nations, their homelands, and their families. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Davenport’s 1911 book, Heredity in Relation to Eugenics, was the movement’s bible; it was also widely assigned as a textbook of genetics in colleges across the nation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z To protect the nation against “the menace of race deterioration,” radical social surgery would need to be deployed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In principle, a scientist should be able to change the “composition of individuals,” and of nations, and leave a permanent mark on human identity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And since I had been born in a Christian nation, I accepted this Deity as the only one. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The great exception to this rule of the recent melting pot is the world’s most populous nation, China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If the answer was yes, the nation would provide virtually unlimited resources to make it happen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “To sing a song about attacking King Degravaunt, our greatest hero, the founder of our elfin nation?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z For William, burdened with secrets that involved the nation’s security, the treatment was wildly unsuitable. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It has infected law enforcement activities on roads, sidewalks, highways, train stations, airports, and the nation’s border. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Instead of taverns and lodges, a whole new type of establishment, called a saloon, sprang up in towns and cities throughout the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Although it remains surprisingly little known outside specialist circles, this master narrative illuminates the origins of every nation in the Americas today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On the night of March 31, Johnson addressed the nation from his desk in the Oval Office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Separatists pendent their own groups who seek to become independent of the nation that has power over them and to form their own government. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We made an indifferent and unconcerned nation rise from lethargy and subpoenaed its conscience to appear before the judgment seat of morality on the whole question of civil rights. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Are you not? To what nation do you belong, then?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The weapons establishments in the Soviet Union, the United States and other nations are large and powerful. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For decades, this had been the seat of white supremacy, and now it was the site of a rainbow gathering of different colors and nations for the installation of South Africa’s first democratic, nonracial government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My working theory then held all black people as kings in exile, a nation of original men severed from our original names and our majestic Nubian culture. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The system that kept the black race at the bottom of American society was so deeply rooted in the nation’s history that it was impervious to the country’s ideals of equality. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z US officials had known that the Soviets would eventually be able to build a nuclear weapon, but the nation's top intelligence experts estimated that the Soviets' nuclear capability was still four years away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z There were 573 sovereign tribal nations as of December 15, 2018, each with the recognized power to govern and exist as an independent entity. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In 2010, high school students in Shanghai, China’s largest city, finished first in an international standardized test of math, science, and reading proficiency given to students in sixty-five nations. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He described Oppie as arrogant, naive, and suspiciously hostile to a thermonuclear program that was manifestly in the nation’s best interests. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the living were not the only ones to be found on the greatest railroad in the nation. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z By the end of August, the hope of the nation began to turn into the dreadful realization that Garfield might not recover. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The nation and the Salinas Valley changed its songs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And we, America, we are the nation of dreams. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is the hottest station in the nation, Hot 105,” the DJ says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z That is why baboons live in small groups today and do not live as a baboon nation, as do men and many other animals. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z England now had no excuse; the abolitionists would force their countrymen to face the question: Was England a nation built on Christian beliefs or on treating people as property? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In Washington, on the morning of April 19, the most solemn day in the history of the nation began with the president’s funeral. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He arranged recitals at his home and office and joined the best clubs and collected the best wines and was now leading the greatest nonmilitary campaign in the nation’s history. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mott knew that at the time, no nation on earth recognized women’s right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They told everyone the people of Mozambique must work together to build a new nation now that the Portuguese colonialists had been defeated. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Several times a day the four generals of the junta appeared on the screen, seated between the coat of arms and the flag, to announce various edicts: they were the new heroes of the nation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At twelve stories, it was one of the tallest buildings in the nation, certainly it towered over any structure in the south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At Quebrada Jaguay, a dry streambed on the nation’s southern coast that was one of the two sites described in Science, they dug up wedge clams and chased schools of six-inch drumfish with nets. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z From the ruins, the Bolshevik Party would become the Communist Party, and Lenin would emerge as the head of a new nation with a new form of government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Alex laughs again, incredulous, looking into the heavy circles under Henry’s eyes and the chewed-up bottom lip and, for the first time, seeing a man born to lead a nation. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He respected the law, the nation, and tradition, and no one could accuse him of any greater offense than tax evasion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Black Africans, who generally lived on only 5 percent of the nation’s land, made up over 80 percent of the population. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Today, I have appointments with world-famous personages, including some heads of nations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z After asserting that “the architects of America had covered themselves with glory” through their exposition designs, Burnham rebuked the nation’s civil engineers for failing to rise to the same level of brilliance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z An entire nation of meerkats was on the move, their backs arched and their feet a blur. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the telegram that would transmit the sad news to the nation. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Talking to a few students at one of the top universities in the nation? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z What I am about to tell must be the experience of very many in this nation where so many wander and come back. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The judge tells us that the new citizens on the stage represent more than thirty nations. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It is home to the Thembu people, who are part of the Xhosa nation, of which I am a member. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew, none better, that the nation’s safety depended on keeping some things under wraps. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z If Durham had earned a solid reputation throughout the nation, black people in the South held it in even higher regard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The cycle would then spiral out of control until both nations completely obliterated each other. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This one did not shake the nation as Chris’s had, but it shook me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d even dreamed of entering the Ice Court as a spy just like this, of striking at the heart of this nation that hated her so much. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z On the other hand, how is the American Negro now to form himself into a separate nation? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Entering in a parade of nations and standing at attention, the athletes were treated to a thunderous show that culminated in the release of twenty thousand doves. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Fearful that ongoing war would mean utter destruction of their nation, a faction of Shawnee accepted a peace agreement that meant giving up some of their autonomy and the territory they used as hunting grounds. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Across the nation, test scores figure into educators’ compensation. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Before the arrival of Europeans, North America was indeed a “continent of villages,” as some historians have called it, but it was also a continent of nations and alliances among nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In sum, the long-term prospects for the newly independent American nation were extraordinarily hopeful, almost limitless. