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Hirota cabinet (1936–37)
Hiromi Mizuno • Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
The latter was the goal of the 1956 Indian Relocation Act (Public Law 949). With BIA funding, any Indigenous individual or family could relocate to designated urban industrial areas—the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, Denver, Cleveland—where BIA offices were established to make housing and job training and placement available.
... See moreRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Pacific Bill.” As it passed parliament in February 1881, the legislation authorized the Canadian Pacific Railroad to link with the Canada Central Railway at Callander, near Georgian Bay, and to run westward to some Pacific port in British Columbia. Generously subsidized with $25 million in direct support and a twenty-five-million-acre,
... See moreMichael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
Laughlin’s credo was simple: “To purify the breeding stock of the race at all costs.” As journalist Edwin Black notes in his 2003 book, War Against the Weak, Laughlin’s plan of attack was threefold: “sterilization, mass incarceration and sweeping immigration restrictions.” In furtherance of these goals, Laughlin created the imposingly named,
... See moreBill Bryson • One Summer
confine the spread of venereal disease
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Center for Journalism & Liberty • Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
Conserving financial resources.