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The phrase was used by his opponents to suggest that Obama meant there is no individual success in the United States. [33] War on Women, a slogan used by the Democratic Party in attacks from 2010 onward. [34] "Binders full of women", a phrase used by Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential debates.
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The Popular Health Movement of the 1830s–1850s was an aspect of Jacksonian-era politics and society in the United States. The movement promoted a rational skepticism toward claims of medical expertise that were based on personal authority , and encouraged ordinary people to understand the pragmatics of health care. [ 1 ]
Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. [4] His father was a farmer without much money. Mann was the great-grandson of Samuel Man. [5]From age ten to age twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, [6] but he made use of the Franklin Public Library, the first public library in America.
William Harris Crawford (February 24, 1772 – September 15, 1834) was an American politician and judge during the early 19th century. He served as US Secretary of War and US Secretary of the Treasury before he ran for US president in the 1824 election .
Early industrial sickness insurance purchased through employers was one influential economic origin of the current American health care system. [13] These late-19th-century and early-20th-century sickness insurance schemes were generally inexpensive for workers: their small scale and local administration kept overhead low, and because the ...
In the United States, a representative public health worker was Dr. Sara Josephine Baker who established many programs to help the poor in New York City keep their infants healthy, leading teams of nurses into the crowded neighborhoods of Hell's Kitchen and teaching mothers how to dress, feed, and bathe their babies.
According to Michael Kazin, in the 21st century scholars have moved away from solely studying the American side of US politics and instead have adopted a "transnational" perspective, challenging the idea that the US is disconnected from global political trends. Historians now apply a broader definition of politics, including popular ideology ...