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It annoys a certain lady that her spouse has such supreme faith in the British, and a certain husband attacks his wife because of her teasing and disparaging remarks about his beloved nation! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They, too, went to war and conquered other nations around them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z There will always be, in emerging nations, an enduring attraction to the ways of the colonizer — I myself was not immune to it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that they had the attention and the sympathy of the nation, the suffrage movement couldn’t afford to lose any momentum. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices: submit or fight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The hardship paid off for Irwin, who became the winningest trainer in the nation, but it took a toll on the animals. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They come to Indiana, and right next door is a black nation rising. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In 1867, Andrew Johnson, the nation’s first post-Civil War president and a former slaveholder, advocated a new practice that quickly replaced slavery as a main source of agricultural labor in the South. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Many people had put off their visits in the expectation that the nation’s worsening economic crisis and pressure from Congress eventually would compel the railroads to reduce their Chicago fares. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The porters waited on passengers in the nations segregated trains, daily enduring prejudice and humiliation from whites. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Renewed peace talks, he told the nation, would begin within days. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation’s leading anatomist, who described it at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia that autumn. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Within months, the deuteron fiasco would be forgotten, and universities across the nation and in Europe and Asia would be clamoring for their own machines. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I lived through some of the nation’s worst atrocities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The night before he had read an extraordinary proclamation to the nation which said that the workers had left the station and had returned home in peaceful groups. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “This is for the good of the nation. You’ll see, granny,” one Recruiter said. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Anyway, he said that the Pledge means a lot to some people and that other people don’t appreciate all that this country is and how great a democratic nation we are and blah-blah-blah. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “During the controversy, a single name has been mentioned most prominently as the possible source of the Times's documents,” Cronkite told the nation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And the South being a limb of the nation, its pain spreads out to all America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the first law of the new nation was created because of that demand for land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We can see in the United Nations a new world order being shaped, along color lines—an alliance among the non-white nations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Its shape is guided by the image of birth, death, and rebirth: the birth of a nation, the death of its soldiers, and the “new birth” of liberty that comes out of it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z They also agreed to divide Poland and the Baltic nations between them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The violence drew television crews, which beamed these powerful images to a stunned nation and beyond. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z More black men are imprisoned today than at any other moment in our nation’s history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Third, when Washington talked about independence from foreign nations, his understanding of what American independence entailed cut much deeper than the patriotic veneer customarily suggested by the term. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It wasn’t much of a gate anymore, since anyone of any nation could have easily stepped around it instead of walking through. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Urban factories shut down as our nation transitioned to a service economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Negotiations to end the war gave birth to an independent nation: the United States of America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Think back, recall our little nation fringing the oceans, torn with complexities, too big for its britches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The following year, it even became home to the nation’s most notorious gangster, Al Capone. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In earlier chapters, we have seen that throughout our nation’s history, poor and working-class whites have been bought off by racial bribes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If the fair failed, Burnham knew, the nation’s honor would be tarnished, Chicago humiliated, and his own firm dealt a crushing blow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He had dreamed of being an interpreter for diplomats and dignitaries, resolving conflicts between people and nations, settling disputes of which he alone could understand both sides. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It was considered “the most expensive, most beautiful, and largest high school in the nation” and an excellent educational facility and academically graduated a high percentage of students who went on to top universities. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The “secesh” community—those Southern secessionist sympathizers living a secret life in the nation’s capital—is in disarray. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Even Americans were startled to hear that their country had broken the codes of nineteen different nations in peacetime. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The Soviet name for the fight to drive the German army out of their nation during World War II is the “Great Patriotic War.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When he arrived in the nation’s capital, he made his way through the noise and lights to headquarters. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Along with reducing Cold War tensions and improving relations with the United States and other western nations, Gorbachev granted the Soviet people freedoms that they had never experienced. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The country developed ways by which some could become formal citizens of this nation of laws. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z His farm, like about two-thirds of the farms in the state, occupied less than ten acres—unviably small by the standards of developed nations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The next morning, papers across the nation ran the workout time, which was slow, and attributed it to Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were not the ornaments of the nation. You did not obey my epistle.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The nation couldn’t get enough of it, and the show was a sellout from coast to coast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States and Oman had just completed negotiations on a free-trade agreement to eliminate tariffs and trade barriers between the two nations. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z A city-state is an independent state or nation consisting of a city and its surrounding territory. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The conflict was mostly geopolitical, with a long-standing border dispute between both nations. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Eyeing their nation’s resource-rich neighbors, Japan’s leaders saw the prospect of economic independence, and something more. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The American Civil Liberties Union, the Voter Participation Center, and other organizations have become actively involved in litigation and other activities aimed at ridding the nation of these voter suppression measures. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The South African government was under growing international pressure, as nations all across the globe began to impose economic sanctions on Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A particularly poignant loss occurred in the summer of 1701, when the leaders of forty native nations convened in Montreal to negotiate an end to decades of war among themselves and the French. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And Nigeria is not a nation of people with food allergies, not a nation of picky eaters for whom food is about distinctions and separations. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The less immense, more finite items, of a size allowing the mind to get a handhold, like nations, or space technology, or New York, are hard to think about without drifting toward heartsink. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1910, the last census before World War I recorded that 90 percent of the nation’s blacks were living in the South. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z —I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z However, constant warfare was taking a toll on Indigenous peoples and their nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We shall march onwards, Even if everything crashes down in pieces; For today the nation hears us, And tomorrow the whole world! All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the early 1980s, however, when the national government, dominated by northern Arabs, tried to impose Islamic laws on the entire nation, civil war broke out. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire nation crumbled into a state of lawlessness. