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Picturing Black History

… that marries photographs and words to bring Black history to life. Picturing Black History (https://www.picturingblackhistory.org/) is a … Eckford. She's in the foreground here, carrying her schoolbooks, being heckled and surrounded by anger and hate. And …
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Crimea: A General Introduction

Review of Crimea: A History, by Neil Kent London: Hurst & Company, 2016.
… of February 2014 and the subsequent annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia have certainly given the country … Crimea to a wider audience with his new book Crimea: A History . Kent, who is much better known for his work on Arctic and Scandinavian history, takes a broad view of history for this book. …
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Best in History Online: The Washington Post's "Made By History"

… to time, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online highlights a political history blog that …
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Best in History Online: Dan Snow's History Hit

… to time, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online highlights an award-winning podcast that …
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10/10/2014: Best in History Online: History News Network (HNN)

… to time, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation. This month, we are … wonderful, likeminded, resource: George Mason University's History News Network (HNN) . HNN's mission is to put current …
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Best in History Online: Public History Commons

… Every month, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation.     In March, our pick is … public historians alike to share their ideas, the Public History Commons ! The Public His tory Commons is a project …
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Best in History Online: The History Chicks

… to time, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation. “First off: This isn’t History 101 and there is no test.” May’s Best in History
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The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part I

… in Kyiv's Independence Square, the surprise annexation of Crimea into Russia, and rising tensions between Russia and … editor Nick Breyfogle about Crimea's rich and varied history, how Crimea was absorbed into Russia, and what the … ) Posted on April 10, 2014 … Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone produced by …
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Best in History Online: The American Historian

… Every month, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation. For December, our Best in History Online highlights the website for the quarterly …
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Best in History Online: History Today

… to time, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a history magazine …
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Best in History Online: Sexing History Podcast

… to time, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online highlights a podcast that looks at the …
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Best in History Online: History Respawned

… to time, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation. Our Best in History Online for June connects history and video games! …
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Best in History Online: The History Teacher

… to time, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online comes in the form of an educational tool for …
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Why Study History?

… "That's history." We've all heard this expression, and we all know what it means. "That's history," or, even better, "That's ancient history," suggests that the past is irrelevant. Sure, …
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3/26/14: The Latest Books from OSU Historians

… Read new releases from The Ohio State History Department. Click on the authors' names to see their … Brooke published  Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey  (Cambridge University Press, … … Education … Global/Transnational … 3/26/14: The Latest Books from OSU Historians …
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The Best in History Online – "Exploring Environmental History Podcast"

… to time, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation. This month, we’re … recommendation into the mix. The Exploring Environmental History Podcast includes conversations dedicated to …
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Best in History Online: Disaster History

… to time, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like  Origins  – seek to bring history into public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a collaboration of …
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Best in History Online: The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

… to time, we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history into public conversation. This month, our Best in History Online highlights a website that allows scholars, …
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Ideas of Race and Racism in History

… and historical contexts? How have American and World history in the modern eras been defined by ideas of race and … Nicholas Breyfogle | Associate Professor, Department of History; Director, Goldberg Center, The Ohio State … | Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Department of History, The Ohio State University Robin Judd | Associate …
Ivan Aivazovsky, a Native of Feodosia, Crimea, is known as one of Russia's greatest painters, and one of the world's best at seascapes. The Battle of Sinop (Russian and Turkish Navies), 1853

Top Ten Origins: Stories from Crimea

… The Crimea that most people have come to know is a peninsula … Ukraine that seems far from resolution. While we look to history for answers and explanations of these current events … this remarkable center of contact and conflict in world history. (But First   ) From the Steppe to the Sea: A …
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A Postcard from Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

… POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes … in Warsaw, Poland. The opening of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews’ core exhibition on October 28, 2014 marked an important day in Polish-Jewish history. After years of controversies and compromises, the …
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History Teaching: Still Crazy After All These Years

… while expecting a different result. So take the following history test and find out if your ideas about our kids and what they know about history are crazy or not. Identify the source of this … For too long we’ve fantasized that by rewriting textbooks we could change how history is learned. The problem, …
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The Significance of Black History

Why are discussions centered around racism and Black history important?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History to 1877
US History since 1877
African American History
… … Why are discussions centered around racism and Black history important? … Sammy Ramey … US History to 1877 … US History since 1877 … African American History … The …