Read: Articles from Origins

Djiboutian workers fill bags with wheat destined for Ethiopia, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at the Port of Djibouti, Africa, Jan. 7, 2013.
The Birth and Death of USAID

Rural school children looking at a globe in 1943.
The Debate That Won’t Die
Soldiers in Kosovo
Kosovo: The Lessons of History?
Power lines.
Blackouts: Symptoms of Our Dependence
Gunslingers in the 19th century. This is the Ned Christie posse.
Gun Control and the Old West
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969 with the American flag behind them.
Thirty Years since Apollo 11
Computers utilized by U.S. Navy personnel in 1998.
What the Internet Will Bring Us
Bronze statue of Sir William Blackstone.
Back to the 17th Century: Money and Political Speech
map of Yugoslavia
What Victory in Yugoslavia May Mean for Future Wars
Senator J. William Fulbright in 1966.
Advice from the Past about Yugoslavia
Chinese tanks in Beijing in 1989
Honoring China’s June 4th Martyrs
A map showing China and the United States
Another Cold War? China This Time?
Photo of Tiananmen Square from 2007.
Bombings, Blood Debts, and Mutual Suspicion
Slobodan Milosevic, just after signing the Dayton Agreement
Lessons from the Holocaust Are Relevant to the Crisis in Kosovo
The floor seal of the Central Intelligence Agency
Getting Others to Fight Our Wars
Print of "The Epiphany of the New Antichrist" by Romeyn de Hooghe.
The Myth of the Jewish Antichrist: Falwell Stumbles Badly
Mr. Professor by Joan Carlsson, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
Needed: A New Deal for Academics
Fidel Castro in 1959
Easing Up on Cuba
Floor proceedings of the U.S. Senate, in session during the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton
Uneasy Lies the Head that Sleeps in the White House
Barry Goldwater in 1964.
The History of the “Right Wing Conspiracy”
A glass negative of Warren G. Harding.
Sex Scandals and U.S. History
Image of a large turkey on a postcard from the early 1900s.
The First “First Thanksgiving”
President Bill Clinton in 1999.
History of Sixth-Year Elections Bodes Well for Democrats
President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton in 1993.
Why Clinton Will Survive
A photo of the Great Synagogue of Rome.
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
New York stock market index from 1926 to 1939
Can the Global Crisis of the Nineties Lead to Another Great Depression?
Omagh, Northern Ireland in 2001.
Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics
A photo of Helmut Kohl in1987.
Germany After Kohl
Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.
President’s Commission on Race a Failure
Portrait of Neville Chamberlain, who was the Prime Minister of United Kingdom during the early months of World War II.
Lessons of Munich
General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1945.
Second-Guessing Hiroshima?
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)—Article 19 states that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Free Speech: Still Under Threat
Grover Cleveland, painted by Anders Zorn in 1899
The Politics of Civility
A map of northern Ireland
Ending the War in Northern Ireland
A view of New York City behind Secretary Gale Norton in a lower Manhattan office space in 2006.
Downsizing Becomes Normal
A portrait of Slobodan Milosevic
Glory and the New World Order
Side view of an Andrew Jackson bust at the MET.
The Long Tradition of White House Sex Scandals
Monica Lewinsky's official government ID photo from 1997.
Another Watergate?
A sign from a DC Women's March that reads, "70% anti-abortion leaders are men; 100% of them will never be pregnant."
Abortion, History, and the Beginning of Life
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams: An Example for Our Times
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis.
Apologizing for Slavery
Statue of Peter the Great in Moscow
The Past and Future of Russian-American Relations
The Dalai Lama during a visit to Boston, Massachusetts in 2017.
An Effective American Policy on Tibet?
Charles E. Wilson being sworn in
Beyond Civil Rights
A photo of the Steamship Martha Washington in 1913.
Thinking Differently about “Think Different”
Hand-coloured woodcut of a Methodist camp meeting in Eastham, Massachusetts, c. 1850.
Promise Keepers Stake Male Claim to Moral and Political Power
Senator Fred Thompson at the Chattanooga Summit in 1996.
Back to the Future of Fund-Raising Scandals
The flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Critique of NATO’s Expansion
An image comparing Communism to Naziism
Historical Analogies and the China Debate