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Yeah, we learned that in school. Post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s what a lot of the veterans have after coming home from war. But how can a whole nation have it?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z There we’ll keep our hands busy in a new, independent nation, whose hopes coincide with our own. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back, and back — its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the “bloodbath” school of criminology was touting exactly the opposite theory—that an increase in the teenage share of the population would produce a crop of superpredators who would lay the nation low. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Al-Qaeda terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. “We call them terrorists because they are not representative of a single nation. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z With the Constitution now ratified and the new federal government safely in place, Franklin resumed his plea that slavery be declared incongruous with the revolutionary principles on which the nation was founded. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “True,” said Habib, “but unfortunately, the world is full of oppression—oppression of men against men, group against group, and nation against nation.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Our good old nation was just seven years old as a republic when it became bigger by a small territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Now, it is extremely unlikely that Negroes will ever rise to power in the United States, because they are only approximately a ninth of this nation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z His lordship has always striven to aid better understanding between nations.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Such grandiose declarations were commonplace during Ceaujescu’s reign, for his master plan—to create a nation worthy of the New Socialist Man—was an exercise in grandiosity. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Here is a powerful white man, I thought as I listened, the leader of our nation, standing up for the rights of my people! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the very man whose name symbolizes non-violence here today has stated: ‘ ‘Our nation was bom in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanton’s operators could wire news and orders all over the country—and soon telegraph lines across the nation were announcing the news: The president has been assassinated and the secretary of state attacked. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Millions of members strong, the NRA is the most powerful lobbying organization in the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The “nation of immigrants” framework obscures the US practice of settler colonialism. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We refugee passengers represented many nations and spoke many languages. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It wasn’t so popular with the rest of the world, and European nations in particular watched uneasily as Germany suddenly got a lot bigger. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera, and plague that once swept nations before them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Almost immediately he had a team of the nation’s best orthopedic specialists on planes, flying in to Boston at his expense. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And the one big thing he knew was that America’s future as a nation lay to the West, in its development over the next century of a continental empire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His stay was brief and not at all businesslike, but who are we to question the motives of these giants of commerce whose whims rule the course of our nation. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the flat, albeit minuscule, had windows and a shared roof from which the boys could watch a new city, and a new nation, being born. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z While state-sponsored sterilization programs expanded throughout the nation, a grassroots movement to personalize genetic selection was also gaining popularity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Israel is the only nation in the world whose existence is threatened. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting document, which became known as the Durham Statement, acknowledged that the nation’s primary task was to win the war against fascism abroad. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “This is the greatest hospitality my nation can give you right now, esteemed guest.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Before you knew it, the nation was at war. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The same Patrice Lumumba, mind you, who washed his face each morning from a dented tin bowl, relieved himself in a carefully chosen bush, and went out to seek the faces of his nation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The federal troops in Mississippi could be better used guarding the safety of the citizens of Washington, D.C., where it is even unsafe to walk or go to a ballgame-and that is the nation's capitol. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z During the first three decades after the Treaty of Paris was signed, allied Indigenous nations in the Ohio Country and the southern states were involved in several struggles to resist settler encroachment. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Lilienthal had been brooding all day over a pending decision by President Truman about expanding the nation’s nuclear arsenal, a $319 million proposition pushed assiduously by the Pentagon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Was your civilization conquered by a European nation?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Its average SAT scores ranked forty-sixth in the nation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of years ago, our nation put those considered less than human in shackles; less than one hundred years ago, we relegated them to the other side of town; today we put them in cages. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The world’s nations rushed to choose sides, and within a day, eighteen other countries, including the United Kingdom, also declared war on Japan. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Ever colored person in Jackson gets in front a whatever tee-vee set they can find, watches Martin Luther King stand in our nation’s capital and tell us he’s got a dream. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny,” Jackson explained, “the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And my family and friends all thought I was crazy for focusing so much on fencing when I had a degree from one of the nation’s top universities. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I have come to deliver a precious treasure to your dark master. I will give it only to him. Anything else would be beneath the dignity of the elfin nation.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z At first, most Americans believed that if an exposition honoring the deepest roots of the nation were to be held anywhere, the site should be Washington, the capital. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Long before my naked body appeared in medical textbooks, my face appeared on bulletin boards and in windows across the nation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps his own nation more than any other, precisely because it was his own. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Letters to the FCC and Orson Welles confirm that people in all parts of the nation were alarmed by the broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Among its most effective programs was an anti-alcohol education campaign that reached into nearly every school in the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Nowhere is the stratification of education more vivid than in Virginia, where Thomas Jefferson once tried, and failed, to set up the nation’s first public high schools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And since I’m not, I suggest no further nations. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z As Americans obsessed over the threat of terrorism, many were overlooking the racism and tribalism that were tearing our nation apart. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It could only be the employment of carriage whips, tongs, iron pokers, handsaws, stones, paperweights, or whatever might be handy to break the black body, the black family, the black community, the black nation. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The word terminal suggests that Native nations and the peoples in them were completely wiped out by Europeans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z And the nation’s economic depression was growing steadily worse, its labor situation more volatile. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The next day papers across the nation were reporting the stunning course of events. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Native nations have their own websites, just like the fifty US states do. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The nation’s car culture reached its height in southern California, inspiring innovations such as the world’s first motel and the first drive-in bank. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z They swapped stories of their nations’ great books and made plans to trade old manuscripts one day, so they could better understand the history of their two races a thousand years before. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z But it was also the political problem with the deepest social and economic roots in the new nation, so that removing it threatened to disrupt the fragile union just as it was congealing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For the first time ever, Grandma placed dinner on trays in front of the television so we could hear President Eisenhower speak to the nation. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the approximately 40 New World nations, all now have an Indo-European language or creole as the official language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Figuring out how to get one is the core quandary facing the nation’s college nongraduates. