Sublime

The Birth of a Nation became the country’s most popular film. The Klan, which by 1915 had become defunct, was relaunched. Its recruiters used the film to draw in millions of members. Five months later, Wilson virtually reenacted the plot of The Birth of a Nation by sending the marines to the black republic of Haiti to wrest control from the

The Burlington directors easily persuaded their stockholders, who could choose either the princely $200 per share return or the 4 percent bonds, to turn over their shares, and the Hill-Morgan team now had the key railroad they needed to round out their regional railroad empire.

After Africanus’ victory at the Battle of Zama in 202 BCE, at the end of the war with Hannibal, Carthage had agreed to Rome’s demands. Fifty years later, it had just paid off the last instalment of the vast cash indemnity the Romans had imposed. Was this final campaign of destruction simply an act of Roman vengeance, carried out on some trumped-up

Hannibal shrewdly took advantage of the old pecking order rule: friends flock to the beast on the top; they abandon the beast on the bottom. Whenever the Carthaginian triumphed, he reduced his Roman prisoners to slavery. Since the Romans had been bolstered by armies of allies—troops from the conquered tribes of the Italian boot—the savvy commander

The territories with large white populations became states swiftly; California, swarming with gold-seekers, went from military government to statehood in two years.

“There is no hope for American democracy,” said Justice Louis Brandeis, “unless the American working man is permitted to combine, and, through combination and collective bargaining, secure for himself the rights of industrial liberty.”[11]

Les habitants de l’Amérique et de l’Afrique peuvent être mis en esclavage non seulement en tant que « rebelles » au roi de l’Univers, mais aussi en tant que vaincus d’une « guerre juste » (bellum justum) menée par une puissance européenne.

On August 20, in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, near present-day Toledo, Ohio, Wayne and a force of 3,500 soldiers delivered a stunning defeat to Indian tribes. The Americans went on an unbridled rampage, trampling Indian houses and crops over a vast territory. Nonetheless Washington sang Wayne’s praises for having “damped the ardor of the savages

THE SENATE HAD WON AGAIN. The citadel of the South, the dam against which so many liberal tides had broken in vain, was still standing, as impenetrable as ever. And it was standing thanks in substantial part to its Majority Leader. For years, the South had had a formidable general in Richard Russell. In 1956, as in 1955 and 1954 and 1953, it had