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New Left. An uprising of students against the dominant policies and cultural mores of American society, the New Left emerged in the early 1960s, peaked at mid‐decade, and dissipated in the early 1970s.Arising from the civil rights movement, fears of nuclear war, and socialist movements of the... Read more
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left in politics, the more radically progressive wing in any legislative body or party. The designation apparently originated in the French National Assembly of 1789, where the radicals were seated to the left of the presiding officer.... Read more
Left Wing Left Wing
Left Wing CHANGING MEANINGS LEFT-RIGHT POLITICAL SPECTRUM THE LEFT WING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BIBLIOGRAPHY The term left wing originated with the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1791. The deputies representing the Third Estate, the ordinary people, were seated... Read more
militia militia
militia , military organization composed of citizens enrolled and trained for service in times of national emergency. Its ranks may be filled either by enlistment or conscription. An early prototype was the national militia developed by Philip of Macedon. However, the modern concept of the militia... Read more
Robert Field Stockton Robert Field Stockton
Robert Field Stockton 1795-1866, American naval officer, b. Princeton, N.J. He left the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) to enter the U.S. Navy at 16 and served in the War of 1812 and in the subsequent campaigns against the Barbary pirates. He negotiated (1821) a territorial concession on the... Read more
Alfred Moore Alfred Moore
MOORE, ALFRED As an associate justice, Alfred Moore served on the U.S. Supreme Court for five years. The ardent federalist, whose life and political career involved danger, controversy, and principled stands, left little mark on the Court's business during his service from 1799 to 1804. Although he... Read more
Benito Juarez Benito Juarez
Benito Juárez Benito Juárez (1806-1872) was a Mexican statesman and resistance leader against the French. After defeating the Austrian would-be emperor Maximilian, Juárez instituted numerous liberal reforms as president. By 1850 Mexico seemed on the verge of total collapse.... Read more
Lewis Cass Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass 1782-1866, American statesman, b. Exeter, N.H. He established (1802) himself as a lawyer in Zanesville, Ohio, became a member (1806) of the state legislature, and was U.S. marshal for Ohio from 1807 to 1812. In the War of 1812, Cass's command was included against his will in the forces... Read more
Romano Prodi Romano Prodi
Romano Prodi , 1939-, Italian politician, premier of Italy (1996-98, 2006-8), b. Scandiano. Educated at the Catholic Univ. of Milan (grad. 1961), he is a trained economist and served (1978-79) as Italy's minister for industry; he also was a professor of economics at the Univ. of Bologna, a visiting... Read more
Subhas Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose , 1897-1945?, Indian nationalist also known as Netaji. He began his political career in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and soon became the leader of the left wing of the Indian National Congress . He was president of the party in 1938-39 but was forced to resign after a dispute with... Read more

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