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It is precisely because we, as a nation, have not cared much about African Americans that we have allowed our criminal justice system to create a new racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The eyes of the nation were on Birmingham, and I hoped someone would understand what we were trying to do, the message we were trying to send. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally, at the climax of a twelve-day manhunt that had gripped the nation, a heavily armed patrol of the Sixteenth New York Cavalry had cornered Lincoln’s assassin! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The mother and father of nations, I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In downtown Kinshasa, where a lot of the bars have television sets, Mobutu in his leopard-skin hat blinks on every evening at seven o’clock for the purpose of unifying our nation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The men who run the affairs of nations today are, by and large, our practical men. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This way, other nations could not infer from lack of openness which launches contained classified payloads. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "I was the only man throughout the entire nation,” he bragged, "that had the inspiration and the nerve and the brain and the opportunity to do the work.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Arrangements were made for press coverage, for sound amplification, and for a coast-to-coast radio hookup that would broadcast the concert to the nation. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z A week after three of the four kids in my neighborhood were buried, the president made a formal address to the nation. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He promoted the match to bring global publicity to the Yugoslavian embargo and to make it appear as though the United States and other nations were attempting to suppress an important artistic endeavor. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “They hold vast portions of the nation’s wealth and pay a proportionate share of the taxes.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z "Beginning with the family, Communists have undermined the very foundations of morality and faith, and scoff at culture and business, nation and Fatherland, justice and honor." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z If cheating to lose is sport’s premier sin, and if sumo wrestling is the premier sport of a great nation, cheating to lose couldn’t possibly exist in sumo. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I was just one more of those women who clamp their mouths shut and wave the flag as their nation rolls off to conquer another in war. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z These methods varied by nation, but historians note that, in general, Indigenous peoples fought to capture rather than kill their enemies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The minister also asked my father if I could “give a smile to the nation.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Instead of using the moon to keep track of the passage of time, the Egyptians used the sun, just as most nations do today. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Indeed, if Barack Obama had been elected president back then, I would have argued that his election marked the nation’s triumph over racial caste—the final nail in the coffin of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “But I guess every nation likes its own girls best.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z This means that Russ has been to summer invitation camps for the best high-school players in the nation. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They may have had a hard row of it, but even those kids from other countries knew more about the history of our nation than I did. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Tradition called for me to provide a kind of gentle light, flattering the president with my devotion, flattering the nation primarily by not challenging it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z To sweeten the deal, they also secretly agreed to divide up parts of Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, and Romania, as if European nations were a box of candy. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The goblin nation squats there like a tarantula, waiting to leap and strike. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z That combination of high rainfall and summer rains gives Japan the highest plant productivity of any nation in the temperate zones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In New Zealand, Hillary is one of the most honored figures in the nation; his craggy visage even stares out from the face of the five-dollar bill. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In 1932 and 1933 it took away the food crop harvest and next season's seed in the Soviet states that produced most of the nation's grain—Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Kazakhstan. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Under their nations’ flags, those Europeans fought Native people for control of that land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We lived with it as a family, and we lived with it as a nation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z William, as the eldest son, the one upon whom “the nation’s eyes” rested, as the family always said afterward, lent the affair a casual, no-nonsense Darwin atmosphere. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I made a survey of the country’s chief industrial areas, the nation’s transportation system, its communication network. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their descendants, also called Indigenous peoples, carry memories and stories of how the United States came to be the nation we know today. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z This is a nation at war with itself.’” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z For this reason I never saw him leave, but each night as I drifted off to sleep I would hear them, anticipating the birth of a nation on the other side of the world. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He boasted that he had tossed into the wastebasket all the telegrams from socialist nations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had not merely restored it; they had turned it into the nation’s leader in commerce, manufacturing, and architecture. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The evacuation has been completed,” Ford told the nation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z By the end of the twentieth century many nations had collected nuclear weapons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You see, grandchildren, rules about modern warfare were made up between the nations of the world before World War Two. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z With the success of the Civil Rights Movement and the launching of the Poor People’s Movement, it was apparent to all that a major disruption in the nation’s racial equilibrium had occurred. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Howard officials decided to challenge the DAR’s restrictive policy, beginning a crucial battle in the campaign to end Jim Crow social practices in the nation’s capital. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Jefferson informed his secretary of the navy that the Osage were a great nation and that “we must stand well, because in their quarter we are miserably weak.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Even the shortest ferry ride delivered him to a new island nation, garish and imposing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union had more first-rate players than any other three nations combined. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was the nation’s first prison boom and, as they are today, those taken prisoner were disproportionately black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Throughout the nation, as the news spreads, Abraham Lincoln’s worst fears are being realized. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z When Charles II heard the news, he decided that, as a seafaring nation, Britain had to have the necessary information as an aid to navigation, and the planned observatory became a project of the Crown. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It was a charged time; the entire nation was frothing with anguish about its history and inheritance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A nation that believes that everyone should have a fair shake finds itself with a kind of inherited meritocracy. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And when they don't come back, the nation owes them something. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Like the nations of the Powhatan Confederacy, the Pequots and their diplomatic allies spoke closely related Algonquian languages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn was one of the largest in New York and one of the oldest in the nation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One of the nation’s leading astronomers, Campbell had been director of the university’s Lick Observatory for twenty-three years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of African American men and women worked long hours in defense factories throughout the nation to supply the military with arms, provisions, and more. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She briefly told how Douglass’s words had helped change the nation. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus to assuage the nations of the dead I pledged these rites, then slashed the lamb and ewe, letting their black blood stream into the wellpit. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Taken collectively, they are not simply twelve million people; in reality they constitute a separate nation, stunted, stripped, and held captive within this nation, devoid of political, social, economic, and property rights. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't that he didn't know what he wanted to say to the nation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Moreover, the two nations that control access to the peak—Nepal and China—are staggeringly poor. