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President Edelmiro Farrell (left) and the Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945.

Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism

… for nothing less than a total redefinition of the social compact. Peronism permeated and penetrated all aspects of … annual celebration marking 17 October, the future Day of Loyalty, would be its centerpiece. The events of 17 October … the General Confederation of Workers (CGT) met multiple times between 14 and 16 October to plot a path forward. The …
The United States Declaration of Independence

The Writing Is Faded, the Message Lives

… was brilliant, but the process nearly destroyed the text. Compounding the damage was the decision in 1841 to put the … to monitor the condition of the document using a $3 million computerized camera system designed by the Jet Propulsion … The Writing Is Faded, the Message Lives …
Sylvester receiving the RIAA Gold record for Step II, with Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes - Photo by Michael Ochs/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

“Love is the Message”: Affirmation and Erasure of Black Queerness in Music

How was disco a vital part of the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities in the 1980’s?
Grade Level
12
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… How was disco a vital part of the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities in the 1980’s? … “Love is the Message”: Affirmation and Erasure of Black Queerness in Music …

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… their heads in prayer. Barely five meters away on the opposite shore, two Jordanian soldiers looked on from the shelter of a reed-covered platform – no visitors had come to visit their side of the river yet that day. As the … hand on their head and immersed them in the water. Three times – in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy …

The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy

… government repayment options, paying them off with other credit lines or just ignoring them. More interestingly, most … to the cost saving measures of the FDLP, especially when compared to the money funneled to private banks through … profits during the recession. The Obama administration assumes that by taking over student lending, the federal …
a pope sitting in a chair in a cathedral

Top 10 Popes Before 1500

Professor Kristina Sessa, an historian of Late Antiquity, presents her top 10 popes based on overall historical significance, appetite for intrigue, and messy electoral politics.
… overall historical significance, appetite for intrigue, and messy electoral politics. Written and narrated by Dr. … overall historical significance, appetite for intrigue, and messy electoral politics. …

Apres Poutine ? Les Elections Presidentielles Russes

… les citoyens russes ont voté, sans surprise, à plus de 60 % pour le parti présidentiel Russie Unie, soutenu par Vladimir Poutine. Le Parti communiste arrive en second avec seulement 11 % des voix, … la société russe : ses partisans comptent tout autant de femmes que d'hommes, de jeunes que de personnes plus âgées, ils …
Armed United Mine Workers of America strikers, Ludlow 1914, Public Domain

The Ludlow Massacre: Fighting for Workers’ Rights, 1914

Today, Ludlow, Colorado is a ghost town, yet it remains the site of the deadliest labor war in American history in 1914.
… miners and their families who had been evicted from their company homes, killing eighteen of them, including women and children. … Today, Ludlow, Colorado is a ghost town, yet it remains the site of the deadliest labor war in American history in 1914. …
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4/10/14: The Best in History Online - "Not Even Past"

… We'd like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are sites that – much like  Origins –  seek to bring history … our historical past. Each month, the site posts new book recommendations , historical films , and faculty research (in …
The Terra Cotta Warriors: Xi’an’s most famous attraction

A Postcard from Xi’an: Balancing Past and Future

… the inner city. A Tang hot springs palace outside the city, site of one of China’s most famous love stories, serves as a … it’s a Daoist mountain to the east, a Buddhist reliquary complex to the west, or the tomb-speckled hillside to the … balance between the past and the future is tenuous at times, as is the case in cities worldwide. The preservation of …
A shopkeeper sits outside his store in the Cardo waiting for tourists and residents to stop in.

A Postcard from Jerusalem

… A narrow stairway leads to Dier Es-Sultan, a contentious site atop the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. It now houses an … and other facets of Armenian life cluster around St. James Church. The quarter also acknowledges more recent … Residents of Silwan gather for a celebration at their community center. This is the same question the Palestinian …
Various sedimentary rock strata are visible in many areas of Badlands National Park.

Ten Moments of Insight in America’s National Parks

… of natural areas as well as historic and other cultural sites, are often touted, justifiably, as world-class travel … the intellect with emotion and place. You can follow our common fight for independence and creating and keeping a … to share the American Dream. You can traverse ecological biomes from the Virgin Islands to the Arctic, from Fire Island …
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936.

Another Great Depression?

… Here's why.   The Great Depression was the result of the combination of the 1929 financial crisis and serious … path. The mortgage and financial crises have constricted credit and largely cut off business investment. Stagnant … of the distribution of wealth, working Americans' incomes and consumption. The consequence is that the economy is …
Sacred Gods at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park

A Postcard from the Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, Hawai‘i

… holds great cultural significance as an ancient Hawaiian site and offers a fantastic opportunity to explore the … , or Hawaiian ruling class. Children, the elderly, and non-combatants could also find peace and shelter within a puʻuhonua during times of war.  Many such places existed throughout ancient …

The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power

… Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of plutonium, visited Richland, Washington, and the adjacent Hanford Nuclear … attends Operation Plumbbob as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1968 (left). The nuclear reactors at the Hanford … but his speech, entitled “Large-Scale Alchemy,” invoked themes of magic and wonder. Plutonium’s “unique promise of …
Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt, by Charles R. Geisst Philadelphia By Spencer Tyce Book Cover.

Natural Laws and Predatory Lending for 3000 Years

Review of Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt, by Charles R. Geisst Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
… law, for instance, usury is now accepted as a standard accompaniment to the modern market economy. Indeed, one of … of debt in banking in the nineteenth century, the ease of credit acquisition in the twentieth century, and the establishment of credit to nation states and their origins.osu.edus overseen …

(Fore)Closing on the American Dream

… like my parents, are not at risk because they have good credit, can afford the monthly payments, and live in an area … lucky. Their ability to afford their monthly payments was compromised first by the falling market, then by mortgages … entered the foreclosure process, around 2.4 million homes. Although FDR's "First Hundred Days" restored faith in …
Cover of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster.

Babylon Revisited

Review of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297)
… some ten thousand years ago to the seventh century of the common era. They tell the stories of successive … Tigris and Euphrates rivers in sustaining civilization in Mesopotamia (I will use this term interchangeably with … language) epic. Chapter six details the rule of the Kassites, who in many ways continued the practices established …
The Golubac Fortress was a medieval fortified town on the south side of the Danube River

A Postcard from Djerdap, Serbia

… park can enjoy and reflect these legacies too, while even becoming a part of it themselves. The Djerdap National Park is … of plants, animals, natural features, and archaeological sites, it also offers infrastructure and a variety of … banks of the gorge are the home of a roughly 8,000 year-old Mesolithic settlement called Lepinski Vir. Excavated in the …

Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks

… central banks have authorized and backed with all the credit and trust they have been able to muster. Since the … Older historical thinking, however, suggests the opposite: that nation states, just like kingdoms and empires, … in order to separate it from the scandalous collapse of a commercial bank that had strong financial links to the king. …
National Memorial for Peace and Justice exhibit, Montgomery AL

Confederates and Lynching in American Public Memory

… over Confederate monuments. How do these two trends in commemorating our nation’s past relate to one anther? What messages do these differing monuments send? And what’s at … mean, it's as clear as day, really, and there it is on that site.   Dr. Hasan Jeffries  And as you said earlier, it's …