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Michelle Obama speaks at the 2008 Democratic National Convention

Superdelegates: An Obstacle on the Road to Democratic Elections

… has the potential to showcase democracy at its best. But if superdelegates choose the candidate without regard to the … and make their own choices free from the influence of the common people. Instead, nearly all states allowed the … to public office and many aspects of elections. Sometimes the balloting lasted for days, often deteriorating into …
Kagan, Obama, and Roberts before her investiture ceremony, October 1, 2010.

How Empathy Makes Superior Judges – and Justice

… to the Supreme Court.   T.R. recognized that those who become judges invariably have had close association with … T.R. and Obama understood that empathy is often a prerequisite for impartiality.   Justice Holmes’s great colleague, … that is really designed to help achieve it.   To their credit, Theodore Roosevelt and Obama recognized that a judge …
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 …

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. …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 … An archipelago in the far northwestern corner of Lake Superior, Isle Royale seems remote, and it is, at least by …
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 …
The sickle and hammer on a Soviet Union flag from the 1930s.

A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)

Review of A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History) , by Vladislav Zubok (2007, University of North Carolina Press)
… motives and the messianic revolutionary ideals of Russian communism. 2 Originating in Czarist Russia, traditional … of cooperation agreed upon at Yalta and Potsdam put the superpowers on a collision course. 5 In 1953 Soviet policy … in the Third World. In my opinion, Zubok gives far too much credit to Brezhnev for the reduction of tensions between …
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 … usury to thrive outside of accepted society but under supervision. This vision of society illustrated by … of debt in banking in the nineteenth century, the ease of credit acquisition in the twentieth century, and the …

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 …

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. …
Soviet and US Flags

Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War

… book readings, and film screenings captured the ideological message of each side, as they showed conflicting “ways of … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War, brought … So you see how often these cultural events became actually sites of tension, in which the official representatives of …
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 …
Herd of horses on desert-steppe

A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan

… Once part of the Russian Empire of the tsars and then the Communist Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has been independent … of Kazakhstan” that has produced an online atlas of sites of historical, cultural, and religious significance. … to the Chinese border that we received “Welcome to China” messages on our phones. The monastery was built in the 17th …
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 …
A memorial to Holocaust victims in front of a Jewish cemetery.

A Postcard from Berlin: Confronting a Troubled Past

… dot the landscape and stand beside opera houses and statues commemorating prominent figures of German cultural heritage. … th century permeates the landscape of the German capital. A message of peace found at Berlin's East Side Gallery. Small … during the Cold War . The standoff between the two world superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, was …