Featured topics in this issue: American Emigration and Presidential Inauguration

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The American Exodus

Each year numerous Americans leave the United States and resettle in countries across the globe. While immigration to the United States has been given a lot of attention, emigration from the United States is much less known about.

Soviet Americans

Interview with Timotheos Tzouladis, author of “The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia.” A graduate of Oxford, he subsequently pursued a career as a documentary filmmaker and television journalist whose work has appeared on NBC and National Geographic television. “In the Soviet camps, no photography was ever allowed, so it was only this kind of secondary form of documentation by taking pictures of the victims, and these pictures were in the archives and they had been stamped secret, for whatever reason, during the war. And that, for me, was perhaps the lowest moment but also the most insightful, because it gave a very clear meaning to what Stalinism was actually all about.”

Chronology of U.S. Emigration

Emigration from the United States has a long history. However, the number of people immigrating to the United States was almost always greater.

The Inauguration Ceremony

On Tuesday, January 20, Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the 44^th president of the Untied States. The inauguration ceremony is an all day event that has been perfected over the last century.

Presidential Inauguration in More Detail

The inauguration of an incoming president is a political tradition that dates back to the origin of the presidency itself. This is one of America’s oldest and most extravagant political traditions.

The Inaugural Address

The inaugural address of an incoming president is considered to be perhaps the most important aspect of the ceremony. A great deal of attention is given to its preparation because it has been traditionally used as a way to give clues about domestic and international objectives of the incoming president.