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The state of Maryland had one of the highest graduation rates in the nation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z There is no question that the Red Summer was one of the most shameful periods in the nation’s history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z As a nation it fell, when a million of its healthiest citizens were sold into slavery, but its language and traditions did not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Much of history revolves around this question: how does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, or limited liability companies? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The energy that was buried with the rise of the Christian nations must come back into the world; nothing can prevent it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z He set aside special days to honor individual states and nations and to fete distinct groups of workers, including cobblers, millers, confectioners, and stenographers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Marina’s home city of Moscow now became the capital of a nation so new that it hadn’t even given itself an official name yet. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He saw himself as a citizen of the Net, a separate nation with rules, boundaries, and traditions of its own. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We and the other nations might set it as an objective of international, collaborative science to achieve a complete understanding of a single form of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As often happens in war, nations make difficult choices, and often there are disagreements on a course of action. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The patriotic fervor that had engulfed the nation during World War I fueled the Red Scare. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The French, the Belgians, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Spanish and other white nations have weakened steadily as nonwhite Asians and Africans have recovered their lands. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The disassembled missiles were lashed to the decks of cargo ships—including, ironically, many American-made vessels that had been given to the Soviet Union during World War II, when the two nations were allies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z To have done otherwise would have been an act of disloyalty to Chicago and the nation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Like most passionate nations Texas has its own private history based on, but not limited by, facts. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in modern history, major wars of aggression were stopped partly because of the revulsion felt by the citizens of the aggressor nations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Women came from as far away as Maine and California to form the new organization, the Women’s Loyal National League, which would work to abolish slavery and preserve the nation. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Central Intelligence Agency was created in September 1947, its mission to combine all the nation's overseas intelligence operations under one roof. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After Japan's defeat in 1945, control of the Korean Peninsula split down the middle, at the 38th parallel, a line that cut the nation neatly in half. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As the nation spent much of 1866 and 1867 debating the issues surrounding the Fourteenth Amendment, tensions grew within the women’s rights movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Yellow fever,’’ he predicted, “will discourage the growth of great cities in the nation.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The defeat at Fallen Timbers was a severe blow to the Indigenous nations of the Ohio Country, but they would reorganize their resistance during the following decade. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z This map shows the homelands of the Pequot Nation, relative to neighboring nations in what are currently called the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z According to military theory, “regular warfare,” or “conventional warfare,” refers to war between two or more nations, using battlefield tactics and typical weapons of war. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As Fischer goes, so goes the chess nation, organizers believed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Food was scarce; in a nation at war, much of it occupied by enemy troops, it was difficult to grow and gather crops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Such foods connect us to our family, religion, nation, and history. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Besides, Angola is an extremely Communistic nation if you ask me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-three people from over ninety nations were killed. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z As stories of the physical abuses that had accompanied the Palmer Raids continued to grow, several investigating committees were formed, including one made up of the nation’s most respected lawyers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z As more nations put their languages into apps and websites, you have opportunities to learn I words in those languages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Vonetta: “I birthed a black nation. From my womb black creation spilled forth to be stolen shackled dispersed.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Many other nations have now launched spacecraft, including Britain, France, Canada, Japan and China, the society that invented the rocket in the first place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In previous wars against Indigenous nations, British commanders had assigned ranger groups specific missions, but to fight the Cherokee, both the regular forces and the rangers would target even the elders, women, and children. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z And all this fretful conjuring about prospective mishaps and crises, she scolded, was unbecoming a man who would be first magistrate of the nation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z By the night of March 2, because of both President Wilson’s inauguration on the fourth and the suffragist parade the next day, hundreds of thousands of people had gathered in the nation’s capital. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The story of the political and economic underpinnings of the nation’s founding sheds some light on these recurring themes in our history and the reasons new racial caste systems continue to be born. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He remained confident that he had the support and admiration of people throughout the nation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z To stand up to the police in America was to take the nation’s promise of justice for all at face value. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Horses were one reason the Lakota became a strong nation and controlled a large territory. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “But I don’t think I’ve ever seen you before. What nation are you?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His timing turned out to be flawless, for the catastrophe that had struck him that afternoon had plowed under the entire nation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fascinating as your native rituals are, do you think we might proceed in silence? Given that the entire rat nation is on the lookout for us, it might be prudent,” said Ripred. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The business of the Indian excavations was completely secret, since they were part of the historical heritage of the nation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout most of our nation’s history—from the days of the abolitionist movement through the Civil Rights Movement—racial justice advocacy has generally revolved around grassroots organizing and the strategic mobilization of public opinion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A few years earlier, Bouza had written a book in which he called abortion “arguably the only effective crime-prevention device adopted in this nation since the late 1960s.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Every nation seems to have its set of forbidden possibilities, which its citizenry and adherents must not at any cost be permitted to think seriously about. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of 2009, Alabama had the nation’s highest execution rate per capita. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Suesetta says, “On behalf of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at Bethel, we thank you for being a role model to us and a pillar of hope to the nation.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Many of these women were already involved in the temperance movement—the campaign to rid the nation of intoxicating liquor—which would also culminate in 1919. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I was caught in a particular moment of national history, smack in the middle of a city known as the nation’s hotbed of racial injustice and violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z How much can men bear to keep together the nation their great-grandfathers had helped to create? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z For a nation grappling with the Depression, that was an eye-watering sum. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was major surgery: a type of operation hardly ever performed anywhere in the world, let alone a nation as small as Australia. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It was a little hard to comprehend how anyone, even a Supreme Commander, could create a whole nation from scraps. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Now they were compelled by international agreements to warn other nations first. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At the age of eighteen, Yacub had finished all of his nation’s colleges and universities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Spurge and Werfel spent their time going back and forth, carrying messages between the nations. