Historic documents of 2012

Table of Contents: “…January : President Obama releases new defense strategy -- Supreme Court rules on discrimination in religious organizations -- CDC releases report on obesity in the United States -- State Department, President deny Keystone XL Pipeline application -- Congressional response to Internet piracy protests -- Supreme Court rules on privacy -- Europe, Israel response to rising tensions with Iran -- State of the Union address and Republican response -- February : United Nations fails to take action in Syria -- California and Washington legalize same-sex marriage -- Federal officials announce $26 billion mortgage settlement -- President Obama on contraception compromise -- European leaders agree to new Greek bailout -- March : Mitt Romney and the RNC remark on 2012 presidential primary -- Putin on his reelection as president of Russia -- Evolving relationship between the United States and Afghanistan -- Florida governor responding to Trayvon Martin shooting --…”

Headlines in history the 1800s

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Thomas Jefferson assumes the American presidency, 1801 -- Inside Napoleon's empire -- Latin America wins an ambiguous independence -- Reconciling individualism and community in the New American republic -- Louisiana purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition -- Chapter 2 -- Early factories improved workers' lives -- Struggle for political reform in Great Britain -- Emergence of a working class -- Communist manifesto -- Great exhibition -- Chapter 3 -- Bristish abolitionists attack slavery -- Russian serfdom and American slavery compared -- Missouri compromise of 1820 -- Abraham Lincoln and the emancipation proclamation -- Emancipation proclamation is a significant achievement -- Significance of America's civil war and the abolition of slavery -- Chapter 4 -- Reception of evolution -- Emergence of the student movement in Russia -- Irish potato famine brings national tragedy -- Reform acts expand democracy in Britain -- Queen Victoria: Stability within an era of change -- First women's rights convention -- Declaration of sentiments: Landmark of women's rights -- Chapter 5 -- Great Britain forces opium on China -- Roots of the sepoy munity in british India -- Taiping rebellion in China -- Reign of terror in the congo free state -- Successful westernization: Japan in 1900 -- United States must go to war with Mexico to defend itself -- Tactics and impact of India removal and reclocation -- Spanish-American war -- Chapter 6 -- Death of God -- Impressionism -- Gay nineties dance hall music -- Psychoanalysis and the oedipus complex -- Chapter 7 -- Louis Pasteur: Scientist of the wonderful century -- Electrifying the industrial age -- Marie Curie and the discovery of radium -- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.…”

The spymasters how the CIA directors shape history and the future by Whipple, Chris