... on the state elections of 1863. Most of the Conkling letter is devoted to demonstrating the military importance of emancipation and the use of black troops, and explaining why, in the current circumstances, peace negotiations would have been futile. blockade of Southern ports Civil War Emancipation...

...This chapter discusses another challenge to the French influence: the specter of the 1956 elections. The period immediately following the Geneva Conference and the problem of how to bring or not bring about the 1956 elections was a critical juncture for the French, Vietnamese, and Americans...

...Sue and Henry pushed for the black leadership to take over election strategy. A policy was established for candidates to declare their willingness to run rather than waiting to be recruited. Weeks of indecision ended when a school teacher, Robert R. “Bob” Smith, with no prior Holmes Movement...

... in office. blacks electing to local offices and 1967 Holmes County election Clark Robert G elections Griffin Vernon Tom Hayes Ralthus Hightower Mary Lee Independent Voters Workshop Holmes County Johnson Thomas C T C Holmes County local elections McGaw Ed and 1967 Holmes County election Smith...

..., Richmond had elected three African Americans to the city council, including Henry Marsh III. As black Americans began to elect more than a handful of representatives and to contest the legacy of segregationist policies (e.g., slum clearance, expressway construction, police brutality), whites embarked...

... of Kentucky’s ten seats in the congressional elections. The Southern sympathizers and their newspaper friends pinned their last hopes on the August elections for the state legislature, in which all 100 house seats and half of the 38 senate seats were on the line. Meanwhile, as chances for a Confederate Kentucky...

... crisis Kissinger Henry France Lebanon McGovern George Thieu Nguyen Van Bush George H W Drezner Daniel Hussein Saddam Kuwait Nincic Miroslav Presidential elections Foreign policy Domestic politics Public opinion During the 1992 presidential election, the Democratic strategist James Carville...

... of the Republican Party, which tried to use the conflict to its political advantage in the 1950 midterm elections. Another theme is how the president’s own party contributed to his headaches as much as the opposition GOP did. Despite the partisan Senate vote on the Tydings Committee report, initial military...

...After the August elections, in which the Union Party greatly enhanced its majorities in the Kentucky house and senate, almost all the Confederate newspapers gave up on secession and fully embraced neutrality and peace. Earlier, the rebel editors had scorned neutrality as craven. Now they saw...

...This chapter examines the so-called “deeply conservative” ideology of Southern Baptists. It evaluates this ideology by analyzing 2000 elections in the Southern states in the U.S. from 1945 to 2000. The findings indicate that even during the era of Southern progressivism, the Social Gospel made...

.... Attorney General Katzenbach sent federal registrars who arrived on November 8, 1965. In seven weeks, 2,100 Holmes blacks were registered, bringing the total to 2,800. ASCS elections were held, with mail-in ballots allowed, and ten blacks were elected. McGee's Café, a local hangout, is described. Holmes...

... another bill that contained by far the largest naval budget in the nation's history. To finance the new military expenditures, Congress passed a revenue bill that raised the income tax on upper brackets and added inheritance and munitions taxes. With the national elections coming, Republican leaders used...

... Lebanon Nicaragua Perot Ross Suez crisis Presidential elections Foreign policy Domestic politics Public opinion “Before this country declared independence,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote shortly before he died, “the law of England entrusted the King with the exclusive care of his kingdom’s foreign...

...This book explores the relationship between American presidential elections and US foreign policy. It argues that analysis of this relationship is currently underdeveloped (indeed, largely ignored) in the academic literature and among historians in particular and is part of a broader negligence...

... in their consequences to disturb the tranquility of the country”. The general elections in the summer of 1824 served as a referendum on both the judiciary's assault on the relief program and the majority party's hyperpopulism. Sharp's position on the reorganization act revived the old charge that he was a “trimmer...

... Iraq and Rumsfeld Donald 2006 election and the demise of US Central Command USCENTCOM Afghanistan and Afghanistan Operation Enduring Freedom Accelerating Success plan Combined Joint Task Force 7 CJTF 7 1st Cavalry Division US Hussein Saddam Iraqi Republican Guard Sanchez Ricardo Taliban Bush...

... Security Council NSC Rice Secretary of State Condoleezza Talabani Jalal Crocker Ambassador Ryan Odierno General Ray Hill Ambassador Chris Crossover point Patron-client relationship Strategic Framework Agreement Status of Forces Agreement 2010 Iraqi Parliamentary Elections Withdrawal Falling back...

... of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Anbar province Iraq Fallujah Iraq 2010 Parliamentary elections 2008 Status of Forces Agreement Withdrawal Daesh The Obama administration embarked quickly on a strategy review for Iraq, determined to wind down the war and refocus attention on Afghanistan...

... professionals. Together the coalition achieved success in electing the first black representative in the 20th century to sit in the Mississippi House. The book draws on the documents, notes, and oral histories Sojourner collected while living in Holmes County and includes written portraits of local people...