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z We have to get other nations to import it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z If the number of field agents expected to see that the law was carried out was pitifully small, the resources devoted to patrolling the nation’s 4,993 miles of coastline were pathetic. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The law enforcement methods described in chapter 2 have been employed almost exclusively in poor communities of color, resulting in jaw-dropping numbers of African Americans and Latinos filling our nation’s prisons and jails every year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We in Europe are only dwarfs and no nation, ancient or modern, has conceived the art of architecture on such a sublime, great, and imposing style, as the ancient Egyptians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I just want to assure everybody out there in our great nation that we’re doing everything we can to make sure we bring these girls home safe. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She and staff attorney Kristen Nelson, a Harvard Law grad who had worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, the nation's premier public defender office, met with Marsha repeatedly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I kept telling myself that this building was ranked first in the nation in school buildings. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Treaty making with Indigenous nations has a brief but important mention in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the USSR—which, thanks to the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, wasn't under attack—young women across the nation were continuing their state-sponsored flight training and flight instruction as though nothing had changed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Her fingers danced over valleys, rivers, the peaks of mountains, the contours of a new nation hidden beneath the old. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It is because Nigeria is not a nation of sandwich-eating people and his last oga did not eat bread in the afternoon. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Rampaging against innocent men, women, and children, they did not distinguish between different Native nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Forty-four of the nation’s governors were also male. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z On June 22, 1941, Hitler broke a peace treaty and invaded the Soviet Union, sending his army storming across the huge nation in a battlefront that stretched for over a thousand miles. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When peaceful relations between their nations broke down and conflict arose, they also employed their own methods of warfare. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He had already flown in space once, aboard Gemini 4, and was our nation’s first space walker. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dignity I wanted to make an appeal for—the idea that as a nation we might hold on to the core thing that had sustained my family, going back generations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Take a look at websites that tribal nations have created. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z A common theme in the press was that the nation—once divided by war—was now unified in hoping that Garfield recovered. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It's technically winter in most of the nation, but already there is gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands in my mother’s house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z This was the most important way he kept himself informed about the hundreds of things happening in the fledgling nation. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z They are important to a nation—like Britain or Spain—when it plans to set up colonies in an area. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The job was handed to Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, the nation's top aircraft designer and engineer. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t particularly tuned in to the political events unfolding in the nation that summer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Those rules, called the Geneva convention, were agreed to in 1929 and signed by almost every major nation. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z At John’s insistence, Ernest was transferred across the bay to Palo Alto Hospital, the better to consult with its Dr. Albert Snell, one of the nations preeminent specialists in colitis. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Such, said the men who raised me, was their hope for our nation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Those who survived were returning to a nation different from the one they had departed, to make, in the words of their president, the world “safe for democracy.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z What is ironic is that despite how important the Red Summer is to our nation’s history, few Americans are aware that it ever took place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z HUAC's hearings riveted the nation—and ratcheted up J. Edgar Hoover's frustration with the FBI's increasingly fruitless investigation into Elizabeth Bentley's allegations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He returned in 1982 to Belo Horizonte, a surging, industrial city in the nation’s east-central highlands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were accustomed to poking and fixing, unlike the priests and scribes of other nations, who, raised in luxury, were reluctant to dirty their hands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We may do something for pity’s sake, for heaven’s sake, for the nation’s sake, for our children’s sake. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In every state across our nation, African Americans—particularly in the poorest neighborhoods—are subjected to tactics and practices that would result in public outrage and scandal if committed in middle-class white neighborhoods. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hitler knew it would be much easier for the West to mobilize against a nation of barbarians than a civilized nation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In his next five games, Bobby won three and drew two; one of the draws was with twentyseven-year-old Arthur Bisguier, the defending United States Open Champion and one of the strongest players in the nation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had been made for royal joys, for the fortunes of a nation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We, as a nation, are as hungry for history as was England when Geoffrey of Monmouth concocted his History of British Kings, many of whom he manufactured to meet a growing demand. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z America, of all the Western nations, has been best placed to prove the uselessness and the obsolescence of the concept of color. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Basking in the applause of his German hosts, he exulted: “No nation since ancient Greece has captured the true Olympic spirit as has Germany.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The nation of France, especially, has gotten all high-and-mighty about threatening to remove their associations from South Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard the voice of the President speaking to the nation on the radio. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z By his reckoning, the department would drop from first in the nation to twelfth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Radio announcers sat huddled under a shelter near the bridge, ready to broadcast the results around the nation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Dubbed “Project Greek Island,” in the event of an attack on Washington, DC, senators and congressional representatives were to be evacuated from the nation’s capital by railroad and delivered to the Greenbrier’s bunker. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Our nation is richer and smarter than North Korea. We have to use reason over confrontation.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The racial profiling cases that swept the nation in the 1990s may well be the last wave of litigation challenging racial bias in the criminal justice system that we see for a very long time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Philadelphia, where the Continental Congress had created a new nation by drafting and signing the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, was doomed. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z This civil war has not only divided the nation, it has also split countless families, pitting fathers against sons, and brothers against brothers. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Having recently declared its independence from the powerful Spanish Empire, it embraced more fully than any other nation of its time the European Enlightenment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the first general strike in the nation’s history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Brahmins urged him to go to the nation’s capital to make his mark in politics. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At the heart of the story is southern California, whose cities became prototypes for the rest of the nation, whose love of the automobile changed what America looks like and what Americans eat. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z But he was prepared, too, to take his message to the less sympathetic, more prosperous nations. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Some historians and legal scholars refer to the United States as “a nation of laws.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Nixon addressed the nation on television on April 30. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Obama administration directs the nation’s schools to provide students with access to bathrooms and locker rooms that match their chosen gender identity. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Kids are not going to spontaneously ask for a parent,” explains Barry Feld, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and one of the nation’s leading experts on juvenile justice. