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The Abandonment of the Jews has been well received by most historians, and has won numerous prizes and widespread recognition, including a National Jewish Book Award, [1] the Anisfield-Wolf Award, the Present Tense Literary Award, the Stuart Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Theodore Saloutos ...
On December 3, 2008, Obama chose Bill Richardson to be his Secretary of Commerce. [32] On January 4, 2009, Richardson withdrew his name from consideration because of a federal grand jury investigation into pay-to-play allegations. [33] Later that year, the investigation ended and Richardson and his staff members were cleared of any wrongdoing. [34]
The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania first introduced the proviso in the House of Representatives on August 8, 1846, as a rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican–American War ...
Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling (2010) [2] The Trouble with Ed Schools (2004) [3] How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education (1997) [4] The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838–1939 (1988) [5]
David Wilmot (January 20, 1814 – March 16, 1868) was an American politician and judge. He served as Representative and a Senator for Pennsylvania and as a judge of the Court of Claims . He is best known for being the prime sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso , a failed proposal to ban the expansion of slavery to western lands gained in ...
Most bank failures don't make front-page news, so many people don't know how often they happen. Recently, however, the second-biggest bank failure in American history dominated headlines as Silicon...
Multiple rebellions and closely related events have occurred in the United States, beginning from the colonial era up to present day. Events that are not commonly named strictly a rebellion (or using synonymous terms such as "revolt" or "uprising"), but have been noted by some as equivalent or very similar to a rebellion (such as an insurrection), or at least as having a few important elements ...
At his 1991 lecture, he estimated Trump owed “perhaps, $3.5 billion now, and, if you had to pick a figure as to the value of the assets, it might be more like $2.5 billion.”