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z History’s eyes and coming of age in their young nation and making a million mistakes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Around the time of my tenth birthday, the Pakistani Army led a siege of a women’s madrasa in Islamabad, our nation’s capital. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “To maintain the stability of the nation, boy. You do not understand the subtleties of business.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z That we might become better acquainted, I inquired of Sip whether his children were as musical as he; for he was prodigiously knowledgeable, acquainted with the tunes of five nations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, young women across the nation were sending Marina thousands of desperate letters begging her to help them go to war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps most revealing of all the hysteria propelling the Red Scare were laws passed by local and state governments throughout the nation that restricted parades and what they termed “radical activity.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation—a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “It still may not permit this adoption. In fact, even the more moderate Muslim nations are hesitant with adoptions because in many of those countries, Islamic law, Shari a, doesn’t recognize adoption.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “If we fail to meet this challenge, all other nations will be on notice that despite its overwhelming power the United States, when a real crisis comes, will be found wanting.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It did not take long for the nation’s leading newspapers to weigh in. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The two horses were the talk of the ball and the nation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In this way, wrapped in the colors of the nation that sought their death, they slept until well past dawn. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Dunston University was a private school in Oklahoma, with a top-notch baseball program and one of the nation’s best liberal arts schools. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Whether it’s wife or nation they occupy, their mistake is the same: they stand still, and their stake moves underneath them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion of white supremacy rationalized the enslavement of Africans, even as whites endeavored to form a new nation based on the ideals of equality, liberty, and justice for all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z These tragic deaths may lead our nation to substitute an aristocracy of character for an aristocracy of color. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Telegraphed messages swept across the nation within the hour. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But an analysis of DNA cannot tell anyone they are part of a specific nation, and simply having Native ancestry does not give them authority to speak as a Native person. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z By the mid-2000s, he predicted, their numbers would double or even triple, unleashing a tidal wave of violence across the nation. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As the bloodied marchers of Selma were being carried off to the hospital, the nation’s three major television networks interrupted their scheduled programs and stunned viewers with graphic footage of the day’s violence. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z In Ulster, they created a Protestant presence within a predominantly Catholic nation and gave Britain a foothold for its efforts to expand its empire. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z A mix of conquered nations bound together, each of them had the hollow, raging face she’d seen so many times before. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Instead, students are taught another origin story, one about the US as a nation of immigrants. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z And yet, when he died the following April, we shared the shock of the nation. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Jesse Owens story had already galvanized much of the nation, driving home what exactly was at stake in these Olympic Games. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Distinguished thinkers from other nations were frequent guests. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But he embraced the progress this nation made and the military’s role in helping that change to come about. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They had come on this chilly Easter Sunday to hear one of the great voices of the time and to demonstrate their support for racial justice in the nation’s capital. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z As the nation baked under the unrelenting sun, and violence spread along the docks and waterfronts of the West, the national political dialogue also grew heated that summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But when I tided to argue the point about our not being such a democratic nation as he contends we are, well, he wasn’t very interested in hearing that. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “I know this story probably seems very random, Edie. But believe me, it’s loosely related to EdithGraham. To everything that happened between her and your mother. And their tribal nation, their sovereignty. It’s all connected.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As Ophie and Mrs. Harrison boarded the Capital Express to Pittsburgh, the dead of the nation’s capital grieved. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In their eyes, the nation’s history and mission make it unique and superior to other nations, past and present, around the world. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It said that citizenship meant “membership in a nation and nothing more.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “In the meanwhile,” he observed rather elliptically, “the voice of the nation will perhaps be heard.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But now that we’re in our nation’s capital, it hit me! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z How could the nation of Israel have done this to their Lord, who treated her so kindly? Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He reminded them that the United States was “up against an extremely difficult world opinion situation” and declared that he did not want the nation to be “crucified on a cross of atoms.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As we, the people, move forward, the ghosts of the Chicago riot of 1919 and of the other riots across the nation in that Red Summer whisper in the streets, calling us all to remember. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The bloodshed and mayhem in the nation’s capital caused shockwaves throughout the country. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Throughout the day his train pushed through a landscape scoured by snow as a blizzard whitened the nation in a swath from the Atlantic to Minnesota. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We got some of the nation's best experts to review the gun evidence, and they con-eluded the Hinton weapon could not be matched to the murders. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was willing to spend Russian rubles, and sell Soviet arms, to make allies among the world's developing nations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That night, sitting beside a large map of Southeast Asia, Nixon addressed the nation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Eventually, the United States might develop into a nation of laws and established institutions capable of surviving corrupt or incompetent public officials. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It would awaken the nation to the power of architecture to conjure beauty from stone and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Six months behind the Soviet Union, the United States had also entered World War II. The two huge nations, so different from each other, were allied against Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Billionaire philanthropists donate their entire fortunes to fund efforts that bring Fixers to impoverished nations, making certain that every human on the planet in need is able to receive treatment. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He no longer muttered “nation of intractable sycophancy” when the nightly news started on NTA, no longer held long monologues about how Babangida’s government had reduced Nigerians to imprudent idiots, no longer teased her mother. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z This “nation of laws” is also often called a “nation of immigrants.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It captured the hopes and dreams of the people and acted as a blueprint for the liberation struggle and the future of the nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These opportunities, therefore, made these men successful, and their outstanding virtue enabled them to recognize that opportunity, whereby their nation was ennobled and became extremely happy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z What began as an audacious federal program has spread to every state in the nation and nearly every city. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She is not charged with the violation of any law of the state or nation, but with the alleged violation of Judge Dayton’s own injunction, which has been appealed. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z It was as if the Washington victory had been held up to the nation as some sort of fluke. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z You did not just compare the history of our great nation to the Terminator franchise. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z For the next few weeks I stuck with Captain Carroll and other military personnel, continuing to write my story, more sympathetic than Farmer had been to their mission of nation building. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Here the adventurer and king sat down; then carefully Penelope began: “Friend, let me ask you first of all: who are you, where do you come from, of what nation and parents were you born?” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The American gymnasts, famously nicknamed the Fierce Five, had just won artistic team gold at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, ahead of the gymnastics powerhouse nations of Russia, Romania, and China. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He had memorized many of the flags from the old wrecks the ship breakers worked, the hulls painted with nation and merchant tags. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The secretary, however, convinced that both requests were violations of the nation’s Bill of Rights, to whose protection even aliens were entitled, refused to grant Palmer’s requests. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Maine, Mr. Reed tells them, is the only state in the nation that requires schools to teach Native American culture and history. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In the long run, the evolution of an independent American nation, gradually developing its political and economic strength over the nineteenth century within the protective constraints of the British Empire, was probably inevitable. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The International Confederation of Wizards has had to fine certain nations repeatedly for contravening Clause 73. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And a year that had begun with one of the weirdest disasters in history would end with the nation’s greatest sports scandal. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z We found a land whose tasks called forth the deepest and best we had; and we built a nation, mighty and feared. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1804 Haiti became the second nation in the Americas to become independent. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When the nation came together again after the bitter and bloody four-year Civil War, slaves had become free. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When I would tell her that I was serving the nation, she would reply that serving God was above serving the nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The newly formed US government began to move more aggressively to claim Indigenous lands and destroy Native nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z That nation has committed itself to a war against us and has earned our swift and sure action. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The nation’s prison population broke new records in 2008, with no end in sight. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z During the next two days, white mobs went on a rampage the likes of which had never been seen in the nation’s capital. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Rousseau’s disparagement of the English as “a nation of shopkeepers” persists as a belief that a concern with numbers and details numbs one to the big questions, to the grandeur of nature. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It also helped that foreign policy was the one area where he believed the nation should speak with one voice. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z On his first voyage in 1492, Columbus started a colony of about forty men on the island he called Hispaniola, which is currently divided into the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She sentenced Johnny and Tyrone to prison, making them the nation’s youngest inmates. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It must have been only publicly that the nation was tongue-tied. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The news of Marina’s death was reported throughout the nation and around the world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Secretary LaHood, who in his four-and-a-half-year tenure as the nation’s chief transportation authority, came across many harrowing tales and difficult safety issues. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For Galton, the continuous reproduction of softheaded women and men posed a grave genetic threat to the nation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She was becoming too dangerous, the secret heroine of the whole nation. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It will be the task of the nation,” Hitler said. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Astronauts from all nations can still go into space from the Soviet Union, and countries such as China have developed their own space programs. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Four years ago, in 2016, we stood at a precipice as a nation. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Should any such creature cause harm to, or draw the notice of, the Muggle community, that nation’s wizarding governing body will be subject to discipline by the International Confederation of Wizards. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, I can’t believe I’m here in our nation’s capital! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Doors burst open all along the walls, and skeletal warriors marched in, hundreds of them, from every time period and nation in Western civilization. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A long letter of protest arrived at Burnham’s office, signed by some of the nation’s leading engineers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A framed black-and-white photograph of the nation’s thirty-third president occupies a wall just inside the front entrance. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Referring to them as sacred might feel uncomfortable, because the First Amendment of the Constitution tells us that this nation legally mandates separation of church and state. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps wars happened because nations had no confidence in the Word. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z How could this emerging nation manage its way through this first post-Washington phase of its development? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Indigenous peoples of what came to be called the Americas were citizens of self-governing nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Since we had been authorized to use the aircars, Heo Hew and three others had taken one and flown over to Sith and the Archipelago, nations of the Sea Hemisphere, which I had entirely neglected. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Though the American republic became a nation of laws, during the initial phase it also had to be a nation of men. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z That week, which included the hottest three-day period in the nation’s history, the heat would kill three thousand Americans. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z It can be objected that I am speaking of political freedom in spiritual terms, but the political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of that nation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Far to the west of Saratov and Stalingrad, across the English Channel, British women—and a few from other Allied nations as well—were also flying planes to support the war effort. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z For everyone else has, is, a nation, with a specific location and a flag—even, these days, the Jew. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Word may have leaked out to the w'hole military combine of the nation and, for that matter, the world.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Only seven years earlier, fresh from their victory over Hitler, American and Russian leaders—and most of their citizens—believed that the two nations could coexist in peace. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The first is that the war is aimed at ridding the nation of drug “kingpins” or big-time dealers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Two warring nations gripped Poland like girls fighting over a doll. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “The security of the nation is not at the ramparts alone,” the judge wrote in a passage that has been quoted ever since. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A Great Depression had swept over the nation, and we couldn’t seem to throw it off. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Now, as the Biscuit challenged War Admiral, Hard Tack’s fee was $1,000, comparable to that of some of the nation’s most prominent sires. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A nation mourns as it has been confirmed that he was shot and killed as his motorcade passed through Dallas, Texas, today. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It has now reached such proportions that an appalling deluge of chemical pollution is daily poured into the nation’s waterways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Attention to the welfare of the nation is the highest virtue to which a citizen can aspire.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The popular narrative that emphasizes the deaths of slavery and Jim Crow and celebrates the nation’s “triumph over race” with the election of Barack Obama is dangerously misguided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The writer, and that was what I was becoming, must be wary of every Dream and every nation, even his own nation. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Even after his release from chattel slavery, the nation grew over him, submerging him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z By luck or persistence, either women took roles right beside men or they joined volunteer regiments known as “people’s corps” that sprang up all over the nation and later merged with the Red Army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z That something happened when personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z What did worry him to no end was the ominous fit between Burr’s political skills and the opportunities for mischief so clearly available in a nation whose laws and institutions were still congealing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Food fads still come and go with alarming speed: A scientific study, a new government guideline, a lone crackpot with a medical degree can change our nation’s diet overnight. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z |
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